National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-07
PERSONALITIES.

A TOOTH of Isaac Newton was sold in
| 1916 for $685.
HERBERT SPENCER has dyspepsia, caused
| by eating peanuts
HARRISON, the boy preacher, is over
thirty years of age.
THE Hon. E. B. Washburne is now
talked of for mayor of ofChicago.
WILL CARLETON, the poet and humorist,
says that Eli Perkins humor is shallow.
| GENERAL SHERIDAN is back in Chicago,
preparing his report about the Southwestern In
| dians
SITTING BULL has the proud satisfaction
of counting the entire United States army among
his most devoted followers.
KATE FIELD says that George Eliot had
a very heavy jaw. With whom, Kate? Not with
you, we hope.-BOston Courier.
Mr.. PAUL STRoBAcH, of Montgomery,
Ala, sustained fracture of the arm few days ago
by being thrown from carriage
JOSH BILLINGS says that ga good doctor
is gentleman to whom we pay So visit for ad-
vising us to eat less and exercise more"
JOHN McCULLoUGH, the tragedian, after
seeing Salvini in Othe2o turned around sadly to a
friend and said: " None of us can play 0thello."
SENATOR BLAINE is mentioned as own
ing 1000 in bonds of the State of Maine-which
is perhaps chiefly the business of the brilliant Sen
ator himself
AT Hot Springs on Thursday Mrs. His
cock, daughter of w Wood, of New York, while
out riding with Colonel Rugg, had her leg broken
by kick of one of the horses.
GARFIELD is not obliged to shovel snow
| snow from his sidewalk at Mentor. The Office
seekers keep beaten path open during the heayi-
est tsnow-storms.-Neac Orleans Picayune.
GENERAL LITcHFIELD, American consul
at Calcutta, is visiting in this country He has
been at the Indian Office for nine years He was
the colonel of Michigan regiment during the
war.
A SISTER of Stanley Matthews married
brother ofth wife of President Hayes; and the
newspapers and politicians have promoted Stan
ley Matthews to be brother-in- law of the Presi-
dent. Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. C. c. HAzEwELL, of Boston, who
was omitted from the Lathrop article on Boston
literature, was pronounced by Kossuth to be the
most thorough student of history in this country.
He is recluse at Revere Beach, but writes for the
Ifdreler.
FERNANDO WOOD is in his sixty-ninth
year. and was first elected to Congress forty years
ago. He is in feeble health. He is as fine looking
an old gentleman as anybody could ask to see, and
his death will remove handsome as well as an
ancient landmark.
COLONEL INGERsoLL (Bob) says it was
drinking hotel coffee that made him an infidel
After all, there is some excuse for the Colonel.
Hotel eofeeis enough to shake mans faith in the
theory that all things are ordered by merciful
Proyidence.-BoSton Post.
GENERAL HANCOCK and the officers of
garrison at Governors Island attended private
dramatic performance in the ArmOry building
Friday evening. There were no visitors from the
city, because the ice in the river had made it
sary to discontinue the boats after half past seven
p. m.
THE Missouri Legislature met in joint
session last Thursday morning and listened to an
eloquent speech by E. B. Washburn, of Illinois, in
which he presented to the State portrait painted
by Stuart of Edward Hampstead, the first Delegate
to Congress from Missouri when it was Territory,
and the first Delegate from west of the Mississippi
Miss SUSIE BLOW, the daughter of the
late Hon. Henry T. Blow, Minister to Brazil while
in Europe made herself familiar with the kinder
garten system and upon.her return to st. Louis in
duced the school board to allow her to to establish
kindergartens at the expense of the public-school
fund. These schools have since hourished and
multiplied so as to beome quite a distinct feature
of public education in st. Louis.