National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-03
PERSONALITIES.

BISHOP KEANE, of Richmond, is threat
ened with blindness.
Miss IDA Lillian, the daughter of a
prominen Mt physician of Brooklyn, is preparing tC
appear on the stage as a star.
Mr.. FORSTER, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, will be detained some days longer in Ireland
| owing to the aspect of affairs there.
WILL they fall back on gore as usual p
Cincinnatt Enquirer. If they do, you can gamble
onto it that it Will be your gore, you bloody Bour
| bon!
| Hon. PARDON A. TILLINGHAsT, the pres
| ent State senator from Pawtuclet J was rnc-
terday elected associate justice of the supreme
court
THE strawberry glows in the cocktail
with just heavenly abandon it does int the
| Sunday school plate made to hold about five.
| NctU York Commercial AdreytiSer.
THE son of a London banker, say the
Madrid papers, after taking series of lessons from
professors of the art, has been distinguishing him
self at Seville by his performances in the bullring.
THE citizens of Cincinnati have become
so developed iesthetcalIy that they can blend the
gurgle of the beer-jug, the crunch of the prezel,
and the howl of the hewgag " in one harmonious
whole
COLONEL MARCELLUS THORNTON says that
if Malone is defeated, ambitious young fellows
like himself viii have no future in the South.
Thisis anew view, but it is true one-AHanta Con-
StjtttttoR.
Mr.. HORACE WALL, who is well known
in dramatic circles has become the man
ager of the Anglo American comedian, Mr.. John s.
Clarke. He will make tour of the United States
next season.
FRANK ALGER, of Taunton. Mass, elOped
with and married a fifteen year old daughter of
Orin Bacon, of Hopewell, last Thursday. They
have returned home, been forgiven, and started
housekeeping.
How many people who benefit by Gin
chona know that it gets its name from Ana de
Osoria, Countess of Cinchon, who in 1910 brought
with her TO Spain from Peru a supply of Peruvian
bark? Hence the genus cinchona of Linnaeu5.
NILE. SARA BERNHARDT arrived at
Havre On Monday, May 10, from the United States
i French newspaper states that the whole citywa
Oh foot and more than thirty thousand people
lined the pier and the streets leading to her house
WHAT will the Republican conventions
have to point with pride" to this Cincinnati
Enquirer. Why, to the fact that they have knocked
the stufin out of you fellows six times hand-run-
ming, and going to do it again as soon as they
get chance
THERE are thirty-eight Roman Catholic
noblemen with seats in the House of Lords and
seventeen without seats; forty eight Roman Cath
Ole baronets, six Roman Catholic privy coun-
cilors, and ffty-five members of the House of
Commons.
Mr.. r. T. Booth, the temperance advo-
cate, who has just returned from Europe, was ten
dered reception by the residents of Maiden, Mass,
ain the Baptist Church of that town recently.
During Mr.. Booths stay in England he obtained
over ninety thousand signatures to the temperance
pledge.
SOME Of the Ohio Democrats are trying
to induce Hon. Allen G. Thurman to run for Gov
ernOr this year. Allen G. has had enough of that
fun to last him for q lifetime, and, besides. how
could the Buckeyes understand the old mans
bran new French, which he speaks like a native
of Ohio?
JoHNGEE has given the Democrats of
Ohio notice that he cannot run their State cam.
paign this year. as he intends to put in his whole
time this summer in running down that Associated
Press liar who sent out the story of his shortage,
and when he catches him he will find that he is a
brother Democrat.
BISHOP ELDER, of the Cincinnati do
cese has issued official circular letter to the
churches asking prayers for Archbishop J. B. Pur-
CELL who, the letter says, is sinking rapidly at his
retreat, in the Ursuline Convent, in Brown County,
Ohio. Theshock of his brothers death has affected
his health for the worse very materially.
Mr. JOHN HoEY's Conservatives at Long
Branch now contain two and half millions of
plants There are twenty-th three green houses, all
told, five of which three hundred feet long and
one four hundred. One of the largest green
houses is devoted wholly to orchids. The eastern
house is devoted to cacti, of which there are nine
thousand plants of five hundred different vari-
cites.
J. J. PIATT, the Cincinnati poet, and
who has numerous friends in this city, is appli
cant for the position Of consul general at Frank
fort-on-the Main. His petition is said to be signed
by more literary men than were ever appended to
any similar document Among the signers are
]. G. Whittier, John Hay, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Henry W. Longfellow, T. B. Aldrich, E. C. Sted
man, ]. G. Holland, and R. Il. Steddsrd.