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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
The minnesota senatorship.

In THE REPUBLICAN of yesterday we
quoted from the Pioneer Press an article
predicting the election of Secretary Ram
sey to the Senate. The Minneapolis
Erening Journal of December rs takes a
different view, as will be seen by the fol-
lowing:
Interviews with prominent Republicans through
the State develops strong Ramsey sentiment, but
indicate, nevertheless that Mcmillan is considera-
bly, ahead. 1t is claimed in St. Paul that Mcmillan
has sixty-seven Republican senators and members
pledged to him, ffty-eight being enough to nomi-
nate in the caucus
We take this-occasion to say that it is
not the province of THE REPUBLICAN to
attempt in any manner to interfere in the
contests between senatorial aspirants in
the several States. The heading to the
paragraph yesterday was an inadyertent
departure from this rule.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
PERSONALITIES

THE mother of General o. o. Howard is
seventy-six years old.
TRICKErT says Hanlan is bad egg
because he can't be beat.
THE Chandler house in this city is being
prepared for the reception of Mr.. Eugene Hale and
his family.
Mrs. NELLIE GRANT-SARToRIs finds Eng
lish country life rather dull, and longs for Wash
ington society.
Mrs. JESSIE FREMONT has organized
classes in history among the grown-up sons and
daughters of poor settlers in Arizona.
SENATOR BLAINE says that Hannibal
Hamln answers all the letters of his clients before
he goes to bed and that he never forgets an enemy
or friend.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE says that an
angel with both arms and wings is an anatomical
absurdity. The Elmira Free Press thinks there is
material here for two large volumes.
JOHN RUSSELL YoUNG, who was reported
sick at the Astor House, New York. is out again.
looking little weak it is true but still looking as
though he had many years of active usefulness be-
fore him.
THE birthday of Robert E. Lee is to be
celebrated at Charleston on January 10 by the
Carolina Rife Battalion. Colonel Hugh s. Thomp-
son, of Columbia, is to give an address upon the
occasion.
GUsrAvE DoRE is working every night,
and sometimes almost all night his Illustrations
of Shakspeare's plays. Some of the drawings are
said to be extraordinarily powerful. He thinks
that "Coriolanus" is the poets masterpiece.
CONGRESSMAN GEDDEs, of Ohio, who was
married to Mrs. Amelia B. Gass at Mansfield, in
that State, last Tuesday, married there in 1913
to his late wife on the same evening and at the
same place when and where his present bride was
married to her late husband. The two survivors
Of that double wedding, after interval of thirty
two years, were married by the clergyman who
officiated at their previous ceremonies.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

as for the. frst-class boarding-houses of
this city, it can be said, without any ap-
prehension of successful denial, that no
more congenial and agreeable mode OF
life is offered than they offer. Cultivated
people meet there in intercourse that is
pleasantly familiar and yet free. A social
centre is thus formed which, removed
from Journalism, yet gives the persons in
terested an opportunity to be as social or
reserved as they choose. And, as for the
table, it is made up of the best the mar
kets afford, cooked by an excellent cook.
and all under faithful supervision. For
such clearinghouse as those there
should be nothing but praise.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
The New MANAGEMENT.

in assuming control of THE REPUBLICAN,
bears cheerful testimony to the able and
faithful services to Journalism of its re-
firing editor, Hon. A. NJ. Clapp, whose
interest in the paper has just been pur-
chased.
The plans of the new proprietors are
fully set forth in the prospectus printed
elsewhere in this issue With all earnest
intention to make our paper freside
necessity to the people of Washington
and our neighbors in adjoining States,
We enter confidently upon our work.
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, PRINTING Co.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

celebrated Tarsin was brought to bed in the sew
enth month at Argenteuil, near Paris, 18th Of
July, 1779 of three boys, each fourteen and half
inches long, and of girl thirteen inches They
were all baptized, but did not live twenty-four
hours. In June, 1899, one Maria Ruiz, of Lueena,
in Andalusia, was suecessively delivered of six
teen boys, without any girls. Seven Of them were
alive on the 10th of August following.
In 1885 a Muscovite peasant named James
Kyrlof and his wife were presented to the En-
press of Russia This peasant had been twice
married and was then seventy years of age. His
first wife was brought to bed twenty-one times,
namely, four times of four children each time,
seven times of three, and ten times oftwo, making
in all ffty-seven children, who were then alive.
His second wife, who accompanied him, had been
delivered seven times, once of three children,
and six times of twins. Thus he had seyenty-tWo
children by his two marriages.
In view of the above statement, any future ap-
plieation of Mr.. Hazard on an improved numeri-
cal basis will receive prompt and careful consider
afioO
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
The New Year.

The old year was good friend. It gave
us bounteous crops, busy factories and
furnaces, weli-paid labor, immunity from
pestilence, and freedom from foreign
wars. Domestic broils were not allowed
to tester into rebellion, but gave way to
the inevitable, and are now but miserable
memories. 1t is the good fortune of our
land to have passed through heated
political contest without serious disturb
ance, and upon the heads Of just Repub-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
had Weather for the Orange Groves.


Never since the cultivation of the orange tree
became one of the leading industries of Florida
has that section been visited by such extremely
cold weather as that borne upon the Arctic wave
which swept over the entire country within the
past few days. Hence considerable interest has
been manifested by persons 4ere and elsewhere
in the welfare of their investments in orange cul
ture in the Land Of Flowers.
All persons familiar with that climate and the
character of its productions predict much injury
to the next crop of oranges, and great permanent
danger TO the trees. Indeed, some say that not
orange tree will be left in bearing condition in the
State, while others think that the trees will be
damaged, but not to such an extent as 10 render
them worthless.
The learned authorities of the Agricultural De
partment favor this view ofthe situation and it is
a comforting thought to the Orange-grOwers that,
while the Government has with rare recklessneSS
brought about this damaging blast by placing an
inexperienced hand at the bellows, 1t has. at the
same time, with cOmmendable foresight, provided
a breakwater-Or, rather a breakwind-in the
shape of the Commissioner OF Agriculture, be-
tween the orange groves and the Weather Bureaus
blasts.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
Give GiNnt

The responses at the meeting in aid of
the poor last evening were noble, and
will carry joy to many starving house
hold. 1t was good beginning, worthy
of the generous character of our people
Let it be fitly followed up with well Or
ganized work and a steady stream of
gifts. None must sit easily in lazy chairs
at home and neglect the groans of the
hungry and cold. Clothing for the ragged
and shivering children of the unfortu-
nate, good mothers of Washington. Hunt
every corner of your house for what
can be spared in this line. And
you men, get coal for some family
you know of, where they have scant fire.
When you 60 to market or grocer's, order
ham OF some -four, or what you will, to
some empty cupboard. 1t is the highest
duty of every one to do some kindly act
which shall relieve the suffering of some
destitute human being. Blessed charity !;
it covers multitude of sins. If every
sinner in town who has more than he
deserves will give something to some
body who needs it he will tighten his
own load and his good deed will shine
out in naughty world.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
Drawbacks of Education.

young college student was visiting his grand
mother and at the breakfast table he took an egg,
and holding up, asked her if she knew the sc1en
tiic way of obtaining the contents without break
ing the shell.
She replied that she did not
"Well' said he, "you take the spheroidai body
in your sinister hand, and with convenient
diminutive pointed instrument, held in the dexter
hand, puneture the apex; then in the same man
ner make an orifiee in the base, place either ex-
tremity to your labials and endeaTor to draw IN
your breath a vacuum is created, and the contents
of the egg are discharged into your mouth.
" La!" said the old lady, "when was a glrl we
used to make pin-hole in each end and suck
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

with a carriage without driving over their
tails, and when you do they set up such q
yelping cry as to arouse the entire neighborhocd.
They seem 10 stranger to be horrible nuisance /;
but as the cit has no sanitary regulations, 1t is
necessary, suppose. to keep the dirty dogs to
clear away the filth of the more dirty Turks. II
is astonishing to see the number Of idle unprodue
tives that the city contains and prieSts-why, to
use o common expression, the whole woods are
full Of them, mostly Mohammedans and Greeks;
was told by gentleman that there were not less
than 600O0 priests in ConstantinOple. This may De
an exaggeration, but it seems to me that every
third man you meet is apriest-COTTespORde Bdt-
tiHg0Fe AnlsricdR.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
A Rrnva Queen.

Queen Margaret, of Italy, was walking the other
day beside a road up which came three eques-
trians One of them a lady, made a sudden turn
to avoid the approaching royal carriage. and her
horse stumbled and fell dragging her from the
saddle The Queen herself stepping forward,
seized the horses bride and held the struggling
animal until the lady extricated herself The peo-
pie were SO delighted with Margarets courage that
whole audience rose and cheered her loudly.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
Darpett Heard From.

The Nevada City Chronicle prints the following
grapevine dispatch:
"To Mr. Jack H-ll-n Virginia City, New: This
makes me feel as If old WaShoe days were come
again. put in two hours last night on the sand
bag and practiced with my navy for an hour.
That quick knee grip you posted me on may save
the nation Congress is bristling with treason. III
put a head on somebody before night. Tell Sharon
to hurry along and bring his brass knuckles: As
care of the States reputation in the lower House.
"TCoIlectl R. NJ D-GG-TT."
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
About an Old Hero.

Senator Blaine instances Thaddeus Stevens as
the utterer of more extraordinary witty sayings
than probably any man ever known in Congress,
and saws it is pity the materials to write his life
had not fallen into cOmprehensive hands.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
THE
THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
RIOS US.
FOR 1851.

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN begins The
Rese year under new management and aeith
fleU BadteriGl
II sOiH be a stal1Uart Republican journal.
n sciU be the best newspaper IN the District
Of Columbia.
Il sOiH furnish during the sessions Of Con-
sress a satisfactory report Of the proceedings,
Gsd sriR at all times giUe complete Information
ofthe official doings IN all Departments of the
Government
u 0iA gioe all interesting Information that
can be scyitimateFy obtained concerning the
i'stehtiOns and policies Of the ruling po,rer.
In District affairs 1t sCtU krao,U only the best
isstereStS Of the people upon arhose tdUor It re-
lies, and ariH at all times cooperate uith pro-
SresSiCe citizens, aritftOm regard to their pOIt-
icat predictions, acIo hare measures to pro-
pose and ddrance for the improvement Of the
National Capital
IL wW furnish a daily record Of all the in
teresting social erents Of the city, making its
society department a special feature.
IL tcW gice teJegrdpbic nc,cs from all parts
Of the aeOrId reached by tie eires, and IA its
editorials and foreign, domestic, and city ne,cs
sDiK keep pace 1cith the times.
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
WhafHn Wanted.

A gentleman went home the other night with
severe cold and said: a. have to-day been told to
take hot teas-pennyroyal tea, barley tea, baked
lieorice tea red-pepper tea baked onion tea, mint
tea hay tea, baked apple tea and burnt sugar tea"
"Wen,b said the sympathizing wife, which do
jeetions," said he, Il think will take the hot gin
cljnuo
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
Sheriff HYMNS.

The Philadelphia Bulletin says Talmages church
is so much in debt that the music of g the sheriff
hymns" will soon be heard. The Bulletin should
be treated to chair rubbing for abusing the Eng
lish language in that manner.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
THE Reason Why.

The Boston Post says: IF Fitz John Porter were
not Democrat he would have been in the army
these last eighteen years enjoying its largest
honors'' That is true for if he had not have been
a Democrat, he would not have been traitor.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
a study.

If you want to study the immense variety OF the
human face in expression you should bend your
gaze upon the mobile countenanee of deaf and
dumb man when he reaches under the plank walk
for a lost nickel and picks up a raw bumbie-bee by
the stem.-BdriiRgtOH Hdtrkeye.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

The New York World seems to fear that the
only outcome of the attempt to reOrganize the city
Democracy will be the creation of a. new faction:
that to Tammany and Irving Hall there will be
added Cooper Institute-combination to play
great game for offices and official plumber
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
Big Snakes.

1t is generally admitted that, political fakir
Dorsey was more accomplished than anybody in
the Democratic camp. Mr.. Barnum attempted to
patroniZe Josh Harris side show, but the snakes
were too big to handle-4HdHtd (Gd) Constitution,
fDeml
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

1t is not generally credited but it is nevertheless
true that General Grant has charming social side
to him. Those who find it (and they are mighty
companion full of Jokes full of stories and queer
comparisons and of an affectionate disposition
PtilddelDhiQ Times
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
OUR SECOND FLOOR Is DENOTED ENTIRELY
Holiday Goods !!

Messrs W. II. & O. H. MORRISON beg leave 10 an
nounce they have their usual LARGE display OF
HOLIDAY GOODS now ready, and respectfully re-
quest their customers and friends 10 come anu exam
ire il early. before the rush of Xmas week. IL can
be to advantage. and customers can ce at
tended 10 satisfactorily 10 themselves and 10 US
Among the enormous variety OF Holiday Goods can
be found the following: Christmas and New Years
Cards Cologne Stands. Ladies' Toilet Cases, Comb
and Brush Boxes. Glove and Handkerchief Boxes
Fancy Glassware Scissor and Toilet Gases, Stationery
Cases. Card Cases and Pocketbo0ls. Smokers Arti-
ccs Gold Pens, Pencils. and Watch Charms, Photo
graph and Autograph Albums. Games for Children in
great variety; Fancy Boxes Of Stationery nom 25c TO
$40; Beautiful Gin Books for Young and Old; Toy
books, &c, &C. The largest stock OfGerman FavorS
in the city.
Do not forget TO see the goods the second floor.
All goods marked in plain figures
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

JOHN KELLY is going forth on a lectur-
ing tour. If he should happen to tell
what he knows about the methods of the
Democracy it will cause the Angel
Gabriel to send in his resignation. He
will give up humanity as a hopeless
case,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

Is GENERAL MALONE prepared to accept
the situation if the Yankees often send
down to Petersburg temperature of l60
below?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

The early snowihas been godsend to Western
Kansas and Nebraska. 1t will give the grass an
early start in the spring, and will insure wheat
crop in sections where the drought has killed out
for the two years past.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

THE Oldest inhabitant is out this
weather, and has lost none of his ability
to state the plain facts in the case.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
GENERAL NOTES.

The decline in wheat at Chicago since the be-
ginning of December has been seventeen cents per
bushel; in corn, seven cents per bushel.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

JUDGING from Southern weather re-
ports, the North must be moving down
South. Or may be the South is moving
up North.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
Tennessee.

On Monday next the Legislature OF
| Tennessee will meet and Governor
Hawkins will be inaHgurated. Thus will
Southern State pass under Republican
rule for the first time since 1874; for,
| although three Southern States elected
Republican governors in 1876, none of
them ruled, their rightful titles having
been subverted by revolutionary govern
ments, set up by force and sustained by
fraud.
The revival of Republican rule in Ten
nessee is one of the most significant
events of the year, and its progress will
be watched with eager interest by
thoughtful men of all parties; and it is
well for the party at large, as well as for
the State, that in Governor Hawkins
Tennessee will have an able and upright
representative of the best phase of South
ern Republicanism. He received at the
late election the largest vote by thirty
thousand that was ever cast for Repub-
lican in the State. He drew to his sup
port thousands of sterling men who had
hitherto held aloof from the Republican
party.
These, having become disgusted with
the stupid reactionary legislation which
has kept Tennessee in the rear rank of
States, are now looking with hope to the
future under Republican administra-
ton. Should they be satisfied with the
course pursued in the next two years,
they will anchor the State securely and
permanently in the column of Republi-
can States.
We look with hope to Tennessee. A
great opportunity is before her Republi
can leaders. They have difficult ques-
tions of State policy to deal with, which
will call for all their courage and states
manship. That they realize the situation
and are ready to meet it we are assured.
1t is fortunate for them that they will
have no Federal complications to begin
with. The administration of fGeneral Gar
field is certain to be one which will
strengthen their hands Should the good
work in Tennessee be consummated next
week by the election of a Republican Sena-
tor by the aid of liberal members of the
legislature of Democratic antecedents
every interest in the State will feel the
impetus of new life. She will attract to
herself thousands of immigrants, capital
will turn to her for safe and profitable in
vestment, and her own people will feel
that they have entered into path which
will lead them to prosperity hitherto
only hoped for. With such an example
before them, confidence will return to the
liberal element of other States and the
revival just begun in Tennessee will
spread to her sister Southern States, and
before another presidential election shall
come the " solid South will be as much
thing of the past as is a rebelIious
South.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

SITTING BULL should come in and take
a seat by the fire, or else change his
name
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
Not EuouEh Oyster.

The Augusta (Ga) Chronicle, speaking Of the
small sum appropriated by the Senate educational
bill, says: II is only one oyster to hundred acres
of batter"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

AFTER meeting a dozen friends who
hare been out West and have en-
cOuntered billiards and other Western
enterprises, the Washingtonian is pre-
pared to do something in the way of
lying about the weather that has not
been equaled since the days of Ananias
and SapDhira.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

YoUNG MAN, this is a good occasion to
be a gentleman. Hogs are abundant
enough.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

THE obelisk has new sensation after
1900 years-it is showed in.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01
A Much-Abused Institution,

Washington boarding-houses furnish
an inexhaustible subject for the bucolic
press to exhaust their wit upon. And
just at this time when the public are
talking about the Inauguration and the
accommodations to be furnished by this
city, the mirthful sayings of our brethren
of the Press, with a capital P, reach their
climax. 1t seems, therefore, good time
to say a good word for these much
abused institutions and to point out
some facts in this connection which will
never occur to those who take their sub
scriptions in garden truck and settle
their advertising bills for load of tur-
nips or basket of eggs that have failed
to sustain their integrity.
Boarding-houses differ in variety just as
individuals do. Unlike hotels, they suf-
fer by being classed under one general
name, which has come to be unsayorv.
Every one knows what a first-class, or
second, or third-class hotel means but
when clearinghouse is mentioned most
people give sniff as if they smelled
boiled cabbage or had an introspective
panoramic view of a plate of hash. This is
because Of the long-continued preju-
dice that holds against the name.
But the clearinghouse of to-day,
in Washington especially, is not what it
may have been III remote period of the
past. There are, no doubt, some second
or third rate establishments where the
landlady, struggling to make the small
sum paid for accommodations cover the
outlay for supplies and support the miser-
able existence of her family, is obliged to
reinforce the quality furnished, by assev-
erations that are not strictly in the line of
truth but we trust that few of our readers
know of these places by experience. The
better class of boarding-houses of the day
are pleasant places to live in, and furnish
forth table which, as rule, is better
cooked and in greater variety than
most would have if keeping house. And,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

licans and unjust Democrats alike win fall
the peace-giying blessings of Republican
domination. Our credit is the best that is
or ever has been, and we shall refund
three-quarters of billion of our debt at
three per cent. within the next six
months. We shall quietly inaugurate our
new President in March-God bless him
and the nation will move on with majestic
strides at the head of all the rest, every
community sharing in the general veal.
Last year heard loud faction menacingthe
Nations existence in an effort to subjugate
national authority in national elections
now we see the Democratic Congress, in
which the threats were made, preparing
to yield the seeptre to those of our in
clining. What dark days may come be-
fore the New Year shall have lived out
its days must give us pause. We know
what we are, but we know not what we
shall be. But right cheerily comes the
opening, and, high with hope, let us look
forward to happy New Year.