National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-12-24
PERSONALITIES.

SPEAKER KEEPERS name In German means
"scold."
OSCAR WILDE calls his mother "mamma." He
hasn't got any dad.
AWKWARD, the Fenian, and secretary to Joubert,
the Boer commander, has arrived In London.
LONDON Spectator: "Prince Bismarck brushes
material enemies, but he does not fight spectres
we'll" II
Mr. JAMES BLAINE, n cousin Of Secretary Blaine,
died at Goshen, Ind, last Thursday, aged seventy
three years
WE infer from the tone of the Chicago Tribune
that Medill has very little " inaooence" at Wash
ington.-Giobe- Democrat.
NOTWITHSTANDING Burdc,te is lecturing and
Hatton is postmasterng. the Ha,rkeye is wide open
aud keen to see the news
a NJ. SARDoU married for love tall, graceful
lady, with profusion Of fair hair, and who be-
came the mother of three children.
JUDGE HESRY TAuLMAS, of the Circuit Court OF
Alabama, has resigned after seven years service
because of the inadequacy OF tho salary.
NJ. GREvY, 1t Is reported, once said to Cam.
beta: You will die in the skin OF an insurgent;
and NJ. Theirs once called the French Premier q
| you Jtrteti1"
| SIRo DELMoSIco, an uncle of Dclmonico, the ia
| nous caterer, died suddenly In New York He
| was manager of the down town" restaurant for
many years.
| GARIDALDI Is not the ignorant, uncultvatcd
man that many people suppose him to be. lie
knows many languages and many literatures. and
| he Is well verscd In mathematics. As a child he
was contemplative, poetic, aud fond Of solitude.
THERE is an odor OF civil service reform in the
promotion of Thomas G. Acton. superintendent OF
the New York assay Office, to be Assistant Treas
urer of the United States If President Arthur
isn't careful lac will bring down upon himself the
| praises Of the rcfUrmcrs.-GiObe Democrat.
MRS LASGTRY, the English professional beauty
and friend of the Prince of Wales, having adopted
the stage, will appear Mt Wallacks. in New York
early IN January. The fast men of New York will
of course run wild over her and II she should hap.
pen to appear In tights the bald-heads would be
apt to go quito crazy.
Mr.. JUSTICE MAuLE, one of the ablest jurIsts that
ever sat on the bench of England, used to sum IL '
insanity pleas In murder cases in this way: Did
the prisoner know what he was doing2 And did
he know that 1t was wrong2 His lordshps treat
ment OF q case like Guiteau's would have been
short, sharp. and deolsiye.-NctV York World,
THE eightieth anniversary OF the Greenwich Or
~ Academy will be celebrated on Thursday. June
o. 1882. The Rev. A. X, Potter, u. d., OF Spring
field, Mass, will deliver the Grafton; DR.. Henry II
Turner, of Newport, X. H. the historical address
and Mrs. Mary Y. IIaSeltine, nee Edmond, u forme
|
AN authority says: - kiss Is a reflex actor
without the will being called into action hath
sight of a blooming cheek acting upon the percep
tive end Of the optic nerve Is registered In q gang
lion as a sensation. and exteIorlEeS itself In tn
muscular act of kissing" Paste this Item la you
hats, giris.--yusGn D. anthony
NJ, GAMDErTA Is said TO be passionatey fond Q
teaching, and the various problems connects
with public instruction he has thought out IL
believes en,phatically in the higher education 70
girls lie thinks that physiology should be laugh
in the primary schools, and he ia bringing out
, work on this subject which is TO be sold ut went
, cents.
CHICAGO has peculiar style ofshopliftlng. TIL
"lady" elegantly dressed, enters u crowded MILL
merry store, where she tries on an expensive bon
net, While she is looking at her appearance i
the mirror she modesty requests the saleswoma
to have the elastic on the old hat changed. Whe
) the saleswomNn returns the "lady" and the ne,
bonnet have disappeared.
SENATOR HALE says that ex-senator Hamlln &C
cepted a foreign mission because he had neve
been abroad, and had long wanted suitable op
) porlunty for n trip on the continent, 81 do nC
think" added Mr. Hale, that he will retain tn
mission longer than twelve months or so, for ther
, is nothing under the sun that could keep hin
S away from the United States for four years"
) CHIN TAI FAY, Chinese student in the fimil
Of Charles Phelps of Hebron, Conn, about tw
, years ago was sent back to China by the commits
sioners for general misconduct, letter receive
: n few days since from one Of his fellow.student
stated that Mr. Climbs since his return to Chin
displayed his fOrocious disposition by murdehn
his father, for which act he has been beheadec
He was, while in this country, terror to th
family with which he lived.