National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-04


when the colder weather comes, pre-
dicted for the 18th by Vennor, We may
expect the river to open, oysters begin
to navigate, the chirrupy heT TO attend
to business, and produce Of al kinds to
find its way to market. Prices viii then
be cheaper. Without venturing into the
field of prophecy, it is probable that this
cold snap will soon be over.
A NEW STYLE of window is being intro
| duced into the latest built residences in
New York. 1t is called the winter win
dow, and projects from the ordinary win
dow, SO that one may open the inside
sash and look out through the outer win
dow without being exposed to the cold.
PERSONALITIES.
Miss EVA Mills sang in Hartford,
Conn, last night.
NJ. GAMBErTA is one of the members of
cremation society.
LORD LoRNE's presence cost the Cana
dfans Sl65, 900 last year.
THE electoral count-Garfeld, PA !;
Hancock with Georgia omitted), IA.
CHIoAGo's favorite poets are Hogg, Cow
ley Mrs. 'Leary's Cowley), and Burns.
PRESIDENT HAYES will be the guest of
the Baltimore Press Club next Saturday
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE, the famous
huntresS, has gone to South Africa as war core
spondent.
Mr.. WOODWARD {" "Jayhawker the
well-known correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
Qgirer, is in town.
DIR. MARY WALKERS mother says that
Dr. Mary is a lunatic. There is no doubt about
the sanity of the old lady.
WHEN General Mcclellan retires New
Jersey will have seven living ex-Governors. Only
four Governors have died since 1872.
THE latest bulletin issued yesterday af-
ternoon in London announces that Mr.. Thomas
Carlyle is in state of hopeless prostration.
THE death is announced in New York
of Francis A. Durivage, the weIl-known author
and poet in the sixtyseventh year of his age from
paralysis.
IT is said that attempts are to be made
TO induce Mr. Barthelemy St. Hilarie to volunteer
his resignation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of France.
MAJOR" J. E. BANGS, chief disbursing
officer. is at Carson City, Nevada and he took his
appetite with him." says the Morning appeal, of
that place.
Mr.. PARNELL is picturesquely described
by Viennes correspondent as a charming caya-
lier, with pale, finely-cut face, a fine brow, and
thoughtful but cheerful eyes.
PROFESSOR j. LEWIS DIMAN, of Brown
University, is dangerously ILL., and the gravest ap
prehenSiens are felt by his friends. The disease is
erysipelas of malignant type
NoRDHoFF gives Mr.. Randall this COM
plimentary notice: "The Speaker knows about as
much of political principles and constitutional
methods as ten-yearold boy.''
Hon. DAVID DAVIS is about to build a
big hotel at Bloomington. He ought to call it the
House of DaYid"-and what jolly old Boniface
the corpulent judge would make.
PROFESSOR w. II. FLOWER concludes
that the elephant seal is the member of the group
the flrthes removed from the terrestrial carnivora
and showing most cetacean analogies.
Mr.. WILSON FLAGG, the New England
naturalist complains that people of culture" in
New England, while constantly reading, are igno-
rant of everything concerning nature that depends
on observation.
GENERAL GRANT is fast smashing up the
old tradition that exPresident is bound 10 lead
dignifed do-nothing sort of life. With the
worlds fair and a Mexican railroad on his hands,
and the Nicaragua canal project to look after, he
is about as busy and useful citizen as the coun-
try can show.
WILLIAM d. SHEPHERD, who has just
been appointed collector of Galveston was born in
Lake County, Ohio, and served through the war
in the famous Seventh Ohio Infantry. But then
he has lived in Texas fifteen years, and been
customs officer there for ten. Nevertheless, he is
carpetbagger still, according to the Southern APP
plication of the term. If he had carpet-bagged
from Virginia or Georgia, however, he would be
thoroughbred Texan by this time.