National Republican., 1881-11-24
PERSONALITIES.

THE poet Longfelow always uses a quill
pen
PIT. BARNUMh has gone into winter quar-
tiers at Bridgeport
GENERAL Fremont has residence in
Northern New Jersey.
LORD RuTuvEN, Scotch peer, has
sought relief in the bankruptcy courts.
He is now called Horse-car" Wilde.
We think he would make good horse-cnr driver.
JouN RusKIN says that men who make
themselves destructive vcrmins should be cxtin-
guishcd.
EN-MINIsTER HILLrARD is aboutto build
beautiful house In Atlanta, where he intei ds to
live in future
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, speaks very
highly ofGcpcral de Cosnola, and regrets the pos
sibility of his being lost to Italy
TON THUMB was at the Opera-Ilouse in
Bridgeport on Sunday night and attracted nearly
as much attention as the performers
EX-SECRErARY BRIsrow is expected to
give an address this winter before the Clyil.ser.
vice Reform Association in st. Louis.
NJ. RENAU's translation of Ecclesiastes,
with an clabornto preface, is in type. aud is OK
pected to be out toward the close Of the year
CAPTAIN HowGATE is believed to be the
most indicted man in America There are seven
of them, md another may drop on him any day.
SEE that an asylum for imbcclcs was
burned at Columbus, Ohio, the other day. If Til.
den was injured let me know at onoc.--John Rcily.
TuE transom-light fraternity are cast
down by the defeat of Hustled, who could not
reach the Office of state treasurer Of New York
even 10y means Of step.ladder.
TuE Archduke Royal of Austria has
earned the right TO be ranked with authors by
publishing IN two volumes his "Tour in the
Orient journey taken last year.
MAYOR GRACE, of New York, proposes to
reduce the salary account OF the city government
from siOOOOOOO to SIjOOO0O per year by cutting of
| nll sinecures and reducing all salaries.
as. j. TnDES."-It's no use. We posi-
! lively cannot use your item about PATHS voice
having metallic ring at the price you name.
These complicated Jokes nro not worth 81.
REv. Mr.. TAIMAdE says the evil litera-
turc Of the day Is like the frogs that plagued the
\ Egyptians. and lcaped on their bed and in their
! soup aud len their tracks on the buttcr-plnte
Aud We guess he is about right
THE Princess Beatrice led gay party
ON Halloween, part Of the evenings cclebra.
lion consisted IN n procession Of two hundred
torch bearers, aler which witch -. was con.
signed to the flames, land all had good time"
MISS ANNIE LOUISE CARY is mentioned
rs the Pcsscssor Of $40 O0O-nll earned by her own
! charming voice Among her treasures Is one Of
the must perfect emcrnldS In the world. II weighs
| twenty three carals aud is valued at $4,000. II
was bought at the sale Of Queen IsNbelas jewels
| IN Paris
Mr. HENRY T.. AnBEY, il is finally settled
isto have exclusive control Of the Patti concerts In
this country. There VIII be thirty in all. and al
though Mr.. Abbey declines 10 state the terms o
the contract II is supposed by those who nrc In d
| position to know That Madame receives $1,000 and
| expenses for each concert.
ELIzABETm OF AUSTRIA is one of the
most accomplished of Empresses' She talks ilu,
entity In German, English. and French, and has ne
hcsiancy IN passing from one to the other. 80
course speak English" she recently said to m
American who was presented to her. land rcat
your Juvenile papers to my children"
Mr.. ERASMUS WILSON, president of tho
| Royal College of Surgeons In England has hnt
conferred on him the order Of Knighthood !
was through his thOughtfulncss and gcnerosit,
that the Obeisk which now gruces the banks 0
the Thames was brought over from the country o
Its birth, to puzzle the English with It's quaint in
scriptions.
ON DIT that the Marquis of Lornt
| will resign the Governor Generalshp OF Canad
carly in 1882. Although his administration ha
been successful in matters Of political and gen
oral character, and although he has endearc
himself 10 the CanRd ians by his personal qualities
the Queens subjects IN North America chalc uu
der the rgor Of the cxactions in feminine etlquclt
demanded 10y II semi. regal court The fault ther
is not with him, but with the Princess.