National Republican., 1881-07-04
PERSONALITIES.

The comets name among the fellows is
Fanny
SENATOR JoHN |. MITCHELL, of Pennsyl-
vania, is at the Metropolitan.
EDMUND YATES says that Frenchmen
are masters Of the science OF elaborate construc.
| ton.
"TuE rumor about my being a candi-
date for Governor is all bosh. That Jersey heifer
bought last week is just too cute for anything
s. u TIidCH
Mr.. Ross RAYMOND, Of the New York
Herald, author Of the new rage in light literature
:" No Laggards We" is here TO assist in doing the
assassination for his payer
GENERAL GARFIELD heads no faction,
belongs to no party to-day. lie Is the honorcd
| head Of the American people. and their prayers
for his recovery are going up io.day.--Net0 York
! Commercial 1drcGjscr
Rev. Mn. BEECHER SAYS he doesn't be-
| lcyo that an anglcworm strung Oh a hook suffers
| rs much pain MS the boy who scratches himself
with the hook Perhaps not; the worm docsn I
howl rs loud anyhow.
Ex-PREsfDESr HAYES visit TO Europe is
spoken Of by English papers rs an event which
Will have the compliment Of welcome Mr..
Hayes In appearance, Is the typical Ohio man Of
immense rcspcctability.
The Hon. q. II. Sherman, the Republi-
can nominee for Governor of Iowa. has been on
the bench and has been for six years auditor Of the
state. lie was volunteer during tho civil war,
and was lefl for dead on Shiloh battle field.
GRlscoM's fast having prolonged itself
to the point where he begin to think Of break
ing IL, he has chosen the peculiar diet of veal for
his first rcpast This is as odd rs Tanners water
melon still he might have selected mince-ples.
SECRETARY HuNT, it seems, is very sem
sitivc about iunketing at Government expense.
We feel differently from the jolly old salt at the
head Of our national iunkery. We have no objcc-
ton TO junk 1T anybody's expense. Bring ON your
junk.
"CLovER NooK" was the name of the
charming home of the Cary sisters. Rev. Rufus
w. Grswod used to call II Sweet Clover Nook -
and he wanted first to marry Alice and she de-
cllncd; then he mourned and considered Phoebe,
and she wouldn't,
NlRs. T. o. HOWE, wife of the ex-Sena-
tor from Minnesota, i-rery III Nt the residence Of
her son. .in.law, Colonel Euoch Toton. The ex-
Senator. who is In Paris, as a member of the Mone-
tary Commission was cabed yesterday TO return,
ana replied that he would sail to-day
Mn. JoHN p. FOLEY, of the New York
HTdid, formerly managing editor Of THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN,, arrived here late Saturday evening
TO look after the interests Of the paper he repre-
sents Ilc comes ana goes quietly, his extreme
modesty getting the upper hand Of his geniality.
ROBERT TooMBs, who was seventy-one
years old yesterday, is described by correspond
cnt Of the Philadelphia Press as man of full
figure and round face, with tuft of gray whiskers
far down upon his throat, q clear blue eye. and n
kindly expression. Hc is thought in his State to
be a great lawyer, and is still retained in large
causes, especially where the state is interested.
AN Independent daily thinks it
"will soon require microscope to find General
Grant" Grant no doubt looks very small to the
Independent" editor who fought the battles OF
the Union on paper; but the confederate briga.
ders entertain mn entirely different opinion.
They never had to look through microscope to
find him-and never will when the life of the
country is at stnke.-Norristogn Herald