National Republican., 1881-02-21
PERSONALITIES
direction.

LAMAR says Blaine is as quick as in
spiration.
GENERAL GARFIELD has a niece who is
studying medicine in Boston.
GENERAL GARFIELD was not born to be
talked to death-that is clear.
Mr. EMERSON is said to have character
lied Carlyle as "a trip hammer with an -Eolian
attachment"
THERE was fun in Des Moines church
last Sunday when sleeping alderman reached for
his wife and hugged her.
| A New YORK theatre is burlesquing
Miss Wards play Forget Me Not" under the
name of Don't You Forget IT,
D. D. HOME, the spiritualist, is very i'll
in Nice and he writes familiarly to distant
friend: 1t may be that ere long will see you in
spirit"
THE remains of Colonel Charles Potter,
who was murdered by Mexicans have arrived in
Newport, R. L, from Santa Fe. The funeral took
place yesterday.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, the Boston Her
aid says calls young saints :. devils toadstools,'
springing up and perishing III q night" somnam-
bulists, so to speak
COLONEL INGERsoLL's epitaph ON the
Democratic party was "Memento Morey" A ST.
Paul lady says he has it wrong that it should be
"Me Mentor MOrey."
BUTLER, of South Carolina is said to be
good shot. We are glad to hear that he is good
for something. He should retire from the Senate
and travel round the country with Bogardus
WALT WHITMAN has written a few re-
marks about Carlyle. We have not read these re-
marks, but it is certain that Walt has got the old
man where he can thump him with impunity.
"I WANT no colonies" saws Bismarck.
Z" For us in Germany this colonial business would
be just like the silks and sables in the noble fam-
lies of Poland, who have no shirts to their backs"
THE South Carolina colored Episco-
palians have just ordained their first colored
deacon the Rev. Thaddeus Salters, who will act as
assistant rector of ST. Marks Church. at Charleston
LIEUTENANT-C COMMANDER BoNAPARTE-
Wyse, the founder of the Lessep's Canal scheme
attended a reception Saturday night at the resi-
dence of the Hon. Clarkson Potter in Gramercy
Park.
GENERAL BEAVER is gaining ground in
the Pennsylvania senatorial struggle. He is de-
serving man. eminently fit for the position, true
Republican, brave soldier and an estimable
citizen.
THE fact that George Eliot died with
volume of Kemper's Imitation of Christ " in her
hands is urged by her friends as showing that she
could hardly have been destitute of Christian
feeling.
"HYDE's TAVERN" at Norwich, Conn.
where Washington and Brother Jonathan"
Trumbull drank cider flip together, is still used as
tavern, and no one knows the year in which it
was built
ARCHBISHOP LANG, of Santa Fe is a for
tunate ecclesiastic. He owns gold mine recently
discovered, which is mentioned as giving 81, 900 in
gold from two bucketfuls of ore. A nugget was
found in it worth $1,000.
SENAToR-ELECT FAIR, of Nevada, ar
rived in Omaha, Neb, Saturday evening and
STOPPED over Sunday. He will proceed to Con-
cord, n. H, to visit his two children at school
there, and then goes to Washington.
GENERAL \. T. GosHoRN, of Cincinnati.
has been knighted the second time This time
the Emperor of Japan has conferred upon General
GoshOrn the title of knight of the Rising SUM-"
No connection with the stove polish of the same
name
We notice that the majority of our
Democratic contemporaries have more kind words
for JEFF Davis than for General Grant. And, if our
memory serves US rightly, it was not Davis who
fought it out on the Union line until the rebellion
was crushed.