National Republican., 1881-12-03
PERSONALITIES.
A RUSSIAN lady, who is dazzling Paris,
IL named /" Milo ghirtoTu

Is named Mile shirtof."
ABOUT thirty years ago, Adelina Patti
was sad.eyed, poorly clad little girl In New YORK,
aprotege Of the strakosch family.
MAJOR: BEN PERLEY: PooRE: is:writing
q life; of General: Burnside and has; gone
to: colon Senator: Anthony: for material:
LUTHER HOLDEN, ofthe Boston Journal,
the well-known journalist, who has been In the
harness for thirty years, retired last night
IF Anna Louise Cary marries Mr.. Loril-
lard, the tobacco man, we may expect TO see
fine cut" of the couple In the illustrated papers.
OLD Mr.. Christiancy would never have
dreamed, sixty years ago, that mothor-in.law,
at his present time Of life, could be such an aiiic-
tion.
EVANGELIST PRATT says he feels like
sitting down and weeping when he sees small boys
smoking cigarettes. How Chicago must mako him
howl
WARRANTED TO KILL.-Professor Riley
says that kerosene Is sure death to insects in all
stages. 1t may be in stages, but how about the
hotels2
p. s. GILMORE has signed q contract as
bandmaster with the Twenty second New York
Regiment, for Eve years, at twenty-five hundred
dollars a. year.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY has, in consequence
OF the pressure of other duties. resigned the Office
ofseoretary ofthe British Royal Society, which he
has held since 1872.
Ex-SENAToR THURMAN says that he has
picked up more law business since he returned
from Europe than he did during the entire time
he spent in public life.
MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is going
to marry New York brewer. Ira, Ia, 10, Clara /;
sing lis something from Meyerbeer; u strain from
"BAfricana," you know.
WILLIAM CRABTREE (brother of Lotta) is
now in Paris studying painting. He has but re-
Gently attained his majority, and is said to have
shown remarkable talent in drawing.
Ir is worth while to remember that A..
r. Stewart used to say It was easy to get rich after
one had saved up million or two. It Is COM
forting thought to folks earning 81 II week.
UNCLE HANNIBAL HAMLIN's swallow-tail
coat will not make half the impression on the
cIcto monarchies of Europe that II used to on
Pennsylvania avenue, or among the lumbcr.yards
| of Bangor.
DR.. JouN III. STEVENS, Stonewall Jack
sons principal surgeon in the late war, was found
dead in his Office at Dallas. Texas Friday evening
into which he had gone after returning from u
| pleasure ride.
GESERAL SICKLEs will have the respect
and thanks of every gas consumer In the country
| for the stand he has taken in reference to tho
peculiar" action Of gas meters and gas com
panies in New York.
DIR. A. b. ELLIOTT, the veteran Stalwart
| Republican editor OF the Lansngburg IN. Y.
Gd=,He, is in the city, at % Grant Place. The Doc
tor Is as hale and hearty ut sixty eight as mos
men at forty-fye. May he live long in the land.
The Democrats of South Carolina have
reegated Judge 4. j. Mackey to the shades Of pri
vateifo Hell the only circuit judge not re elected
His successor Is Colonel Witherspoon, senator from
York County. Mackey is what is known us {
coquctte in politics
Mss BERNuARDT had better come back
to America However much her aesthetic sou
may have been panied by the vulgar taste dis
played In our hotels aud by the rude manners OF
st. Louis re.goers, she wasn't mobbed in the
United States, as the telegraph informs us she wa
in Odessa, few nights ago, on account of being 81
Jewish descent.
Hon. ISAAC BoNNELL of New Jersey
who died OH Saturday ut the age of ninety one
was married at Honcsdalc, Pa, ON February 1C
1879, to Roxana Brint, with whom he lived happi
and without the interruption of so much rs n da
for sxty-ilve years. He was all his life success
fu millwrigbt and even while State senator 70
Sussex County owned eleven different saw mill
in New York.
HENRY CLAY has Just returned to hi
Kentucky home after year In Greenland. Wit
less foresight than characterized his illustrou
grandfather, he went to Iceland for the purpos
of joining the Howgaic expedition. The ex
rsai,,-'' ,iHo CAPTAIN Howgate was n failure, an
MIR. Clay was let TO lOok NOrttt FoIe OH h
own account, which he did by travelling severt
hundred miles north by dog.sle until he lost In
tercst In the pursuit.
Mrs. GARFIELD has forwarded the pho
: tograph of the late President requested by Quee
Victoria. The photograph was inclosed In an Ell
velopc bordered with mourning addressed
Queen Victoria. with the name of Mrs. CARTEL
written on the lower corner. 1t was encased In
box lined with dark blue satin velvet. which W,
, again encRsed IN mahogany box and was tran,
: mittcd by the Department OF State through ii
regular official channels for the Queen.
, CONGRESS has a good many fine shot
: and active sporsmcn in it.. met General Hav
l ley yesterday coming bnck from Bnrncgat, whel
t he had been duck.shootng Congressman Nj
5 Cook has been to Ocean Beach, Md, trying to g
II shot at the wild geese, of which there were |,
giOns, but they kept outside the surf. and II WI
S next TO drowning to get at them. Frank Hiscoc
I candidate for Speaker Is both n good shot and
a good fisherman. President Arthur is both sh
and Il fisherman, and follows President Hayes
| tnNt respect VINO hunted all over the Sandusk
marshes when boy, and kept at 1t until
5 reached the Prcsldency.--Gdth.
G Ir is reported from Wilkes-Barre tina
/ Miss Norris, who was recently abandoned by h,
aftianced lover James T. Weller, on the day $
for the wedding, has entirely lost her reason. 81
was prostrated at ouce By brain fever and h
c mind never recovered from tho shock. WellC
IS makes some puerc excuses about being subjcc,t
g tC the dictation of his prospective motler-n'la
8 hut 1t is said that the threat Of being sued I
IS breach of promise by another woman In case
!. married Miss Norris frightened him into his das
II ardly conduct. This seems to be one of tho
@ Gases for which the law does not provide an adj
Q quNte rctrbution and IN which a big brother
!, father properly equipped is needed to do just
4 to the subject and tho occasion.
IA |
|. Some Morne-Srnse About Guitenu.
: We know something about "cranks
They imfesl every newspaper office, and parlc
lnrly this Office. We do not know why VIC a
thus specially favored Perhaps the colored ca
!, toons bring them out. But we have seen a gre
deal of them, In nil clnsses and conditions of III
n From the spring poet to the dangerous maniac wi
Il follows UP editor artist To revenge some anciI