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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
The Advantages of Utterism.

The notion that grew up about six
years ago that every one ought to be
aesthetic, and that every one who fol-
lowed certain recipes could be so, and
gain healthy enjoyment of art by merely
living in certain atmosphere, was one
that would scarcely have needed refuta-
ton had it not been the genuine express
sion, though in an exaggerated form, of
the reaction from the Philistinism of the
earlier part of the century. At the bot
tom of the sham sentiment and fashion,
able foolishness, which, as it were,
armor-plated the aesthetic movement,
there was a real desire for little more
beauty in the surroundings of life, and
perhaps even q wish for less material
view of life itself. Possibly the weakest
STRIPPING who poured over lily in a
glass of water was as estimable spec
tacle as ''the First Gentleman in Europe"
being hoisted into his ineXpressibles by
half dozen Wallets, and the ladies who
waved peacock fans slowly in the dim
light of sage-green drawing-rooms would
have compared favorably in all but COM
pleXion with their prototypes of the Re-
gency. At all events, both the male and
female aesthetic had some faint notion
of an ideal-not wholly selfish, nor
wholly base-and though the ideal was
as nebulous as the atmosphere of the
boudoirs, it was sufficient to prevent their
being wholly contemplate. Unlike
Kingley's maiden, they did no ''noble
things" but dreamed them all day
long, and, though their dreams were
irritating to others-at least, when they
issued in action-they in the end worked
considerable change. 1t would be
difficult now for any one, even buying
furniture or domestic utensils of any sort,
to avoid becoming possessed of con.
siderable number of objects which were
really good in form and color, and the
importation of really beautiful fabrics
and embroideries from the East has in
creased enormously. tits almost as COM
mon to see bit of Rhodian embroidery
in drawing-room now as it was to see
u piece of Berlin woodwork dozen
years ago, and the houses are few and
far between, in London at least, which
have not bit of japanese art, whether
it be on paper, lacquer, bronze, or silk
lighting up some odd corner. And good
too, has been done to painting, indi
rectly, by making artists feel that the
sympathy of a considerable mass of the
public is with them, and so encouraging
them to take heart of grace to work
steadily in their own way.-Lond0R Spec,
tdtOr. . .....
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
A Cure for Unrequittd Love.

A curious love episode had its culmi-
nation in court here to-dg when Jennie
Blank, a good-looking yang woman of
refined appearance, wasiound guilty of
maliciously breaking tie windows of
William H. Andersons house. Miss
Blank first met Mr.. Anderson about nine
years ago, and fell deely in love with
him, although he clairD that he did not
encourage her affection. He ceased to
visit her, and she then began to write
him letters of the mos touching charac-
ter, but they failed T. move him. On
the contrary, he wooel and won another
woman, whom he married nearly a year
ago. But this only seemed to excite
Miss Blank to frenzy and she wrote him
so many letters tha he sometimes re-
ceived five or six O them in one mail.
There was nothing offensive in them;
they spoke of hopeless love; but the sem
timents were refined and the language
well chosen. Mr. Anderson did not re-
ply to them, and some time after his
marriage, he said to-day on the witness
stand, somebody began to annoy him by
Systematically breaking the windows of
his house. One time brick was thrown
through his store window at three o'clock
in the morning. On another occasion
his enemy apparently made miscalcu-
lation and sent a stone crushing through
the window of Chinese laundry next
door. Mr.. Anderson placed himself on
watch for the miscreant about two weeks
ago, and discovered that it was his adj
mirer. He saw her take piece of brick
out of tissue paper, send it banging
against his shop window and wax G;s5Jfn-
placently away. He followed her to
Fifth and Walnut Streets, when she
turned upon him and said, "Why, Will,
is it you? l didn't suppose you had
turned spy" Then he had her arrested.
Mrs. Anderson could not testify as to
the breaking, but said: Il married the
man this woman wanted to marry. She
is in love with my husband and cannot
help it."
The prisoner took the stand, and it
was only by a great deal of ingenious
questioning that the prosecution drew
from her the admission: 81 raised my
hand as passed Mr.. Anderson's house
and afterward heard the crash of the
glass" +" That is enough" cried the
prosecuting officer, amid roar oflaugh-
ter, and Miss Blank, with face wreathed
with smiles, tripped over to seat in
front of the dock, and Immediately be-
came engaged in an animated converse
ton with strange young man charged
with murder. The jury, after remain
ing out about an hour, found the woman
guilty, but recommended her to the
mercy of the court. Judge Briggs said
that before passing sentence he would
have the prison officers make an investi-
cation as to the woman's mental condi-
ton Philadelphia Cor. N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
Justice for a Dancing. Master.

Considerable interest was excited in
the Russian capital a short time ago by
a curious case tried before the chief mag
istrate of the Eighth Police District, both
plaintiff and defendant being persons
well known IN the upper circles of St.
Petersburg society. The former, Michael
Grusdinski, a noble by birth, is fash
ionable dancing. master, patronized by
the Court and aristocracy; the latter.
Captain Bresenski, staff officer of the
Imperial Guard. 1t appears that Grus-
dinski had given twenty dancing lessons
at the rate of two rubles per leSson-his
regular charge-to the Captains youth
full daughter, and had applied repeatedly
for payment of his bill, but in vain. One
evening he called upor.,de Bresenski in
person to collect his forty rubles. and
was shown into the dining room, where
the gallant guardsman, whose speech
and demeanor exhibited unmistakable
symptoms of vinous excitement greeted
him with atfectionate joviality, and, in
reply to Grusdinski's respectful request
for settlement of account, declared
himself ready and willing to pay up on
the spot to the last copeck upon one
tllilH9 COHulUlOu-IUdJ his creditor
should there and then dance the exam
arinski' for his (Bresenski's) special
and particular delectation. This the
terpsichorean professor steadfastly de-
clined to do, whereupon Bresenski's
cheefulness incOntinently forsook him,
and, summoning his servants he COM
manded them to ''throw the dancing
dog into the street, They fulfilled hiSl
orders to the letter. Charged with as
sault, Captain de Bresenski attempted to
excuse his conduct on the ground that
he had intended to pay GrusdnsH a
compliment in asking him to dance, and
on his abrupt refusal to comply with the
request had been moved by natural in
dignation to turn him out of doors. The
court, however, failing to recognize the
force of this argument, sentenced Cap
tain Bresenski to suffer three days i'm
prisonment and to pay the outraged
dancing-master's claim in full. Public
opinion in st. Petersburg is unanimous
in approving the justice of this decision.
London IeLeGr0ph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
"Yes, Sir, I'd Shoot Him."

Six or eight congenial spirits sat
around a stove in a Grand River grocery
the other night, and after several other
subjects had been exhausted, some one
introduced that of panics in churches.
theaters and halls. This gave MIR. Hope
well a chance to remark:
Gentleman just long to be there
WHEREOF
Why, in one of those panics. Yes,
sir, I'd give new twenty dollar bill to
be in the theater one night when there
was an occasion for panic"
Why?'
why, because one good, level
headed man could stop the thing as
easily as you could end up that barrel of
flour"
"Well, l dunno about that" OBJ
served one of the sitters. 'There is
something awful in the cry of fire! and
hear it where and when you may it
startles and frightens. What would you
do in theatre in case there was a cry of
fire and a rush?'
I'D stand upon my seat, pull re-
volver from my pocket, and shout tQut
that I'd shoot the first man who at
man would check the panic in ten
seconds
While the subject was being continued
the grocer withdrew to the rear end of
the store, poured Il little powder on a
board, and gave three or four men the
wink. Directly there was bright
flash, yells of :" fret and "powder!"
and every man sprang up and rushed
Hopewell didn't spring up and talk of
shooting. On the contrary, he fell over
lot of baskets piled up between him
and the door, got up to pillow his way
over rack of brooms, and when he
reached the sidewalk he was on all
tours, white as ghost, and so fright
ened that he never looked back until he
reached the opposite side of the street,
Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18

Mollie's establishment, she found direot-
ed to "My Niece, in Aunt Remembers
cramped, stiff hand. The letter read as
follows:
az do not know which of my three nieces
will get this in years to come-time must de-
eide that: but it will be to my favorite. In
leaving this set of furniture to her. leave a
legacy which should like preservation it is
surrounded by associations | have never
spoken of. This furniture occupied my moth
er's best parlor when was a girl, and MANY
happy hours | spent there whenl was engaged
to marry John Everard The furniture Of the
old parlor, where we spent our evenings, ts all
that is left me to remember him by, for sent
back his gifts when l foolishly promised to
marry a rich man. / tried to be a good wife
to my husband; but never have been happy
never! l always have regretted that step
During the years | was widow, With large
sums of money in the house, | used to fear
robbery, and at various times concealed bank
bills of different denominations beneath the
lining of this sofa, where they will be found
enough, think, to secure the finder from any
fear of future want"
Breathlessly they ripped down the
rusty Innings, and what sight! The
old sofa was literally stuffed with bank
bills of the highest denominations. If
the same amount of money had been
concealed in gold in it, ten men could
not have lifted it, Mollie thought.
Gratefully she accepted her legacy
gratefully preserved the old furniture,
which will again become an heirloom to
the children she and Charlie Eyerard
proudly call theirs; and this story will
be handed down from generation t0gen-
Grafton, little as the little woman's Ms0N
rite niece had suspected her of mat
ter of sentiment
To Marion, let me add a little
daughter was given later in lie, of whom
she says:
"She shall never marry for money.
l will warn her!" Saturday Night.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

--"Ah me-" sighed a pawnbroker's
wife, ''what a loan-sum life we lead"
81 don't like that cat; it's got splin-
tiers in its feet!" was the excuse of four
year-old for throwing the kitten away
YonkerS Gazette.
Silver dollars with holes in them are
painfully numerous, but they are not half
so painfully numerous as holes without
any silver dollars around them.
1t may be Notifying young man,
but that moss agate slab you are wear
ing for sleeve button is not the proper
thing. Have it made over into center
table, and then buy a small, fashionable
cuff button, -N0TriStOlOn Herald.
Here is popular eastern actress.
She has S75, 000in diamonds and $4,000
in dresses. Her salary is forty dollars q
week. She boards at home and makes
her mother do the work. Economy is
the road to wealth. Salt Lake Tribune.
"A surgeon has removed a patient S
lee above the knee. The subject laments
the loss of his limb. Come, come"
says the man of science cheerily, 'you
mustn't take on so. It's all for the best
see, you were going to have corn on
your little toe. "
Gus Singsadly is deaf as post
During one of the cold days recently a
friend told him he would freeze his ears
if he did not protect them in some way.
{" Suppose they do Freeze said Sing
sadly, g what harm will that do, they re
no good. ''-R0cheSter Express.
-"Friends," once said a clergyman
to number of people who had entered
his church for the purpose of getting out
of the rain, II have often heard of the
church being used as a cloak for ones
sins, but this is the first time / ever
heard of its being used as an umbrella. :"
Recently at Los Angeles a married
woman eloped with her coachman, in
consequence of which her husband shot
himself. The next day his daughter,
who was also in love with the coachman,
went insane, while the servant-girl, who
was in turn gone on the defunct hus-
band, tried to drown herself three times.
We shall get out an extra as soon rs we
learn of the course taken by the house
dog in the matter Derrick Dodd.
Here we have poet. He writes
for the country newspaper. The paper
does not pay him anything for writing.
He writes for glory. See how pale and
thin he is. Perhaps glory does not agree
with him. At night he walks without a
hat to let the starlight soak into his brain.
He never gets full. Nobody ever asks
to. He was not born genius. At a
very early age he fell out of the garnet
window, and when they picked him up
he was poet. Poets are therefore
made, not born. This is why flats are
built eight aud ten stories high. Brook
Ign Eagle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
The Jersey Jacket and Worth Mantle.

The wholesale stores are already busy
with making smaller wraps for the
spring in two shapes that have met with
favor during the winter These are the
Jersey jacket and the short Worth
mantle. The Jersey jacket is plain
long cuirass made single-breasted, and
with all the seams of the back sewed
their entire length to make the garment
fit closely over the hips and tournure.
This garment follows every outline of
the figure as smoothly as a woven Jer-
sey waist would, and dispenses with the
outside pockets, the lappets and buttons
at the back that were the marked feat
ures OF the masculine English walking
jackets. Small buttons, in a single row,
fasten this jacket down the entire front,
and the other only trimming admissible
upon it is tubular braid put on in mill
tary rows. The length depends upon
the wearer, as it must be made as long
as she can wear it without wrinkling
when she sits, as its beauty depends upon
its smoothness. This design has been in
favor as part of tailor-made suits all
winter, and will be used in the spring in
Cheviots, English homespuns, coach
mems drab diagonal cloths, also slate
gray or gray-blue, olive, brown and dark
green cloth.
The short Worth nantes for dressy
occasions are made of black satin or of
camers hair, trimmed with ruffies of
the material that are gathered, not
pleited, and with frills of Spanish lace
or the full ruches of chenille. Some un-
dress nantes of Cheyiots will also be
made to wear with various dresses.
These wraps have the loose mantilla
front, square sides giving the effAet of
square sleeves, and either one, two or
three seams behind. The back lies
smoothly on the bouffant tournure. and
the garment is of even length all around,
falling just below the hips Such wraps
are now worn of velvet and of MORE fig
ured plush to complete costumes of the
same material.-Harper'S Bazar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
Incident OF Garileld's Last Days.

At little company the other evening
at which Colonel Rockwell, who has
been visiting the Garfelds during the
holidays, was present, the conversation
was about Garfield and his way of max
ing intimate acquaintance of so many
different men. HE had many very in
innate friends" said Colonel Rockwell,
''but there were some to whom he was
especially attached. With all of these
he was intimate in a particular direction.
Prof. Hinsdale enjoyed his confidence as
an old associate and scholarly gentle
man. General Swain he regarded with
somewhat a brotherly affection. Blaine
and Garfield were intimate in social
as well as public way. Each enjoyed
the others confidence for years in the
House together. Then there were
Conger, of Michigan, and Morton,
of New York, and several others with
whom Garfield had always been on the
best of terms. But among all of these
there was no one who enjoyed his conf
dence and esteem so fully as Swain.
They had long been associated in many
ways, and Swain was more like mem
Der of his family circle than any of the
Others" Then the conversation turned
to the last days of the great man.
There is one thing believe that has thus
far escaped being published" said the
Colonel, land that was a little incident
that occurred only a few days before his
death. 1t was along in the afternoon
and was the only one near his bedside
at the time. He had Just awakened from
short nap, and lay quietly gazing at the
ceiling above. old boy said he, sud
denly, do you think my name will ever
go down in historyP' Yes respond
ed; not so much, though, for whatyou
have done as what you will do Withs
sad smile upon his face and a slight shak-
ing of his head, he said: No, not ior
what / will do; my work is finished. -
Cleveland Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
THE NIGHT WIND.

Once when the night-wind clapped its wings
And shook the window bars and roof,
Iheard the souls of battle kings
Drive by in clashing proof?
Sometimes, a runic strife it kept,
OF winter nights, in sleeted trees; ....-
Or underneath the caves it crept-
A swarm of murmuring bees.
Or, now, wild huntsmen of the air
In hollow chase their bugles blew, .
While swift DER wood and hilltop bare
The shrillvoiced quarry flew.
Sometimes heard of lovers flown,
Safe, under ward of storm and night,
To where, in sylvan lodge, there shone
A taper kind and bright.
These things the night-wind used to tell,
And still would tell, il j might hear;
But sorrow sleeps too sound and well
To lend a dreamful ear.
Edith NJ Thomas, in Century Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18

Temperance people frequently place
"hot BOTTLE to their feet when in bed
Is this rightP-N. Y. Com. AdU OF
course it is right. If more people were
to place hot bottles to their feet instead
of placing them to their lips they would
experience much less difficulty in stand
ing on their feet. -NorriStoVn Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18

Three men called at the house of
Norwegian in Wisconsin and demanded
money. The man was away, and thus
the wife felt called upon to pitch one
over the stove. break one arm for the
second and scalp the third with stick
of wood.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18

"A son of the late Orson Pratt one
of the original Mormon apostles is u
Washington urging Legislation to put "a, ~
end to polgyamy. He is son Of ~
fathers first wife and his mother taugls
him the evil of Mormonism, consequently
he wants it wiped out.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18

A Vermont boy who went under tle
ice and wasn't pulled out for nine mln mn,
dtes says it was the incest dream he evei
had, although he kept clutching aroun'
for the bedclothes.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-14

The coed taste In art which has gone to
seed In estheticism, and which for the past
year or two has developed int nonsensical
rubbish In the way of engraving on the COW
crs Of the Scribner- Century Magazine, gets
this good send of In the Walla walla States
man: "The new cover of The Century Mag
dzine Is an improvement on the old one.
The old one, as near as we could under
stand, was map representing the internal
economy Of the human system in . state Of
seige, induced by sudden attack Of cholera
morbus. The new design Is very unique.
In the foreground lady, who Is running
petty cash book by leaning on It, has an
old lard lamp with a rag wick, with which
she is evidently looking for the bridge Of
her nose, which Is gone. She Is cut doors,
the aurora borealis CLEANS brightly in the
northern sky, aud her throat and chest are
exposed to the night air In such reckless
manner that, II Group has not already mark
ed her for her own, II Is because diphtheria
has filed . prior claim. In the corner q
thinly clad young man, whose shirt has evil
IDENTIFY gone TO the pawn shop to look after
his trowsers, has been fishing and caught q
whole five gallon full Of trout, but he Is
emptying the Jar OF its funny treasures that
he may milk the unsuspecting goat nibbling
the bark of dog wood tree near by. 1t
isn't the kind of goat TO milk, either; but
the young man will not find that out until
he has begun operations and made the first
assessment
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-14
THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE INTER
Tor.

The President has recently made three
first class appointments, one Of which is of
great importance to the West. The appoint
ment of Secretary Hunt as Minister to Rus
sia and that of Chandler to be Secretary of
the Navy does not concern us vitality, and IL
Is 10 be presumed they are good. The ap-
pointment of Senator Teller as Secretary of
the Interior most concerns us, and the char
acter Of the man and the locality from
which he is appointed commend it as an ex-
ceptional consideration given to the inter-
ests of the new midwest, which has in him
its first Cabinet representative, and in po-
sition where he will exercise greatest infiu-
ence on the issues effecting it. He is said
to be thoroughly practical man, just but
generous, energetic but not impulsive, con-
siderate and firm. A Secretary such as this
from Colorado at the head Of the Interior
Department indicates that the President
proposes to put the conduct Of Indian affairs
on different basis from that which has
prevailed for many years, and to recognize
Western opinion on the subject. In many
particulars the conditions existing In Col
orado and Montana are similar and we may
reasonably anticipate more practically in
telligent administration of affairs affecting
Montana interests than by q Secretary Sc
lected from the East or even California.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-14
Miiiers New Hill


WASHINGTON, April 5.-Senator Miller
introduced another Chinese bill, the anne
as vetoed, except It provides for suspen-
sion of immigration for ten years. lie says
he expects other notifications will be made
by the committee with view Of making the
bill conform as nearly as practicable with
the Presidents views az outlined I'm his veto.
Miller says the friends Of the Chinese immi-
grafton bill will press the new bill with
vigor, hoping to pass 1t at once and to OBJ
tain the Presidents approval. He says the
Pacific coast people If they can't
get what they think is right and what they
want, will accept the best law they can get.
There Is an impression that the President
will approve the bill If 1t suspends inmigra-
ten only ten years; but nobody seems able to
state how 1t originated. There is no good au-
thority which assumes to have heard the
President say SO, and some members Of
Congress who supported the vetoed bill ex-
press doubts as to the Presidents approval
of ten-year bill. They say there Is moth
ing in his veto TO indicate his willingness to
approve such measure, bnt upon the i'm
preston that he might do so, the bill con-
tanning tie ten years. suspension has been
introduced.