National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-24
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the guest o! Professor Youmans.
WOMAN is always ready to forgive tho audaoitv
which her beauty prompts ia to DO guilty or
SENATOR PLATr, of Connecticut, Will spend tho
summer with his family among the Adlrondnoks.
PHYSICIAN says alcohol has killed more people
than yellow foyer. Well, DOCTOR more people have
taken It, Boston Post
THE Hartford Post dcvotes q whole column 10
telling "how alcohol affects people," Just as IL
everybody didn't know l-Boston Post
THE death Is announced of the wife of Con-
gresham Singleton at Canton, Miss, whittier she
had gone In vain hope Of restoration to health.
ARABr BEY's temper is truly awful. Egypt has
seen no such display Of unseemly passion since
MIS- Potiphartore off Josephs coot-tall-Erchonoe.
a NEW work ON etiquette is entitled "The Man
ners That VIM" 1t is no doubt intended to teach
man how to look unconcerned when no holds
four aces
PENNSYLVANIA Democrats arc at work" saws
the Boston Post. Yes, good many Of them arc at
work at Moyamcnsing.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
1--WE never fight under cover" snys Farmer La.
mar Evidently this able agricultnralist has never
stayed all night at summer resort hotel.-AHan'a
Constitution
"oUR PARTING KISS is the tito of recently
Issued English novel. II is evident that the au-
there very ofen.
"I see that Mr.. Bonner has paid $4,000 for my
little sister. 1t must make papa and mamma feel
good to see how their daugh ors are getting into
the first families. Maud S.
SENATOR HALE's wife and children are at their
homo In Maine, and next week will 20 to Mount
Desert for the summer accompanied by Mrs,
Chandler, Mrs Hale's mother.
A CABLE dispatch that mine was discovered
In street In Moscow, Russia" was headed by an
innocent Journalistic head-writ as q bonanza
In oscow.'-BWlin0lon Hdtokeyc
AN Ohio man unpinned a tidy from n chair and
wiped his nose upon II. It takes an Ohio man to
solve mysteries Now we know what I'm thunder
tidy is for.-New Hdren Register.
THE Republican and Evening World, of Denver,
seem to he trying TO work up quarrel between
Senator Hill and Representative Bedford.
GOOD reason: Irish witness (for the defense),
" Is 1t myself that understands the nature of an
oath2 FAX, and ought to; haven't been twice
thried for perjury and convicted 2-lioonshine
A FASHIONABLE summer drink Is called Jumbo
Julep." Probably because man, after imbiblpg a
few glasses thinks he's travelling with a circus
and feels as If he owned fur legs.-Norrisl0un
Herald.
NormNG so helps newspaper as the impartirg
of useful information. How shall keep ant,
III.
Fiji the sugnr-bowl with salt" promptly re.
spends 7erds Sinin1s
Mrs. Lucy II. HOOPER, wife of the American
vice. consul at Paris, and one of the cleyerest Of
correspondents, Is writing novel in which, 1t is
sad some Of her countrymen and countrywomen
who have visited Paris will conspicuously figure
"THIs is just my luck" said the gloomy man.
Heres performance going on that's SO bad its
agonzing to witness, and Its tho first time in six
Il.aN Hall TO-.
tub hat in front Of me when I've been TO a show"
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE had celebra-
ton of her birthday near Boston on Wednesday;
but among the compliments paid to her on that
occasion nobody praised her development of tho
filthy scandal about Lord Byron, to which she de-
voted her powers few years ago.
THE Bourbons of Arkansas arc showing a dis
position to revive the rife clubs and night riders
in the strong Republican counties of the State
If they gave a. much time and energy to paying
the honest debt of the State as they do to sup
pressing the coored vote 1t would have been
liqudaed long ago.
HENRY ]. FLATHERTY, of New York, sends the
following to the New York Sun: 81 hereby
challenge John l.. Sullivan, the So called cham
pion, to fight me for So 900 side and the cham
pionship of America. II he is not afraid let him
meet me at the Office Of the Police Gd.ele on Mon
day, the 2Ctl instant
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is expected to arrive at
Long Branch for the summer OH July 1. The cot
tage he will occupy is now being furnished and
upholstered for his use. 1t IL situated on Cedar
avenue, opposite the lodge gate Of Hollywood
Park, and is considered to be the largest aud
handstmest summer villa in the West Eud.
GOVERNOR CORNELL has engaged one of tho
cottages facing the court Of the United States
HOTEL at Saratoga, and forming part of the hotel,
which he has so often used in former summer.
He and his family will occupy the cottage during
the month of August, 1t was VIII 10 living in one
of these cottages in 1870, that Mr. Cornell was
nominated for governor
MASSACHUSETTS is State in which good political
prcccpts are not scattered before the people In
vain, as Is shown by the following from the Bos-
ton Transcript "When reprlmanded by his en-
ployer for absenting himself from the office for
two entire days, Fogg very calmly replied that no
believed in the Office seeking the man. and not
the man seeking the Office"
IT is doubtiutif any opposition is made to tho
reelection Of Congressman Carlisle in tho sixth
Kentucky district. The Democrats have q ma
jority there of over G,000, and the cxpedlency Of
running Republican against so able Democrat
as Mr.. Carlisle is doubled. The fight between
Congressman Blackburn and william Owens in
the seventh district Of the State is becoming
w""in, with tho chances in favor of Owens.
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