National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-06
FUN, FACT, FICTION.

Boston is cultured, no doubt, but there is a
triing incongrulty in her singing tho "IIalleiuiah
Chorus from the Messiah" for the benefit of the
Russian Jews.-Nct0 HoVen Register
Chicago sculptor has returned to Paris and
applied hmselfto the idealizntion Of Chicago In q
statue. II is said that no pedcstals will be re-
quirod, as the feet will be llfe.size.
President GnrGeld's grave on every pleasant
Sunday is visited by thousands Of quiet people.
The sentines still pace about the vault the bronze
doors of which are thrown back, revealing the
CONN.
Lord Houghton, now recovering from shock Of
paralysis at Athens, once said, when asked why
ne had not visited the United States, al am afraid
to CO. because might never want to come home
again"
Inc New York Commercial Adrcrtiser says that
Jumbo feels dreadfully disguised because he can
not write his autograph. And yet Jumbo has his
own pen and the children used to get ON to his nibs
In the Zoo.
see by the papers that Judge Jere Black has
peeh puinng my tail. IL is good thing that my
uUentlon was called to tile matter as otherwise IL
would nave entirely escaped my notice "-The
British Lion.
Twelve thousand shovels and 5000 spades ara
TUNED ont every week in the United States, and
yet the man who wants TO borrow one won't be-
neve that n single factory is running.-Sunddy-
School Gazette.
correspondent asks: "Can boy leave his
fnther when he is eighteen years old?" Ifa father
Is eighteen years old son is justified in leaving
him, because he ought by that time lie able otuke
care OF himself
The United states are now called upon by Spain
TO pay ST. Cos principal and interest duo ON 2l2
claims growing out Of the operations OF the Amer
lean army in Florida belofe the cession of the lat
ter to thp States.
Georgia man traded an old buggy for six hun.
dred acres of Florida land some thirty years nRo.
anu the other day he took trip down to that To-
caniy and found village of four hundred inhab-
itnnts on his purchase.
The Springfield Republican wants Republicans to
cease using the words "stalwart" and Half.
Breed }" and then says Jesse James was probablya
Drassmedal Stalwart. 1t had better learn to
practice what 1t breaches.
New Jersey farmer set an old straw stack on
fire to scare out fox, and three tramps crawled
out of the smoke and upbruided him for his care
lessness In not first jabbng around with pitch
fork 10 see If any one was there.
Boston announces new paper, called The Bdche.
Tor. IL Is singular title, II will probably be
edited by man who has not benedict ed to 60
ing with the girls. We advise him not to print
any Old Maidover jokes.-NorrisiotVn Herald
Jumbo, the new elephant is great com fort to the
clergymen Of New York and vicinity, who must 20
10 see him as great curiosity in natural history
ana az the same time get good deal of circus
mixed in, as 1t were, "unbeknownst" to them.
"Gumbo soup!" exclaimed the little boy at the
Grand Central the other day as he read 1t from
the bill of fare ~ say, ma, they have named a
soup after Barnum's new elephant, haven't they9"
Ma explained to the lad his eiror.-Hotei Mail.
A Rome (Ga) man is reraring UNIQUE de
rectory. II will contain the name, style, whether
brunette or blonde, address, and approximate age
OF every young lady In Georgia who has of her
own or as heir expcctant property to the amount
ofS5,OO0 or upward.
The King of Siam objects to the tarred rope in
American plug tobacco. and all England is mad
because American cotton is full of ,and. Is there
at least, do the blamed furriners of this world
intend to insult the honor of American exportersY
-Net0 Haven Register.
Kid gloves are now made of rat skins. II You
have pair of kid gloves that you wish to test set
them on a table with piece of cheese If they
DON'T attack the cheese they either real kid or
the rat they were made from isn't aliye,-Phiadst.
phfa Chronicle Herald.
Scene In the auditorium of a theatre: Actor
(who has appeared in the first piece)-" Good
EVENING" May take the seatnext your" Lady,
Cetainly; but don't you appear any moro to.
nightly Actor-"No." Lady" Oh, lam so glad
Treasury decision has been rendered that tho
Scotch yacht Mdge, which won so many prize,
last year, must pay Ly If she sold to an Ameri.
can. Why not make 1Hldavit that she was i'm.
ported for breeding purposes 'Tle evidence Is AZ
strong in her case as In the case of Jumbo.
Adelina Patti says that she and Monsieur Nico.
lini are just as much married us George Eliot and
Professor Lcwcs were; that they love each Other
devotedly, and will do so "until death do them
part" and 1t doesn't matter fig 10 them who
knows 1t or what they think or say about it,
How people do change, to be sure. There are tho
Pingreys, for instance. Six m, nj IS ago before
they were married, when Henry ust d to leave her
house, Martha would stand at the gate and throw
kisses at him until he was out OF sight This morn
Ing when he left home, instead Of a kiss, Marlla
threw fire'shovel.
goat disturbed worship in a St. Louis church
by trotting up the main aisle, mounting the plat.
ioim steps, and trying TO eat the green fringe OF
the pulpit drapery. st. Louis always was pretty
go' d goat pasture, but when the animals are
driven into the churches fer food the grass musl
be pretty well lramplCd down In the streets.-Clt.
cd0o paper.
A psychologist in New York is writing n treatise
upon the effect of mental excitement upon the
health, and has asked the public to give him their
experience and sensations when uud,r the infiu-
GIVE vi iehr HOW aces IL lecl 10 be scared?' Is
the question asked If the Doctor would drop
postal card to the Car OF Russia he might get full
particulars.
young girl objects to the criticism which
makes 1t appear that these of her sex who ara
true and womanly are scarce; and she wishes to
know whether II is necessary when a young lady
is receiving company in the pailor she shall lug
IN beefsteaks whiewash tubs scrubbing brushes,
ard smoothing irons in order to convince lot Of
ninnes of young men that she can work in the
kitchen.
Mile Lima Munta, the actress of whom Bern.
hardt wNs Jealous because of the attentions which
the present Mr., Bernhardt paid her, told Sara, in
the course of one Of their quarrels, that on.
Damala would not be such fool as to throw
himself away upon pair Of castanets" The gem
eral impression in this country is that the cable-
man inserted caetanets where daning- needles
was written in the dispatch. Mile Munta would
hardly have been far out OF the way In her cal
culations.
A lady who sent gold watch and chain to hei
| godson in New Zealand docs the handsome thina
by the officers of the British post-ofice In this way:
Unjust compliment you all on the splendid eff
| cheney your postal regulations at home and
abroad, inolose post office order for one guinea
IA little fec beg you will accept from me for tia
trouble you have so kindly taken for me over this
matter" The dear, good soul could see no differ.
ence between Her Majesty's postal service and
Jeems, the coachman, or 'Enry, the man In wait
| ing,-B0sion Transcript.
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