National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-27
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Miss EMMA THuRsBY will return to America next
month.
PRESIDENT ARTHuR's mail averages six hundred
letters day.
RUFUS HATCH predicts another panic greater than
that of 1873.
THE latest joke OF the Legislature is TO order
children under IA out OF the theaters Children
over 60 are most in danger.-Spfrit Of The Times.
WE are told that MIS- Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett is more fond of her boys than of her books"
Lots of her sex prefer boys to books,-Boson Post.
YoUNGSman, don't marry u "gilded butterfly"
Marry good looking girl The butter will fly
fast enough when you get to dousekeeping.-Seu
ben Republican.
EARL SPENCER, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is
more than six feet tall, light complexioned and
wears an immense flowing beard and moustache
of tawny red color.
FATHER BROWNING, who has been q Methodist
minister for sixty-fiye years, preached "power-
full sermon" In St. Louis the other night. Mr.
Browning is nearly00.
GENERAL JOSEPH L. JOHNSTON says that If he had
staid in Congress he would have become beggar
He is an insurance man now and presumably
makes more than IS 900 a year.
NEARLY 5000 persons attended tho obsequies of
the late Caiwaladcr C. Washburn ex ex-governor of
Wisconsin, and on that day all the public offices
throughout the state were Closed
"woMEN are so contrary" said Blobbs; i" l
thought when got married my wife would darn
my socks and let me alone instead of that she lets
my socks alone and darns me- Wheeling Journal
Dom PEDRO, the NICE white haired old man,
whose face and figure became so familiar during
the Centennial is the subject of some very
naughty stories in the Brazilian papers of recent
date.
THE widow of Major General Alfred Forbert
who was drowned on the Florida coast nearly two
years ago, is living at Milford DEL in possession
of very respectable property in lands, peach
orchards, &c.
If John Browns soul were not positively COM
mittcd to the task OF marching on. 1t might pause
to inlict something serious upon the wretches who
are pretending to be raising money for the old
abolitlonlsts family.
CAPTAIN CosTENrESUs, the tattooed Greek, Is
soon to be admitted into the Masonic order. He
will become a voter a year from this fall, and he
means to take up his permanent residence in New
York, having amassed a fortune
DESvER reporter asked Alice Oates, the ac-
tress, how old she was, and she replied: AZ am
D." "Werc you % recently?" inquired the re-
porter, innocently, at which the little kicker said
she detcsted newspaper reporters.
SENATOR EDMUNDs of Vermont, says 1t should be
every young mans object to pursue private call
ing, inform himself on pubic affairs always par.
ticipate in elections, and leave public honors and
responsibilities to seek him, not he them.
GIRLS from we'll to-do country families will of.
noiate us walters at some summer hotels tins sea-
son, and city dawdlers who attempt to flirt with
them will learn something new about the ability
of the rural damsel to take care of herself
WHEN Mrs Homespun heard of the recent assas-
sinaion In Ireland, and that II was attributed to
the Irish, she exclaimed: Massey sakes! You
don't tell me the Irish have got into Ireland Z?
Well, we'll believe they're everywhere"
JAMES C. HUSTON, the general agent of the Asso.
ciated Press, has received from the German govern
ment the "medal for saving from imminent dan
ger" having rescued Therese Enke from death by
drowning on June IS, 1881, while he was at Ems
Germany.
Mr.. LAWRENCE BARRETT, the actor, who has re-
rently bought house in Fifth avenue, in New
York, proposes to spend the summer in London.
Mr., Barrett is q scholarly man, reading both Greek
and Latin, and being especially vesed in Greek US
well as In modern history.
KATE CLAYTON, the actress, had lady visitor at
a Cleveland hotel, and the head waiter. mistaking
her for maid, placed her at the servants table,
Amer an explanation had failed to Iectify the
error, the waiter was thrashed by Kate Claxton's
husband, who was fined 50 in police court.
CONGRESSMAN YOUNG, in his Decoration address
at Cincinnati, will depart from the stereotyped
order Of such oratlons. Instead of telling what
the soldier has done for the country he will dwell
upon what the country has done for the soldier
He expects, by quoting from statistics, to show
that this Nation has not treated It's defenders with
the proyerbial ingratitude Of republics
FRED ARCHER, the celebrated English jockey, is
described as q tall, emacated, cadaverous man,
with projecting lips, a slight stoop, decidedly
round shoulders, and long, misshapen legs, To
keep his weight down to III pounds he onen
breakfasts on two sedlitz powders eschews meat
and vegetables, and subsists almost entirely upon
bread and unsweetened tea. He is worth s350,0O0
though
MAN rather below the medium height says
that he cannot avoid being offended Mt any refer
cnce tohis size aud relates how he was once utterly
crushed in an argument. Ho had the best Of II
and was walking the room the more strongly to
lay down and emphasize his points, when the
other fellow calmly remarkod sit down, Jones;
you look taller sitting down" II made him SO
mad that he could not say another word.