National Republican., 1882-12-16

But girls will smile aud kiss, and then
Do something mean for spite.
"Just put the wish. bone, DEAR said Sue,
above the parlor door;
Your husband he the first will be
Who steps the threshold DER"
She helped Amelia mount the chair
q watched It with grim,
Then beckoned with her finger-tips,
Aud called the waiter In.
-Tonmie Jones, in Hdrpers Young Peopoe.
Clara Morris did not pull as heavy in Bos-
ton as formerly.
John G. Whittier will be rs years old on
| the 18th instant.
Senator Beck has evidently seen great
light. lie is now radical clvil-service reformer
Mrs. Langtry says she never reads the
papers, Mrs. Langtry doesn't know what she is
missing.
Senator David Davis, of Illinois, owns a
900. acre sheep farm In Georgia, we'll covered with
blue grass, and on which 1000 excellent sheepare
grazing.
Molle Wilson, otherwise Mrs. Harrison, the
serio- comic vocalist, who was shot by her hus-
band last Thursday in Philadelphia, is in serious
condition.
An actress was offered q sealskin cloak If
she wouldn't speak for an hour. At the end of
seven minutes she exclaimed, Mind it's got to
be $3.50 one"
Emily Faithful says that woman allowed
to earn her own livelihood will marry the same rs
any other woman. or course she will, and sup
port her husband, too
Queen Olga, of Greece carries with her on
her travels u lap dog of that rare breed often
represented by Sir Peter Lely in his pictures of
the ladies of the court Of Charles II.
Mr.. Thomas F. Galway, of New York, editor
of the Catholic World, married on Tuesday at
Cincinnati to Mrs. Mary ]. Mitchell, a daughter of
the late Judge Hart, of the latter city.
The shortest courtship on record is here
given: A California miner fell in love with girl
ut first sight. She was equally smiten with him
and the entire courtship was "My pet?" "You
bet."
Rev. Mr.. Dalrymple, of somers, Conn, 10
determined to break up kissing parties in his
S. clety When n minister puts his face squarely
against kissing it has got to stop.-Rockldnd Cou-
rier- Gazette.
Gov Stephens, of Georgia, is fast earning
the reputation OF the champion pardoner. He
has turned loose more murderers and rascals in
his bricfterm than n judicious executive would
in five years
Representative George, of Oregon, is the
only Congressman who cannot reach Washington
without taking sea voyage, and he will not be
able to boast that distinction after the Northern
Pacific railway is finished
Miss Nellie w. Palmer has just lectured in
Cincinnati on hell its locality, and the nature of
its fires. 1t is unnecessary to state perhaps that
she located the sulphurous regions in the state
just across the river from the pork town.
"Never would call a boy of mine Alias"
said Mrs Jones, "if 1 had bundled to name.
Men by that name is allus cuttn up capcrs.
Here's Alias Thomps on, Alias Williams, Alias tho
Night -hawk-all been took up for stealin"
Nine. Modieska was married at 16 years Of
ago to NJ. S. Modjeska. After the death of her
first husband and eight years after her first mar
riage she was again married, this time to Count
Charles Bozenta Chlapowski. Hence her title
Mr.. Herbert Spencer says Americans eat too
fast Mr.. Spencer is right. He has travelled on a
railway where the passengers are allowed " five
minutes fer dinner" The time should be ex-
tended to eight minutes. at least.-Norristocn
Herald.
"They have at one of the leading restau-
rants in Paris Chinese cook whose sole and ex-
elusive duty it is to cook rice" At one of the
, Louisville restaurants they have an American
cook whose sole and exclusive duty it is to cook
} bull beef.
"Ju," who figures in the New Mexican dis
patches as the latest terror of that section is Juan
Mata Ortiz He is about so years old and until
,
ence, having been chief official of the Mexican
town of Galiano.
f A hotel boaster who was Wanting his
knowledge of the world before crowd of new
7 comers, was asked by wag at his elbow ifhe had
ever been in algebra. oh, yes, certainly" said
he, "I passed through there on top of stage
; about year ago."
Mr.. Drake says that in Boston "there was
a time that it was lawful to get intoxicated only
| at church raising, and less than century ago
, the omission of wine at n funeral would have
called for remarks not at all attering TO the rel-
tives OF the dead"
The Petersburg Va, Mdsr-Appeal asks how
Winfield s. Hancock aud Joseph L. johnson
would do for democratic presidential ticket in
!, 1884, and thinks that its adoption would prove
! that the war is really over. 1t believes the ticket
= would carry every southern state-Virginia by
: 10000 majority.
n Representative George, of Oregon, on his
Z return to Washington for the session. was accom-
$ panied as far as Ohio by his mother, venerable
a lady, who, thirty-one years ago. made the tedious
Journey to that remote territory as the wife OF a
9 pioneer, with her son and infant in her arms.
Il The family were six months on their overland
l. trip, enduring many hardships.
e King Omoro, of Africa, who recently died,
n left seven hundred widows If each one pes
s tering him for seal-skin sacque for Christmas
present we are not surprised that he died at this
Y | particular season of the year And he leaves
G seventy seven children, Imagine this number OF
= Youngsters going about the house on the Joyous
= Christmas day blowing tin horns.-Norrtstotol
G Herald
i G. w. CouldocS, who plays Dunstan in
= Hazel Kirke"is 70 years of age, lie has been
" upon the stage half century, but never found
{ his exact character until from force Of necessity
+ to keep the play alive he took the part and made
s. it SO successful that the piece was saved. He
d auires no wig and but seldom uses coors for his
l. face He is somewhat infrm, and his voice in the
# play is natural.
"Society,' as it calls ITSELF" says Maggie
Mitchell, in her remarks about "success Upon
i, the Stage" sis pretty accurately reflected IN
n every particular by the stage. My sisters Of the
- profess ion are neither better nor worse than my
= sisters of the world outside They labor under 0
% double disadvantage. They are not only sub
. jeeted to severer temptations than most othel
= women, but in the fierce white light that beat
- - upon them their mere weaknesses are magnifet
%% %% into Aagrant immortality"
a BENJAMIN Gordon, better known as Charlie
= Howard" whose murder in Leadyille gambling
l. house on December s has already been recorded
o was one ofthe depraved fraternity who make the
% worst possible of conspicuous gins and graces
" He was a member ofa good Virginia family wa