National Republican., 1882-12-12
GENERALLY PERSONA =

In the air.
This the teacher doth aunc
And he chants,
And no pardon to the boy
Quick he grants.
But he grabs the indscreet
Little boy and him doth beat
Till he rather spoils the scat
OF his pants. PUCK.
Ex-senator Conover is travelling all over
II orida.
Professor Agassiz is at Jacksonville, Fla,
for the winter.
Howard Carroll has returned to regular
newspaper work.
Mrs. Lnngtry is almost as shrewd an adver-
tlser as s. Bernhardt.
Mr. Langtry is talking about coming to
America. lie would he curiosity.
Tom Ochltree is the first native-born
Texan who ever represented that state in congress-
Adam is supposed to have been cold-water
man, but then Adam had the first side bored re.
corded-BosiOn Commercial Bulletin.
Oscar Wilde has had his hair cut. This,
says the Atlanta Constitution, is probably due to
the political influence Of Howard Carroll.
Lillian Whiting says that in Boston thea
tiers =" II Is almost as usual to see two ladies come
In together as it gentleman and lady"
complimentary banquet is to be given to
Frederick Douglass i'll Washington on New Years
Day next, at which ex-senator b. X. Bruce will
preside.
Mrs. Labouchere arrived at the Albemarle
hotel, New York. Sunday evening from Washing
tom She will san for England on Wednesday in
the steamship servia.
Congressman J. Hyatt Smith has stated
that he will heartily support reform of the
tariff. At the end of bis term in congress he in
tends to return to his pulpit.
Thurlow Weed smoked for fifty years. He
gave up the use of tobacco fifteen years ago, ami
has steadily failed ever since. This may be per-
nicious doctrine, but it is history.
Henry Ward Beecher has just penetrated
the peninsula rs far us Ehston, Md. At Middle-
town, Del, he ate Il half pie, according to the
Transcript with all his old-time vigor.
Charles j. Flowers, of Seaford, Del, for
mery sturdy farmer, has gone insane, and all for
love. One morning he was found sitting upon
gate-post perfectly nude. He will be taken to
KirKbrides
DIR. Hawkins, ex-provost of Oriel college,
Oxford, who died lately, aged 80, had the disiinc-
tion Of being in his day the Situated head of a
house in that university, more especially in his
own college.
Sir c. NJ. Lampson, an enthusiastic hunter
and explorer, is the fur monopolist of the world.
by far the largest portion of all the furs in
civilized countries are distributed through the
baronets auction mart in London.
What impudence!" exclaimed Mrs.
Shoddy. "Here is n man applying by letter for a
situation as coachman who signs himself Your
obedient servant and have not even thought of
hiring him yet"- Ihiddelphid Netcs.
Nine. Etelka Gerster, the famous prima
| donna, Is to be present and take prominent put
in the festivities attendant upon the celebration
of the silver wedding of the crown prince ani
| princess of Germany, in Berlin, next month.
Mrs. Mary Clemmer, writing from Wash
ington, says that the mentally strong men among
the democrats, like Bayard, Butler OF South Caro-
lima, Randall, and others, have penetra,iol
enough to see that their autumnal triumph is AR
more a republican rebuke than it is absolutely u
democratic victory.
Patti is authority for the statement that no
one can sing Wagner's music and preserve the
voice unimpaired She might have added that
1t can't be played without wearing out the trom-
bones, bass drums. and other instruments in the
orchestra, and producing corns on the ears of tho
! hearers Chicago Times.
The Milford Chronicle (Del) says that on
Wednesday last, while the will of the late Miss
Rachel Lohand was being read, one of the heirs,
Mrs. Sallie A. Lofand being dspleased with its
provisions, snatched the will from the reader tore
it in fragments and thrust itinto the fire. Another
will, executed in 1874, was found.
1t is remarked that Gen. Butler is the first
soldier of the late war elected governor OF Massa
chusetts and Gen. Stoneman the first of the same.
chosen governor of California. In Pennsylvania,
Mr.. Pattison is the first governor since the war
who was not a soldier; Geary, Hartranft, and
Hoyt all distinguished themselves in the field il
defense of the union.
| SoIr1ch Of no1o
posed during the recent election canvass that his
| own re- election 10 the United States senate would
not be contested by any fellow democrat 1t
seems, however, that Associate Justice Wooten is
q candidate for the position, and there promises
TO be lively contest for the office between the
two men.-NclO York Tribune.
The memcntos of Garibald in the possess
of Signor Muecci, in the old Garbald house ut
Clifton, Staten island, have been presented by
their owner to the National museum at Rome.
They consisted of medals and stiletti given to the
famous Italian by the South American govern
ments in whose services he fought, and pipes and
canes of his own handiwork.
Roxie Cole, the son of Pittsburg million
are and student at Kenyon college, Ohio
eloped the other night with Emma Webb the
seveneen-y year old daughter of the village dress
maker who is described as bewilderingly beauti.
| ful, with face and form almost divine. At
/ THIN they were married. The father of the
groom has gone 10 Chicago 10 hunt the runaway
up.
Col John A. Cockerill, editor of the st. Louis
Post Dispatch, against whom the widow Col. Slay-
back has brought suit for damages forthe killing
OF her husband has published card, in which he
asserts that the suit instgGted by the St. Louis
|. RcDublcan, and that he has been pursued with
"almost iuhuman malignancy by its propretors"
| lie says that whatever may be the eventuaion of
this form of persecution, the responsibility will
rest with those who devised IT,"
The governor of Kansas told the young men
of Chicago that twenty FIVE years ago he drove
oxen, and drove them well. An exchange says
the present governor of Texas started in life as
hostler at SIS per month and did his work well.
The financial mngnate, Rufus Hatch, began life
as a chain. carrier in surveying a Wisconsin rail-
There are multitudes of idle young men because
they cannot find honorable work." They would
do well to remember that al honest labor is hon
orable, and that idleness is a vice.
| Pere Hyacnthe was driven from the chapel
In which he made his debut atter casting Off his
religious habit with debt of "A 900 francs, which
| his English friends subscribed to pay, and he is
now in London to get them to come again to the
rescue and subscribe for an allowance Of IS. 700
year for the support of his new church, For the
present he is very poorly lodged in the rue Assas
and the French papers say that the cares OSmatr-
mony begin to tell on his temper, and that the
once magnificent Pere Hyacinthe is getting sour
aud disappointed.