National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-11


bitterness which knows no evil but prog
+ css and no good but stagnation.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
THE District School Board should make
an effort to reduce its infelicitics TO tho
Dlsausr and Generalization are in
creasingly apparent among the Texas
Bourbons.
THERE are still three or four blocks in
this city that have not been supplied with
notaries public.
FoR graveyard monuments and hitch
ing-posts our cannon are just the thing
and that's all they are fit for.
A THoUsAND-DozEN incubator could not
bring more new bills to light than our
National House of Representatives..
THE saloon-keepers of Cincinnati have
decided that life may still be made en-
durable, even if their front doors are
closed one day in week.
The new comet is said to move at the
rate of two hundred miles n second, or
three and half per cent. faster than q
Democratic Congressman's jaw.
ETIQUETTE demands that the Demo-
cratic Presidential nomination, with u
string attached, as usual, should be ten
dered to the venerable Horatio Seymour.
MINNESOTA makes q good start in the
cyclone business, exhibiting school
house in mid-air, with the unfortunate
teacher and pupils spilling out at the door
and wind ows. g.
IF Solon Chase would yoke up "them
steers" and haul General Weaver off for
repairs, the plaudits of grateful popu-
lace would convince Solon that he had
done good thing.
THE sense of humor in the Democratic
mind is wonderfully developed. Who
but n Democratic publcist would see any
thing funny in the recent painful accident
to the venerable Mr.. Stephens, of Georgia
In manufacturing and using coins in
Colombia unauthorized by law, NJ. de
Lesseps' Canal Company has grossly in
suited the Colombian government, and
very serious results are not unlikely to
follow.
BEFORE Congress gets too much hurried
to give weighty consideration to matters
of moment the country wants to know
what has become of that proposition to
employ the enlisted men of the Army as
chambermaids and dry-nurses.
THE military engineers of the Indiana
Democracy report that the well-fortitied
bung-hole of the English "bar'l may be
carried by an assault through young
English's pocket. Hence the young
mans nomination for Congress.
Crow DOC may possibly get n new trial,
but his guilt is undoubted, and in the
end, he will be executed for the murder
of Spotted Tail. The red man should
share with the whites in the blessings oi
civilization, including the gallows.
WHEN the Department of Agriculture
finds itself represented in the Cabinet let
us all hope that the honest farmer will
be able to tone down the ambition of big
potatoes, apples, strawberries, &c, so that
they will not always insist on getting on
top of the barrels and boxes.
Fit be worth while to have chaplains
in the Navy they should be well paid.
The pending bill to promote the cfli-
cheney Of this branch of the naval service
is worthy Of careful consideration. But
the Government should not pay clergy.
men as chaplains who render no service
and are settled over parishes.
"IT is difficult, if not impossible" re
marks the editor Of scintillant sheet il
Oregon, "to compute the greatness o
such leader as Samuel j. Tilden." i
seems to us that nothing is easier than
the problem which staggers our Western
contemporary. 10 arrive at the sun
total OF the sage's greatness the heicoida
area of his brain must be multipli cd b!
the mean pitch Of his lower jaw.
THE MoREY LETTER FORGERY.
II appears probable that Colonel" Horatl