National Republican., 1882-12-21

tfnlore american.
Amended reading: "Christmas come but
once year, therefor let's be thankful
Bet you that you get pair of slippers on
Christmas day.-CyeUeland Plain Dealer.
Professional jealousy Mrs. Langtry and
Lydia Pinkham are not on speaking terms.
Over a thousand Christmas trees are being
shipped daily from Maine to the Boston market
Bishop Burgess, of Michigan, is convert to
Beochers doctrine Of the total depravty of church
raffles.
The turkey that escaped Thanksgiving be-
gins to tremble for Christmas.--CleVe Plain
Dealer.
Bishop Ireland, of ST. Paul, Mimi, has is
sued an edict prohibiting Roman Catholics from
acting ns saloon keepers.
O'Leary is on his way to Australia. Tho
ssddes tidings of the year that he did not try
to make the journey on foot
| Mr.. Vanderbilt had hard year of il last
year. He only made s2O,OoO,OOO in the stock mar
ket. And he had to pay his salary as president
of the Central out of his own pocket
newspaper having stated that Freddy
Gebhardt was bigger man than old Grant, the
Buffalo Express says the real question is whether
he is bigger man than old Langtry.
Married people are generally good mind
readers. Just now wives and husbands are art
fully trying TO deceive each other to what they
want for Christmas present.-Boston Globe.
Miss Caroline HILL known for ever so many
years as an admirable actress at the Haymarket,
London, in Buckstones time, and the heroine of
New Babylon" has arrived In New York.
"Pay that $40 to-day? Why, my dear sir,
do you expect man to take Christmas money to
pay debts? No, sir | no, sir! still have warm
haur In nv
nal.
The London Queen says gentleman should
offer his left to his wife only. The only time
when lady Is placed on genteman'sl left is dur
ing the marriage service, when the position in.
dicates subsection.
1t seems like taking advantage of an inno-
cent turkey to fatten him for Christmas the re-
mains of the sing left over from, perhaps, her
fathers or mothers skeleton, but such things arc
done.-Rochester Post Express.
Miss Nellie w. Palmer is lecturing in Gin
cnnati on hell, its locality, and the nature of its
fires. 1t is suspected that she has just returned
from visit to Leadville, and knows what she is
talking about.-Norriston Herald.
Miss Kate Forsyth, now with John McCul-
Tough, proposes to star next season. So does Eaie
Ellsler, who has resigned from the Madison square
company because she cannot have Harry Lee
instead of Charles B. Welles to play Lord Travers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Linn Linton is about to re-
print volume of switch stories," which stories
she published nineteen years ago. CWe thought
there was material for pun in the foregoing para
graph, but we fail to see it now )-Noriston Herald
Mr.. George Riddle has relinguished his con-
tract with Mr.. ]. M. Hill, and has decided to man
age his own affairs. The brilliant young imper-
senator of "Gdipus" will probably make his first
appearance as an actor in Chicago during the
winter.
"Clara" writes: "I think it is real mean
Of the papers to intimate that lovers increase the
expenses of living account of the extra con-
sumption OF coal and gas every night. 1t is not
true. 1t is easy enough to keep warm, and as for
light who wants it itY'-Phladelphia News.
Just at this season of the year the world
is divided into two classes, viz, those who find
difficulty in selecting appropriate Christmas gifts
and tn ose who find difficulty in purchasing them
after they have been selected The latter class ID
the more numerous-Rochester Post Express.
Speaking of the 600 New Jersey people who
chartered railway train to take them to New
York to see Langtry, the Pull Mall Gazette says that
the union of babyish pastime with q merciless
eye to the main chance in business is one of the
most curious traits of American character"
care you going to present your husband
with Christmas dressing gown 2" asks the De-
petent, but there are great many wives who will
present their husbands with Christmas dressing
down if they don't get what they want-Boston
Globe.
In 1850 fund was raised in Mattoon Illi-
nois, to which Robert 7. Lincoln contributed
quite literally, and shaft twelve feet high now
marks the grave of Thomas Lincoln, the
father of Abraham Lincoln, in the /" Old Farm
ington graveyard, about twelve miles south
east of Mattoon.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes contends that a
statesman who at seventy two-after fifty years of
service-can like Mr.. Gladstone, turn with unim-
paired digestion from a lord mayors banquet of
Cheops and Irish stew to the nectar and ambrosia
Homer and his. commentators, is a proof that
civilization is not played out.
AS Christmas is near at hand, we may ex-
pect to soon see in our st. Louis exchanges such
items rs this "a Chicago young man, In a rash
moment told his girl that If she would hang mn
herstockng on Christmas eve he would fill it TO the
brim with something nice. He has since seen her
stocking, and it is undecided whether TO get into
it himself or buy her sewing machine" MORRIS
tolgn Herald.
Revolution and change. Lawrence Barrett
last night at the Windsor Bowery theater and
Lester Wallack at the Harlem Mount Morris
, theater. When the plebeian mountains refuse to
go TO Mahomet, Mahomet clutches his gripsack
and trudges Off to the plebeian mountains
Graphic To which it might be added that things
other than water sometimes get around TO then
natural levels.
Thus the ingenious Nilsson to San Fran.
cisco reporter: But where are your Indians ?
There are none? Well, we'll, thought l should
see plenty Of them. 1t was too funny, on the way
over to the dear little creatures they carry on
their backs; but 1t was funny-whenever / offered
them cent they would not take It, but asked fol-
a bit Don't know cents? Well, declare!
thought 1t funny that people never gave me any
change"
certain lawyer of this city, well known
for his power Of repariee had been down to Salina
! TO try case. Returning to the town the con-
J ductor was very impertinent in his manner be-
, cause the lawyer was rather tardy in producing
his ticket when called for to be punched. Some.
what rufiled the lawyer remarked to friend next
TO him: "lhe Southern Pacific shall never see
cent of my money after this" "Going to foot Il
up and down from now on, eh" sneered the con-
ductor. "oh, no." replied the lawyer. quietly
"instead of buying my ticket at the office l shall
pay my fare TO you."- Virginia city Enterprise.
Mrs. Theodosia Strother, who died at the
Grand hotel Paris, November 2l, was the widow
OF the Hon. George F, strother, OF St. Louis, who
was at one time member of congress from Vir-
ginia, and under President Monroe held an i'm.
portant position in the territory of Missouri. Mrs
/, strother was the daughter of John W. Hunt, Of
Lexington, KY, who at the time OF his death was
the wealthest gentleman in that state. Mrs. stro.
her was at one time noted belle of Kentucky
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