National Republican., 1882-12-29

/ pu'N pOIu III Tue nlneteentn century.
Miss Mathlde Blind is about to give to the
public monograph on George Eliot.
Alphonse Daudets new story, one of Paris
ian life, will first be published In Figaro.
"Auntie" said little girl, "when Eve was
baby who made her clothes for her? ?" That was
a hard one.
Robert Browning HASN'T the mein of the
poet. lie is rather stout ana red faced, and some.
thing of n dandy in manners.
81 notice that the sale of Mrs. Langtry's
pictures has fallen Off. 1t seemed to me all the
time that true merit must win."-Lydid Pinkhdm
Miss Nellie w. Palmer is Iecturing in Gin
cinnatl on hell its locality, and the nature of its
fires. 1t is indeed difficult TO keep anything from
a woman.
Mile Litta has been very i'll at her home
In Bloomington, and her physician has ordered
| her retirement from the stage for a time. She
cannot sing note.
Mr.. Wilfred Blunt, Arabi's friend, is a we'll
looking man of l3. His wife is Byron's grand
| daughter. She is an original character. Mr.
Blunt is Sussex squire aud Roman Catholic.
The next regular destruction of the world
is set down for the year in which Good Friday
| shall fall on st. Georges day and Easter on st.
Marks. These condolences, ii is said, will occur
! in 1856.
EX-Mnister Andrew ID. White, in a recent
| lecture, spoke in warm praise of Gerinany's nu-
merous local exhibitions of industrial art. Such
schools of useful knowledge are needed in this
country.
Another horrible rumor is current. 1t is
said that Fred Gobhardt, who caused the
estra ngement between Mrs. Langtry and her
friend will lecture. His subject will be Spelling
Reform"
John G. SAKE now lives in Albany with hta
son, and is a lpess sufferer from neuralgia and
dyspepsia. 1t is denied That his mental strength
is impaired or that he Is suffering from softening
Of the brain.
Mrs. Langtry says that Freddie Gebhart 10
only boy of23 years. Thh, kind of hoy" IL
ra her dangerous pei for pretty married woman
Of about 30 years.
Because man was once a senator gives ne
good reason to dog his footsteps while at Wash.
| ngtOn, critcise what he does and says, and par
vert in every way his acts 1t is foolish impert-
nent and-vcious.
Mr.. Westgate has succeeded beautifully in
his free trun-poration scheme. He was dis.
charged from custody in Dublin after having OBJ
taned a Tree ride across the Atlantic from the
British government.
Is it not little singular, after whole year
| OF ridicule and abuse, that Roscoe Conkling can
pack the supreme court loom at Washington with
the most intelligent PEOPLE to listen to dry lega
argument ?-Inter- OCEAN.
Oscar Wilde drew $2, 900 from the Madison
square bank preparatory to his departure for Eu-
! rope. 1t is wondered by many If the fortune he
secured on the lecture platform year ago has
dwindled to that amount.
Clerk Middleton, of the supreme court for
more than quarter of century, is charged with
having made from $4,000 to $50, 900 per year du.
| he ,f rta
route contractors and speculative statesmen who
could only indulge in divvy,-S. Paul Press
The Boston Post man, in speaking of Mrs.
Langry's Rosalind, happened to allude to Neil.
sons Rosalind, Modeska's Rnsalnd and other
great Rosalinds. and then apologized to his read.
ers for wandering so far away from his subject us
to refer to good acting when writing of Laugtry.
Maggie Moore, remembered throughout
this country as singing and dancing actress of
great nimbleness, and who appeared with her
husband, ]. C. Williamson, in " Struck OIL" went
two years ago TO Australia, where she has grown
so stout to be compelled to retire from the stge.
A New York photographer keeps seaskin
sacque. He says that poor girl will pay dollar
extra to be taken in a sealskin sacque. He also
keeps Gainsborough hat, which he throws in
for fifty cents. The next time this country wants
n secretary of state it will know where to find the
man.
Christmas morning, when Mr.. and Mrs.
Levi b. Hancock, of Cincinnati, peered into their
parlor Mt the Christmas tree which they had left
loaded with beautiful presents the night befbre
they found that it had been robbed of all its hand
some gifts by burglars, who also carried OFF the
mince pies and the Christmas cake.
Col Henry E. Bateman, of Easton, Nd cell
ebrated his seventy-ff,h birthday on Friday. A
number of friends called and congratulated him.
Col Bateman edited the Eason Star from 1916 to
1si9 and is probably the oldest newspaper man on
the Eastern shore. He carries his age remarkably
well, and looks as well as he did ten years ago.
Mrs Lillie Devereaux Blake makes strong
point against Bartholdi's celebrated statue Cf
Liberty Enlightening the World" on the ground
that it is absurd TO represent liberty female as
females are the slaves of despotc men. Very
good, Lille; but in selecting male care must he
taken that the typical figure is not that of mar
ried man.-7orontO Mail
While Sen ator Malone was addressing the
senate Friday. Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware, who
| holds his he0d far above Malone, turned around
rather ostentatiously as the Virginan got up and
pretended to be reading newspaper through
! out his speech, but long sighted reporter says
the newspaper was upside down, and Mr., Bayard
listened attentively all the time.
George Bancroft, the historian, has given
| to his na1Ve city, Worcester, Mass, a scholarship
to be called Aaron and Lucreta Chandler Ban
croft scholarship for the education Of its young
men, The income is to be devoted to the educa-
tion in succession at their colleges of their choice
of INDECENT young natives OF Worcester who may
prove their ability in the Worcester schools
Melville, the author of the famous "Good
Bye" song, so frequently sung by Miss Kellogg
wrote very little paetry-indeed, scarcely any,
thing besides this GOOD Bye" poem. One dreary
autumn day he left his study, ordered his horse,
and rode away. Within fifteen minutes he was
brought hack to his study dead-thrown from his
horse and killed The ink was scarcely dry on his
manuscript of this " Good Bye " song They were
the last words he ever wrote. So says Miss Ke.
logg.
Howells is writing his new novel in re-
tired place in Switzerland. He writes that he
knows nothing of the animated discussion over
the ThaCkeray- Dickens matter which his remarks
in the November Century have called forth from
the English press. He declares, however, his
| confidence that he has been misrepresented or
misunderstood If he seems 10 be disrespectful to
those great writer's lie promises to take the earl-
est chance TO say his say in full about the art Of
Dickens and Thackeray.
King Cetewayo is going back to his Xulus
with greatly enlarged ideas on the magnifcence
ofroyalty. Since his period of probation in Lon
don he has had time 10 reflect on the glores of
the English nation, and he is quite discouraged in
his previously formed project ofbuilding a palace