National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-17

My love and !. So
Dear love, the moonlight smo,c your rppling hair.
And made you smile YOU knew not how nor
why;
My heart beat strangely as we fingered there,
My love and l.
from :" Moude ondthe Moon," by s. j. Tilden.
GUiTEAU Is said TO be very much depressed
What the people would like to sec is MIR. Guiteau
very much elevated.
THE Democrats figure out majority of twelve
in the next Congress. They have set their return-
ing boards OF work carly this time.
Ex. GovERNoR HOLIDAY, OF Virginia, is travel.
ing for recreation In Colorado, having recently
returned from the Sandwich Islands.
THE Rev. Henry Ward Dyecher will delvera
Fourth OF July Grafton on "Natioual Events"
this year, at Lake Walden, Concord, Mass
joins MCCULLOUGH, whose father was eyictcd
from a small 1r h arm, says America Is the best
country, not only for actors, but for everybody
else.
WALTER BouRKE, a landlord, was assass,nat d
in Ireland Thus lay. Ireland, 1t Will be remem-
bered, is the home Of the shamrock and American
policcmen.-C Chicago tribune.
THE Ways and Means Committee of Congress
has recommended n reduction in the tax on ciga-
retes. The dry goods clerks seem 10 be having
good deal ofinfiuence this year.
ALL bachelors would like to shake hands wi h
the man named Morse, who recently got married
and four weeks later applied 10 Parliament 10
have his name changed to Re-Morse
THE announcement Is authohtatively nnte
that the firm of A. I. Stewart Co. will go out of
business June so. Mr.. Hilton is evidently getting
his money together for the Fourth of July.
THE Inter. Ocean thinks that Mr. Springer was
right when he said in Congress that there could
h I'VE been but few Democrats on that Yorktown
excursion, judging from the fact that only 500
worth Of whisky was consumed
IT IS understood quito generally that Senatr
Mitchell no longer goes around to the White House
on Sunday evenings to help the President with his
singing. NJ. Mitchell kindly helped President
II yes out In that way, but President Arthur sings
different things Philadelphia Times
THE wife and daughter of Justice Stanley Mat.
thews, of the supreme Court Of the United States,
will attend the commencement exercises at Prince
ton College next we3k. Mis.lMatthcws will be one
of the committee of ladies who will receive at tno
entertainment given by the Juniors to the seniors
as a farewell fete.
SOME one says elephants can be taught to play
billiards. If the animal could be taught no
more useful employment, he'd soon become as
worthless a member of society some Young men
who devote ten hours day to the game, aud some
times see the elephant before they get home
NorriStoWn Herald
"AH, my friend" said q clergyman TO parlsh-
Toner, who was the husband of termagant. and
who had made application for a divorce, Eve
should be yielding and forgving. There are no
divorces in heaven" "Thats the reason" said
the sufferer, "why am so anxious to get d.
vorce re."-Sommeruile Journal,
RICHARD WAGNER will never again visit Eng
land, because he thinks that the antipathy mani
tested toward him in London years ago was
biased upon the peculiar character of the English
religion, having moro affinity with the Old than
| the New Testament" England and the Old Tes-
| tament seem to be in luck this year.
| WHEN President Arthur was school teacher he
| did not punish the big bad boys by seating them
| with the girls he placed them OH the lowest
| bench in the primary department and made
| them recitc the alphabet with the little children,
| By this simple method he permanently reformt
| one very bad school in exactly two hours by the
| watch.
| ELLA WHEELER wants to know II we are going
"where the summer shadows dance" No, love.
We are not We are going to sit IN the skylight Of
| the Commercial building and howl for paste, and
claw the exchange nend, and pray for the man
| who stole the scissors and swear that the deaf
| editor wrote that obnoxious paragraph. That's
our vocation,-Neo York Commercial Advertiser.
THE greatest minds often utterly fail when they
| attempt political prophesying. Chateaubiland
said; 'In fifty years there will not be legitimate
| sovereign in Europe. ioresee nothing but mill
1
Southern States OF this country should resolve 10
| separate from the North the North would not OPP
pose and would fail If 1t did oppose. Humboldt
| demonstrated us he thought, in 1917 the falla-
ciousness of expectations OF the emancipation Of
| SJuth America.
MAJOR GEORGE w. MERRIcK seizes the occasion
OF rcSigning q country postmastershp in Pennsyl-
yania-in order to run on the Independent ticket
secretary for internal aifairsto posture before
| the country us martyr and an expounder of pc
liticRl virtue in II long open letter TO the POST
| master General The independent Philadelphia
| Record seems TO have taken the measure of this
blatant pat lot pretty accurately, and 1t quietly
| warns him that such letter Is enough to nau-
sclte the public sonach, and that tive would
completely u )set II.
Mr.. SHARPE declares that he proposed that
Mcssrs Conkling and Plat be withdrawn, and
that General Grant and Hamilton Fish be made
the S;alwart candidates. Mr.. Conkliug liked the
proposition, but Informed the proposer that 1t
should come from the other faction. The whole
sum of the interview is to put General Sharpe In
the position of Ielterating assertions without evil
dence to sustain them which are contradic,cd by
several persons. He may have some evidence in
reserve II he has not, lie had better make his
political will.-7ioy Press (D(n), June 10.
Mr.. BEARD, the late collector at Boston, posed q
good deal as n civil service rclOrmcr Al q reccp-
ton the other night to Colonel Roland Worthlng-
ton, Boards successor, tnnl gentlcNa", who has
been keeping his eyes open, remarked AZ have
examined Mr.. Reard's civil service system and
lnd It was solely Of his own making. There Is
nothing in II about the distance ftom the moon,
nor any arithmetical problem; but instead Of
this, It was desired to know who the applicant
voted for, and IL II was the wrong the verdict
was that he was not quite qualified for tho place."
SOME specuatons about the next Presidential
campaign Gre given by the Washington CORE
spondeut OF the Augusta (Ga,) Ctronicle lie says
that Just before Judge Field len for California he
was asked to indicate the probable Democratic
candidates for the Presidency. lie mentioned tho
names Of Bayard Mcdonald, Hancock aud Nor.
rlson. He himself has no disposition TO enter he
race, but believe he would DO the hest man. ono
thing Is certain: we cannot whip In the next fight
on sentiment The 'slnews ofwar must he forth.
coming. II they are absent from ous camp
J would not advise anybody 10 bet against the Re-
publican nominee. Tho Democrats can win
against everything but their own folly"
LUCAS HRsr, the Philadelphia lawyer, loft
nearly the whole OF his fortune valued ut $50 O0O
for The establishment Of a free law library for poor
lawyers in Philadelphia. Mr.. Ilrst began his
career forty years ago q penness GRAND boy in
Attorney General Brewster's office, and worked
his way to prominence aud wealth by tho closest
application aud penurlous economy Never In
his life did his food and lodging cost him more
than $40 per week, aud the average was probably
, much less; and he was always shahbily dressed.
Some years ago no asked tho use Of n volume at
the Law institution for few monenL' and was
told 1t could only DO granted on his Payment OF
, $40, a years. subscription TO tho institution IIo
, flung himself out In Il passion and al once re-