National Republican., 1882-12-27


Victor Hugo will not keep plant or bird
as prisoner in his house.
One of the members of Gov. Buffers staff
Is named Drinkwater. Curious name for demo-
crat
Count FitZ James, of France, direct de-
scendant of Charles IL, is keeping house in Wash
ington
little boy named his goat Christmas, be-
cause Christmas comes butt once year.-Fdt Con-
tr.bTor.
The duke of Argyll has removed oil whisky
shops on his estates, and prohibited their intro
ducton.
John Laubers, aged 72 years, an inmate of
the Germantown almshouse, on Monday choked
to death while eating turkey.
Mrs. Langtry made fiat failure as Rosalind
in Philadelphia. The crowds which followed her
on the streets stopped at the door of the theater.
Judge Treat rebuked the st. Louis society
for the suppression of crime because 1t secured a
conviction by sending a decoy letter. Did not
this amount to manufacturing crime2" he asked.
Sergeant Ballentine, the eminent English
barrister, is very successful with juries Instead
of declaiming before them, he talks to them in
easy, familiar you and 1 know very well style.
1t is all very appropriate and suggestive.
the nomination. The Tombstone (Ariz) Ephuph
hoists the name of Grover Cleveland for presiden:
in 1884.
No one need feel so bad about the American
dance The most popular dance in Hungary is
one in which every man hugs two women at
once and Hungary is getting along right smart as
country.-V Virginia Footligh
One of the keenest criticisms of DR.. TAI
IMAGES denial that he steals his etmons is that of
the Milwaukee Sentinel, which suggests that no
one who hears or reads them would for a moment
suspect that they were not original.
How grand Tom Ochiltree must feel His
district in Texas in five times as big the state of
Massachusetts, and includes thirteen counties
which have always gone democEati until Tom
captured them. There is something in personal
magnetism, after all.
The degree of civilization which exists in
Stokes county ~ c., is indicated by the fact that
q resident there, desiring to move elsewhere, sold
wife and household goods for $500 TO a neighbor,
who paid the cash, and was allowed to take pos
session. Neither of the men were lynched.
Canon DIR. Book, the well-known Swiss
antiquary, who has been making ain examination
of the relics belonging to the Cathedral of Berne,
declares it to he richer i'll archaeological treasures
than almost any other Protestant church in
chrIsendom. The money worth of the treasures
he estimates at upward of 100000 francs.
When Oscar Wilde saw Niagara Falls he
exclaimed: Bulk but no beauty" When little
Detroit boy first saw the sublime cataract he SOL
EMMY whispered Mamma, feel like taking my
hat off to God" That is the difference between
embryo idiocy and embryo manhood..-PhRadei.
| phta NciDs
| In Philadelphia the crowd following Mrs
Langtry when she walks out with Fred Geb-
harbt fills the sidewalk and overfows into the
street. When the famous couple enter store
business is stopped by the jam of curious specta-
tors, and n closed carriage is the only refuge of
| the weary pair of curiosties. II beats Oscar
Wilde and Jumbo.
Two cardinals have died since the beginning
| of cold weather, the last Sanguigui and now the
news comes that Cardinal Donnet the oldest of
the French members of the sacred college, lies at
the point of death. There is nothing que rer GO
! ing than the popular superstition that cardinals
die by threesunless 1t be the fact that the SUPER
stiton is always proved true.
/ Gen. Butler took some friends out riding
one day last fail, at his country seat in an old
familycarriage that looked as If it had come out
of the ark. General" said one of the party,
wherever did you get this trapY" "It was my
fathers" said Butler laughing, "and has been
in the family fifty years; but they say around
here that stole it at New Orleans"
When Joshua Hill of Georgia, was in the
old field lying on the suburbs of Washington. He
| thought little of it, but held it Investment
for his children. The British minister built fine
residence in the quarter in which this land was
situated, made 1t fashionable district, and Mr..
Hill's purchase is now estimated to be worth
S25O,OOO
W. H. Glider, the New York Herald CORE
spondent who crossed Siberia in sledges to carry
the news of the burning of the Rodgers, has ar
rived in New York lie doesn't look as through
he had undergone some of the severest hardships
that ever befell man. He says however, that
he does not feel very we'll; that the horse he ate
on the journey had not been we'll fed, and didn't
agree with him.
A most extraordinary and painful phenom-
enon has lately occurred in Warsaw A lady died
under somewhat peculiar circumstances, which
gave rise to the report that her death had been
caused by her husbands i'll treatment. Hence,
several weeks after the interment her body was
exhumed for post-mortem examination, when it
was found that in tho grave a perfectly healthy
child had been born.
Edward Cox, the murderer whom Gov.
Stephens, of Georgia. pardoned the other day was
sensible enough to say, when asked by reporter
if he wished to make any statement for publicl-
tiou, Nothing, nothing. | want quiet and peace
peace with man and God. Don't even say that
am home again. Let me stay out of sight of the
public Now, I'll esteem it u favor If you won't
even mention my name"
statue of Robert Burns Is to be erected
on the Victoria embankment in London by Mr..
Crawford, retired Glasgow merchant Tie
work will be intrusted to Sir John Steel the
sculptor of the Burns statues recently erected in
Dundee aud New York. The London efigy of
the Scottish poet will be of bronze, the pedestal
being of polished granite. The entire monument
will stand sixteen feet high.
, The late Hon. Mr.. Orth was a firm friend
and an honest man and politician. The press,
= which takes pleasure in assassnating character
: charging him with having corruptly used his
f official influence and opportunities to make
money His estate amounts to $4,000, and he has
, been II frugal lawyer, and for years member of
congress. What have these newspapers TO say
! who malgned him ?-Ddyton JourRaL
/. al find" said an old man to Boomerang
, reporter yesterday, that there Is absolutely no
i limit to the durability of the teeth If they are
4 properly taken of, never drink hot drinks
, always brush my teeth morning and evenin' 1,
! avoid all acids whatever and, although am 65
d years old my teeth good as they ever were,
"And that is all you do to preserve your teeth, Is
. it?" Eyes, sir; that's all-barrng, perhaps thn
B, fact that put them in glass of soft water
! nights."-BM Nye.
, DIR. johnson, who had about as much fun
a in him as an elephant, said that the man who
would make pun would pick pocket. Shak-
speare who was something Of punster, was ar
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