National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-02-11
FUN, FACT, FICTION,


the nose Of his cat
Madame Montauban wife Of General dc Pailkao,
of the Chinese Summer Palace celebrity, has lust
died at the age Of eighty
An Ohio man died after drinking glass Of
water. An Illinois man would have died before
drinking it.-Covrier- Journal.
On Boston authority II is stated that the latest
high school translation of " A1md vb1unque cano"
is Z" sing of arms and the virus"
An English writer considers It necessary to warn
American readers that in the old countries the old
quarter Of town Is not necessarily poor quarter
The requests Of the Hon James Knox, OF Knox
ville ILL.,, of $4,000 each to Yale and Hamilton
Colleges are TO be paid to these institutions about
the LIST of March.
A Tennessee girl went out for q sail with man
who was painting TO die for her. A squnll upset
the boat, and he painted for the shore and let q
negro rescue her
The daughter OF John II. Lane, farmer Of
Springfield, ILL.,, was in love with Henry Musgravo.
The father objected to him because he wrote poetry
and was Democrat.
LETS Illustrate IT," hccoughed political orator.
It's beautiful. You see, an old farmer comes 10
town loaded with new wheat an he goes homo
loaded with old rye"
Some say oscar wrote tho beautiful Snow"
but we are inclined to think II was While Winter.
like him.-Uai Ar9us
1t was about July 4, 1854, that Amidns and Bar
| lowe came TO anchor Off Roanoke Island, and
| North Carolina has started movement to cele-
| crate the event on July 4, 1854
The House at Washington is agitated over q
proposition to construct bath for the use OF
NJ C's, The Democrats regard this as n cunning
device to injure their party-7olodo telegram.
The Sweetest thing" in senlskin sacque we
| have seen this season was about eighteen years
old just the brightest, prettiest-but we nrc grow
| ing aged and rheumatcy.-Neg HupeH Registr.
An Iowa man has just recovered from a small
| pox attack, during the existence Of which he sayI
he frightened away three book agents. lightning.
| rod man, aud a sewing machine agent.-Regiser.
| The Canadian government is withdrawing its
| twenty cent pieces from circulation, they being
unpopular. The deputy receiver general at To-
ronto recently sent $4,000 worth of them to OF
| tawa,
The Marquis of Lorne, 1t is said, claims that some
of his ancestors put their feet under King Arthura
| round table, If his ancestors had been Americans
they would have put their feet on top it-LotoeH
Ciiscn
They searched the school children at Defiance
Ohio the o.her day to find dirk, and the result
was the finding Of twenty-six pistols and revolv.
ers and six dirks and stabbers. Education reveal
| some strange traits.
The Marquis of Iorne has high opinion of Can.
ada as matrimonial field for young women. III
said not long ago that those happy maidens emf
grating to that country would get offer ofmar,
| riage about every day"
Having finished clipping coupons from United
States bonds upon which he receives 81 900 900 in
terest money annually, Mr.. Vanderbilt has re-
duced the wages of the men on the Harlem road
| TO twelve cents an hour
The Bb- 1tS- of the Yankee girl ofthe are small
| tapering, and beautifully shaped. her / are AZ
| beautiful as the -, and she is without A.; her
frown is and her figure excltes II of surprise
and laundering - her.
A queer deed was found in looking up the titles
to the shipyard property I'll Marblehead recently
in which II boundary line is described as extend
ing from pencil mark OH barn to pencil mark
on the school-house fence.
Have you roosters with double heads down
your wayY" was asked Of Southern negro who
had been Boosting of the remarkable productions
Of" his country" "0h, yes, we habs um, but
day are berry rar, berry rar"
Russian who lately died In Switzerland
named Vanderweis, lefshs wife S22 900 900 in cash
and large estates in Russia; to his eldest son, $751;
100000 and castle ut Lugano, and Sl50oO,0oO and
a castle at Valrose to another son.
A philosopher says: "The man who laughs is
sympathetic man." Perhaps he Isl but, as a rule,
the man who Smiles" isn't He hasn't particle
of sympathy for those who, having no money
would like to smile" at his expense.
"Does our talk disturb you ?" said one of a com.
pany of talkativc ladies to an old gentleman sitting
in railroad station the other afternoon "No,
ma'am," was the naive reply, "Tve been married
nigh on to forty years." The hardened wretchi
Mrs. Fogg visited a second. hand auction the
other day and bought job lot of kitchen furnish
ing goods Fogg says every article in the list has
hole in 1t excepting the pepper-box cover, and
that everything leaks but the cullender and milk
STANDARDIZATION Transcript.
The Philadelphia Bulletin curiously remarks,
"If the mayor to refuse to license theatres where
liquor Is sold, what is to become of fashionable
opera and theatre parties where the present bad
style is to pass champagne round among young
ladies in the private boxesG
The bill presented to Congress for the Yorktown
junkeing includes s., 256 for lunch at Wormleya
l,d50 for another In Washington, and So $50 fol
} one at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Only SIS was fol
/ water. And Minister Morton is still banquetina
+ those French visitors at Paris!
little girl once said that she would be very glad
to go 10 Heaven, because they have plenty Of pre-
serves there On being cross examined she tool
( down her catechism, and triumphantly read
c "Why ought the saints to love God ? Answer Be-
cause He makes, preserves, and keep them"
A Pawtucket youth lost his 500 diamond pin
and matronly female of the neighborhood wa
suspected OF the theft She was accordingly ar
> rested and shut up three days, when, no develop
ments transporting, she was murdered, and thu
missing jewel found in her gizzard. She was
hen.
Buffalo paper tells Of lover who began /,
propose to his girl just his horses started to ruI
with the sleigh. Being determined to have IL owe
with, he got the question out at the moment tn,
= sleigh struck a ile-post. The girl was thrown
:, high into the air, but as she came down she ut
y tered firm Eyes, Charlie" and then tainted.
u A superior system of Acknowledgement has beer
y devised by the South Carolina legislature In II
', new election law, which requires the use of eigh
' ballot-boxes and prohibits the counting of am
ballots put in the wrong box. AS q large proper
= ton of the negro voters are unable to read, tn
mischief which such law viii work is plainl
= Approximation Herald.
n Mrs Daniel Webster has sent this letter to New
n Haven school which celebrated her husband
a birthday: " NEW ROCHELLE, Feb, 4, 1882. Pleas
n acceptmy thanks for yourgratilying remembrance
h of my late husband on the one hundredth ami
versary Of his birth, also for your kindly gTeetln
to myself My kind regards to your scholars
Yours, very sincerely, Caroline lie Roy Webster"
Il The Hon. A. II. Stephens takes as hearty an,
active an interest in the affairs Of his farm
?. yard as in national questions. He maintains
r. personal acquaintance with his chickens, duck
Y, and pigs, and having lately lost venerable an
1t beloved mule at the great age Of thlrty-soge
n years. he is deeply concerned about anothe
Il named Old Beck" an interesting animal that ha
n become an invalid.
IT They were leaning against the south side of tn
i building summing Themselves The subject turne
j. upon moderate drinking. "What is your !ava
0, M oderate drinking, anyhcTf' inquired loafer NJ
Q I. SWELL" said loafer No. p shifting his Tobacco