National Republican., 1883-07-25
Truth is stranger than the New York su,

And then he strobe to where the lea
Led out from Camelot.
TRUTH is stranger than the New York SIN.
ADMIRAL Hobart Pacha commander of the
| Turkish navy, looks like Mr.. Blaine.
A NORTH CAROLINA woman killed her hus-
band with fire shovel. A new way to shovel off
this mortal coil.
A MARRIED lady in this city calls herself
Opportunity" because her husband is always
taking advantage her.
REV. DR.. Kittridge of Chicago, believes
that in fifty years there will be 2O000000 converts
| in China, Japan and Persia
Bishop McQUAID has been bishop of
Rochester over fifty years.-New York Nal and
| Express This is reliable, If true.
If Mrs. Langtry is writing book for what
profit there may be in IT, she had better have 1t
published under the mo Name" series.
A REWARD of 81 has been offered by the
Atlanta Constitution for the woman who has
learned the art pulling the street bell ut the
| right moment
In some of the new evening toilets for
women in Paris, the left shoulder is wholly barred.
This will afford the bellies an easy opportunity to
give the beaux the cold shoulder"
FEW moments sometimes makes great
change man with blue eyes was seen going
into a beer saloon yesterday, and when he came
out little later he had black eyes.
A MOTHER can call "Johnnie it's time to
get up" for three hours without making any i'm
preston, but when the old man steps to the foot
of the stairs and shouts John |" Johnnie takes
his breakfast with the rest of the family.
DR. BRowN-sEQUARD is reported to have
discovered a new anesthoto, (which destroys
scnsibity but leaves the patient capable of work.
ing and attending to ordinary duties" 1t will be
Il sweet boon in bore haunted newspapers Offices.
IT is estimated that there are thirty thou
sand Christian 1ndiannin the United States. No
trustworthy data can be obtained touching the
number of Christian white people, but it is almost
safe to assume that there two them for every
Indian
A CONDEMNED murderer in Boston received
much sympathy from number of ladies, who
daily brought him flowers and various delicacies,
But one day he was detected picking his teeth
with jackknfe, and his fair sympathizers de-
serted him and left him to his fate.
THERE is in Holyoke, Mass, young man
who never swore an oath, used a particle of to-
bacco nor touched drop Of liquor in his life
and never passed more than six nights out of his
native town" He must be an interesting party
but it may be doubted whether the girls care much
| for him.
THE eldest son of Beresford Hope NJ. p,
and grandson of the last cele brated Marshal Vis-
| count Beresford, is about TO marry an American
the daughter of Brlgader General Frost late of
the army and now of St. Louis The English jour
nails say the American bellies are running the
| English very close in their own market.
| REPRESENTATIVES, CARLISLE, of Kentucky,
who has seen the British parliament says our house
Representatives sntogethersuperior to the house
of commons With the exception of Bright and
few noted members, he thinks that our lower
| hDuga mi art thau t,a priti
house, and that our representatives personally
| look better, and that more order is observed.
THE following are the names of the officers
now living who were present at the battle of
| Waterloo, slxty-eight years ago Gems. Sir Thomas
Reed George Whchcote, and the Earl of Abe
marie; Lieut. Coils. Barton B. Browne, Charles
Kadell, X H., James r. Colthurst William Hew-
lit, Francis Home, Basil Jackson, John Mellow,
and James C. Webster Mais. Wilkie, s. h. Brady,
Edward W. Drewe, and James Fraser, and Capt.
VIM. Harris.
The people of northwestern Texas are very
much puzzled what to do with the prairie dogs
that are eating up all the grass. We have not
given the subject very thorough consideration,
but 1t seems probable that fsuch cereals as cab
bage lettuce, green peas &C., planted in
sufficient quantities in the vicinity Of the dog
towns the prairie dogs would cease to fill up, like
Nebuchadnezzar on grass, and would devote all
their time to stowiug away the more succulent
garden truck.-IeSas SJfin0s.
WHERE was it?" the Pilgrim said.
sthoughtessly. "Down in Salem, NJ. think
the boys were telling me about case in court In
which an old boat was the property in dispute.
Wen, you see,' said one of the witnesses, Il
owned one-third ofthe boat and Bill Monk owned
one-thrd So We But who owned the
other one-thirdT asked the plaintiffs attorney,
Hnh' replied the witness. who owned the re-
naming one-third?' repeated the lawyer. OH
exclaimed the witness-'nobuddy There wasn't
only about two-thirds of a boat'"-Burdstte.
| "DID you lose much by the Reubottown
failure?" "Not a cent" "Why, / thought YOU
had large business dealings with him?" SO
hadup TO last summer, Then. when he rented q
seaside cottage, bought diamond necklace for
his wife, and sent his three daughters to Europe
to be educated, at once chopped of short" "You
knew he was going to fail and offer ten cents on
the dollar?" "No, sir; supposed he was going
J to fail and not pay a farthing. He made slip
somewhere, and has got to pay something" Wal
Street Neus.
"SPEAKING of carrying the mails" re-
marked the captain, "when lived on Feather
river, California in 40, saw the mail carriers
and noticed their way of travel They had sort
of snowshoes, and they would so down a noun.
, tain side at the rate of three miles a minLtl.-
I've seen 'em go so fast that the friction turned
the snow to steam and good many of em were
blown up by 1t one wnterl' " How did they get
up O mountain sideT' inquired listener. "They
would go down one hill SO fast that the impetus
| would carry them TO the top of the next" re.
: piled the captain Brooklyn Eagle,
Don CAMERON wrote to a friend in Phila-
delphla recently that he was not having such a
royalty good time as some people said he would.
The English country he says is very pretty, but
not nearly so interesting as the country about
Harrisburg. The old church architecture busi-
ness is good deal of bore, he says. London he
likes, He ran across Tom Ochiltree at the Ascot
races, and he says Of the meeting: "a mother
+ with new baby could not be more pleased than
: l was seeing Toms red head and hearing him
II talk in his good old Texas American style" Don
: gives no intimation as to when he thinks of re-
o turning. He says that he had a letter from Phil
T adelphia intimating that party of Pennsylva-
y mia statesmen were soon TO join him, among the
! number being Judge Bum, Chris. Magee, Sam
4 Barr, Matthew Stanley Quay, Gen, Bingham, and
: Maj. Jack Heistand.
= = A sHAPELY girl appeared at a fifth story
! window in Boston. Her long hair was loose and
. her gown was white so that to the uncritical eye
she looked like person right from bed but she
wore shoes and stockings, US was subsequently OBJ
: served, and there were numerous touches of care
, full toilet However she fairly represented girl
I hastily aroused FROM sleep by fire, Her move
mania tvara ra mid too aud ner mannar wild Cha