National Republican., 1883-05-11


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Mr.. GOULD flying homeward on his way
doubtless muses.; There is another and better
world"
PRINCESS LOUISE is a good housekeeper,
cook, oonfectioner, laundress, seamstress and
dressmaker.
LONDON is full Of policemen. Scores of
them in citizens dress are on duty everywhere, In
addition to the regular force.
TWENTY thousand Canadian militia are to
be drilled in camp for twenty days this summer.
The Fenians will be spectators
THE blue-eyed violet, lifting its modest
face amid the swiftly springlng grass" is one of
the sure signs discovered by the Kansas City
Journal
GALVESTON has passed Savannah In cotton
receipts, and is now the second cotton port in this
country. The receipts this season have boen sO0,.
600 bales.
WE learn that ox-Gov. Boutwell, intends to
practice law In Washington hereafter retaining
his connection with his partner and his son at tho
Boston office.-Bos,on Traveller.
A SPECIES of cannibalism has broken out
near Philadelphia. goose named Edward
Laherty is eating gooses eggs, five per day for
twenty days on woger.-47ruh.
A LOUISVILLE man wears trousers that
measure fifty eight inches around the waist. He
turns the scale at four hundred and twelve pounds
He seems to have got his growth.
RED parasols will be used more this season
than they have ever been before watered silk,
satin, and even velvet parasos are made of darL
garnet with frils OF black Spanish lace.
Ir is said that great many Cincinnatians
who attended the performance OF "HamletW
paid their money under the impression that
they were to see something connected with the
hog.
The Duke of Edinburgh is responsible for
the latest English craze-mule riding. He intro.
duced the fashion by himself riding one of the
particularly fine mules which he Obtained in
Egypt.
NOT democrat has yet responded TO the
repeated calls Of the republican and independent
press that he specify something that his party has
done to entitle II TO popular confidence Propf.
deice Press.
CHARLES Moon, of Denver, swallowed n
bull frog six inches long, and aiterward drank n
pint Of whisky. 1t is pretty generally understood
that Denver man will do most anything for a
pint of whisky.
SAID Fogg, reading the sign "keep Off the
grass" on tho common. at is the same every.
where. In Ireland, you know, they're hanging
men and women for the wearing of the green |"
Boston Transcript.
FIFTEEN thousand sacks of cotton seed
meal from Fort Smith were delivered in 81. Louis
ON Thursday for shipment by river to New Or.
leans 1t is to be converted into very excellant
quality Of olive oil. 80 y
IT is not believed that Gov. Cleveland will
spend much time at watering places this summer
He will moro likely remain in his bachelor apart
ments at Buffalo with his head buried In bia
hands. thinking-thinking
A MAN sitting in the back room of n saloon
playing euchre breathes about eighteen times nor
minute. female voice suddenly falls upon his
car, and his respiration jumps TO forty. nina
quicker'n scat.-Deroa Free Press.
The London Standard says: The late Mr..
Peter Cooper, of Boston, had unquestlonably nc.
quired dollars enough to entitle him to the rank
OF millionaire. Yes, indeedy Why his leather.
stocking tales Alone netted him over 100000.
HINTS for liars about the weather from
the French)-"I never remember anything lika
this season for dryness. Three months without
any rain!" "Bah That's nothingl Now IN
ls46 remember, we didn't have a drop of rain
for eighteen months!"
New YoRK's "best socetyn now emf thar
own bread at the table on plate made of wood
fro m the Holy Land, and with knife purchased
In Damascus. One generation back 1t was not the
cutting OF the bread, but the "getting" of IL
that occupied their attention.
A COMPETENT critic declares that before
the new school English poetry came in the poet
was expected TO say something worth listening TO.
To-day nothing of the sort is expected from him.
He has rich and varied vocabulary, the chief
use OF which is to conceal his want OF sense
Pttsburg Chronicle
A BOY was making great racket on his
drum In front of house in Someryille. "Iittle
n st,if
there is u lady sick In this house." "Well, don't
know where am going to drum, then; there's
one dead in our house." was the mournful re.
ply.-BostOn Globe.
GREAT praise has attached to the action of
Earl Spencer In going down TO Belmullet TO per-
sonally superinend the deportation OF the famine
stricken Irish emigrants. The emigrants' view OF
his excellency ysdevotion was cynical, one of them
saying, Begorra, here's the head droyer himself
come TO give last twist to our tails"
"WILL you give a poor fellow, who Ia
racked with fever and ague, a dime to buy some
quinine 2" asked a Westchester county tramp.
"why gave you 10 cents less than an hour
ago." "oh so you did. / didn't recognize
you. Well, spent that dime for whisky. You
don't suppose man can eat quinine clear, do
you?"
Miss ALICE MARGUERITE KING, Of Ala
bama, grandnece of the late Vice President Will
lam Rufus King has brought suit against the
Nashville american for the publication of the let.
ters of Its New Orleans and Mobile correspond.
ents orlticising her recltations as a dramatic
reader in those cities She lays her damages at
S25, 900.
A SANTA FE paper says; 'Lorenzita, the
belle OF Cochita, walked into the city behind A
burro with her father yesterday, a distance of
sixty miles, did her shopping, and started on her
return at o'clock. She is the handsomest Pueblo
maiden in all this section and is particularly
noted for her modesty and good nature" She
seems to be in fair way to get up reputation az
pedestrian.
THE taste for frogs legs is becoming SO
widespread that ono dealer Mr.. ]. NJ. Beck of
Boston, has set a hundred expert frog cetchers at
work in the New England states and estimates
that the demand this summer will he double that
of last year. An experiment in breeding bullfrogs
In England is about 10 be made, aud a oonsldera.
BILE supply ofsbawn will be sent over for that pur.
pose next month.
HORSE railways are profitable TO the city Of
Berlin. II is deriving handsome profit from the
chief company's lines, which pay IL five per cent.
of their gross receipts. over total length of track
of 1858 meters last year 900 passengers were
carried, the gross receipts being 7,l09,7l7 marks.
The city, therefore, derived from the road lsun
of 859, $50 marks, in addition 10 which were also
paid 1855 lis marks for road tax
PETRIFIED forest has been discovered in
Arizona. For some distance before reaching II
the road Is full ofsmall pieces ofbroken branches.