National Republican., 1883-01-29

Time Tor courtiug aAerdark. SOD .r
Court for love most women like IT.
Nay, am certain they ull do :.
And the fellow who can strike IT
once will banker for It, too.
sf 's ,'' -I"RuicA," in suHdoIs PorL
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ST. LOUIS horse chCws tobacco.
JANUARY is getting ready to leave us.
WHISKY and ignoiCncc go hand in hand
Montreal is crowded With visitors to The ice
carnival,
A TOAST for washewoman, "Lets soap
forthe best" 9sr.t Fs .a9t
THEHE are in Cincinnati twenty-fourspiare
miles of territory. fiIH.tt3 -r
THE shortest way to describe the weather
isto call II abominabo. 'e ~. fr
tTHE officers and crew of the Cimbria are
praised for their courage. us ,,r fi
RACHAEL CANToHy the old actress has been
admitted to the Forrest home H3
IT the yotnig girl of engaging manners
who naturally isungagedfrst. % .tnW
THE ice gorge at Niagara is fifty feet in
height and two miles in length M 20 10
GEN. MCCLELLAN is to succeed Dr. SIcCosh
as president of Princeton college. '.l
WHEN so-called silk burns well there's cot
WI III w. BIN hliuulutIS lllO ull usI
UTAH claims marble enough to supply every
person IN the United States With tombstone.
Long HIDE, an Indian chiefof lower Cali
forna, committed suicide at the age of 1870 years.
PRESIDENT PORTER, of Yale college, is 73
years old, and he has been in ONCE thirteen yedts
IT is q great consolation to sec u plumber
compelled TO buy something Mt q retail drug store
A MAN may turn over ncw leaf that's
very easily done. But the gall of II is, you can't
tear out the old one. 'tt P. .'.'
an'rHE "sdnorous ecstasy of defamation is
what tho Tribune critic hears in one Of Mary An.
derson's passages . -. ..r
A man at Auburn, N. ", has bank check
for fourteen cents signed by William IL. Nnuder-'
bll lie has been offered $50 for it,by snQb ''trr
A MAN should never tell his wife that he is
called away on some "presting' business lie
should always use tho word "urgent" II sounds
better. i .'"I Nt'I Hit..f i.3 H'tlN SH
"WHsTLERs are always good-naturcd"
says philosopher. Everybody knows that. lis
the folks who have TO lsten to the whistling that
get ugly. ...... .r., t-.rf Ma
A CALrFoRNIAN claims to have invented n
screw joint for stove pipe that will go together
without the MD of IL single y" cuss word" lIo
ought TO be rewarded with a commission in the
salvation army. '.
A MEMBER Of the Connecticut legislature
has introduced bill that voters when presenting
their ballots shall politely remove their hats. The
next move viii be to have gilt-edged ballots
neatly perfumed. ,. ..t.....,s ,sig,.,..gs
BLIZZARD weather seems to stimulate re-
ligious interest 1t is noticeable that rciyals ae
generally at their height in the depth Of winter.
At the present time revivals arc In progress IN
many Connecticut owns. i- N''t''-
THE skin of the prairie dog is now used in
the manufacture of first-olass kid glovcsg. Tan
bark Is used to reduce the hide TO 1exbillty and
remove the hair from II, The dog bark is #
course, quieted before the tan bark isappiied
| GEN. SHERIDAN owns seven out of set of
eleven pieces of ancient tapestry, considered
among the most valuable in existence. They arc
saidto DO genuine Gobelins made by Mr.. Gobelln
himself no doubt 50 the art critic of this journal
informs us. r
In SEEMS that the wife of NJ. Clomcnceau
whose nUmo Is now a prominent one among tho
French republicans, is u, New England woman,
abundant In the virtues and graces which have
frcmtime immemorial characterised the daugh-
ters of New England. 10 Ila. 4.qlsa.H ,..r4EItis
A. 'NEwroUNDLAND dog seized 1ady's
sache the other day in a depot in Bangor, Me-.
and ran with 1t UP street pursued by scoreof
men aud boys. Amer demonstrating that ho.
couldn't be caught he brought it back and
| dropped II at its owners feet. .,. ,--o.- W
| Mr.. GEORGE w. CmLDs's country residence
at Bryn MGwr, near Philadelphia is perfoctt X
ample OF a Queen Anne villa. IL lis built OF rcd
brick ON knoll in the midst of far.reaching,
rolling landscape, ind furnished Throughout in
the interests Of truest comfort ~ y a3 '''i'' t"'
| WHEN spelling is " reforpcd,',, she'll write:
| I'm sailing on the oshun, .- ..... U...-.....,
| The SO is hi, no sale in site, t. .I.
| 1t fills me with emoshun," .,
| But one spell will not change Its name, 20
! For she'll be seasickjust the same! . ..-r ,t
Mrs. HARRIET LANE JOHNSON the niece
Of President Buchanan, has just lost her only r.
manning son, Buchanan Johnson, at Nice. Ho
| was about II years ofnge. Her younger son dicd
! q little more than Il year ago =. pnrls from lung
| disease. The elder boy suffered similarly and
endured terrible rheumatic affection besides.
NEARLY two years ago, while the United
states steamer Alaska was crossing dangerous
spot under the care OF the pilot, slight Jar was
felt by those on board. Little OF no attention was
paid TO the occurs ice at the time. but when tho
steamer was place on the dry dock week before
last IL was found THAT thirty feet Of her llse kee
had been carried away. %, .a'
| ToBoGGANING, is a, Canadian sport which
delighted the vast stcrowdsassembledi in Montreal at
the carnival during the past week. Tobogsaning
means the crowding of dozen persons, who have
no regard for life or limb, ON big birch bark sled
at the top of hill covered with ice. They take
header and down they so. They bob up serenely
at the bottom of a 2OO-yard inclined plane. Some
times they survive it with few rifing injuries.
A Boston reporter tried 1t. When he was picked
up at the bottom of the hill II took two brandy
cocktails some whisky, four bottles Of beer, some
more whisky. and little gin with some whisky
mixed with It to bring him around, and thenehe
went tobogganing again The reoklessness of the.
Boston press is proverbial, l.. .. ..Hr u.,.r
IT may be interesting to know that the
original BILLY the Kid /" who ives shot by Sheriff
"Pat " Garrett in New Mexico, has not been resur.
rected again, as dispatch from Weeksville Mon
| tapa might indicate. The New Mexico hero was
not only killed, but his skull and various other
portions of his anatomy are said TO ornament
physicians office. The Montana outlaw, who has
! just been shot down in crossing river, had ev-
IDENTITY so fallen into the habit of appropriating
the belongings Of Others that he had taken the
name of his illustrious prototype. But there are.
plenty OF Kids" IN the western country, for tho
youngest member of every band of despeTadoes is
given that touching appellation. which suggests
more innocence than actually exists. flf Itu.I
i THE Washington correspondent of the
\ AIyersdale Conluercial, of Pennsylvania, says Of
Railway Commissioner William II. Armstrong
that his annual report recently published is much
used by members of the senate and house, his
| opinions being regarded as standard authority
upon the various questions arising In connection