National Republican., 1883-07-03


the last six years by rowing.
THE Rev. Robert Collyer and family sailed
for their old English home June 80.
"BREvITY is the soul of wit" and this is
why a dude coat amuses passers-by.
OLE BULLS widow is occupying Minister
Lowelps residence at Cambridge, Mass.
MANY Wall street men have como to the
conclusion that they might as well be farmers.
BosToN women, it is predicted, will take
take kindly to Lady IIabberton's divided skirt"
THE watering place that has no brass band
playing during dinner to add to the din, has the ,
call.
ABOUT 100000 coaconut trees have been
planted on the keys near Key West in the last two
years.
A FARMER in Vermont is named Haydn
Mozart Handel, but the can't even play the jews
harp
Bon TooMDs is reported in his local paper
to be looking hale, and not so feeble as lately
ported.
"BIsMARcK neuralgia" "Knickerbocker
gout" and the vanderbilt cough" are fashion,
able Affections
AN Ohio jury has decided that spectator
cannot be lawfully elected from theater for sit
ting in the dress circle and letting his legs hang
over the railing.
THOMAS McELRATH, who founded the New
York Tribune with Horace Greeley, lives in q hum
bic way at Harlem.
AN old lady in Georgia, having lost all her
patience has sued neghbor for IS for coffee bor-
rowed cupful at a time.
JOHN NJ. Cook, head of the personally con-
Quoted" tourist firm. has been decorated with the
Medjidieh by the khedive.
IRVING, the actor, is the happy possessor Of
200 pairs of suspenders. Probably preparing for
",gnllus time in this country.
The thief who stole a watch at n public
meeting excused himself on the plea that nc
merely taking minutes of the afidir-Bosioh Star
THE Baroness Burdett-C Coutts- Bartlett holds
s2O,O 1000 in United States funds, and the Duke
of Sutherland and Sir Thomas Brassy 900
each.
The Chicago democrats have reorganized,
and now declare themselves in favor of Samuel J.
Tilden. Until recently they have been for An
drew jackson Jefferson.
THE Prince of Wales recently gave a fish
dinner of soes mullets salmon, perch, crabs and
white bait An aspiration of the Princes name
would give Us the biggest fish of all.
CHAMPAGNE cake is something new, and is
said to have been invented for the watering place
season. No one knows Of what it is made, but the
taste of champagne is unmistakable.
THEY tell of u Brooklyn statesman, who
ordering Charlotte russo, blew the froth off the
| top of 1t. ana then, whom asked to explain why
he did so, said he thought IL a new kind of beer.
THE facilities for telephone communication
| throughout Illinois are steadily increasing Peoria
and Bushnell are now able to "helo" to each
| other, and Monmouth and Macomb soon will be-
| SoMERvILLE takes the prize for q tender
hearted man. He is so sensitive that he can't
bear to see or hear his wife saw wood, ana when
she tackles the bucksaw uthe cellar he puts on
his hat and walks out of the house.
NEARLY half O million dollars of Iowa City
and school bonds are held by Hartford insurance
companies and Iowa bonds generally consid-
cred very desirable collateral by aud other
corporations seeking good securities.
Bo sToN Courier Little Mary, who has Just
| returned from the west is much interested In the
Indians having visited reservation while
her travels. She says that " wigwams are as good
houses to live in aud they answer all intents aud
papooses."
! SIOUX FALLS OAK, proposes to celebrate
the fourth in style, and has accordingly engaged
the services Of 100 Flandrau and santee Indians
for the occasion. The noble reds will wear their
native costumes, including plenty OF war paint
and feathers and will ride their ponies
THE first ticket from Helena to st. Paul
over the line the Northern Pacific. which is soon
to be opened between those two cities, was bought
| by the First National bank of Helena for $3.50
Sl90 premium over the regular rate. Butte, not TO
| be outdone, promises 10 double the price for her
| first ticket.
THE New York Tribune and Herald made q
race last Sunday for Saratoga and the Tribune
won. The Herald hired special train from Al
bany over the Delaware and Hudson. but the
Tribnne went the whole hog, taking train of its
own from New York city, and winning by forty
five minutes.
IT is estimated that the number of knights
who will journey to San Francisco In August, on
the occasion of the riennial conolave will exceed
FIVE thousand 1t is long trip, the expenses ag-
gregate between $500 and 500, and many who want
to go either cannot spare the time or the money.
1t is safe to say the next conclave will be held
nearer the center OF population.
The sheriff of Upton county, Tenn, is a
good dreamer. He dreamed that the prisoners in
the county jail were making effort to escape by
the aid of wooden key and pieces of iron. He
went into the Jail and by threats forced a confess
sion that the prisoners had concealed four or five
bars of iron from eight inches 10 three feet long,
and also a we'll made wooden key. Planks had
beon loosened and plans for escape had been ma
tured.
Boston Transcript: Is your railroad we'll
well equipped?" Railroad president. Well equip
ped should say 1t was. Splendidly equipped.
sir, splendidly. For instance there are our first
mortgage scvens, and our second mortgage sixes
and our equipment bonds and our land grant
bonds, and our common stock, and our preferred
stock and the biggest floating debt of any road in
the country. But that isn't all, sir We've got the
finest lobby that any corporation can show; per-
feet daisy, sir. If you know road that's better
equipped than ours, name 1t, sir; name 1t. II you
please
A MAN who was cutting turf on Monjoy
hill, Portland, Maine, few days ago, turned up
with his spade metal bar which, except for
glistening point where the spade struck 1t, looked
+ like iron. The suspicious CLEAN caught his eye
and induced him to carry the bar TO an assayer.
who pronounced 1t fne gold, and estimated Its
value at s5,64O The discoverer conjectures that
the ingot was buried in the early days OF the
colony either by some official to prevent its cap
ture or by some freebooter who had helped to
plumber Spanish treasure ship.
New YoRK sharper who attempted to
, swindle Jerseyman out of twenty-five cents, on
Wednesday evening, was caught In bis own trap.
. He sold the man pair of oVeralls for sl.25, and
being rendered $3.50. refused to give the change,
! whereupon the customer seized another pair OF
oVeralls For this the dealer had him arrested.
: When the case came up in court. on Wednesday,
{ the Judge discharged the prisoner and directed
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