National Republican., 1883-08-31
have been sadly frostbitten.

a Wisely Anonymous Nan.
VACATIONS have been sadly frostbitten.
OSCAR wants to go home to his mamma.
CAN an upright man be downright honesta
HENRY WATTERsoN is nephew of Stanley
Matthews
Now is the time to give your low cut shoes
to the poor.
THE coming oyster crop is said to be fat
and luscious.
MISSOURI man sues for o divorce because
his wife called him a liar id liar"
BUNCH of sweet peas is a favorite corsage
bouquet at present.
A NEBRASKA woman of thirty y-eight years
has twenty-one children.
MANY st. Louis saloon keepers continue to
openly defy the Sunday law.
The New York Herald thinks the demo-
cratic party has "too many colonels."
THE alleged discovery Of the ark on Mount
Ararat is one of the hoaxes of the age.
VERA" has been withdrawn, but the
Frank James trial goes on 10 crowded audiences.
JOHN G. WHITTIER has finished his summer
visit to Holderness, ~ H., aud is now at his Ames-
bury home.
MAHOGANY bust of Sullivan himself Is
the principal ornament of the champion slugger's
saloon in Boston.
EX-PREsIDENT HAYES gives 5000 toward
paying for the new Methodist Episcopal church
at Fremont Ohio.
Gov. BUTLER has gone OFF on o cruise in
boat which is said to be one of the fastest OF It's
kind in the world
No MATTER how weak and wasted man
may become he always possesses strength enough
to kick the bucket.
MAUD GRANGER opens at the Coates next
Friday in Her Second Love-" Trust her not
shes fooling thee"
THE men who managed the defunct strike
for the telegraphers ought to turn In and drive
horse cars for about seventeen months.
The sultan has caused flutter in the
harems of Turkey by issuing an edict against
Transparent wells and dainty French boots
THE medical profession is coming to the
conclusion that the bicycle is one of the most
desirable modes of health giving exercise.
TELEGRAPH pole climbers, says the Roches-
ter Express, belong to about the only profession
whose ranks arc not being invaded by women.
ONE THOUSAND divorces have been granted
in Texas during the present summer. Texas is
bound to get the best of "the other place. in some
way.
1T is about an even thing between man and
orange peel Sometimes the man throws the
orange peel into the gutter, and sometimes the
orange peel throws the man.-London Mastca,
World.
A LITTLE girl on Long Island offered
rather remarkable prayer a few nights ago when
she said; do thank thee Lord for all my bless
ings, and I'll do as asmuch for you some time"
THE Laramie Boomerang notes that two
thirds of the summer is now over, and the wise
girl who expects to get married in the fall will
take all the advantage possible of the short time
remaining Of the ice cream season.
PERHAPS the most promising and hopeful
bank president or cashier in embryo is the grand
son of the venerable DIR. s. F. Smith, author of the
patriotic verses "My Country u is of Thee" Find.
ing, to his astonishment, that he was reported to
be peddlng autograph copies of his famous hymn,
the doctor Investigated the matter, and found that
his grandson, IL years old having obtained print
ing press, had worked off and was selling
copies OF the verses to which the grandfather re-
membered having put his name simply to crafty
the lad. "He has probably sent out notice saws
the indignant old gentleman, (which has unhap-
PLY involved my name with his affair. l am
ashamed of the boy" The young scapegrace had
not scrupled TO borrow his grandfather's Pegasus
in order to work him in the shafts Of his own first
business venture.
The gam bling spirit is universal, and the
ingenuity shown in making occasion for q bet il
amusing The Spanish racers in South America
frequently vary the monotony of their midday
siesta by playing fly" In this game pool is
made, and each player furnishes himself with a
piece of loaf sugar, which he places in front Of
him. Leisurely whiting their cigarettes the
players keep watchGul eye upon the sugar. and
the possessor of the piece upon which fly first
aghts takes the pool. The newest gambling iu-
stitution is at Bombay-"rain gambling" There
ha Mo, had wi fthn,,1
where rain gambling goes on regularly during the
monsoon. This species of dissipation consists in
betting that rain will or will not fall within GER
tain time, and much money changes hands.
IT is always pleasant to associate a romance
with a favorite flower. The story of the cultiya-
tion of the jasmine, with Its delicate yellow
flowers and delightful odor in France, as told by
the New York Mail, deserves to be remembered
The Duke of Tuscany, 1t is said, had brought one
plant with him from the tropical countries he
visited and placed IL, with many injunctions for
its careful tendance in the hands Of his gardener
intending to present 1t as an offering to the prin-
cess Of France. The gardener had sweetheart
and, wishing to please her, he one day broke Off
slip of the cherished plant and offered II TO her.
She planted it, hoping thus to preserve it for her
wedding day, and TO her delight It took root
throve, and grew into stately bush, from which
she gathered flowers salable for their rarity, and
so accumulated sum of money which facilitated
her marriage To this day the maidens of Tuscany
wear sprig of jasmine in token that they can
bring lucky dover to the man oftheir choice.
LONDON Truth complains that under the
present unsatisfactory system neither Lord Hart
ington, nor any other minister, could prevent the
ridiculous and ill-judged appointment of the
) Duke OF Connaughtas colonel of the Scots Guards
The post is absolutely in the gift of the queen,
| who insisted on appointing her son. Nothing"
says Truth, "can exceed the indignation with
, which this appointment has been received in
military circles, and especially among the
, Guards. Before long there will arise a
very strong feeling against these royal appoint
ments for 1t is too bad that officers who have been
| serving their country all their lives should be
, kept out of the very few "good things" of the
service by junior members Of the queens family.
The duke of Connaught goes to India in the au-
tumn, and probably when he returns he will be
made field marshal, and after being employed
. about headquarters for Il short time, he will be
quietly appointed some morning to succeed the
Duke of Cambridge.
Boston genius has inaugurated another
o dress reform He proposes to amputate the-t,e
the shirt in fact, that isits kind Of delicate
A subject to discuss in the columns Of family pa
per but what this dress reformer wants to do and
: In his own case actually has done, is to amputate
the-as we said before, right about amidships
cut of all that portion Of the heamendment, to speak