National Republican., 1883-05-18


Joseph Pulitzer. What shall It profit Mr. Pulitzer
4 no gain the whole world and lose his own soul
Has he thought Of this2
A PAR1s1AN blew out the gas tho other
day in Toronto hotel and narrowly escaped
death by suffocation. 1t seems that there aro'
some fools even In the brilliant capital Of France.
81 DON'T like TO have my husband chew
tobacco remarked young married lady, "but
put up with It, for the tinfoil is just too handy for
anything in doing up my front crimps"-Somer-
vile journal,
BRIGHAM YoUNe's grave is utterly ne-',
elected, and his widows never visit IT, They went
there once to cry over his remains, but 1t made
he ground SO sloppy that they all caught cold.--,
Las Vegas Optic.
A WOMAN writer in the Womdn's World
asserts that "wars are very nearly at an end" It.
is suspected that she has secured her new bonnet
and is now capilulatlng for satin merveilleux
wrap Commercial Aduertiser.
"CAN you change $50 gold piece2" he
asked, as he gently placed the empty glass upon
the counter. Yes" said the bartender. "well,
/ will go out and see IL / can find one" and the
Rochester PostErpress man was gone.
IN bridal presents something new are
knives OF hammered silver and coffee spoons Of
silver, with the edge Of the bowl in ragged con-
dition from presumable antiquity. Very old lace
collars made last winter, are in very high favor.
A PATRIOTIC Gaul by the name Of Thomas
has offered the French academy legacy to bo
used in giving an annual prize to the lady having
the largest family. In spite Of the very slow in
crease of population In France the gift was rN-t
fused.
OWING to the low price Of seal skins half
NJ tho Iudan seal hunters In British Columh'H
i'd g, aud a small catch is the result Next winter
cry will be that seal fur is very scarce. aud the
unucky consumer will find the usual high prices
| higher than ever.
ACCORDING to the Jacksonville Timeg
| Florida has over twenty-five hundred acres, or
! about twelve thousand tons of garden truck"
| for northern markets. Southern Georgia has
about ten thousand acres of watormelons for the
same colicky destination
REV. SELAH MERRILL, in letter from
Jerusalem, notes a curious proof of the way the
Jews are treated in what their great city. The
dogs which wild in the streets, he says hardly
ever bark at quiet well dressed native or Euro
pean, but they always pursue the Jews.
A DARKY dominic was arrested in Louis
VILE the other day for discharging firearms within
the city limits. Things have come TO pretty pass
in this alleged free country If coored clergyman
can't shoot his neighbors chickens without be.
coming amenable to u tyrannical law Commercial,
Advertiser.
A SANTA FE paper says: Lorenzita, tho
belle of Cochita, walked into this city behind
burro with her father yesterday, 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 aud good nature.
AN Iowa paper tells of lady living near
| Algona who bought mourning outfit at mill
| liner shop in that town the other day. She said
| that her husband was in bad health and liable 70
pass away any time, and 1t might not be handy
to come to town for these things when she needed
them It is seldom we hear Of wife who is 80 self
sacrificing.
THE present styles of ladies head gear are
something worse even than skin tight pantaoons
and pointed shoes. The one style-a little spot
| on the back OF the head-conveys the idea that
the lady has forgotten her bonnet, while tho
other one--a bay window sort OF affair projecting
| in front-induces the belief that the bonnet has
forgotten the lady.-Poa. Express
WHEN young man says his girl is "worth
her weight in gold" he Is not putting a very high
valuation upon her, unless she is a very heavy
girl. At this rating 100 pounds of girl would be
worth only about $4,000, and any young man
who doesn't think his best girl worth more than
1000 ought to be kicked clear over the front
gate by an infuriated parent and have the dog set
after -Middietown (Del) Transcript
WRITER in a Boston paper says the little
bedroom where Shakespeare was born, in the house
at stratiord upon Avon, is just such an uninter-
esting room as a New England farmer generally
at the top of his house TO store his seed
corn. The walls are closely written with the lead
pencil autographs of thousands Of people, Sir
Walter Scott's among the rest, and the window
panes are scratched to that degree with names az
to be almost worthless.
A PITrsBURG lady doctor says that woman
can understand woman, and It often does pa
tient more good to talk TO her of spring bonnets
and wraps than Is effected by medicine. Hus.
bands and fathers want to look out for that lady
| physician. Instead of recommending 1fty cents
worth OF aqua pura for a sick headache, she may
prescribe fourteen dollar bonnet and twenty
fvodoar surah oversklrt, or something thai
way.-NorrfOtoWn Herald
IT seems proper and natural to see men
calmly going about with bald heads Nobody
questions It. But imagine the uproar 1t would
create II women appeared at the opera house,
church, evening parties, or at home with their
heads bald and shiny like ostrich eggs 1t would
be utterly impossible for women TO carry about
bald heads with the unruffled serenity and cool
Indifference of bald headed men. 1t would'bs
unbearable TO them. So 1t would be to the men,
Hartford Times.
A LADY in Kingston, who was seriously,
and she thought fatally. i'll, gave away her per-
sonal property to friends and relatives in varlouI
parts of the country, who took the gifts away.
She however, did not die amer ALL and is now
able to be about the house, and the persons upon
whom she bestowed her earthly goods are return
ing them TO her. The property is, however, scat
tered far and wde and 1t is likely to be time
| before her house is again fully furnished or her
wardrobe in its former plethorlc condition.
"CARP" writing from Washington to the
Cleveland Leader, reports long conversation with
Parson Brownlow's SON regarding ANDY" John
son, in which the narrator recalled romance as
sociated with the late president 1t was Johnsons
first love affair. Mr. BroWnlow said: 1.-THE presi-
dent fell in love early. He was only nineteen
this, while he was journeyman tailor in South
Carolina, he fell In love with the daughter Of q
small planter, His love WAS returned, but tho
girls father, who had few acres Of land and
couple Of negroes would not consent TO his
daughter marrying tailor, and the future pres-
dent was rudely repulsed"
SOME women seem abundantly able to se-
cure all their rights without help from sympa-
thetic legislatures. The woman who figures as
much the better halfin the following story told
by the Boston Globe is case in point: am a
milliner and have made between 81, 500 and
and g. 800 a year in my business for some time
past. 1 married four years ago. My husband IL
kind and good looking, but he never learned any
trade, had no profession, and conld not average
5000 year. loved him. however, but saw that
It would not do TO depend upon him. so kept on
vii nv buSiness. Anar a tiua thfnk ha sot