National Republican., 1883-06-14


after brass"
YOUNG Nebraska farmer refused to marry
HIS betrothed because she used powder. He evil
IDENTIFY thought 1t unsafe to have a match where
there was so much powder
WHEN ayoung man says his girl is worth
her weight in gold he is not putting a very
heavy valuation npon her unless she is a very
heavy girl. At this rating 100 pounds of girl
would be worth only about $4,000, aud no great
kind of a catch.
PROF. WILLIAM II. BREWER, Of the Yale
Scientific school, is convinced that "the higher
the enlightenment of the people the greater tho
variety Of uses to which horses arc applied and
the American trotting horse is a special product
Of the highest civilization the world has yet
seem"
The late Prince Gortschakoff always wore
a ring given to him by Queen Hortense in 1919
when she was compelled, at the instance OF the
Tuscan government, to make rapid retreat from
Florence, and he, acting as Count Fesen for
Marie Antonette, mounted the box and drove
her carriage horses.
NUMBER of Harvard freshmen have been
fined $40 each for thievng While riding out
from Boston they ragged a lot of signs on the
way, being about to carry off tobacconisrs
Indian as policeman appeared. Their car
riage was full of barber polls gilt watches,
grocer's signs, and so on.
AN American young lady singer went to
Europe bearing the name of Mary Jane Boggs, and
her cognomen is now Miss Nina Lafonti 1t does
twist some persons names most terribly out of
shape 10 travel across the ocean with them. 1t
must be in the saline qualities of the water. But
even change of name don't always make the
young woman good singer.
"PA, dear, we are going to Saratoga this
summer, are we not? The McGlorys are going"
"Saratogal Huh If business don't pick up we
shall go Into bankruptcy. That won't be much of
n summer resort" "But, pa dear, the MoGlorys
went into bankruptcy last year, and that's lust
why they go to Saratoga this" maybe, maybe.
But my consciencer "ob, now. papa, what's
the use of a onsciencel'-HdrUord Post
THE board of managers of the Protestant
orphan asylum of Milwaukee, Wis., have yolun.
tarily renounced bequest of 1900 left the asy.
lum by Allen Logan, who died last January, they
having been convinced that the testator, who left
his wife and daughter pennlless was insane when
he made the will. This is the first case on record
where a so.called charitable institution ever
yielded up bequest except under command Of
a court decision.
The public sales of slaves in Tangier still
continue These scandals have been so frequent
of late that 1t is scarcely to be believed that tho
number of slaves annually sold Is us few as in the
British parliament they were stated to be- Tho
latest sale was calculated to excite indigna-
tion young woman aud her child were sold in
the market for $50. rhe mother was examined
by any one who chose TO do so precisely as though
she were horse or mule.
MINNEAPoLIs has moro than doubled its
inhabitants in little over two years, and is now
! IL city OF 100000 people. To give an idea of the
solid advance in wealth which has been made in
Minneapolis, would say that in the last two
years the valuation of the city has been increased
by s22,0OO0OO. This has come from actual i'm
provements made, buildings erected and the in
huence of an enlarged business and increased
population upon all the real estate of the city.
THEY have quiet way of guying us, these
| eastern folks, which is not altogether pleasant.
| For instance, q Bostonian staying at the Palace
hotel lately remarked to an old forty miner, "You
are curious and dissatisfied people here It seems
| to me-" Glow so?" "Well, | have been study.
ing your great city hail. and 1t seems to me that
the design must once have been very harmonious.
Why couldn't you have left it so?" "Left it so
Why, VIC are only just building It'll" "oh, I
thought you were pulling 1t down." Tableau-
| San Francisco NetVs Letter.
CHARLES GoUNoD, now about 65 years old,
| Is a man of full medium size, stout and vigorous
His face is pale, his eyes large and luminous his
hair gray, and the top of his head entirely bald,
as 1t has been for many years. His broad fore
| head is furrowed with many wrinkles, his eye
brows are heavy, but well formed his gray beard
| thick and long, and his lips pale, but heavy and
sensual. He lives In the Place Mslesherbes Paris,
close to the homes of Bernhardt, Meissonier. Mum
kacsy, Bastien Lepage, De Neuville, Alexander
Dumas, andsa host of other famous people.
THE age attained by Queen Victoria the
other day-sxty- four-has been exceeded by only
| eleven of the sovereigns of England dating from
| ytz ,he
the age OF 67 years; Henry III, 65 years; Edward
i, 81 years; Edward III. 65 years; Queen Eliza
beth, 60 years. James IL, 6S years; George l, 67
years; George II, n years; George III, SO years
George ~, 6s years, and william ~, 70 years. On
| the twentieth of June next her majesty win have
reigned over the united kingdom for forty.six
years-a length Of reign which has been exceeded
by three Of the kings of England only, viz: Henry
| III, whose reign extended to ffty-six years;
| Edward III, whose reign lasted fifty years. and
George III, whose reign extended TO the long
period of nearly sixty years. The queen has now
been widow for neary twenty-five years, the
Prince Consort having died on Dec ID, 1861.
WAS making some purchases Thursday af-
| ternoon at a Broadway store when my eyes fell
upon the divine Lille langtry at hosiery counter
! She was in search of box of black hose, and in
considerable doubt as to the proper size. "If you
will permit me to hold the foot of the stocking to
your closed mana CdH Judge III inc blLe Is right,
suggested the dapper clerk. The Lilly glanced at
him searchingly TO see If he was in earnest, and
then, with all the ooyness Of schoolgirl. she drew
her hand from coquetish little pocket In the side
| of her wrap, and extended 1t hesitatingly with
quiver in the fingers, let 1t drop suddenly at last
! iuto the clerks oulstreched palm Her hand is
certainly large, but is plump and pink and pretty
and the grace with which IL was extended was
worthy of Modleska. You can't think OF rose
leaves while looking at the fair digit but 1t will
suggest pink sea shells and round balls Of golden
butter lying TO cool in the clover that has grown up
around the well curb. was ungallant enough to
glance on the box for the size of the hosiery, and
the figures were "9H."-NelO York Star.
The new home of NJ. Delaunay, the great
French actor, is among green lawns and shadow.
ing trees in one of the quietest hooks in the quiet
| old city of Versailles. The house is a comforta-
BILE, old fashioned twostory structure, crowded
within with pictures books, cabinets, statuary,
| and a thousand and one treasures and tokens
from admirng friends. In an adjoining building
is q billiard room, that game being Delauuay s
sole recreation when the weather keeps him in
doors But as soon as tho storm is over he t. sses
aside the cue and with his dog Duke at his heels
goes out for tramp in the forest. After twelve
mile ramble he returns, fresh and happy, dimes
conscience, and goes upon the stage with all the
youthful fire OF twenty years ago His son Is an
artist pupil Of Cabauel; his daughter in law Is
Il iayorite singer at the Opera Comique, and his
wife is an able artist aud teacher, The only