National Republican., 1883-03-01

| Life steals away-this hour. o man, Is lent thee
Patient to work the work Of Him who sent thee
Setting Sun" Red5o tu nunquarn."
Haste, traveller the sun is sinking now;
| lie shall return again, but never thou.
MARCH promises to come In like lloness
with cubs.
STORY writer has finished a sketch
called Lifted Out Of Herself" Probably the
heroine went out yachting and got seaslck.-Bos-
ton Post.
THROUGH sleeping car now runs from
London to Conslantinople. II a man had sug-
gested suoh q thing a thousand years ago he
would have been looked upon as q crank.
A FRENcHMAN who has had the decoration
| Of the Legion Of Honor conferred upon him occu-
pies about the same proud position that KEN
tucky major does in this country.
The grandfather Of DIR. Benson, the new
primate Of England, was a Methodist preacher.
and the author Of commentary the Bible still
much esteemed by many Methodist families In
Great Britain.
THERE Is at Redcar, small village in Eng.
land, model Of Lincoln cathedral, built Of ,0OO,-
900 old corks. Itwas made by plowman, who
worked at 1t for ten years and seven months be-
fore completing the task.
CHINA possesses the longest bridge in the
world. 1t is at Lngang, over an arm OF the China
sea, aud is five miles long, built entirely Of stone,
Is seventy feet high, with roadway seventy foet
wide, and has 800 arches.
soUHERN correspondent Of the Hartford
Times says there are three seasons In Florida
the orange, vegetable, and invalid season-and
| that the last pays best Somebody had said be-
fore him that in the summer the natives OF Flor
ida live on sweet potatoes and sugar cano and In
| the winter on the Yankees.
"WuAr makes old Bulger stick out so in
frontY" inquired one boy of another concerning
rather corpulent, protruslve neighbor. "I
know" was the reply, "'cause heard him tell
father last night. He says he's been carryin'
secret a good whllo, an he can't hold It much
longer" "shouldn't think he could" reJoined
| the interrogator; "but what an explosion there
will be when It goes on."-Yonkers Gdsene.
A STATUE to the first translator of the New
| Testament, William Tyndale-designed by Mr.. J.
L. Boehm, and to be cast in bronze-is To be
erected soon at the west end OF the west garden OF
the Thames embankment The names Of the
universities, counties, towns, and societies In
| Great Britain, the colonies, and this country.
| which have contributed to the expense will be
inscribed on the pedestal. Tyndale Ia represented
in doctors gown. with his right hand resting on
| an open New Testament.
A STORY Is told Of Justice Huddlestone, Of
London prominent English judge. illustrating
his propensity for "tuft hunting" Going out TO
dinner recently, he learned that a certain noble
| duke was TO be Of the party. As he encountered
the butler in the hall he Slipped half sovereign
into his hand, saying; ~ have few special words
| to say 70 the duke; contTive that set next TO
him" "Thank you" said the butler; "his grace
has Just given me q sovereign to place you at
the other end Of the room" The duke knew his
man.
PORTUGUESE deputies have to swear on the
holy gospels to be faithful to the king and 10
maintain the Catholic apostolic and Roman re-
ligion. republican deputy during the present
session has introduced bill TO abolish the reli-
gous oath. He would replace the holy gospels by
an urn filled with electoral returns, and proposes
that every deputy shall stretch his hand over the
urn, which would represent the national sover-
eighty and promise on his honor to devote all his
powers to the preparation of Just and wise laws.
which would tend to establish on solid bases the
rights of the citizen and the greatness and glory of
the country.
WHEN Wagner first went to Paris, In 1910,
the celebrated musician List was the idol Of the
public, the pet OF society, shining in the meridian
splendor Of his unexampled career. 1t is not sur
prisng that Wagner, looking to him from the
abasement of poverty, as Lazarus might have con-
templated Dives, should have turned bitter and
resentful, and fanced that Liszt disliked him.
when List was only unaware Of his existence.
Afterward Wagner learned how completely he
had misunderstood the great and generous artist.
and friendship grew up between them which
was never broken Twenty years later Wagner
married LISTS daughter.
WITHIN ono short year we have learned
how Carlyle threw his dinner out of a window.
that Napoleon was a sort of satyr that Disraell
implored Gladstone to Join the tories and that the
morallst disagreed about terms and that while
teachers OF the people, like Bishop Wilberforce.
bent austere brows upon the people, and adjured
them to attend to the eternities, they were full
themselves of envy malice, and all uncharitable-
ness-NetO York Sun. As to Napoleon, Disraeli,
and the bishop let them bear the odium OF their
sins; but let us spare Carlyle. II MIR. Carlyle
rev his dinner out OF the window, he did II be-
cause there was no pie.- Courier JoIr'lal
THERE is very little to choose between get
ting married In a fashionable church In America
, and one In England The legal fee for marrying
couple in England is l2s Cd, but the rector Of a
Z" tony ," establishment is not satisfied with 90
meager fee. Recently the best man at fash
ionable West End church wedding rendered the
rector f5 note for his services in marrying q
couple. The rector took the money, but subse-
quently wrote somewhat Indignantly to the best
man that his fee was guineas If the services OF
, bishop and two or three deacons are required TO
perform the marriage ceremony, as is frequently
THE affection and respect with which Eng
lands great premier is regarded among his Mldlo-
THAN constituents is picturesquely shown by the
4 following conversation, which took place during
0 the notable campaign of 1880 between a Dalketh
v minister and a workingman Said the latteri
"Do you see that hand ?" "Yes" "That hand
shook Mr.. Gladstone's hand the day" "Yes 2"
"Aye, that hand shook Mrs Gadstoue's hand the
day; and what's mair tfnt hand shook Mr.. Glad
: stones hand the day. aye and what's mair, that
| hand shook Miss Gladstone's hand the day."
A Then looking at the brawny member with undis-
guised admiration, "Noo, dye think should
wash IT."
LONDON Truth asserts that the best prices
! received now for works of fiction are small COM
y pared with those of twenty years ago. which was
y the harvest time of novel writers. Mr.. Anthony
Il Trollope received than 5000 for two Of his
n principal novels written between 1850 and 1865
o Mr.. Wilkie Collins received 5000 guineas for
"Armadae" before line Of the book was written.
George Eliot made fl5,OOO by one Of her works,
and there was not one by which she made less
than $4,000. Miss Braddon received very high
prices for several of her earlier works 1.-THE pres
a ent time Mr.. wilkie Collins probably makes most
% money by his books but then he only writes at the
J., rate Of one In two years and half Novel writert
who are dissatisfied with their returns may con-