National Republican., 1883-09-18
CURRENT GOSSIP.
SAID Biddy. shorn of hair by fats.
When laughing Mollie called her
To look at Garibaldi's pate,
"Sure, I'm, be gorra, balder."

Ihbkh is streeG IN Key WesV, L la'b Calleu
Grunt Bone alley"
JoHN BRIGHT recently had his photograph
taken by electric light.
EX-SENATOR DAVID DAVIS is visiting Con-
gresham Green at the latters home in Fayette-
willie, N c.
In the German empire there are 7,7l9,3S2
women who have been married. OF these 909-
$50 are widows.
Missouri catches murdcrers and then lets
them co. Connecticut doesn't catch 'em.-Proui-
dcac6 Press 0ep1.
The only persons who are considered as fit
for long walk on the high Alps are those who
can run mile at fair pace.
A NUMBER of prominent democrats in Wis
consin are engineering "boom" in favor of Col.
Wm. +. Villas for vice president.
THERE is quite streak worn in the carpet
in Jim Keenes Office between the ticker and the
looking gass.-Ne,O York journal.
A HORSE baked with man in Buffalo tho
other day, and he sat there In his buggy for nine
hours before the animal moved on
Miss MAUD BANKS daughter of Gen.
N. =. Banks will this season go on the stage as an
elocutionist. She has been training in Europe.
A BRILLIANT shade of plum color and an
other Of rich dark blue have quite taken the
QUEEN MARGUERITE of Italy avoids cere-
mony and shakes hands with her people, just like
any common mortal Her subjects think sne is
democratic daisy.
Mn. SoLoMoN's new OPERA Captain Kidd,"
produced at Liverpool, is pronounced failure.
The composer probably initiated his hero and
"piratcd the music.
ACCORDING to a recent computation, there
are 1918 newspapers and magaz ines published in
this country Ofthese, ,227 are daily newspapers
| and 1850 are weekes.
"WHY don't you ask q blessing?" said the
boarding house keeper TO the boarder. He looked
all over the table and gloonily answered. "rd
like to know what for"
II is said that John Swinton is daily in re-
ceipt of hundreds ofletters from young men wish
ing to be reporters at $1,000 year. And all be-
cause of his senate testimony.
Mr.. CYRUS w. FIELD is reported to have
struck artesian well on the site of q building
he is about 10 erect This will be n great conve-
nience when he wants TO water his stocks.
THE ono hundred mile road race of the
Boston Bicycle club, which is open to all anna
teurs, will occur in October and bids fair to prove
one of the most interesting events of the season.
A ST. LOUIS millinery firm pays a woman
drummer 800 year. From what we know OF
| the wles of women agents, she must be snare
drummer to command that salary.-Bosto, Courier
GEN. BEAuREGARD says of Gov. Butler:
I'VE are perfectly willing that he should Le gov-
ernor of Massachusetts, but as n presidential can
didate he would not likely receive strong sup.
| port"
RIGHT under the statement that Butler will
| be a candidate for the democratic nomination is
| the information that Slade and Mitchell must
! fight This is probably correct.-AGanta Constitu-
| ton (denl.).
| ONE of the features of dress trimmings this
autumn is the cutting at the edges of skirts,
tunics, and polonaises into turres, vandykes, and
scalops-a fashion so popular last season In
| lighter fabrics.
PERHAPS it would be the best and shortest
/ way to settle the Oklahoma Payne matter to let
him enter the Indian territory. Indians know
considerable about the first laws of nature.-In.
dianopois journal.
LEES, the famous professional bicycle rider,
sailed for America Tuesday. L. De Civy, the
French champion, will sail some time this week,
and while in this country will probably race with
Prince and Higham.
WEALTHY but economical politicians are
carefully hoopiug up their "bar'ls "-Net0 York
Journal But the rank and file are still wAoopng
up the cry.-BoSton Courier. And all will be moe
or less bunged up ut the end of the campaign.
AN aged physician, who practiced much
among the ladies' made a large fortune. II was
his custom to say to every feminine patient,
"show me your tongue, honey There. that will
do, dear! You will be we'll in week, thank God
my dear"
How is YOUR father coming on?" asked
Col Percy Yergar of darkey he used to own be-
fore the war. He am dead" dead, is he! lie
must have reached an advanced age?' "He did
dat for fac He was libin' up to de berry day OBJ
his def"-Erchan9e
LAST year the Paris cabmen restored $4,000
pieces of property left in their cabs. Honest cab
men are rewarded in order to encourage the rest
The race of cab drivers includes dishonest, un-
employed notarles, broken down cooks, ruined
bankers and unfrocked priests.
SOME New Englanders have introduced in
the southern exposition, and think it a fine thing
n self acting mule. Nothing could exhibit more
plainly the Ignorance of northern men whenever
they touch upon Kentucky institutions. There
isn't mule in Kentucky that is not self acting.
"YoU said you were going to vote for me-"
Indignantly exclaimed defeated candidate, ad-
dressing Mike, the well known Irlshman. "An
didn't vote fur or "Naw, you didn't" "Well,
sor in that evint, there's only one conclusion that
7 i kin arrive at" "And what is thatg! "That 1
towld ye lie sor."-ArkGnSas Hareler.
THE New York ErenRg Post says that Brig
ham Young is TO have a monument with an In
scrption to the effect that "he was numerous
husband and a promiscuous father" This calls to
| mind the fact that Brigham was the author of the
expression 81 say, young fellow" 1t was tho only
safe way to address the gamins of Salt Lake, and
it sounded fathery
l ONCE asked Gen. Grant" said Gen. Sher.
man at Il dinner given him in San Francisco the
other day. "why he always started TO talk horse
when any one tried to engage him in political
conversation" and he replied " Well l don't
care about talking politics, and have got TO say
something, so choose horse for hobby and
stick to that 1t does as well as anything for the
OCCASION"
f The joint race meeting of the Germantown
and Pennsylvania bicycle clubs win be held at the
Gentlemen's Driving park Philadelphia, on Sat
. urday, Sept. co. The principal event will be the
three mile race for the l., A. w. championship o
, America. In the morning of the same day will
be held the first annual meet of the Pennsylvania
division, l.. A. W., and fifth annual meet OF the
t Philadelphia wheelmen.
!: PRINCE BISMARCK was guarded during his
' stay at Kissengen by six Bavarian gendarmes, six
/ Prussiun policemen, one Bavarian commissioner
of police one Prussian police councillor from Ber
. lin, four detectives from Munich and two from
+, Wurz6urg. Their duty was to watch the chancel-
lor during his three hours walk the promenade
r aud to prevent unknow persons from approaching
: his villa by day or nv night