National Republican., 1883-03-21


As the sun went down In the rosy west;
Their steps were slow, their faces grim,
And ton ofanguish filed each breast
And all the shot they had shot so hard
The dog brought home in his after guard
Burlington HdVkeve
THEY call it the lyric stage in New York
so that 1t may not be mistaken for Broadway
omnibus.-Ne0 Orleans Picdyune.
A RUSSIAN princess at recent ball given in
Nice wore dress made entirely of peacocks
feathers. Heads Of the birds, with eyes made OF
garnets, were used In the looping.
AN Erie policeman rushed into fine house,
thinking some one was being murdered, but IL
was only the voice Of young woman who had
dropped hot slate pencil down her back while
she was curling her hair.
NEAR La Paz Mexico, has been discovered
the largest pearl the world has ever known. II is
light in color, oval in fOrm one inch in length
and three-Quarters of an inch in Its smallest
diameter. Its value is e50,000
REV. AMOS PEABODY has written an article
for the eastern press entitled, How Much II Costs
10 Treat Drunkenness" We do not know what II
costs in the authors neighborhood, but out here
tho price istwo for quarter-Rdnsas oay Jour~A2
A SNAKE was frozen in a solid block of ice
that was cut recently from mill pond In Roslyn,
Long Island. On being thawed out and warmed
It was found 10 be alive. Upin Illinois the snakes
keep of the ice and make themselves comfortable
in old boots.
"ToMMoRRoUdH" is the way Vernon
business man refers in his telegram TO the next
day, and a telegraph operator, formerly at Bell
lows Falls, states that Vermont railway official
was wont to send orders In reference 10 the
"knight frate trane"
GERMAN WIT: A safeguard--Subaltern
Meier, when you are on guard at the powder
magazine, and a man passes smoking cigar, what
do you do9 Meier; Shout to him to throw It
away. subaltern; And then7 Meier: l pick it
up and smoke the rest Of myself,
AT the cafe: waiter, take away this soup,
It Is as cold as ice." "oh, you must be mistaken,
sir B! tasted It as was bringing 1t, and it's nice
and hot. SIR" Tasted it7" "oh, no sir. Beg
pardon, sir; wouldn't think Of doing such q
thing, sir only Just put my finger into IL, sir"
The house in which the declaration of in.
dependence was written was on the conner OF Sew.
enth and Market streets in Philadelphia. II has
been demolished to make room for a new bank
building, The people Of Wannamakervllle have
use for patriotic sentiment that will not pro-
duce dollars
UNDER the provisions Of an act passed in
1920 a Pennsylvania father has secured judg-
ment OF ESQ continental money, or sl3333 of the
coin now in use, against justice Of the peace who
performed the marriage ceremony which made
his daugher-the complninants daughter-the
wife OF man but few years her senior.
ONE Of the jurors who acquitted Dukes,
the infamous murderer of Capt. Mutt, was attacked
by mob at Belle Vernon, Pa, Friday night, and
fatally injured The cqroners jury which sets on
him can consclentiously bring in verdict of sui
otI fuV VkaN ~ tln
tury for coroner's jury ry.--RansdS CIV Journal
RECENT Investigations show that the blood
vessels of a human being capable of performing
his daily work may contain from 10000 to 10000
minute embryo nematoid worms. IL is proud
thought that at any moment In tho day q man
may be introduced to fellow citizen with 10000
worms, while he himself may not have moro than
10000.
STORY from Paris Here, my friend
says the CASHIER handing the customer pile of
silver dollars; "here is your money, $780, Count It,
to be sure II Is all right" The customer begins 10
| count-one, two three, and so on up to seventeen
then he puts the whole pile into his pocket with
the remark "oh, Tvs correct so far as I've gone
the rest must be right also"
THE dispatches announce another runaway
cashier, who took a few hundred thousand dollars
from New York town. The great demand now is
| for patent automatic cashier, who can be wound
| up by the board OF directors and regulated with
| chronometer lock, with an antiboard of trade
| speculating attachment. Nobody could work a
cashier OF that kind. There is millions In a
patent Of this description .-Rdnsas CITY Journal
OBY OWEN, the defaulting teller of the
Third National bank in st. Louis stole over $780,
900 and was sentenced to eight years in the peni-
tentlary. This raises his salary to $4,000 year,
| or about seventy-two times as much as a member
| OF the Missouri legislature. 1t is well TO remem-
| ber In this connection, however, that oby can do
| no harm in the next eight years, which may ac-
count for the superiority of his pay.-Kdnsds Ciy
| Journal.
The Rev. DIR. Henry c. Potter in a recent
| address expressed his regret that the church had
| not done more to prepare young women to earn
| their own living. 1T is cruel" he said. THAT
the Christianity that chides woman for her fri.
voity and slavshness to society should shut In
her face the door that opens to emancipation.
| The shackles should be stricken, not only from
| the hands and feet Of women, but also from their
brains"
NJ. LEFEBURE DE FEURCY was examininga
student in physics once upon time, and the
young man being nervous failed utterly on the
| first question put to hm-a very simply one.
Bring this gentleman bundle Of hay for his
| breakfast" remarked the disguised examiner to
one OF the alJenuhnts. Bring tWo--lne professor
and will breakfast togetherl" added the student,
who thus suddenly regained and asserted his self
| possession.
SOME one has been grouping together the
supersttions of actors. Here are few iustra.
tions: Ehe Ellsler never travels without a hor 0.
| shoe In her trunk, which she sometimes removes
and ornaments her hotel room With During a
street parade the members Of minstrel company
deem It one Of the worst omens If white horse
happens TO cross their path but that is also over.
come by the crossing of the fingers of both hands
and expectorating over them Miss Ella Wesner
uses u great many umbrellas and parasols, but
she generally takes the dealers word for the
quality of the goods, as she would never under
any circumstances open them in the store.
Changing dress three times in the course Of a
play is also considered dangerous proceeding
among some of the stage folk, An accident
which occurred some years 20 started the super
stition. Quite number Of actresses would not
step across the Threshold of a dressing room
until they take peep at the mirror and should
II be cracked or in any way injured that dressing
room has no occupant for that evening.
A TEMPERANCE tract In Chinese illustrated
ofcourse, against the use OF opium might serve q
very useful purpose in the war against King
Alcohol. The frst tableau presents All Sin taking
his first pipe, which he doesn't TO like II is
inscribed, "He takes opium for pastime only
In the second picture he is found out and scolded
by his father. He kneels before the good old man,
but his penience is evidently only partially sim
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