National Republican., 1883-10-26

Mr.. THINNE is the president of the Boston
Fat Mems club. That's what's in a name.
THE widow of Gen. Custer who is in deli
cate health at present occupies her sisters home
in Detroit.
SITTING BULL may be illiterate, but his
autograph brings higher price than that ofmost
college presidents
A PHANTOM locomotive has been prowling
around in Georgia. There are also some phantom
railways in that region.
| JAY GOULD denies tho report that he is
going to start new watering place. The old
stand in Wall street is good enough for him..
Kansas city Journal.
THE mikado of Japan is said to be despond-
because OF the recent loss of two of his chill
dren. Two sons and four daughters have died in
the palace, and only one child, a boy, remains
| alive.
A COWBOY writes to the st. Louis Globe /
Democrat offering to remove the police commits
sioners for 500 and the governor for 81 O00 This
affords hope that the squabbles in that town will
soon be settled
LAST year one Berlin house manufactured
100000 accordeons, melodeons, and hand organs, !
and managed to distribute 25O,00O Of them among
the nations OF the earth without rupturing oabi-
net or provoking declaration of war;
WE are threatened with peanut famine.
The demand doubles annually and the supply
does not keep up. although the crop now amounts
to about S4,0 900 year, Virginia alone produc-
ing 100000 bushels, worth about 81 100000.
Mrs. LANGTRY's dresses have been passed
free through the New York custom house. There
were twenty-five, of which all but three were new,
and they were appraised at $4,000. The dresses
were passed free on the ground that they were
"tools of trade"
| VI natl with
Howells, who can find no oongenal companion
ship with the human race, and says he feels that
way himself He will pay liberal reward to the
discoverer of higher and nobler sphere than this.
kansas city Jonrndt.
MAX MULLER, the eminent philologist in
o few words, has succeeded in giving acomprehen-
| siye definition of true politeness. In notice of
the death of a buddhist student, he says: "His
manners were perfect-they were thenatural man.
ners of an unselfsh man."
!. JACK HAvERLY announces that he has se-
cured a seven years lease of Philadelphia thea
ter, and will at once proceed to refurnsh II at
expense Of 10000. This sudden flourish of ducats
induces the suspicion that Jack must have re-
Gently struck three queens or royal flush, y
EX-SENATOR TABOR, of Colorado, has res
Gently purchased 10000 acres of copper ore in
Hardemann county, Texas. He expects that the
l Denver and New Orleans road will soon be ex-
and ship his copper to market. The mines are
! said to be immensely rich.
DENNIS" asked tho colonel, when can
see you?" "Ye can see mo now, yer honor" IT
want to talk business to you. When will you be
at homer "Whin get there. sor." 81 want to
SEQ If we cannot make arrangements by which
, you can pay me-" "In that evint, sor, OF won't
la there till sometime afterward." ."-ArkdnSaiO
! Traveller.
. SARAH BERNHARDTis is bitterly hated at tho
Y Comedie Franchise, as the following story will
show Emile de Girardin had an exquisite por-
trait of her, painted by eminent artist In 1876
. When he died he bequeathed 1t to the Comedie
! Francaise. "Where is the portrait now2" was re-
y Gently asked Of member of the company. "Up
y in the garrett with its face to the wall"
Ex-Gov. TILDEN's $4,000 dining room in
carved satn-wood and blue tiles according to
Hdrper's Weekly, is at length entirely completed
o by the arrival of a massive brass chandelier, de-
& signed by Mr.. Calvert Vaux, in harmony with the
g. general spirit of the decorations The governor Ia
" expected to entertain his friends in this magnif-
n cent banqueting chamber early next winter.
D DIR. c, C. ABBOTT, of Trenton, N. j., has de-
y stroyed another old belief in weather lore. For
70 twenty years he has kept record of the building
u of their winter houses by the muskrats, the storing
" of nuts by squirrels, and other habits Of the man
" mails which are commonly regarded as indicating
the character Oh tne coming winter. his Conclu-
w. sion is that the habits referred to have
% tion with the rgor or mildness of the approach
=, ing season.
t. A SINGULAR thing happened near Houston,
ID Texas, lately. An old Nimrod, by the name OF
Id Warren was deer hunting He came upon fine
to buck aud fired, some little distance Off was an.
r other At the report of the hunters rifle boti
70 deer started off toward each other. They collided
m one of them springng about twenty feet In the air
10 | nd ha fall dead They Eanurpd hv hf
hunter, who, ON examination, discovered that hi:
. shot had butslightly wounded the antler at which
he fired.
n, LORD BAcoN's signs of short life are quick
Dd growth, fair soft skin SOFT fine hair, early corpu
lence, large head, short neck. small mouth, ia
~, ear, brittle, separate teeth. Some Of his signs o
o long life arc slow growth hard coarse hair, rough
he frecked skin, deep furrows in the forehead firm
is flesh, with veins lying high, wide nostrils larg
'l mouth hard gristly ear, strong, contiguous teeth
d. lie adds that early gray nair is not significant
re some of the longest livers having turned gray II
u early life
is- LoNGwINDEDNEss is the curse of Englisl
o. journalism, Frinsance the Pail Mall Gazette COZ
cludes q review of Ella Wheeler's poems as fol
,l- lows, Perhaps we would be accused Of labor
D. ing under the reactionary prejudice of the oil
80; world 81 we 10 remark that II would not be
lI- world wide calamity II the sappho of the We'
were to find In Lake Michigan that eiioctul
remedy for her woes whichthe Eoian poet foun
in the Ionian sea-" An American critic woul
ma simply have advised Ella to put her head in soa
,re Rochester Post Express.
vs. A SocoRRo, N NJ, dispatch, of Oct. 13, says
ah A case of foolish courage and cowardice CONF
tin from San Marcal. About month ago HarI
iX Heard stole cattle from the Powers ranch, and
ld- nccompliees were arrested, A posse Of men III
'ss; der Bert Hanson, deputy marshal and sheriff
ME san Marcial, pursued him, but dtd not meet hin
Yesterday Heard came into San Marcal with
sd rifle in hand and made Hanson, the officer folio
lex him around town and drink with him, No ou
ma tried to capture him, although reward is oieTC
M ,eii for his arrest, When he satisfied himself he lei
ON FROM Nashville, Tenn, comes the yer
iv- latest poker incident. 1t appears that party
wn youths engaged in game in th9t city few eve
500 ings since became so excited that one of the
number staked all his money, personal posse
slons, and clothes upon "hush." The par
% betting against him made him take of all h
Oh clothes and place them in pile, after which
cre- coolly lay down straight flush" At this jun
ner ture the police broke into the apartment and 4
cen loser in order 10 make good bis escape with d
in Others had to scamper across lots for a long
sion tance in garments not altogether intended for
door exercise In autumn,