National Republican., 1883-01-17
"comE off the perch " is fresh slang.

No NEED for anyone to be out of pleasant
employment now. 1t is easy to get an ice job.
THE Louisville Couricr-Journal says Kate
Field faied because one of her new clerks one
day forgot to ask one of the customers, Anything
else ?"
A DAKOTA woman advortises for husband,
Specifying that ho must DO able 10 milk twenty
two cows daily
A MAN was arrested by West Kansas po-
licenan yesterday for taking cold. He stole ice.-
Kansas City Journal.
VANDERBILT has gone to Cuba, and the st.
Paul Pioneer Press thinks If it strikes him iayora-
bly, he may buy it for u winter resort.
A WELL at Snaps, a small village in Wood
run county, Ark, flows water that is as sour as
vinegar 1t is presumed TO be the head waters Of
Bitter creek.
ELIzABETu CADY STANTON thinks girls
should play billiards. There's good deal Of
"kissing" in billiards. but that's no reason for ex-
cludug girls.
THE young lady who mado 700 words out Of
Conservatory" last fall has run away from home
Her mother wanted her to make three loayes Of
bread out of "aour."
A PEARL was recently found in the Gulf
of California weighing seveniy.Rye Carrots 1t
was sold on the spot for $4,000, and is said to be
one of the largest ever iouEd.-Dtario (uerico)
Official.
A PROJECT is on foot to erect n monument
at Valley Forge. By all means start 1t now. If 1t
meets with the usual encouragement works of that
kind receive it may be completed by the next cen-
tennial.
On the day that divorce was granted to
Mrs Perkins, u Kansas woman, she was lying dead
in the house aud tho body of her husband was
hanging to the limb of II tree-one dying of heart
! .l,..s. d Ng.... 40. n.g
! ver Tribune.
! A SWELL New Yorker did not take stock,
| In the ancient belief that II man cannot cat one
quail day for thirty consecutive days, and made
II bet of $3.50 that he could accomplish the feat
| This is the first case record of an ass eating
| quail.-RaHSas Cty journal.
JEM MACE has come to this country from
England to pull our own prize fighter, John L.
| sullivan, down peg or two. If Mr.. Mace gets
out of money during his sojOurn perhaps he can
| give himself up rs one of the Phmnix park MUIR
derers and get a free passage home.
HENRY FLEMING, of Brooklyn, against
whom Miss Lylgtone recovered verdict of
| $4,000 for breach of promise of marriage, was
drinking champagne when told of the result of
the trial, II is presumed that he didn't order an
| other bottle aud Is now content with Tivoli.
SALvIN1 is to be rendered reception at tho
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in Philadelphia, on Thursday evening ensuing
| The President is invited, and over one thousand
| invitations have been extended to some of the
most prominent people residing in the Quaker
| City.
Mrs. JOHN WELFooT, ofSt Johnsbury, VT,
| has given birth to two daughters and n son. Their
total weight is six pounds thirteen ounces Mrs.
Wellfoot has been married before, and has had
twelve children, including two pairs Of twins.
a.. NNf.1I NJ. WALL
foot is pretty well heeled.
4 Boston paper states that in response to
petition of several well known clergymen lv.
Ing along the line Of tho Boston aud Providence
railway" its directors have decided to run IL sun
day evening train from Boston toDedham. a pc
| tlton by clcrgymcn for Sunday train does not
seem exactly congruous, as 1t were.
owe shall suilocate if we don't get some
ventilation herev' exclaimed tho corpulcnt pns-
senger, throwing up the car window and letting
in q draft that registered about ten degrees below
zero. "Do you call that Ventilation? exciledly
asked the thin man in the next seat, shivering in
the keen blast. 81 call It annihilatIon"
WILSON FLAGG, the ornithologist, has u
level head on the sparrow question. He doubts
whether there is an instance in history Of such stu
pidlty as wa, shown by the peoplewho introduced
the English sparrow into this country In the fnce
of facts well known in Europe, that prove them
TO be MS great pest the insects they are falsely
supposed to destroy
WIGGGNs says he wishes he could feel as
certain of heaven as he does of the gale he has
predicted for the eleventh Of March. "It will
come" he.anirms, "unless the planets stop in their
orbits Some people who have been de ceived by
the ADMINISTRATIONS OF these weather prophets
will believe that II Is far more probable that the
planets will stop in their orbits than that Virgins
will get TO heaven,
Mr.. JOSEPH CILLEY, of Nottingham, N. H.,
the oldest eX senator Of the United States living,
completed his nlnely-aecond year Thursday, the
fourth instant and the occasion was observed by
n large gathering of relatives at his homo IN Not
tlngham. IIc was In good health and spirits, and
expressed the greatest pleasure In receiving his
friends. Though his sight Is so dim that he could
not recognize their faces, he knew most of their
voices.
NILSSON is one of the few amiable prima
donnas on her way to San Francisco she sang
freely wherever people assembled, and without
any show of condGscension seemingly happy in
being able to please them While crossing San
Francisco bay on the ferry boat the passengers
crowded around her, and she gave them Home,
{ Sweet Home" and "Way Down Upon the suwanee
River" on the train she frequently entertained
the passengers with yocaism.
BARTHoLDI writes as followst to Mr.. Evarts,
| nnent the statue oil LlDerlyi "Our WORK advances,
The statue begins TO reach abovethe houses and
next spring IL will overlook the entire city, as do
the large monuments of Pals. have the honor
to send you by this mail photographs OF this work,
80 that you may show them to the committee or
publish them II you deem IL necessary. We Will
soon have some photographs made of the present
stage OF the work, aud will Immediately send
you proofs"
For years the dieting expenses of E,
! Walker miser, of Cincinnati, cost him but ten
cents a week. lie ate one roll and drank some
milk each day and declared that was all his
stomach would stand This was the man who sat
} for the two final pictures OF the Landy series oi
The " seven ages" He was once man of wealth,
but Lost It securing the bonds Of friend. He had
/, two ambtlons--to make violin equal to asradls
varius and TO dry up and blow away. Ho al
most realized the latter desire.
, A POOR half-starved wretch stole some
crackers and cheese at the village of Montmor-
mence, TppCcanoe county, short time ago. and
being hunted down by hue and cry Of citizens,
was captured, convicted, and sentenced to the
4 penitentiaTy for six years, This Sentence was
regarded as exceedingly severe, and, by agree
ment of counsel It was reduced to three years. II
1 the fellow had gutled bank or embezzed slo00C0
, lie might perhaps have escaped punishment and
got away with tho plunder, But the stealing OF
D crackers and cheese shows him 10 be III subject
ioT the vengeance Of the law Send him up.