National Republican., 1883-05-09

4 Zach crow where he finds that to 1ll his mouth.
Just so with the man as II Is with the crow,
Each man where he thinketh It best TO go:
one man does that another man this,
Each man TO get what he thinketh his.
And never crow asketh Of brother crow,
Why do ye thisi or why do 20 so?
FOR he knoweth full well crows follow no laws,
And the answer he'd get would only be--caws,
Must 1t be thus with the man as the crow
None say TO another. why do ye SO?
III each man Of us has, and goes his own way.
A queer world this will be Of ours to-day.
AN appropriate poem for the new trade
| paper called the Corsei would be the one bes,n
hing " stay maiden, stay aud press me 10 thy
| form again"
! The daughter Of the doan of Sc. Paul's was
married In his cathedral lately to a son OF Sir
James Paget, the famous surgeon. Il was the sec.
ond marriage performed there IN 1875 years. s
LADY who Is writing some unusually in.
teresling and valuable matter for tho Hartford
tunes says that inithree words can be summed up
the story Of the pet Of some women: Lug, hug
pug"
THERE are altogether s7o baronots in Great
D,lHnn ana Ireland some whom are very poor.
Ihe bank OF England and tho Oriental hank
both have beronet clerks. Another is IN the Iriah
police. N''s'
The greatest of our foreign lions next fall
VIII be Mgr Capel the "Catesbvn ~ MI
raelrs "Lothair." who is coming over in August
70 lecture little, preach little, and be admired
good deal
The Fronch government is building eioht
new ironclads, two of which will carry so.top
guns--heayy enough to sink the English naval
Jumbo, lniiexibe. The cost Of those vessels will
be 100000 each. "N
UGH" grunted Biggster at the dinner
liable, this pudding isn't ht for hog to eat"
me boarding mistress, who overheard the remark
smiled sweetly as she said, "Then wouldn't eat
H. MI Biggster."-Boston Transcript
IN The freshness and splendor of this bud.
ding May the New York Commercial, Adpeyiis,,
bnrsts into song: when the myrtle an, tha
turtle are In bloom let us bury the dude beneath
the daisies Day.day, dudoe, do die dumb"
1T is a breach of etiquette never to be for.
given TO sneeze in the presence OF royalty. but
royalty has never bothered itself to tell a man
wnas 70 90 with his nose when he feels sneezo
working along up his suspenders.- Detroit nee
NOTHING more deeply wounds the feelings
Of vermont deacon at camp meeting than TO
Dc called upon to pray Just as he Is at the excItIn
point OF a horse trade with the man next n hin,
Boston Post F'~''''''"s"'-
HoRsE-THIEF in "a western prison COM
piains bitterly that the chaplain Is Presbyterian
Whio ne was brought up q Methodist. When Il
comes down to matters Of religion, remarks a
Ie3as paper the conscience OF horse, thief seem.
perfectly square.
II TELL you," said man whose character
was way down below zero, "that II doesn't do no
good TO compel children TO read the Bible Wbon
was young kid they used to keep me NJ Il half
lhe ume' knew 1t oil by heart afore was Is. 1t
DON'T do child no good, / tell YER" Il was the
unanimous opinion OF all who knew the man that
MS argument was unansworable Rochester Tyan.
script NN"
ON the first Monday of June next th.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery companv. of
Boston, Mass, will celebrate It's 2a5th anniversary
ana the usual sermon will be preached. I'm 10
!une' 1852, 2lo sermons have been delivered (for
thirty years they were omitted), and the reoords
show that lsS Of them were printed, the frst one
IN 1860 by The Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, a
copy OF which Is now In tho possession Of tho
American Antiquarian society Of Worcester,
INVESTIGATION has developed that the fas-
cinating game OF draw poker was invented some.
where about ls46 or isi7 bya noted Tenpessee
sporting man. Chsek states that plain poker dates
That Noah was the hrst poker player, for he had
pair OF everything In tho pack, We trace this
game back to tho Garden Of Eden, for when the
Lord called Adam and Eve they refused 10 see
him and both passed out.-Rochester Post. Express.
OLD SPRIGGINs went down TO Florida tho Brst
Of the winter for his health, and did not succeed
IN nnding 1t, dying there, as many another had
done before him. II somewhat surprised his son
george the other day, when Wiggins, who by the
way, had not heard OF the old mans demise, met
the young man and asked: "Your falher is I'm a
good deal hotter place now than he was when he
was round here, isn't he7" Young sprlggips
succeeded in muttering something like he "didu't
know but that he was" and hurried OF TO meet
an ongagement.--LoiDeI Clisen
THE English sparrow never deserts town
1.-The cyclone always finds something In It's way
10 blow about... II man choose he may get a
rebate on over paid tobacco taxes. Henry Wat
tersons platform is said to be poker for revenue
only" This Is the season for manufacturers to
work Oh spring mattresses =. AS matter OF course
man full Of hope cannot be easily crushed
Wind, which is relative TO lightning never
blows the same building down twice :. II is not
poiteness that makes dude prefer TO stand In n
street car. 1t Is his tight trouser.-Nsw Orleans
Pfcdyune.
The Chattanooga Times, Of May 2, giving
sketches OF the veterans who are engaged at the
Cincinnati dramatic jubilee, says James f. Mur.
doch was born in Philadeiphia In 1881 and that
Mary Anderson first saw the light Of day at sacra.
mento, CAL, In 1880. The Picdyune corrects this
by saying that Mr.. Murdoch Is over 80 years old.
aud can stand the typographical error but the
mistake In Mary's age is objectionable, though
everybody knows the California girl Is only 2f
" The error, or the first part OF It, probably grew
out Of the fact that Murdoch acts like three
year old"
1T Ia a little out Of season, perhaps, but the
story is quite as good. An old and we'll known
auctioneer In New England city was driving by
group OF sohoolboys one day, when he received
a thump from a SNOWFALL just back OF bis ear
Reigning In his horse, he turned about and ad.
dressed them "Ill give 81 to any one who will tell
the nhme OF the boy who threw that snowbAll.'
The response came from the urchins sponta.
nsly, one, give me two" zone I'm offered 4. ye
ME half" lone I'm bid who'll make Il three.
eighths?" He drove on without any more cers.
Boston Globe.
WHEN NJ Theirs wns at the summit of his
glory as president OF the French republic he won't
TO spend some days in Aarseilles his native city.
There he met an old school companion, a poor
humble man who had never taken the allghtest
interest In political concerns. They crested each
other with effuslon. "And what are you doinRYS
asked Thiers. Raising cattle" Then they talked
a long while Of their youth, Of memories pleasant
to both. Finally, And what do you do In Paris2"
asked tho old friend. NJ. Thiars, somewhat
wounded in his amour proprs. and not wishing,