National Republican., 1883-03-23

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has five sisters and one
brother
EMERALDs are said to bo the coming gems
for gentlemen.
ANOTHER awful warming. Last evening
while listening to a lecture an Ohio lady dropped
dead
Ex-VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER Is recover
ing from severe attack of Inflammation of the
eyes
ITALY exported $7,OOO,OO0 worth of eggs
last year. What the lay of that country will be
this year no one knows.
GENEvIEvE WARD, who is no longer young,
is winning new laurols in London under the
wrinkles of Meg Merrlies.
The queen is to have picture of Lady
Dixies dog. The old lady would further do well
to secure fragment of Lady Dixe's corset.
A BALL was given last week in Paris by
-" servant girls" It must have been hard ON the
mistresses Of establishments. Servants and hus-
bands both absent
REV. w. B. GREENE, of Newburyport, Mass.
is the great granddaughter Of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, OF revolutionary renown, while his wife Ia
the generals great granddaughter.
CHARLES j. BoNAPARTE attorney-at-
law" is n baltimore sign. Mr.. Bonaparte's grand
uncle once had good deal to do with military
matters in France and elsewhere. CourierJotrndl.
A REMARKABLE parrot, who died at the age
of 81 in Quebec, used 10 give this conundrum and
answer: "Why does donkey cot thistles2 Give
it up 2-Glvo IL up? Because he's an asst ha-ha.
ha- ha- -ha.a.a."
A YOUNG lady living near New Orleans has
chartered u steamer aud Is to be married on board,
After the ceremony the boat will take all presena
up the Mississippi for protracted tour, of which
she bears all expenses.
PERSECUTION of the Jews has been trans
ferred from across the ocean to Portland, Me.
where series of most outrageous assaults and in
ciyilites have been committed Of late. The cause
of the manifestation of ILL feeling is nexplicabe.
QUEEN VICTORIA met with q slight acci-
dent Monday by slipping while descending a
stairway but fortunately escaped uninjured.
Some nend of an Irish land Lacquer probably
placed u banana peel on one of the steps.-Roches-
ter Post Express.
JERoNIMo COllao dc Maghalaens da CANA
Monez Vellasco Sarmcnto Alarcao BulhOes dc San
de Maria Salema has been before Paris police
court lately. Jeronimo is the latest descendant Of
the Portuguese navigator Magellan, and claims TO
be only one person.
The Hartford Courdnt is bothering itself
about popularity of cats While most animals
somehow get out of the way TO die and are not
seen ulIST, cut III vi hLlc IOhd tlS
n rule, and its remains impart strength TO the
road bed-and the passer-by.
JERRY SHEENAN the head waiter of the
Windsor hotel, New York, is dead Jerry's fees on
Christmas, in addition to his salary, would aver
age five hundred dollars. Jerry was always tip-
ped, and many time, of course, by gentlamen
whose pockets were not nearly so we'll lined us his
own.
RESIDENTS of an east side neighborhood
are greatly disturbed bya young lady who per-
ssts in constantly singing "Willie, We Have
Missed You" Judging from the noise she makes
the neighbors believe she fired at Willie with
sixteen inch cannon loaded with oyster cans
Kansas Ciy Journal.
THERE has been no announcement of the
liquidation of the Prince of Wales debts but they
must have been paid else he would hardly declare
his purpose to present the Blucher hussars, of
which he Is chief fur dolmans. Only prince or
Vanderbilt could think of clothing company
of hussGrs in seal skin dolmans,
MRS. ScHAFFER, of New York, was con-
tent with her decree of absolute divorce till she
received an invitation to attend the wedding of
Mr.. Schaeher in New Jersey. Then she applied
for an injunction, or, what would operate as such,
judicial declaration that her divorce was the
limited article. The judge declined to change tho
record
10 NOI DS WTlIcS u
Paris correspondent, TO receive telegram saying:
Sarah Bernhardt has committed suicide. She
took morphine last night and this morning was
found dead in bed. letter on her dressing table
confessed the crime, and attributed 1T to inextri.
cable pecuniary embarrassments." Suicide is,
even now. often on her lips, the correspondent
adds.
The New York Journal accuses Nilsson Of
treading the boards like man and of staring the
audience out of countenance 1t Is also alleged
by the same authority that she grimaces, often
coughs and expectorates, without any care
whether she be thought unfeminine or not. One
moment she looks very stern, and then of sudden
smiles all over her face without any apparent
reason.
AT the last state ball at st. Petersburg the
empress honored young officer by allowing him
to waltz with her. The gentleman, though ia
nous dancer, was so embarrassed that he fell
heavily to the Aoor carrying her majesty with him.
The empress was assisted to retiring room, but
soon returned and seeing the distress OF her late
partner went TO him and insisted on his dancing
another waltz with her,
STATE district judge is to be elected in
Pennsylvania next fall to take the place of WILL
son, who presided at the Dukes trial, and who
positively declines reelection because of his
poor health One of the candidates for the place
is W. II. Playford, of counsel for the people in the
Dukes case. Dukes sought to retain Playford, but
the latter refused to defend him. II the election
were to be held now Il is said the votes against
Playford would hardly be worth counting, so
strong is the feeling Of people, regardless Off poll
tics, to condemn the acquittal of Dukes.
A FASHIONABLE lady who wished to take
heater arty 10 see the San Francisco minstrelsi in
New York the other night had the ooolness to 90
and ask Mossrs. Backus IL Birch that no coarse
Jokes or expressions be INDUCED in for that even.
ing. Result; Party on hand. Front row. Full
toilets. Instead of usual dialogue Mr.. Backus
when interrogated replies "No, you don'ti you
know Mr.. Birch you were not 10 ask any such i'm
proper questions as that" Mr.. Birch questioned
by Buckus, replies. Mr.. Backus, you know that
no such indelicate questions were to be asked"
PLEASE remember: At the end of the first
year comes the cotton weddingi at two years
comes the paper; three the leather at the close
of FIVE comes the wooden at the seventh anniyer-
sary the friends assemble at the woolen; at ten
comes the tin at twelve the silken and fine linen;
at fifteen the crystal wedding; at twenty the
friends gather with the china; at twenty five tho
married couple that have been true TO their VOWS
| for quarter Of century are rewarded with silver
/ gifts, From this period forward the tokens OF
esteem become rapidly more valuable. When tho
| thirtioth anniversary is reached. they are pre-
sented with pearls; at the fortieth comes rubies,
| at the iifielh occurs the golden wedding. Beyond
| that time the aged couple are allowed To enjoy
! their many gins In peace. IT, however, by any
! possibility they should reach their seventy-hnh
| anniversary, they are presented with the rarest