National Republican., 1883-10-20
EVEN Jewish songs are prohibited in Russia

EVEN Jewish songs are prohibited in Russia.
FIVE New England girls are missing from
home.
JOHN w, MAcKEY indulges in no recrea-
tion but poker.
TGLDEN, it is said, reads all tho New York
dailes regularly.
GEORGE w. JULIAN, of Indiana, is writing
political "reminiscences also.
AN Akron physician is still in active prac-
tice ut the age of o.
OF the 167 students in tho Texas uni
versity, forty are women.
CoLoBED Masons have six lodges in Con-
nectcut, with $50 members.
RHODE ISLAND lightning changed q ma
hogany bay horse to jet black.
! A 17-YEAR-oL boy Is tho superintendent
of a Sunday school in Toocos, Ga.
BEN HOGAN, tho reformed prize fighter is
holding reyivals in Portland Greg.
Cock FIGHTING was one of the features in
the arena of the Austin (TexaO fair.
THERE are seven candidates for state Ii
brarian in Kentucky All females.
No New YORK wedding will be fashionable
this winter without ten bridesmaids
LONDON has company which insures
against bicycle and tricycle. accidents.
| SPECIMEN of the ibex was shot recently
In Madison county, Montana territory.
GEN. GRANT, who is very busy with his
Mexican railways is learning Spanish.
TIE Mormons have set apart eighteen mis-
sonaries for work in the southern states
BISMARCK says of Gladstone d" He is u
coldbogdcd man, with healthy mind"
SToDDARD county, Missouri, claims to have
tho oldest bridegroom on record. He is 81.
BEATRICE, Neb., has brass band, tho
members of which all belong to one family.
THE pineapple of Florida is becoming
second in importance to the orange and lemon.
SULLIVAN, tho prize fighter has managed
TO knock out of his business about 1000 SO fur.
ANDY JoHNsoN's tailor shop sign is still to
be seen on little old shanty in Greenville, Tenn.
p. T. BARNUM is getting we'll along in
years, but he says he never felt better in his
life.
Mrs. RANDALL and Mrs. Dubois, sisters,
living near Lowell, Mich, went crazy the same
day.
In is claimed that the span of tho Brooklyn
bridge has settled four feet since 1t was opened or
travel
The fashions of q hundred years ago, onco
so much laughed at, again coming into
vogue.
ONE of the jury trying tho Sessions bribery
case at Albany had never heard of Tom Platt or
Roscoe Conkling.
A YEAR ago $3,000,00O was invested in oil
works in Garfield, Pa. Now the town has only
few empty houses.
In is estimated that the Mississippi flood of
: 1882 caused sS2,OO0OOO damages in twenty eight
parishes OF Louisiana.
= A LEARNED scientist pronounces the aver
+, age American the most sulllble human being OH
; the face of the earth.
The democracy can never carry Ohio
. John sherman. What neyer?' Well, Hoadly
4 uyer,-NeV HGven Nous.
SALLY JACKSON, 76 years of age, picked
bale of cotton at Pilot Grove, Tex, and "toted" 1t
, TO Sherman, where she sold it.
], FROM tho elevator boy "Why does Mr..
4 Keene get so tired when lie plays Richard Ill .
o Becas ho has to hump himself"
THEY have concluded to build $4,000
= monument at Savannah i'll memory of that genu-
l inc revolutionary hero, sergt Jasper. He per-
ished in trying to drive the British from that city.
+ THE steamship Silvertown, which ranks
next in size to tho Great Eastern recently passed
s safely through the ietlcs ut the mouth of the
: Mississippi, aud discharged cargo at New Or
II leans.
The Boston Post Cdem.) admonishes Gov.
s Butler that he Is seriously impairing his chances
y of being reelected governor of Massachusetts by
showing clearly the intensity of his presidential
=, aspirations"
IS A PERSON by the name of Binns is to sue
ceed Hangman Marwood As there were 30 many
r, other applicants for the place. he no douI
/; trembes to think how near he came to being one
u; Of the miyht-have-Binns.
l. RUFUS WESTON, of Stafford Springs, Conn.,,
l. old time singing school teacher. has Just died
=, aged 6S years. He followed his profession for
70 about fifty years, and claimed to have taught
! nearly 500 schools and 10000 pupils.
Writing of Alfonso in Paris, Mr.. La
bouchere records that, shortly after Queen Vic
t. toria came to the throne, she hissed and
g hooted at Ascot not by the mob but by 10 rds and
ladies' dukes and duchesses, who called her Mrs.
10 Melbourne"
" SEVERAL California tramps got into a
y. freight car that was loaded with wine, and with
~ n gimet and numerous straws, succeeded in get
in ting all the nourishment they wanted. When the
In car was opened ut Los Angeles the miscreants
no were found in drunken sleep.
,y A DIRECTORY of the officers and students oi
O. Harvard college published ON Monday by the
or faculty contains the names of 1879 persons The
III list is incomplete, and the cottage catalogue pub
81 lished in November will probably show total o
or 1900 persons connected with the college. Las
~ year the number was i2S
,s AT THE state banquet given to the German
wv emperor in the Palm garden at Frankfort the i'm
of pera table was ornamented by Il magnificent dis
,r play Of gold plate lent by Baron Rothschild II
&C. the middle was the famous center piece purchased
ls from the city of Nuremberg, which is valued a
of $4,000 The whole service Is worth over flOO OOO
Wy THE editor of weekly paper at Bucyrus
oI Ohio, vehementy deuies the report that no ha
:" lost SS,00O0O0 In Wall street, He says he view
so with alarm the tendency OF the daily press ex
W. aggerate the news of the day. He bought on
IL chip in faro game, put it on the ace and lost
ho and that is all the foundation there is for tn
0 slGnderous statement concerning him and his for
tune
IT is said that the new portrait of Haw
thorne is nm artful stratagem on the part of Joh
in Lnthrop Motley. Hawthorne, who could not en-
nd dure to have his picture taken. was beguiled b
,be Motley into the studio OF a London Photographic
oil "io examine some portraits.", The novels
the dropped into chair, and Motley, going to tn
,te other side of the room, called his attention
some object. He looked up with that glance
quick intelligence which his friends remember
the WE'LL anu al tnat moment the photographer, priv
lry to the little conspiracy, exposed the plate. Th
ION portrait of Hawthorne is said TO be the best in