National Republican., 1883-08-08

want them; II not feed them to the "As.yfian
| Pup" Yours, RELIC
| WAsHGNGToN, d. c., Aug Z.
EDISON is going to stop invcnting for .
year, and the world will take step or two back
ward.
JAY GOULD who is having tomb built to
cost $4,000, will probably accept it Subject to de.
lay" in becoming tenant.
THE Bismarck Tribune consolingly remarks
that Capt. WebO can at least claim that he crossed
| the river Jordan successfully.
A PRosPEoToR who thought he had struck
rich lead mine was astonished to find he was
working frontier graveyard.
| IT will be discomforting to d certain class
of orators with which the country abounds to
| learn that the plume worn by Henry of Navarro
was not white, but black.
A MAN named Darling lives in Fargo, and
when any one calls to him on the street every
young lady within three blocks blushes and looks
around.-Bismarck Tribune.
ONE of the bright lads in school not far
| away was asked by the teacher, "Why are aui-
mails larger in tropical than frigld zone?'
The quick reply was, Because heat expands and
| cold contractsv
| IT is a Chicago scientists prediction that if
pointed shoes remain in use human toes will
lCs
Then the corn will cease from troubling aud the
hoof will be at rest.
Yes, the Minnesota notables who sailed f0Q
Europe the other day became seasick. Incoming
vessels report large numbers of drunken fish
| cavorting around on the top of the water few
miles out-BiSmarck Tribune.
MISS WALKER and eight other young
ladies of Huntsville, Ala challenged a male nine
in game of base ball and beat them. Early In
| the game some unmitgated scoundrel yelled
"snake!' and every young lady In the CLUB made
home run.
The names of somo Of the pleasure resorts
in Maine MollychunIamunk, Mooseluema-
guntic, Ayboljockamejus Magaguadvaic, Cobbos-
see, Coutee, Tomhegan, Katepskow egan, Ais
coos, Ripogenus, and Mattawamkeag and Maine
is tempe rance state too.
Miss HELEN G. THOMPSON, of Delphos
Kan, writes to Miles City to know II she can get
situation us clerk or in herdng cattle. She pre-
fers the latter providing the work Is not away
from settlement. She has been teaching school
till her heal tn broke down.
IT was telegraphed all over the country
that the President will wear wooden shirt on his
western trip, and now the operators say that until
| they 80 to work again the general public will not
be able 10 learn the color of that shirt This IL the
most iendishly cruel feature the strike has yet pre-
| sented.
THE factory bells of Lawrence, Mass, have
always been noted for their harmony of tone and
| tune. This is the work of Gen. Henry X. Oliver,
who is an accomplished musician, and who was
connected with the manufacturing Interests OF the
city in its infancy. He selected all the bells with
reference TO harmony.
A MONTANA belle, says the Bismarck Trib-
une being asked by Bismarck man If they pos
sessed any culture out her way replied couture?
| haf unn Unria ntaH lie 1nt NO In
sling more culture to the square foot in Helena
than they kin in any camp in America. Culture
Oh, loosen my corsets till smile|
AN exchange says: Among the pieces of
photographed information which Oscar Wilde
lately served up for the delectaton of a London
audience was one to the effect that during his So
journ in America he was variously addressed us
Captain" Colonel" and professor" There
was another pet name that our country called you,
Oscar. Can you recall it2 1t began with an and
ended with an !, and rhymed with school,
JULIA WARD HOWE has preserved one
specimen Of the fashionable notorety hunter.
like tue fly in amber. A well known New York
woman. so the story goes, took her out on her
Newport piazza the other day and begged her to
''say something brilliant about 1t that would al
ways be quoted" Mrs. Howe looked at her a
moment and then replied: Really, can't think
of anything except that it's bully old piazza,
|
THE servant question is a serious one in
this country, yet we are not alone in this matter
The London Truth publishes the following; ~
saw fortnight ago story in Truth illustrative of
servantmaidism The following occurred to O
l neighbor of mine In the country: Having mar
: ried she considered that lady's maid was a
necessary adjunct to her new position as matron,
so she advertised for one. very grand looking
person replied, and was engaged, one of her con-
haIn tbat Chn hou nj t,a,
bedroom. Soon, however, she came to my friend
and told her she would like to be allowed to prac-
tice on the grand piano iu the lrawing room, as
she feared that she was losing her touch by only
5 playing on cottage"
The REPUBLICAN has always held that
there are many places held by men, heretofore
exclusively, which women could fill as well, and,
If 1t No turned out, they ought to have the same
pay for the same work when employed in these
places. Here lisa conumdrnm from the New York
Nal open to answer. "Can anybody say VIII ! the
best cooks are men, and how 1t is that one never
heard Of any woman great enough in gasronomic
experience to earn salary of $500 $780, to say
nothing of the prizes within reach Of men as club,
restaurant, and hotel chiefs? Is 1t not somewhat
+ remarkable? Women are clamoring for new
!, fields and here is one that is theirs by right OF
tradition far more ably filled by men than BY
themselves Why is t2"
| bAeiSu hSpouy bpOhubuilAO
hanger on to the British royal family Prince
Teck, whose only claim to distinction is the fac
) that he married Queen Victorias daughter, is In
financial difficulties and has Just been sold out BY
the sheriff. His royal mother in-law, with char
acteristic thrin refused to help him out OF his
troubles, and his brother-in-law the Prince o
Wales, had lent him all the money he could at
, ford to, and the result was disaster. Here Is
= chance for the American pRrvenues who wish tC
: be $50 delightfully."- English" you know. Let then
bring Teck over as an assisted emigranp and at
taoh the royal mendicant to their social circle II
A order TO dazzle the vulgar republican crowd
especially that part of 1t which pays its debts.
). On the question Of the channel tunnel from
Dover to Calais an Englishman says; "whreC
peers two baronets, and colonel form the ma
jority of the committee which has reported against
. the channel tunnel, and If peers, baronets ant
: colonels constituted the majority of the English
nation II Is sexceedngly improbable that the tun-
0 mel would ever be made. On the other hand Mr.
John Bright has very truly said that 1t is incon-
: ceivable that any sane human being can oppose
Z | q work so useful TO peace, commerce, and good
S feeling between France and England, Nctril
It cdusa has pleased the titled gentlemen, votd Mr..
Bright II is not the first time that this has been
q so. What Mr. Bright however, says one day the
a nation Is apt 10 say not many days afterward.
n make no doubt therefore, that tunnel will before
a long place us in direct railway communication
. with our neighboni indeed, the peers, the baron
cts and the colonel who declared them elves OPP