National Republican., 1883-03-30

And leave me out in the binding snow.
-AnlCrtcdn Angler.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer explains it all in
five words; Lady Dixie saw Il mouse.
MARY ANDERSON will not act in this coun-
try next season. Oliver Doud Byron will stay
with u.s.
KENTUCKY has thirty-fvc counties in
which no newspapers published Each one gives
a safe democratic majority
coLoRED grave digger aged 112 years was
married few weeks ago in Yonkers, N. Y, to
pretty mulatto girl just out of her teens.
| AnRAM S. HEWITT as King Lear may have
been very fine but on the whole we think we
should prefer salvini'-BuDdlo Commercial
THE next apple crop is dead, according to
the verdict OF eminent crop croakers This, how
ever, will not work u corner on Jersey cider.
THE heaviest brain ever known was that of
a poor bricklaycr 1t is remarkable that man
with so large brain should not have been good
bhcklayer ..........
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE said the man who
assaulted her had no brogue Itnow remains for
ODonovan Rosa TO say she does not know what
she is talking about.
LORD teach us humility" At the same
time we will wear our best bonnets, and they may
look little smarter than those altered over things
worn by the Smith girls in the next pew.
THR prosecution in Ireland fails to connect
our ODouovau Rosa with the assassinations in
that country. That Is very discouragiugto O'Don-
ovnn who has name to make as patriot and
family to support as man.
A COMPARISON of statistics shows New York
as the third German city In the world, coming af.
ter Berlin and Vienna Chicago, Philadelphia,
and ST. Louis rank close TO Frankfort, Hamburg,
| and Dresden RngtOu IL tho only In Nity n ha
country where Germans are not found in largo
| numbers. .......
THE extent of many Mexican estates is al
most beyond realization The boundaries of one
estate, on the central table lands in Mexico extend
! over 100 miles north and south. The mountains
traversing 1t abound with mineral wealth, and
| fine farms and extensive towns are met with at
| frequent intervals.
THE Atlanta Journal says the dude is not
man. He is a thing which parts his hair in the
| middle, combing it on each side of the forehead
into little bangs wears excruciatingy tight pants,
stretches plated watch chain across his stomach.
and is breathing illustration of the fact that an
object can live without brains. The dude belongs
| to a club.
In the London Times and other metropolis
tan papers the CALLING phrase recus frequently at
! the end of tempting advertisement, "No Irish or
Catholics need apply" Another still moro OBJ
noxious advertisement repeated many times in
every paper is Required a wet nurse, single and
respectable" The juxtapositon Of the two ad-
jectiyes is in itself bitter satire.
WAsHrNGToN IRVING was born April 3,
| 1888, in house in William street, New York, be-
| tween John and Fulton streets, not far from tho
| old Dutch church. Next week, accordingly, will
occur the centennial anniversary of his BIRTH aud
this event II Is proposed to celebrate both in New
| Nnr nd nj To yn Nyhi1a n N dnuht mr.
tice OF it will be taken in other places.
IT Is said the American minister to Eng
land has been threatened blythe Invincibles. It
will be n dark day for Ireland when one of these
men strikes at an American. IfLowell should be
assasslnated, ODonovan Rosa might be hung on
Broadway within thirty minutes of tho reception
of the news and there would be no lack of patri-
otic Irishmen to man the ropc.-Ransds city
Journal
SOME of Arabi's co-religionists in Ceylon
thought the famous exile God.send for plunder.
So the butcher charged him fifty cents pound for
mutton, the ordinary price being fourteen cents.
| Arab, having discovered the fraud, proceeded to
| learn how many pounds had been supplied, and
| when the butcher next came round his customer
| clutched him, and then, with n strong, yet supple
cane administered u whack for each pound sup
piled.
MORE or less people in this country who
have ancestors named Bradford are felicatns
themselves on wealth about to fall into their pos
| session. The very respectable sum of SlO00OOO0O
belonging to the Bradford heirs, these people be-
lieve is about to be disgorged blythe Bank Of Eng
land. The credulty of people who take stock in
these often repeated swindles IL one of the mot
marvellous things on record But there is no use
In talking. Boston Herald
Now is tho time when the crocus shows its
coors under the wire first. And when the snow
drop-the pretty little suowdrop-cOmes to the
front aud proves that spring, gentle spring, is
here, We know 1t is here, by the chirping of the
| swallows in the early morning and the swallows
we see voters taking with sweet voiced candidates
We are impressed with an impression that spring
is here, because we have smoked two fragrant
Hnvanps offered us by candidates, both of which
weeds have made US very tired and those who
were near us very sick at the same time. All
these things show us that spring is here or here
abouts.- Kansas city Journal
THE latest invention in the line of enter
tainments is that known as the Celestial party"
The floor of the hall or vestry which is to be the
scene OF the festivities Is marked Off into orbits
and numerous young ladies, handsomely and
fancifuy dressed to represent the planets, such
Ceres, Hygeia Astraea, Vesta, Ariadne, Flora, and
TeFpsichore, revolve and rotate through these
orbits around n young man dressed in fame-col-
orcd hRbiliments to represent the sun, who dis
courses to his satellites in poetry and prose- Smith
college has the honor OF having originated this
unique style of entertainment, which takes place
when the young ladies celebrate having finished
the study Of astronomy.-Bo Boston Journal.
AT the northwest corner of Lexington ave.
nue. and Eighty second street, New York, is n
building Ave feet wide and four stories high. It
is built ON q strip of land five feet wide and one
hundred feet deep that was left on Lexington ave-
nue after that thoroughfare was cut through some
years ago. 1t was not owned by the person who
possessed the adjoining lot on Eighty second
street. The two owners could not agree on terms.
though the owner of the full lot wanted to pur-
chase. The latter built a house on his lot, and
the former decided to build on his narrow strip
of real estate. 1t is divided into two houses, each
fifty feet long, with entrances on the avenue, and.
of course, practically shuts up the side windows
of its next neghbor, fronting on Eighty-second
street. IL has four bay windows running from
the foundation to the roof, Each house contains
a kitchen, eight by fifteen feet, and four rooms,
each Of the same size, but on different floors.
There are also ingeniously placed closets at each
end of the building and under the stairs. Both
houses are unoecupied. one is offered for rent at
$500 year
THE enthusiasm of the dramatic profession
at Hamburg for Edwin Booth is so great that it
seems EXPRESSION Is only possible in a sort of an