National Republican., 1883-05-15
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| An IN ue Kingdom GOMEZ
ACCORDING to the Conricr-Journdps dude
editor, the dude does not dress fashiy. but in the
quietest styles he can find. He wishes, perhaps,
| TO appear sub. dude.
SOME of the New York papers charge 81
square for the high toned society news which
they print. None Of the millonnires have ever
higgled over these figures. All things considered,
nothing could be cheapor.--ARdnid Constitution.
New YORK and Jersey City are furnishing
so many hgh-toned conyicts TO the state prisons
that 1t would not be out OF tho way for them 10
unite In the erection OF marble front odifce,
with Brussels carpets and brass ornaments for the
accommodation Of this class OF criminals.
Mr.. TALBOT, ex-governor Of Massachusetts,,
is said to be nursing his wrath against Mr.. Butler
| governor. to keep 1t warm. Recently Mr.. Talbot
met Mr.. Butler at q social gathering where dane
ing ruled the hour, and, desiring 70 keep up tho
conversation, remarked "You don't dance, gen.
eral7" mo-" was the quick reply, 81 make
other people dance"
PRINCE NAPOLEON, having been jeered
and threatened by French socialists who cried
| out in chorus that when hogs were fattened 1t
was time to kin them, won the sympathy and en-
| thusiastlc admiration OF his assailants by al
| leging that he was an unfortunate American
| hog, exiled from Germany by the brutal hostil.
| ity Of Prince Bismarck.
AN exchange calls attention to the quiet
way convicted murderers get out OF the way in
| Montana. 1t says: "Fiye persons In Miles City,
| Mont, have been convicted Of murder within
| the last eight months and these FIVE have COM
| mitted suicide by morphine" 1t is, after ALL an
| inexpensive method, and has its advantages
| over choking with a rope.
CATHANI BEY, the Jewish millionaire, died
recently in Cairo, aged 49, His property is esti-
| mated ut over S25,000,000. He was private banker
| OF the former vice king whose unlimited conf
dence he possessed. He owned a synagogue OF
his own, in which services were daily held, and
he carefully observed Jewish rites in diet, &C. lie
had two wives, one of whom survives, and nu-
merous progeny.
THE following story has been revived:
| "The Marquis of Hereford offered Rachel two
diamonds worth 10000 francs for the guitar she
used when singing for bread in the streets of
| Paris, and which she carried with her till her
death. Not for all the jewels in the crown OF
Victoria she said" AS matter OF fact Rachel
sold this guitar number Of times, though she
never kept the original, as she did not dream It
would ever be valuable
CoURIER-JoURNAL: More German Off
GERS are joining the Turkish army. German off,
GERS, II seems are determined to go wherever they
| can find American pork....The Prince Of Wales
has formally opened college OF music. There
arc many persons in this country who would like
| To hear the prince on the accordeon. The MdI
says that the houses OF rich New Workers arc
guarded by special policemen. Special policemen
are supposed TO be easier TO wake than members
OF the regular force.
BEING q simple republican" said Con.
Horace Porter at the chamber of commerce din
ner in New York, unused to class distinctions,
said to cti lien Of one Of the commercial cities of
| ENGLAND m tars II
precedence ? and'he replied, Il don't know how
| they do It elsewhere, but in this seaport town
where we are nearly all engaged In the shipping
interest, the thing is greatly simplifed. Here,
on social occasions, the men take precedence ac-
cording to their rank on shipboard, and the
women according to their tonnage"
Mr.. WAKE HUBBELL confesses to the
Courier Journal the authorship OF the following
spring poem; "'Tis night The tired traveller
seeks repose aud all the earth the silent stars
keep watch The birds are in the shady trees,
and hushed the winds and all the breeze; and
watchmen, on their lonely beat. perambuate the
quiet street. No sound is heard save the gentle
| gnawing OF the rat, and the shrill murmur Of tho
Thomas cat Now softly up the window flows,
and from It quick q boouack goes In front OF
that bright cottage door that Thomas cat will sing
no moreW -
In Science for May 4, Mr.. W. II. Pickering,
|
Yale, constructs the of the progress of the
trotting horse in America, and finds that II will
cross the mie-in- two minutes line about the
year 1901 He also deduces, from statistics pre-
pared by the same authority, the conclusion that
at the date mentioned there will be not far from
10000 horses in this country which eau trot mile
In 2.3O or better. The steady whiting down OF
the best trotlng time since the breeding OF trot-
ters was taken up in systematic way Is good
illustration OF the workings OF the principle Of
natural selection"
The Boston journal tells q little domestic
story that every one who has had tho responsi-
bllity OF rearing boy will appreciate 1t Is the
story Of Johnny, the son Of tender and indulgent
parents who couldn't eat any breakfast the other
morning because of what he considered the gross
inoompetenoy Of tho cook Nothing could suit
him-tho beaisteak was cooked too much, there
was too much salaratus in the biscuits and he
shifted suspiciously at the milk, and being as
sured by his mother that It was good swallowed 1t
under protest. Then he went out TO play II beinE
a holiday, and hunted up some other spirits like
himself, aud they all set out 10 enjoy themselves
In pursuance Of q plan then and thore
formed one OF them went home
and got Bridget to give him some -four
a second went to toaneighborlng bakery and bought
yeast cake, and others contributed salt, butter,
and various other articles Of the sort that seemed
to them necessary, Thenthey went into back lot
and with barrel head for a molding board and
base ball bat for rolling pin, prepared certain
nondescrlpt species of fiat cake into which they
incorporated all tho ingredients which they had
managed to purchase, borrow, or steal, and they
built up an oven Of bricks and built FIRE therein
and baked the composition on the top OF an old
piece OF sheet iron which they opportunely
ohanced upon And when the thing was baked
to their liking-they had 10 pry It of the iron with
Bill Thompons Jack knife-th ey all partook
: thereof with great delight and said It was
bully" and they wished they had such grub az
} that at homo. And the fastidious Johny above
I referred 70 quite outdId all his companions In