National Republican., 1883-09-27

driven tandem.
ONE hundred thousand children earn their
own living in New York city.
MARY ANDERSON will again celebrate her
nineteenth birthday tho coming spring.
J. II. HAvERLY's friends think he will
make $4,000 out of his numerous attractions this
season.
THE dude is dcmonstrative person in his
way; the very quiet swell is merely sub-dud
young man.
The Daniel Webster monument at Marsh-
field Mass, was defaccd ON Sunday by vandals or
relic seekers.
A CANADIAN Judge has decided that man
has the right to whip his wife If he is real suro
she deserves It.
THE Comte de Chambord was hoggish at
meals, He had o ravenous appetite and boltod
oil the courses in twenty minutes.
In Rome the plan of posting kilograms in
letter boxes, with Telegram mark and postal
stamp" promises to work well.
IT is said that since his return from the
National park Rufus Hatch's pocketbook looks as
if an elephant had stepped on it.
The Dowager Countess de Bironne once
said: 81 do not like illusions. They are the
anonymous letters of conversation"
THE Rev. Phillips Brooks arrived in Boston
from Europe on Saturday and preached to an i'm
mense congregation Sunday morning.
JOHN p HOWARD, the benefactor of Bur
lington, Vt, is TO have bronze statue, TO be
placed in the university building there.
THE old mill in Menard county, Illinois.
referred to in the biographies of Abraham Lin
coin, was burned on Sunday night, with all its
contents.
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Farren, prominent London actresses, have ar
ranged for tour in the United States during the
season 1881
"YEs," said Mrs, Soddington; Mrs. Smith
is clever sort of woman, no doubt but, them she
is so vulgar Would you believe it, she wears her
own teeth !"Boston Transcript.
A FAMILY of Swedes in Chicago tried to
use railway torpedo for fuel. 1t is needless TO
say that they have had exercise enough to warm
them up--in the swede by and by.-Boston Post.
"No," SAID Mr.. Goneworth, as he gazed
upon the pudding served at his boarding house,
I" 1 don't know whether this is mistake or a slur
but that stuff was made for swine."-Boston Post.
AN Atlanta mule stretched his leg in such
way the other day as to send his owner into
wood pile, and make him chow the bark all off a
log. Oh, the man had guawful time Com
mercid, Advertiser.
"WHAT does lux mean? ?" asked Brown.
Lux means light" replied Smith. That's
what Thought" said Brown, but l wasn't cer-
tain. know my lucks always light, however"
| Boston Transcript
Miss HATTIE BoARDMAN, teacher in the
Prospect Hill school at Union square, somerville,
Mass. is likely to get herself in trouble she hav-
ing most numerically beaten one of her scholars
named John Grove
A or;f yhn ad to
pay neat compliment to Princess Louise, de-
scribes that royal lady's paintings as "inoffensIve
and ladylike." "ladylike" landscape in oil
must be an imposing picture.
THE New York Commercial hears of "a man
in Texas named Bowel, who yearns for political
position" We are glad to learn that there is one
honest politician in the country, for as rule they
yeRrn nothing Yonkers Statesman,
| OUR colored brethren are holding o cam p
meeting not far away, and one Of them, holding
| forth from the text, How old art thou?" said in
his opening: Brethren, this am question that
must be answered in the affirmative"
LADY THORNTON, the wife of the former
British minister, is staying during September in
Switzerland, where she goes on account Of the
health of her eldest daughter, which has been
delicate ever since the family left Washington.
"HERE is pewter mug that came over in
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they used to drink their beer in; will no bid
Have you no regard for, the Pilgrims?" "Not II
they drank beer" said pious old lady in the
corner.-Er.
"a GEORGIA man has raised peach that
weighs pound" If Georgia man can't raise a
peach weighing more than pound he must be
pretty weak. We have fifteen .year.old boys in
this vicinity who can "raise" pumpkin weigh
ing 100 pounds.-Norrisiown Herald.
The New York, West Shore, and Buffalo
railway, usually known rs the "Wcst Shore route,
will be opened between New York, Albany. Utica,
ana Syracuse on Monday, Oct. 1, and thereafter
traips to meet the requirements of business will
run regularly between the points named.
Mr.. HUTcHINs, editor of the Washington
Post, now lives in big house next to the British
ambassadors residence at the national capital.
This is an illustration of what talent and energy
will accomplish. Six years ago Mr.. Hutchns wal
q member of the Missouri legislature and boarded
in st, Louis hotel-C2licago Netos,
NJ. BoULEN, noted French chemist, hai
been nvest eating tobacco and its effects for som,
time. He has just made known the results OF hi
investigations. While there is nothing posltiy yelN
startling in his statements they will revive the
. crusade against tobacco and probably check its
use among the more careful and timid.
A DENVER wife grew very sick and the
doctors said she must die. Her young and prett!
nurse told the patient that she had been elected
A to succeed her in her husbands affections, The
) sick woman was so angry that she got we'll. She
aud her husband still live together, but neyei
D speak as they pass by,
l SENATOR Bob HART, formerly a minstre
5 comedian OF repute, who has become an arden
evangelist has an autobiography ready for th'
press which, he says "will yield him something
although people have an idea that clergymen Cal
live on air and get fat chewing daylight" Tn
pulpit comedian has lost none OF his old'tim
, originality in the saying of odd things
S CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS does not rest IL
D his grave as quietly as william Shakespeare. III
ashes of the great discoverer, first buried at seville
have been moved about till finally they lie In th'
4 cathedral of Saint Domingo, and now they are u
be turned out of their resting place ana inclose'
in plate glass urn. This urn is to hold the cas-
n ket containing the actual ashes In such name
!, that the remains will be plainly visible.
/. THE baggage agents have been holding
9 session I'm this city and discussing the variou
means of handling baggage, but, as the report
Il saw "no conclusion was reached" Aner all
q | nom the standpoint OF the baggageman, there 4
no better way than the old one of sliding open th
aide door and throwing trunk across the depo
nlatform and through brick wall into the stG
A tlon baggage room. This is satisfactory TO tn
/, baggageman, and never disappoints the owner
% VINO expects to find his trunk open, top and bo
4 tom. suggestions for the employment OF portabl
!. cyclones in place of baggagemen are all foldero
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