National Republican., 1883-10-16
CURRENT GOSSIP.
oH'D TO JOHN I. SULLIVAN.

Thou Athens-bredi Thou light of the Aoropolisi
Thou son ofa gamboierl
Flfty-n inches art thou round thy RIBS twice
twain knuokles hast thou; and again twice
twain
Thou scatterest mems teeth like antelopes at
play.
Thou straightenest thine arm. and systems rock
and eye-bals change their hue.
oh, thou grim granulator Thou soul-removerl
Thou lightsome, coy excorator!
Thou cooling dove Thou drol drol John
| Thou busterl
oh, you'll on, me, tool oh, me some morel
| oh, thunderlll
--Whda Wtnan, (per J. p. L. in LVe.
NASHVILLE forbids fortune telling within
| the city limits.
OF the 167 students in the Texas university
| forty are women.
| AMBITIOUS Atlanta is to have new cham
ber of commerce, to cost $4,000.
IT isn't such gain. It's as much work to
lick cent stamp us a S-Bos,on Post.
MGR. CAPEL says that he is surprised to
! find the American women better educated than
the men.
THE word obey" has been stricken from
the marriage service by Methodist congregation
In Canada.
On some plantations near Montgomery, Ala,
| water for drinking purposes is hauled a distance
Of three miles.
CAPERroN, VA, is agog over the discovery
| In quarry cave of an old iron chest containing
ancient coins and tools.
JULIAN HAwTHoRNE's daughter, eleven
years OF age, runs q mile In seven minutes three
times week for exercise.
HONOLULU is alarmed by the Java volcanic
outbreak, and worried by the fact that Kilauea
tat al.
fly years.
A CONTINUED story in an amateur journal
opens as follows: "Will you tell me where my
collar button is2" "Neverl' Then you must
die."-New York journal.
"CAN you change $40 gold piece2" he
asked as he gently placed the empty glass on the
counter. "Yes," said the bartender. "well, I'll 20
out and see II can find one"
CoRNELIA JACKSON, the lady who plays
Tilly Slowboy in the "Cricket on the Hearth"
with Joseph Jefferson, is that actors sister. sho
is over 30 years Of age and OF late has not beenon
the stage.
; ALTHOUGH the season is over, it may te Of
interest to bald-headed men to know that fy
weighs seventeen milligrammes. This is solid
chunk of information that should be past,d in
every summer hat.-Neb. Journal.
A MAN in Connecticut has brought suit
against number of people for giving hima coat
of tar and feathers We know who was
put in to pitch at the Boston base ball grounds
and got specialization Con-. Bulletin. .
GEN. GRANT states that he was rather sur
prsed to find himself in the New York Worlds
list of mililonaires, but by putting in his Ihildren
and grandchildren at average value Of S62,5O0
each he thinks perhaps he can figure up that total.
PAPER is now made in Sweden f,om the
. bleached and blanched remains of moses that
lVud and fonnd In
quantities. The paper is turned out in al degrees
of excellence from tissue to sheets threefourh of
1 an inch thick
EDWARD EVERETT HALE's forthcoming
, book. "seven Spanish Critics." is said . be the
result of life long enthusiasm for spaii i-an en-.
| thusasm first aroused in extreme youth by par
A ticular sort of sweetmeat sent to him rom that
distant land by travelling relatives.
Q THE number of years that student has to
spend at u medical institution before Obtaining
a degree is: In Sweden, 10; Norway, s. denmark
q Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Switzerland 6; Rus.
sia, Portugal, Austria, and Hungary, 5France,
England and Canada, 4 United Stata 8 or Q;
spain,2
v ONLY half tho number of trains enter and
leave Paris stations that enter and leave London
ones. Two thousand Two hundred trains enter
aud leave London each day. OF these there are
only sixty eight which do not carry thiri class
passengers. In Paris there are ITO trainsw (which
do not carry third class.
Mr.. GLADSTONE varies his feats with the
hatchet by occasional rambles in the lear soli-
tudes round Hawarden with an accordeoi. I'M
q fortunately the ministerial Melibeus dos not
a pipe TO the wood nymphs as securely as lis pre-
g decessors did to the tenants of Arcadia tpnsta-
hes in plain clothes still keep ward over his,yood-
W land wanderings.
's The Omaha Indians have\a curious custom.
tha ia thar1 fla hail al1nt
n the children. Every child, unless of very ender
Of age, is separated from the mother and will g into
10 the family of some of the fathers relatives,
s, and may be claimed ms his own by the malehead
le of the family. This separation of The mothe and
Of her offspring is permanent
y STANLEY, the explorer, introduces al the
= travellers he meets with in the wilds of Africa to
n the natives as his son. in order that they caIpro
- ceed with safety. Recently explorer same
g along with a colored servant, and Stanley was
n asked how he came 10 have two sons OF difkrent
~ color. "Oh, that is the son of my old wifi not
= the new one" he replied, as he pointed d the
Ia negro
m THE emperor of China, who is 16 yearsold, !,
n eats with gold tipped chop sticks of ivory and
10 sleeps on bedstead carved and ornamented with
r gold and ivory which has been used for ocen-
(. turies He studies Chinese and marches hree
y hours a day, and spends two hours in archeryand
/ riding. Every one even his father and moher
!. kneels to him on entering his sacred presence He
:, is attended by eight eunuchs who will not lethim
l. overeat.
!, A NOVEL fox hunt occurred near HamHe-
A. don England, the other day The hunted animal
;; made for the village, and entered butch,r'i
Q, shop. The butcher drove him out with pith-
Of fork, and the fox ran into dwelling house Gnd
A. sought refuge under an easy chair in the ir,nt
v; parlor. Upon the "whip" entering the room no
IN fox sprang at the window but failed to escape
a; The "whlp" caught him and flung him out to the
1, pack, aud he was killed in the street amid great
o. excitement.
"a IN the city of Jerusalem three SUNDAYS
~ -, are observed in every week. The MohammedaIs
R observe Friday, not by closing their shops aud
il resting, but by going TO the mosque at certain
"a hours and recitng prayers, The Jews observI
A. Saturday, being very strict to their conformity
Is TO ancient custom and ordinance. They close
IS their shops and not often seen the streeIi
IN until afternoon. Then they appear In their best
20 clothes Sunday is observed by the Christians OF
s. various denominations. On that day the flags fly
of from the consulates of the Christian nations.
~ : The Indianapolis police were told that a
70 man was whipping his wife in a tenement block
near the heart of the city but instead they found