National Republican., 1883-09-26

The greenback campaign has already
opened in Iowa General Weaver has had row
with preacher in Des Moine5 street car.
TIE empress of Russia has Just ordered
cloak Of sable fur trimmed with gold and enriched
with precious stones, tho whole cost being placed
at $4,000.
a sAGAcIoUs Ohio lady is pasting in her
sclap book all the comments of the opposition
press about hor husband, who is a candidate foi
Office " III time Of peace prepare for war;"
QUEEN MARGUERITE of Italy was recently
so courteous TO n westorner who was presented to
her that the latter now calls her democratic
daisy" The power OF compliment could no fur
ther go.
"TnE memory of sternc," says London
Truth, twas paid an honor in London last week
more remarkable, perhaps than that paid at the
! same time 20 Fielding at Taunton. coroners
| inquest was being held at the Lord Clyde public
house in Deptford, and it was discovered (only
just in time that the book provided by the land
lord for swearing the jury was not the New Tes-
lament, but 'rristram Shandy.'"
| ACCORDING to London Truth, Mr.. Lowcll's
visit to Taunton went of fairly WELL but there has
| beon much dissatisfaction in the town and neigh
borhood at the boorsh apathy of the local author
tiles, who ought certainly to have taken some Off
cal notice of the visit of the American minister.
who is himself not only writer OF high distinc
tion but is at present the official representative in
this country OF the United States.
BosToN Post: A Colorado man who ex-
pected gang of ynchers to come for him about
the middle OF the night, took himself to the cell
lar, leaving pet grizzly bear in his place In bed
The lynchers didn't bring any light, but made
! very pucky attempt TO get the bear out and
lynch It, but gave it up after three of them had
lost an eye apiece, two had suffered the loss of
thumbs chewcd Off, and the other six were more
or less deprived Of skin. That man now has
tremendous reputation fighter, and the bear
didn't mind the work one bit.
LONDON Truth reports that society at Simla
has recently been much outraged by some impu-
dent scoundrel, who under the cloak of religion,
addressed by post to many of the leading ladies ut
that fashionable hill station sort of tract, enti-
tied Dancing and Balls" which contained
highly colored and vely indecent account Of
some of the lowest dancing saloons in England
and on the continent, with which the writer evi-
IDENTIFY had pretty intimate acquaintance. Every
effort has been made TO afford him still more in
innate acquaintance with n stout horsewhip, but
unfortunately, up to latest accounts the anony-
nous author of this pernicious literature has not
been discovered
ACCORDING to that very old Spanish
legend. says n correspondent Of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, the Lord el Eternal Padre
once called into his presence the patron saints of
| European nations, and asked them what they
wished for their native countries. 81. George, who
spoke on behalf of England, begged for ships and
coal; ST. Martin asked that France should have
the best wines and much glory; st. Gregorus, St.
Janver St. Olaf, and others, presented their
claims, all ofwhiCh the Lord granted. When It came
the turn of st. Jacques de Compostella, the patron
saint of Spain, he said: Il want for my country
the finest climate "Grantcd." II want for IL
the most beautiful women" "Granted again."
! az the hest pOvprumpntb ~ uImnnssihlep y
answered the Lord "this has already been granted
to some one else"
PARTsIASs are beginning to grumble at the
way in which they being elbowed out of their
metropolis by the crowds of foreigners who settle
down there and form little colonies all to them
selves. Paris now boasts or rather complains of
au American colony loudly suggestive of Fifth
avenue Saratoga, and bonanza mines; of an Eng
lish colony among whom the wanderer might
think he had not quilted Regent or st. James
street; Levantive colony reminding its students
more of Smyrna than Lutetia; Russian colony
which might never have quilted the stories of tho
! Nova Prospekt, and Spanish colony, with its
prado and almost its pronunciamientos. In con-
sequence of this increase of alien colonies the
Parlsians grumbllngly alleae that they driven
from their own confines, from their boulevards
Into the wilds of Morceau and Passy. There seems
to be every probability that Paris will cease
to be French town. 1t will become cosmopoll-
tan capital, having different quarters for each ma
tIon and the suburbs alone will be French.
7 A FORTNIGHT ago, during whole week,
great festivities were going on in all the villages
of Wiltshire and Somersetshire that are on the vast
estates of tho marquis OF Barth. These were in
honor of tho marquiss eldest son, the Vscount
. Weymouth, who had just come of age In the early
morning. while the village bells peaed merrily
. beef, bread, and beer were distributed by the
agents Of the marquis to every person living in the
4 village. Eight pounds of beef and one gallt Of
a beer were given to the largest families and four
v pounds OF beef and two quarts of beer to the
4 smaller families, the bread accompanying the gift
' being of the same weight as the beef For lodger
in the house, or the single occupant OF cottage,
two pounds of beef, two pounds of bread, and a
qunrt of beer were given. Thus there will not be
" single individual living the estate of the mar
il quis that Will be forgotten and some idea of this
i, berality may be gathered from the fact that in
h one village alone not less than six oxen were cut
It up to supply the beef alone.
N "IM in about as big hurry as yourself to-
10 day" said Trenton, N. j., barber to reporter;
this s my ChambersbuTg day" "What do you
i' mean by your Chanbersburg day ?" asked the re-
!" porter. "Tlmts the day go out to the borough
"a 10 shave certain lady who lives there. Oh, you
~ needn't be surprised. l shave her every two
weeks. If she let her moustache grow II would
beat yours. have one other lady customer, who
l. would, but for me- have growth of fine. soft hair
O. on both sides Of her face. shave her every three
\ weeks. The first lady is married. The other Ii
Ia not. No one outside of their own families knows
n that they shave. There are other ladies, sup
A. pose who could cultivate beard, but l don't
know them. Once when worked In Phladel-
phia had half dozen to shave every fortnight"
n Doesn't the shaving make the hair OH theii
faces grow worse than eyer?' 81 think not
L. use water instead of athor by their request, and
n. while shaving makes the hair stfer don't think
l. it causes 1t to grow any heavier One reason that
they shave is that they cannot properly powder
their faces when growing beard" "How much
do you charge them % "Twenty cents shave
q. ACAsE similar in some respects to the plot Of
"Esmeralda" has recently come to light in Mays
Vile, Mo. Several years ago II lHrge tract Of lanc
fell into the possession OF the Scott heirs by the
- death of an ancestor, aud, deeming the land o
little value MI but one OF them decided away thei
or interest to syndicate at the rate OF 50 per acre
I'd which was considerably less than the land wa
WORTH Maggie II. Scott the one who refused t
al deed away her interest was on the point Of st
" doing when her cousin David r. Scott discovered
- the real value of the land and persuaded her no
to sign the deed. This broke of the sale of thu
s- entire tract and the estate was afterward divided
OF giving each of the heirs immense wealth, Al
~ attachment then sprang up between Miss Maggie
and Dovi1 but Il was never mentioned, anC