National Republican., 1883-07-09

'--cOwier Journal
A WORTHY city father sums up recent
episode of our municipal politics in this epigram-
matte sentence "He was appointed for effect and
removed for uause."-Boston 7tdreler.
THERE Is a good deal said about senti-
mental remark which Baokus, the minstrel who
died the other day, is alleged to have made about
his soul being his Gods md his heart his wife's.
Probably he never made IT, But whether he did
not the wife will believe that the statement was
a fact because he left behind him enough to sup
port his family-which is something men who
have earned even more money than Backus did
often forget TO look out for.
AMERICA has boasted of having the largest
trees in tho world, but the claim win not hold
good 1t Is reported by an English newspaper
that in Ia smania there are euoalypu measuring
200 feet from the ground 10 the first branch, and
moro than $50 feet In total height and there Is or
lately was, on Mount wellington, near Hobart
town, tree OF this species the trunk ofwhich waa
eighty six feet in circumference. But still moro
gigantic monarch of the woods has been recently
discovered in Victoria Itsa well proportioned
specimen Of the Eucalyptus arnygdalina," and
Its TOP is nearer to the sky than the cross Of st.
Pauls cathedral, for Il Is no less than $50 feet
above the ground.
In Russia, from the courtly point Of view,
the house Of Romanoif Is all In all. Outside Of
the imperial circle there isnothinR or next to IT,
For example, nt coronation banquets the toasts
are greeted with savocs of cannon, the number Of
guns being nicely proportioned 10 the importance
OF the toast "The Emperor" is emphasized With
slxty-one guns. Tho Empress" calh for fifty.
one guns, and the Imperial House" for thirty
one guns. Then comes the toast " The clergy and
all faithful subjects" that is the nation outside o
the Romanoff family, and salvo Of twenty-ont
marks the relative insignincanco Of tho senti-
| Tk,,a t,, ntal N n 0zar
three times greater than his people, and the house
Of Romanf counts as seven. eighth Of the state.
Evidently In Russia there is Romanoff for all.
AMERICA has been pressed in to point the
moral Of the contention on the marriage question
| in England. The Marriage Law Reform associa-
ton has published the result OF theinquiries made
by the Earl of Dalhouse as to the alleged evil Of
fects in the United States of marriage with de-
| ceased wife's sister. The reputation Of the ex-
istence Of any such effects is almost unanimous.
| The London Echo says: Governors Of states and
territories, distinguished lawyers, editors Of the
| most important journals, and divines OF all de-
nominations protesting against the truth OF the
| charge made by an anonymous American clergy
man that the possibility OF such marriage fills
many home with misery Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams in particular speaks Of the people who hon
estly object to such marriage in Language of un-
measured scorn, which is all the harder to bear
because he once lived among u.s."
PRINCE LEOPOLD was so sure Of getting
the Canadian governor generalship from Glad
| stone that he was already reading up on Ameri-
can subjects when his new course of study was
rudely interrupted by the news Of Lord Lans-
downe's appointment. He had directly asked for
the place, and cherished the idea probably cor
rect one) that he was quite up to HIS brother-in-
laws mark as dominion representative Of his
august mother and to say that his royal hghpess
was surprised is 10 put the matter very mildly.
The duke had the iDdiscretion to tell a certain
member of parliament, living very near him, oil
about his purpose and wish. and this gentleman.
Mr.. Kenuard, had the much greater indiscretion
to tell somebody else, and SO young Albany's re-
buff and chagrin, which ought TO have been
secret became the common property Of gossips
and paragraphers
"TnE best husband i ever met" says liv-
ing writer, came out Of a family where the
mother, most heroic and self-denying woman
laid down the absolute law, Girls first'-not In
any authority but first to be thought OF as to pro-
lection and tenderness. Consequently the chival-
rous care which the lads were taught to show to
their own sisters naturally extended itself to all
|. women They grew up true gentlemen-gentle-
men generous, unexacting, courteous OF speech
and kind OF heart. In them was the protecting
= strength Of manhood. which scorns to use Its
strength except for projections the proud honesty
OF manhood, which infinitely prefers being low
| N~~.N
ones finger, as mean men are twisted; apo meau
: ! women will always be found ready to do is.bui
which think all honest men and brave women
would not only dislike but utterly despise.
WESTERN humor will siss and bubble under
n any and all circumstances Now, who but awest
erner would think of making the track of the
awful cyclone the subject Of joking comment, but
: he does 1t and very cloverly, too Here are some
It Of the things which correspondent Of the g.
4. AnAA A..rl
i visitation. 1.-THE turning Of well wrong side ou
" in Mississippi; moving township lines In Ne
. braska; blowing all the slaves out OF whisky
:, barrel In Iowa and leaving the bunR hole; chang
IL ing the day of the week In Wisconsin; snatchinf
Q twelve shirts out OF Henry Clay Deans trunk q
d Rebel Cove; killing honest Indian agent In thu
10 far west twisting the tail Of mule In Texas
lining David Davis of the political fence in I'LL
D. nois numbering man contrary to law IN Ken
tucky; blowing the crack out Of q fence In Da
Of kota and all the schism out Of church choir II
D. Minnesota"
70 THE relative cost Of English and American
y princes engages the attention of the Chicago 1rt
a. bu,,t ave are,p II says "far moro generous wit
,t our princes than England Is with hers. TIL
i. $4,000 tho English people give their prince
annually is q mere bagatelle to the sum we civ
a. our princes. Prince Vanderbilt alone take
as about si0oo000O year; Prince Could, 900
n- ss,oOo,Ooo; Prince Stanford would regard ths
in year bad one that did not give him 81, .0oC
Q, Prince Sage, 100000 year; and Prince Rock
Teller Of the oil tanks Is not content with less tina
BY S7,00oOo0 Then our prince of barbed wire fenc'
takes In several million dollars our prince Of tn
match box some millions; and our princes Of u
stock produce and grain exchanges corner SOY
In eral million dollars more In the course Of th
\ weather yicisaitudes and the war and farnir
rumors OF a year. To our princes, the princes
-, worn. out England are beggars.
1Oo A REPRESENTATION of the chief scenes
w Homers Had and odyssey" the actors nun
,0S berlng sixty ladies and eighteen gentlemen. wi
$50 lately given in the theater Of Comwell hous
South Kensington, the residence of Sir Charl
mn Freake Mr.. Gladstone, with lilies of the vallt
80 In his butonhole and others prominent In llterI
500 ture Of politics. witnessed this rendering Of Il
oOO tale of Troy. Lionel Tennyson, son Of the poe
~ ~ represented odymous. "When the curtain T
yealed Circe mingling the cup for Ulysses v
are told, There was murmur Of irrepressib
BOO admiration, so beautiful was she; and wh'
Calypso was revealed there was burst OF a
900 plause. The sirens and the nymps-nymphs
the fountain, OF river, Of forest--and the made
5Sy of charming Nausicea, succeeded each other
oos tabeau after tabeau, the sandalled feet peepi
'AS from beneath their foam woven and sun woYe
raiment !" Where are the Buffalo amateurs"
40, ONE who has made the differing habits
wa the two peoples u study says that very few Anne
on oana EnONu hoW Sn drink. The majority, Wh