National Republican., 1883-01-05

Una take the tree pals down,
And raste n rabe OH the door
Saying; "Levy's out OF town."
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Mrs Hayes received at her home in Fre-
mont Ohio
Queen Victoria gave several thousand
pounds worth Of beef and coal to the poor Christ
mas.
New Orleans has already begun to prepare
for NJ rdi Gras, and IS liberal in promises of gor
geous omiooery on that absurd occasion.
The CGstleton, N. Y, concern which makes
our postal cards. turns out 900 day, or one
TO every forty Of our people the year round.
A Detroit man has spent Christmas in tho
workhouse without interruption for eighteen
years. lie must be a very distinguished citizen.
Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia" has
reached its fortieth edition in London. Over
10000 copies OF tho poem have been sold in
America.
The Garfield monument fund of Cincinnati
now amounts 20 s9609.77 The arrival of some
body with n three-cent stamp is anxiously
awaited. d.-C9licugo Tribune.
Georgia is actively preparing to hold
sesqul-centennial exhibition In Savannah. Feb
ruary 70, and will presentGov. Stephens as one OF
the greatest objects of interest.
Biornsterne Biornson believes that he will
i've 10 very Olu age. his lalnlly ID
gcvity. His grandfather lived to be 100 years old
and retained all his faculties to the last.
A New York Central railway engineer will
not take train out on any day at a white cat
has run across his path. He has tried It three or
four times and has always met with accidents.
Green Bay man sold a horse and wagon
and COW in order to present his wife with $1,000
in gold on Christmas She was just waiting for
lift Of this kind to enable her to elope with resi-
dent of Milwaukee.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton advises billiards for
girls of the period. II a girl handles billiard
cue as dexterously as she throws a stone, the man
four feet to the left of her is likely to have an eye
poked ou,,-BoSton Post.
At recent execution in Japan thirteen
strokes Of sword were found necessary to de-
capiaton, The edge of the instrument had been
blunted purposey that the agony of the doomed
might be us great as possible.
"There is no man." said the poet Whittier
on his 10th birthday, "who ought to write much
after he is 7O" Mr.. Whittier is correct, except in
cases where the girl will agree positively to de.
srOy the letters.-Chicago tribune.
Custer county, Montana, is the largest
county in the United States. Its area is $4,000
square miles 1t is larger than the states of Ner-
mont, New Hampshire Massachusetts,, Delaware,
and Rhode Island, all combined.
Mr.. John E. Owens, the actor, complains
that me day he is reported to he worth million
and the next to be beggar. He owns farm Of
236 acres. just outside of Baltimore city limits,
which is assessed for value of $4,000.
The statement is made in New York dis
patch that the last year has been an unusually
bad one for fire insurance companies" 1t is un-
derstood that one 60 bill which they were after
managed TO get away Chicago Tribune.
German papers take delight in commenting
upon the fact that beside the three German
i American members in the present Qorty-seyenth)
United States congress, there will be five more in
the next one, meeting in December, 1888
Some rude fellows nailed up the door of a
building in Centrevile, Priuce Edward island, in
which q lecture was being held This was indeed
brutal atrociy, the only mitigating circum-
stance being the fact that the lecturer not Eli
Perkins, Chicago Tribune
In Warsaw lady died under such pecu-
liar circumstances that foul play was suspected
and in order to investigate she was exhumed
twelve days after burial. Then the astounding
discovery was made that perfectly healthy babo
! had been born in the grave.
Mmc Nilsson attended the Swedish Luth-
eran church in Denver sund y, and at the close
of the service gave the pastor $500 for the church
Biorksen, the tenor, also gave sum Of money to
buy wooden caps, mittens, and stockings for the
poor children Of the church.
One of the graceful acts Of the wife of the
retiring governor OF New York was to have tho
governors mansion thoroughly prepared for the
new occupant. 1t ought to persuade Governor
Cleveland, old bachelor as he is that n good wife
is the grandest acquisition a man can secure here
below.
Tho Utica Observer says that in an emigrant
car recently, which "a sed through that city. was
n child years OF age, who had crossed the ocean
from Germany without any protector. on his
breast was sewed q label with the following in
scrptlon in large letters; Franz scheidenrlch
care Heinrich stolberg, KeokuK, Iowa, Nord
America"
It has been successfully demonstrated by
an eminent eastern physician that traeheotomy
can be performed I'm a child of less than two
years of age with comparative safety, in spite OF
the opinions long held to the contrary. He oper-
ated on a child eleven months old, suffering from
symptoms of advanced dlphtheria with slight
hemorrhage and almost instant relief
During the past three years there were but
1881 deaths in New York city. Among the num-
bor were thirteen centenRrans; John Davis, aqed
l0i; Margaret Martin, aged 1903; Dennis S, Kelly,
aged 105; Ann Spencer, aged l05; Ann Donnelly,
aged 1Oo Catherine Stevenson, aged 100; Mary
smith, aged lO7; Bridget Haley, aged 1O7; Sarah
A. Saunders, aged 1905 Mary Gilleu, aged 102, and
Landrlgan, aged 100, respectively
A report comes from London that there Is
change in the fashion in dogs. Young ladies who
have been wearing English pugs to match their
complexion, trimmed with plastrons and things
or the italian greyhound or King Charles spaniel
cut en- train with jabot and polonaise, will regret
to learn that they have gone out Of fashion, and
they might well he given to the poor or sold to
the old rag man. The new style Of dog is the
fluffy white Pomeranian, with a nose in point
applique and shirrcd years; the Maltese terrier
with a silk jacket and velvet lingerie--orsomehow
that way.--NOrristot0n Herald.
The feat of George Hutchins, Boston fire.
man, will bring him medal. II was performed
at the burning Of gun store, described The other
day by telegraph. It was impossible to keep the
people far away from the building although they
were told thatit contained explosives. The fire.
men learned just where the stock Of powder was
kept, and Hutohlns volunteered to go IN aNer t.
He climbed through window. got down on his
knees, and orept toward the spot to which he had
been directed. The smoke was sitting aud blind
ing. His hands touched one huge copper box
containing powder, andshe carried Il out Then
he went back for another box. The copper
burned his flneers, and as he sprang out tho
, flames followed him, but the powder was sute