National Republican., 1883-10-04
She loved i'm,
Turtle doved i'm,

She loved i'm,
Turtle-doved i'm,
and will never, mover more be the b,ithesome.
happy creature she was before he skinned the
everlasting tra-la-le.-7oicio Blade
CHICAGO uses sO,OOO,OOO gallows of water A
day.
THE Hon. George Bancroft was 81 years old
yesterday.
THE Pennsylvania legislature still fingers
at the rato Of s3OO6 day.
WORTH, the Paris man dressmaker. is fat.
bald headed, and 55 years old
"CYoLoNE tho saloon" is the cry of stuw-
orator for temperance in Town.
GEORGE f. HoAR would swear, but he
afraid he couldn't do the subjec; justice
Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE conduct
temporarily tho chapel services at Harvard.
OVER 13s,00O people have attended the
6ny-two base ball games played in Boston during
the past season.
NINE. NILSSON brought twenty -nino trunks
filed with dresses made by Worth, and she is
"just dying TO wear them"
BONANZA FLOOD has brought several deco
rators from Europe to work OH the interior of his
new house in San Francisco.
A GIRL in fit so frightened the little
NhliulSh III oHc Va lnt NtW 1OtE SCHOOLS ON Tues
day that panic was ayerted with great difficulty.
BIsMARcK is superstitious. He will take
no important step on Friday, believes in astrology,
and has predicted the day and hour Of his own
death.
JAKE SHAEFFER, the billiard expert. is in
Baltimore. If he visits Washington it is possible
he may get OH game with one Of the Hamilton
house experts.
THE latest democratic dodge in Ohio is to
vote for the prohibition amendment and charge
the result againstthe republican party in the hope
that the German vote will be alienated.
The contractors who are putting in the
foundations for Bartholdrs great statue of liberty
on Bedloe's island, New York harbor say that
Gen. Stone is too much of pasha for Americans.
IT is said that S5 900 600 have been invested
in mines and machinery in the gold region OF
Georgia, while the total returned valne of the
present assets of all kinds of mines in the state il
Sl27,O0O
KAARLo KRoHN, q Finnish student, has
| collected over 1000 folk songs this summer, and
the Finnish Literary society has now over 1900
such songs all bearing more or less resemblance
| to the Kaleyala.
The memorial window which President
Arthur will put in st. Johns church. Washington,
Will, 1t is understood, commemorate his late wife
ana her father, Capt. Herndon, both of whom
used to attend that church.
| THE Record of BENJAMIN F. Butler com.
piled from original Sources" is gun designed ia
silence the Tewksbury illustrated battery of tanned
skin and dissecting rooms The Massachusetts
literary bureaus are double shotted this year.
LEON ALBEIT was one of the democratic
majority in the New Jersey legislature in 1865 and
| 1t was upon his motion that the name of Abra-
ham Lincoln was stricken from the resolution of
/ ha nl.g fnr fln ontt,r II Isok,
after the motion and vote Lincoln was assassin
ated.
DESIGNING people suggest that Mr.. Blaine
has rented his Washington residence because he
expects to succeed Mr.. Arthur as tenant of the
white house. But the chances are that Mr.. Blaine
has grown weary of having his health talked
about and is kindly furnishing the public and
the press with new subject Baltimore Herald
GUILELEss Fannie A. Gregory of Rochester,
N. Y, obtained q charm from fortune teller
which the latter asserted would If worm bring
about an engagement and marriage to O certain
young gentleman within year. The charm didu't
work, and now disappointed Miss Fanny has
brought suit to recover the sum paid &c.,
AN attempt was made to smuggle opium
into San Francisco by hiding it in ordinary blocks
OF wood followed out and covered with thick
coat of oil and grease. The blocks were placed
under the gangwny of steamer SO as to support
IL ana mislead the custom house officers A pro-
truding screw exposed the fraud, and 81 900 worth
OF the drug was seized.
THEY say that Carlyle's ghost, arrayed in
white, haunts Chelsea at the twilight hour. and
recently asked little girl for "a penn'orth O. to-
bacco" That Carlyle should walk, after the man.
ner in which he has been treated by Mr. Froude
is thinks the London Echo, not surprising; but it
might be supposed that, instead of asking for TO.
bacco, he would have made grim demand for his
bographer.
The Boston police on Sunday night in
vaded Quinn's block on a report that a woman
was numbering her husband. They found a
healthy, good looking young woman administer
ing severe punishment to her liege lord, who had
returned home Intoxicated She had spanked
him with various kitchen utensils until both wero
f until then they had been very happy.
THE religious war at Lakeville Conn.,,
originating through the setting up of crucax at
the roadside by father Lynch, was carried to the
polls on Monday between the Catholics and Prot
esants each side boycotting the candidates of the
opposite faith. The Protestants intended to in.
, troduce resolutions at the town meeting ordering
9 tho crucihX to be removed O nuisance but they
were outnumbered two to one, and the resolutions
> were not offered,
+. WAGNER's grave is visited by crowds OF
n VlsltOrS 10 bnyrcutn especially during the season
of musical festivals In retired spot in the great
0 composers garden surrounded by the thick shade
oflauro fir, and yew is the grave, above which
rests large slab of gray polished granite There
is nothing written on the slab A few feet Off
upon mossy bank, surrounded with evergreens
is small marble slab, with this inscription to hi
iavorite dog Here lies in peace 'Vahnfred's
: faithful watcher and friend-the good and beauti
is full Mark"
y Mr.. EDWARD PAYsoN WESTON, "the father
= of long-distanCe pedestrianism," is about 20 uu
n derake a remarkable feat in connection with the
" work Of the Church of England Temperance so
ciety, with which he is prominently connected
Il He proposes TO travel over the highways of Eng
& land and Wales, on foot and in ordinary costume
Il fifty miles daily forone hundred consecutive days
Sundays excepted He will travel only during TIN
,f daytime, and will lecture each evening on "Tei
n versus Beer" lie will be accompanied by tw
10 friends and representative Of the press in car
10 Iiage.
NEW sword Of state, meant to replac
,s the old weapon handed down from remote age
20 us the symbol of authority in Siam, has jus
l. been completed for the king by an English ar
IS morer, The blade is double edged, spear shaped
10 and fifteen inches long Toward the hilt 1t is In
laid with gold of varying tlnts, wrought in dill
ferent devices, the figure of Buddha being promi
* nent on onch side The handle which has M