National Republican., 1883-04-04
GOSSIP OF TIE AIR.
" Halloo your name TO the revorberate hills, and
make the babbllng gossip OF the air cry out


In an excited manner
lie snatched up a spanner.
And sworo ut him, but did not tho.
The newest phase of gambling is to bes
on the time required to read novel.
TINS may be rather thin, but isn't skeleton
in the closet the boss Number Wan7"
BISMARCK is said to he in very ugly mood
when he has neuralgia. Who bames him?
SOUND suggestion by the New York Com
merctd! Advertiser: Never turn deaf car to the
telephone.
IHE Great Eastern cost her owners $4,000
last year, while her total receipts were G1S. Big
thlng, but a mighty poor speculation.
THE Mexico Republic says a sexton who was
digging grave in the santander cemetery, dug
up conn containing jewels to the value of sew.
eral thousand dollars
The Harlem Egeaing Times has made the
interesting discovery that grass widow is a
female whose husband died of hay.fev
Rochester Post Express
JAMES BENNETT has just died at Housa-
tonic, Muss, at the age of 10l years. lie distinctly
remembered when some of the new minstrel Jokes
ol inc present day were first brought out.
A MAN was robbed in q Pennsylvania town
the other night of $500 in gold and ten quarts of
whisky We have no sympathy for him, remarks
tne Rochester Post Express; man who buys
whisky by the quart only with $500 in his posses.
sion, deserves to be robbed.
AMONG tho French in Vienna who are con-
nected with the ex.Khedive Ismnil, the report is
spread that lsmail is preparing with his sons, to
van himself Of the permission allowed him to re-
turn TO Egypt 1t is said that he intends to tako
up his residence in Alexandria.
The definition of gentleman" is given
rs "a human being combining "A womans tender.
ness with mans courage" This is new to us.
we have always understood the term "gentlc-
man to mean "a travelling salesman wearing q
plug hat"-Rochester Post. Express.
ANTWERP, city of 100000, had no water
supply but wells and canals and In 1870 works
were built to filter the waters of the Nethe by pass
ing them through filters of sand and spongy iron
and gravel. The plan has proved successful, but
the supply is very small according to American
IDEAS, being received in tank of only $4,000 gall
Ions.
WILL somebody please tell us what good
reduction of two cents gallon Of whisky will
doT II our law makers want to popularize them
selves they should reduce the tax on the drink.
and let the price per gallon remain where it is.
1t has come about that statesmen do not grasp the
live issues of the day with sufficient comprehen.
siveness.-Rochester Post. Express.
AT recent Jewish wedding in Newport
the brides hair was cut Off immediaels after the
ceremony In accordance with the ancient CUSTOM
The idea was to render the bride uuattractiye 4,
other men. But the hair will grow out again And
the wicked Troy Times suggests that to have rem
dered the Disagreement perfect they should have
cut Oft her nose, or punched out an eye.
The Anglo-American ball at Geneva took
place with great eclat on Monday, the twelfth of
March, says the London World The challenge
thrown down bv tol,o
land, in the shape of lovely blue eyed "lassie,"
who both looked and danced to perfection, while
the appearance of two fair Americans created
sensation which may extend to London.
The whims of royalty may be cause Of
Inconvenience. During the silver wedding cere-
monies at Berlin to please the emperor, the prince
Of Wales wore his huzzars uniform, with his dol
man, both at the family dinner In the afternoon
ana ut the ball. but 1t was hot and heavy that.
on returning to the crown princes palace, he was
nearly iainting with fatigue, and had to retire aE
once to bed.
THE czarina's coronation mantle will be
marvel of heraldic embroidery. The ground will
be solid cloth of gold, from which tho Russian
black eagles will stand out in relief bearing on its
chest the arms of Moscow, while the arms of the
provinces OF Kazan, Siberia, Poland, Astrakhan,
Georgia. and Findland, and OF the grand duchies
of Kief, Vladimir, and Novgorod, will be emblaz-
oned on the wings.
lT was not many years ago that the best
American dictionary defined the familiar word
"boil as " a circumscribed subcutaneous inflam-
nation characterized by pointed pustuar tumor
and suppurating In n central core; peruncutus."
What was simple and familiar was made ludi-
| crously complex. In the Imperial" the same
word is disposed of Enthusiastically as an inhamed
and painful suppurating tumor."
THE wife of Thomassen, tho internal ma
| chine murderer Of Bremerhaven, has Just died in
an insane asylum in London. Her husbands
| frightful crime robbed her of her reason. Sho
always supposed him to be still alive, and az the
| time of her death imagined that he had caused
the loss of the Cmbria by another crime like that
| of Bremerhaven. She was u woman of fine edu-
dation and somewhat of an authoress.
THE fashionable people are running to but
| TONS New York correspondent describes a
| dress recently finished for Fiflh avenue lady
which carries 1s0O buttons, and required the con-
slant labor of a seamstress for ten days to sew
them on. On each sleeve there arc 100 buttons on
the body, basque, and collar $50, and on the skirt
1850. Those on the skirt are arranged in trian-
| giles, squares crosses, stars, and other curious
shapes on foundation of black satin The dress
has a satiny appearance, and is very weighty-so
much so that 1t will require lady of considerable
strength to wear 1t.
| MINISTER laboring in the mountain dis
tricts Of Fayette county, W. Va, gives the follow.
ing conversation he had with woman there re-
Gently: SIS your husband at homer" mo- he is
coon hunting He killed two whopping big
coons last Sunday" "Does he fear the Lord ~
| 81 guess he does; cause he always takes his gun
with him." "Have you any Presbyterians around
here? a. don't know II he has killed any or
not You can go behind the house and look at
the pile of hides to see If you can find any of
their skins" 81 see that ysu are living in the
dark" "Yes, but my husband is going to cut out
a window soon."
The London Graphic is moved to remark:
american women in Paris are also interesting
to notice, When very pretty and well dressed
they excite the envy of the ladies and call forth
the admiration Of the gentlemen of France To
their discredit be 1t said, however, French writ
ers-0ctave Feuillet among them-are unRallant
enough to sneer at American women. But this is
done to curry favor with the fair of their own
land for two things which French woman will
not concede TO an Anglaise are the attributes of
beauty and the art of dressing. The grandeur Of
France may be dlmmed but the glory Of Parisian
millinery and the grace Of Parisan coquetry
| forever"
WHILE the sale of the Ashburnham manu-
scripts is causing so much controversy in England
and France, great interest is excited by the forth
| coming sale OF the collection Of the Duke of Os.