National Republican., 1883-03-29


SUGGESTION to the street sweeping con-
tractors. Down with the dust
INTERESTING to married men: An eastern
firm has just ordered one million broom handles
ALMA TADEMA, the Portfolio says, has
"maaerly veracly" What an editor he would
make
As THE London dailies don't print any
spring poetry Mr.. Gladstone reads Homer every
morning in bed
THE milk war in New York is said to be
brisker than ever The chalk must have got to
fighting the water.
RELATIVES are persons provided by Provi-
dence to receive aud enjoy what a man has toiled
lifetime to accumulate.
GREAT horror is expressed in England over
the report that criminals in New York are placed
in the Tombs long time before they are hanged
IT is again asserted that the Keoly motor
is perfect. We fear this is to be taken like ono
OF old Dan Rce's announcements of q farewell
tour.
A NEW JERSEY hen flies into a cradle
every day to lay her eggs. The Rev. Dr. Dixs
sermon OIL the importance of large families han
had much greater effect than the good man iu.
tended.
SOMEBODY substituted q pile of corncobs
for the doughnuts on Il Vermont railway
restaurant counter, and they were about two-
thirds eaten before anybody discovered what had
happened.
Miss JENNIE CHAMBERLAIN, the Cleve-
land girl who has become belle in England, and
won the admiration OF the prince Of Wales is said
to have had a husband se.ected for her by his
royal highness.
In Cairo there is a remarkable absence Of
foreign tourists Even the Americans this year
seem to have abandoned Egypt. So far only two
dahabeeyahs have gone up tho Nile instead Of
twenty or thirty.
THERE is q bill before parliament authors
izng u railway to pass within one hundred yards
of Stonehenge The vibration would in time
probably ruin the monument, and 1t will be op-
posed for that reason.
"MY soldiers says Emperor Wilhelm,
'have never seen me with my coat unbuttoned.
and do not intend. they ever shall. For. let me
tell YOU 1t Is the one button lett unbuttoned that
| is the ruin OF an army"
TEN Ohio farmers live on farms that join
each other and each farmer has q new baby
making ten farms, ten farmers, and ten babies.
committee is to be appointed at once to determine
what shall be done with the babies
THE bill to suppress political assessments
on ofiiceholders, or candidates for ONCE, has
been defeated in the New York state senate. Bills
for the suppression of rascality nearly always
disagreeable to American statesmen.
MATT CARPENTERS son, who is said to have
inherited his fathers genius, was asked when a
Little boy what he would be when he grew up,
and replied: "oh would like TO be coachman,
but suppose have got to be senator"
| AT recent convention in Cincinnati for
| the nomination of the laws executors were my
policemen TO prevent the violation OF law. II
that isn't strong commentary on American poll
tics We want 10 go TO roost.-Judge Ldmpion.
THE Rev. ]. r. Day, Methodist minister,
until recently was preaching in Maine on salary
| of few hundred dollars q year. Now he goes to
New York city at salary $1,000 1t is presumed
the Day laborer isworthy of his higher place.
THE outs in pedigree should not count
against poor but honest young man. He Is not
responsible for his ancestors. mo one Is to be
blamed" says southern paper, "because his
grandfather had so much money that he could
afford to be loafer"
THE old ladies in the country, who get q
good deal of enjoyment out of what Charles Dud-
| ley Warner detests, will not agree with him when
| he says: e. am weary Of going to funerals which
| are not my funerals, no matter how chatty and
amusing the undertaken.
| A SCIENTIFIC man has written an article to
show that eventually the colored race in America
will outnumber and rule the whites. The Rev.
Dr. Dix should be called upon at once to visit
every part of the country with his great sermon
on the importance of large white families
THE historic mountains of the old world
are bestrring themselves Ararat is shedding
avalanches instead of catching arks, Etna is lux
uriating in little eruption, and from.the volcanic
ashes falling on the coast of Norway It Is thought
that HeCla Is making things interesting for Ice.
land.
ONE of the pleasantest recent events at
Vassar college was the visit of Mrs. Julia Ward
| Howe, during which she delivered her lecture on
" Personal Recollections of Longiellow and Emer-
son." Mrs. Howe was the guest of Prof. Mitchell,
who gave her visitor reception at the observa-
tory, which was attended by the teachers, profess
sors, and few seniors.
AN excellent oil portrait by U. ID. Tenney Of
Hon. Thomas l.. Tulook, postmaster Of this city,
| and formerly secretary OF state of New Hampshire
was placed in the state house at Concord on We'd
nesday last. Mr. Tullock commenced during his
term of Office Qs5s-6l the portrait gallery of the
governors and other citizens distinguished for
their civic and military services. The collection
has increased until 1t has become a valuable and
highly priced institution ofthe state.
WHILE eating Blue Point oysters on the
half shell In one of tho Main street restaurants
the other night, young nan-a stranger In the
| ciy--felt some hard substance in one of the bic
! valves. MOI dreaming OF buCn BoOu IoIluneI no
car1lessly removed the intruder from his mouth.
and was about to lay II down by the side Of his
plate, when he discovered 1t was pearl ofunusual
size-a pearl shirt button. II had dropped from
the cooks cuff as ne was serving the oysters-BrGds
ford Sunday Mail.
A REMARKABLE action by dog is reported
from Newburgh, N Y. The other day a woman
in that city looking from her back window saw in
the house opposite little child hanging ilom
window SILL but kept from falling by "a dog, which
had caught her dress in its teeth. The woman Of
that house had left her baby, eighteen months
old, on the floor Of the front room playing with
her toys and little terrier dog that is her con-
slant companion The mother was away Just
three minutes, but when she came back aud
opened the door her infants head, arms and
shoulders were hanging beyond the stone sill Of
an open window, and near it, with It's feet on
chair stood the little dog holding on to the childs
dress for dear life, Her child unconscious Of any
danger, was growing at some object in the yard,
while the dog holding on the dress looked a
mute appeal for haste and help. In an instant
she was by her baby's side, and the danger was
past. When the dog had been relieved of its
burden it pranced around the mother and child
with delight that was almost frantic.