National Republican., 1883-07-23

But tell me, sir, what shall 1 do
When that thing goes tick, tickf"
Mrs. WILLIAM TYNER, a bride Of q few
weeks committed suicide at Leavenworth, Kan,
yesterday.
THERE is doctor in Wisconsin named
Greene s. Apple. He is always busy at this season
! Of the year.
IT is sixty years since ice cream was first
introduced into st. Louis, and yet the girls can't
seem 10 get enough Of 1t.
Sr. LOUIS proposes to do away with its
church bells but hardly dares to give up its
churches at present.-E1.
Mrs. CoRNELtA HAMILTON, administrators
of the estate OF E. W. Ensign, recovered in Buffalo
a judgment of s6l3, ,763.Ss.
MOSQUITOES appear to be feeble and scarce
this year Something must have happened 10
them when they were very young.
DE KALB COUNTY, TENN, has not drink
ing saloon within It's limits consequently dun
ness in politics is its normal condition.
AN Ohio beau considers it quito the "propah
capah, y'know" to call his girl pansy. That's
not only "for thoughts" but it is the "ohio idea"
A YOUNG man named Bower attempted to
jump from the bridge into the river, butwas taken
in by the Jack Of Clubs and his little game was
euchrcd.
SISTER DORA" the eself-sacrGcing "Angli-
can Catholic" whose biography created such
sensation year or two ago, is to have statue to
her memory at Walsall.
In the new directory of Rome, Ga, promi-
nent church members appear as barkeepers. AS
the compiler has skipped out, there is no way Of
ascertaining the true tnwardness of the affair
AN interesting account Of how q poor Peru
Wan made clock entirely of bread is going the
| rounds. And n wicked has tho
to strike in with, He certainly got the bread
tick.'
YANKEE girls according to an English
editor, look you straighty aud sereney in the
face This shows that our bonny maidens amt
afraid of JohnRy Bull, although they may shy at
some animals.
AN up town exchange asks this idiotic ques-
ton: Did Romeo for what Juliet?" The man
who would perpetrate such atrocous one rs
that would not only pick a pocket, but steal
entire clothing house.
LEADvILLE clergymen are becoming very
particular. One ofem got mad at funeral where
he was to oliciate, because the master of cere-
monies notified him to begin by remarkng: Now,
old hoss, it's your play."-BoSton Post
HENRY A. DAMN won the first prize in
mathematics and classics at the Episcopal mill
| tary school at Reading, Pa. As usual in America,
the victor's name is on overybody's lips. Es-
| pecally in America.-C Cincinnati Enquirer.
AN Iowa woman who had been blind for
three years suddenly recovered her sight and de-
clared she had been cured by prayer. The Boston
Transcript considers 1t strange that she should
have gone without prayer for three long years.
THE Oxford university of Mississippi is
free to women from ali states. The chancellor
Gen. Stewart, hopes to have at least forty or fifty
women students enter at the fall session. Board
can be obtained at $40 per month, or even less.
A WESTERN exchange says that q thunder
bolt struck n contribution box while it was being
passed. scattering the contents in every direction.
The paper adds that nobody was hurt but there
was some lively scrambllng among the congre.
| gation."-Ec.
MONTANA boasts a shepherdess called Miss
| Jennie Carson, who was formerly a bookkeeper in
Chicago. She has finely-located sheep ranch,
and could probably sell out to-day for $4,000.
| That is the kind of higher education they believe
| in in Montana.
THE Countess of Aylcsford, whom the new
Duke of Marlborough at present dishonors with
his affections, Is Welsh woman daughter of Col.
Peers Williams, and inherits from her father, who
was the best amateur rider in England, a skillful
aud daring horsemanship.
PRINCESS LOUISE has promised to send a
number of her paintings, both oil and W ater
colors, to the Boston foreign exhibition next au-
tumn. Capt Bagot, her secretary, writes that the
| princess desires to recognize the pleasant time
she had in Boston last winter"
A PROPOSITION is on foot to license the
men who drink instead of the saloon keepers. By
charging every man who drinks dollar year, a
large amount of money could be raised, and O
great burden would be removed from noble and
selfsacrifcng class, the saloon keepers
WHILE the TimeSis engaged in showing how
the American telegraphers are ground down, why
does it not publish the schedule of magnificent
salaries paid in England, whose telegraph system
like free trade the Times Is willing to fall down
and worshipa at all tmes?-Comnaercia! Advertiser.
NEwPoRT preacher told tramp, who
was putting in a load of coal for him. that he
might take dinner with him if he would agree to
say grace before eating. The tramp said he would,
And when he was invited to the table he stood
still a moment and said "Grace. ."--Rentucky Jour
nal.
Bob BURDETTE's brother has gone into the
ministry 1t will take several barrels of sermons,
a great deal of self denial, many embroidered
dressing gowns and pairs of slippers, church so.
cias, Sunday school picnics and choir troubles to
atone for Bobs misdemeanors.- Cincinnati Sat,lr.
day Night.
Young AMERICA is advancing with rapid
strides to the front rank IL precocious and ire
pressible enfant terrible. seventeen-year-old
New Haven girl has actually sued boy of sixteen
for breach of promise, The children are supposed
TO have parents, but they did not probably believe
!, il corporal punishment.
MOUNT HoLYoKE girl, who was study
ing to be missionary, wrote the following OH
fly leaf of her text book on moral science:
fthere should be another food,
For refuge hither fly;
Though all the world would be submerged,
This book would still be dry. '>''
AN authentic portrait of Flora Mcdonald
has been placed in the town hall of Glasgow by
Mrs. Flora Wylde, descendant Flora Nc.
Donald occupies place in history us the heroine
who accompanied Bonnie Prince Charlie in an
open boat from Benbecula southwest to Skye in
l7i6.
A KANSAS farmer recently presented a
country editor with radish twenty-five inches
in circumference The grateful scribe acknowl-
edged the gin by saying: "With radishes two feet
round, wheatheads seven inches long, and new
potatoes as large as teaoups, it ought not to be
difficult for people to dig pretty good living out
of our soil"
They have new way of hunting bears out
in the western wilds. According to the Bode
Free Press Porter Ashe and wife met black bear
- while out walking in the forests about Lake Ia.
hoe. When Mr. Ashe endeayored to examine the
bears teeth to determine its age. the ungrateful
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