National Republican., 1883-09-14
WHAT is boom without "barI ?o

partment OF Interior.
--"Jef Josiyn."
WHAT is boom without "barl?"
ARKANSAS is working up its lumber mine.
Within three years the number of saw mills in the
state has increased from 3l9 to over 1900.
Mr.. EvARTs's speech at the; Nor thern Pa
ciho railway ceremonies weighed twenty-seven
pounds and was used to drive tho last spike.
THE Christian World in London and the
Christian Lnion in New York pronounce the prayer
meeting in its decadence in England and America
THE statement that Bismarck is the stronp-
est statesman in the world Is confirmed by a para.
graph which says that he mixes onions with his
beer.
SUMNER resort bonfaces will not be Obliged
to employ assistants to help them count their
profits. The day has been frigid for most of
them.
A ST. LOUIS brewer was killed the other
day by being struck with the head of oil explod.
ing beer barrel. Getting at slager heads is ex-
tremely dangerous.
AN engineer estimates that il will cost
s5,OOo0OO to build railway bridge across the Mis-
sissppi at New Orleans, less than half the cost of
the st. Louis bridge
In the light of recent episodes the Norris
town Herald thinks 1t would be n mlsnomer to
call southern duel "sham BATTLE" Somebody
always gets hurt in sham battle
A CALIFORNIA paper asserts that when a
Lake county man wants min nj water he puts soap
butter, and old tin cans irto his well, and the
liquid soon tastes bad enough TO 60 1000 miles
for.
IT is said that for twenty-five years no
saloon has been allowedJin Edwards county iii.
nois, and that during THAT time the county has
contributed only one fcriminal to the peniten-
tiary.
"Is THAT dog mad 2" he asked the boy as
the animal dashed by. 81 reckon he is" replied
the boy 81 just 'see q butcher take piece o.
meat away from him ard kick him six feet into
the air."
A UTICA clergyman had occasion to refer
in sermon to the prophet Jonah, and the report
says that he delica'ely spoke of him as having
passed three days and three nights in tho
whale's-ahem-so'sie -
OVER 10000 miles of railway have been
built in the Unite States since and Including 1879
This is about ohe-third of the entire mileage of
the country. Last yearialone the amount raised to
build these roads was over 500 100000.
NINE. MINNIE H-iuK, with an excellent
company, including. Constantine Sternberg the
pianist, is giving colcerts this month in the prin-
cipal New England cities. At these concerts
rendered as part oi)the programme.
SENATOR EDsUNDs pays a tribute to tho
western reporter'by calling him very intelligent
man. The Nor is correct. In nine cases out
of ten the Amerbcan newspaper reporter, no mat
ter what partfof the country he may be located
n represents the progress, intelligence, and poy-
erty ofthe co'intry.-Learent0orth Times.
New TACOMA, a thriving young town in
washington territory. already has forty lawyers,
the total population being but $780, The local
paper says each zone of the forty came with the
idea that he waste be the principal man in the
territory; and Undue time United States senator
WILLIAM SwINroN, the war correspondent
of the New York 7inss and more recently a writer
OF school textbooks, announces that he will soon
begin the publication of a weekly to be called
SUMMONS ary Teller and consisting exclusively Of
choicest complete tales, from four to six each
issue. A man who has served an apprenticeship
as hum Drist in writing school books ought to get
up something funny If any man can.
THE|Rev. Dr. s., who happens to possess
rather florid complexion, recently went into the
| shopbf barber, one of his parishioners to be
shayed. The barber was addicted to an occa-
SIGNAL spree, after which his hand was apt to bo
somewhat unsteady. In shaving tho minister on
the occasion referred to, he made a slip and
brought the blood to the surface in a considerable
liquantity, The minister turned to the man and
brother and said in n tone of solemn severity:
| "You see, Jackson, what comes from taking too
| much drink" "Yes sah," replied Jackson. "it
Ismakes dc skin very tendah, sab, 1t do for a
| fack, sah."
| THE fashion Of interecting French words and
| phrases into English speech and writing is too
common to create surprise. 1t will, however, in
| terest Franco-American persons to know that the
| French have begun to follow q bad example and
interlard their discourse with English idioms An
intelligent writer, commenting on this fact says:
"At the end ofa century or two it would not be
| strange II the tongues Of the principal civilized
| nations Of the world were so far harmonized that
| in the current language of each would be found
| great number Of words and expressions common
to all, and it may be that differences would be so
far arranged that, to all intents and purposes but
one tongue would be spoken"
LORD oDo RUSSELL while calling upon
Prince Bismarck short time ago, asked him how
he managed to rid himself of that class of unfor.
| tunate visitors whom he could not we'll refuse to
see, but whose room he found preferable to their
company "oh" replied the chancellor, II have
| very simple method. My wife knows them
pretty well, and when she secs they are with me
she generally contrives TO come in and call me
away upon some pretext or other" He had
| scarcely finished speaking when the princess put
her head in at the door and said: lotto, you must
come and take your medicine. You ought to
have had It ten minutes ago" Lord odo Russell
had not till then had any idea that his room
could be more welcome than his company.
THE following details with regard to the
hair dressing OF japanese ladies may be Of inter-
est and help to elucldate much Of the mystery
which always surrounds the meaning Of a Japan
ese picture. In Japan girl at the age of9 wears
her hair tied up in red scarf bound round the
back of her head the forehead is len bare with the
exception of couple Of locks, one on each side
When she Is Of marrageable age she combs her
hair forward and makes II up into the shape ofa
fan or butterfly, and at the same time decorates
it with silver cord and balls Of varied colors
This means everything, and is fully understood
by the young men of Japan. A widow who wishes
for second husband puts a tortoise shell pin hor
izontally at the back Of her head and twists her
hair round It, whilo an inconsolablO widow cuts
her hair short, and goes in for no adornmeut of
any sort These last are very rare. BY these sim.
pie means much confusion is avoided. A glance
round ball room suihces to tell the age and status
OF every lady in the place. and great deal might