National Republican., 1883-06-08

OSTRICH farms are to bo established in
southwestern Texas.
THINK of being an umpire and calling a
ball on Sullivan ?--Boston Post.
New wheat was threshed in Georgia a
week before the ico went out of Moosehead lake.
Mrs DE LONG, widow Of Liout. De Long.
viii soon visit Europe for the benefit Of her
health.
The difference between Harvard and his
excellency is not in kind but in degree.-Lo,sel
Courier.
THE gamblers of Dodge City, Kan, have
made peace, and the town now swarms with men
with a record"
ONE may now go to West Point by rail di-
rect via the West Shore railway This line is said
10 nave tho handsomest coaches in this country.
QUEEN VICTORIA has knighted sixteen
physicians One of them has come to this conn.
uy' we remember his door plate-"Knight Bell"
The individual who stood ready to pay his
one cent at midnight on the Brooklyn bridge was
the 1rst man tolled to go across.-Boston Commsr.
eiai Bulletin.
THERE are plenty of cottages still to bo "a.
at Long Branch, but at prices beyond the limit of
most people. The arc none so blind as those who
will not seo
have issued edcts against dogs much to the dia.
gust OF the alleged fashionable women who carry
them about.
AT almost the eleventh hour they have
gone to work at Long Branch to protect the blur
IL Is good work and should not stop until Il has
been completed.
ON Sunday the Duke of Athole, Baron
Brunell, Lieut. Col Morny. and Mai. Birth of
England, were registered at the celebrated Clifton
house, Niagara Falls.
RocKAwAY's big hotel is not to be openod
this year This information is direct from tho
fountain head, and Is given for the benefit Of all
whom 1t may concern.
FISH dinners are to be q speciality at tho
Point Lookout hotel, Long Beach, this season:
also fried potatoes cooked by woman who has n
ponme dc terre reputation.
EXAMINATION exercises at West Point ara
now in progress. aud visitors arrive in large num-
bers every day. Tho ball Of the graduates next
week Will be very brilliant
The statue of Gen. Sylvanus Thayer. known
as the father of the military academy, will be un.
yelled at West Point on Monday large number
| OF visitors are already there.
CARL ScHURz, Joseph Pulitzer, Albert
Pulitzer, George Jones' and Oswald ottendorfier
are foreign born. Each one controls a daily
newspaper in Now York city.
TWENTY-FIVE new comic operas are being
written IN boston Tor the coming season. People
who desire TO visit Boston should 70 now before
the rioting commences.-Ph Philadelphia Neps.
"THE man who speculates is lost" re-
marks sage contemporary and the man who
does not speculate is found attending to business
IN quiet way and making money-a little
| The portrait of the Marquis of Lansdowno.
II II does him justice, must do him great injus.
tice. He is very milk and watery looking
young mano But Canada will have to endure
him.
AN item Of gossip going about is that Mr..
Langtry, husband of the Jersey Lily, receives sic
aweek from his peregrinating wife, and lives the
life OF a quiet country gentleman in Welsh vii.
lage.
SETH Briggs, of Cannon's station, Conn,
claims to be the Oldest Freemason In the United
States. He was born In 1902, and became mason
in 1916, two years earlier than the late Capt. Hosea
Ballou.
PRETTY farmers daughters, or farmers
pretty daughters, now hard at work on new
calico gowns TO be worn by them this summer
while Graciously waiting on table at Isles OF
Shoals hotels.
CHICAGO glove dealer employs sales
women with the biggest hands to be found so
that the hands OF his customers will look small by
contrast Nothing like large knowledge of hu-
man nature.-P Philadelphia Netps
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered two yocalions
(Nir Banlie Hamilton's newly-invented musical
tnstrumenD for Windsor CASTLE The vocation Is
used also In Westminster Abbey st. Pauls Temple
church, and the Lyceum theater.
A CHICAGO paper speaks of Rev. Joseph
Cook as ian ass" And this after all tho sweet
things Rev. Joseph has said OF the Chicago press
How sharper than serpents thanks 1t is to have
a toothless press !-BOston Transcript
WHEN the postal clerk in the postofiice at
Charlottetown. Prince Edward Island, postm arked
a letter addressed to Saskatchewan territory the
other day 1t exploded, blowing the stamp out of
his hand and tearing the letter in pieces.
THERE were three women in Somerset, ,Ky..
one day last week who are the mothers OF fly
children, nineteen. seventeen and fourteen re-
spectively. Kentucky, we have always held, is a
growing state. Danish the pistol and It would
soon be crowded TO suffocation.
DINAH JOHN, or "Aunt Dinah," )" the Onon-
daga squaw who died near Syracuse NJ " on
Saturday, nursed ex.Gov. Horatio Seymour on the
day he was born. She once saw Gen. Washington,
"the brave man who killed 80 many British" for
AUNT Dinah" was very old-as much as 100
years, in fact.
"a BROOKLYN boy can initiate with his
mouth the noise made by lawn mower" II that
boys parents don't lose a son by a violent death
pretty soon, we shall have TO conclude that there
Is at least ninety per cent. more forbearance in
Brooklyn than in any other city in the union.-
NOrristown Herald.
IN farm house near Boone, Iowa. lives
Mother Spence, aged Sc years. In the same house
lives her daughter, aged Ga, her granddaughter,
aged 40, her granddaughter aged 2l, and
her reat-granddaughther aged 2. This is
believed to be the only house In the country shell
tering five generations.
OFFICERS arrested seven tramps at Lea
mans Place aud locked them In a box car to
bring them TO Lancaster on Tuesday. While tho
train was going at tho rate of twenty miles an
hour Of the tramps ran against the door OF the
car with such force that 1t was broken open, and
he leaped from the car aud escaped.
David Pearson, of Carrollton, ILL.,, aged
seventyseven, and Mira. McFadden, OF that city,
aged seventy, were united in marriage the other
day, and took their departure on bridal tour
which will include the noted watering places of
the east. The bride is spoken Of as "leading
society married belle Of half a century ago."
MARIE RozE is said to be the only distin-
guished singer who is not afraid Of taking cold,
but this statement applies only 10 prime donno
soprani. There several oontraltos of note who
are equally careless, and the list of barytones and
bassi includes some hardy throated men. Among
| tenors Campanlni is noted for his freedom from
? the usual coddng TO which singers Of his rank
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