National Republican., 1883-01-19
RosroN bias the exposition fewer.

BosToN has the exposition fever.
EVERYTHING is terra-cotta now, but it is
relief from Turkey red.
FIFTY THOUSAND people predicted that this
would be year Of fires
WOMEN physicians have been refused per.
mission to practice in Austria.
OLEoMARGARINE causes diphtheria among
children II produces dyspepsia and tempers in
grown folk
AN Illinois murderer recently went to tho
scnifold attended by thirtyfve ministers. His
exit was jawyml.
WHEN Henry Clay remarked that he would
rather be right than president he know that man
who Is left can never be president.
SALvINI served with distinction as major
general in the army duriug the Italian revolution,
and for his gallant action under fire, was knghted
by the king.
THEY are having fun in Vermont by dig
ging out frozen snakes and placing them near
hot stove 10 thaw out and imagine that this winter
is next spring.
EXPERIENCES teaches that II makes an In
dian doctor just as mad to mistake him for poet
as it does poet to mistake him Tor Indian doc.
| tor.-Boston Post.
THE car has dissolved, by decree, all the
longer work the lodge racket in that country
NetO Hdren Register.
IT is is said that Flipper, the Atlanta negro
West Pointer who was cashiered for alleged steal
ing, and who joined the Mexican army, is now
brigadcr general In that service.
OLD MOTHER EARTH must roll uneasily
through space. Nearly every day theSe Is atwitch
here or there on her great back, which the tele-
graph announces as an earthquake shock.
The London Practitioner records case of
severe hysteria, with contractiOns of the lower
extremites, which gave way to treatment with
bread pills prescribed under the name of ptluls
| mica pdnnis
WISE beyond their generation are the
medical students in Dublin. They raise row
with the police ON the street. Primary result, nu-
merous cracked cranums and broken limbs;
secondary result, business for the profession
SCIENCE is continually shattering idols.
An Australian naturalist has conclusively estab-
lished that the kangaroo does not boost himself
with his tail when he leaps Thus another prop
Is knocked from under a pet theory-also, from
under the kangaroo.
g. A. ZEEHANDELAAR, of Utah, intends to
represent that territory at the approaching
Worlds exposition at Amsterdam. "He is" says
the Butte Inter Mountain, "a ruStling business
man, q Dutchman, and liar OF magnificent re-
bOuECcb. ilC Will iuuhc INpLSaSuNablNS'
A LONDON garroter recently received o sem
tence Of fifteen years penal serviude and thirty
lashes from the cat. Justice Stephen was the Just
Judge who inflicted this sentence, and If any sum
ofmoney can induce him to come to this country
and bring his law with him 1t should be freely
offered to him.
THE United States will send fine collec-
tion of fish to the English fish exhibition, to be
held in London on the first OF May next Inas-
much as the value of the American catch ex-
ceeds that of any other country, our display may
reasonably be expected to take the ribbon.
VERY strange and pleasing effect, says
the Buffalo Commercial may be produced by tying
| o tablespoon in the middle of on piece OF string
winding the ends of the string around finger
of cnch hand inserting the fingers in ones ears
while somo one taps the spoon with pencil or
some such object.
! THE president of Tufts collega was recently
made happy father and the folio wing morning
at prayer in the chapel he introduced this rather
ambiguous sentence: "Aud we thank thee, o
Lord for the succor thou has given. u.s." which
caused general smile to creep over the faces Of
the class.-HdUerhiH Ga.etie.
LOUISE MICHEL is lecturing in London.
The English find her to be quite tame creature.
Instead Of advocating bombs and blood, she " has
preached John Stuart Mill and common sense"
Doubtless Michel is merely exercising that discre-
ton which Is the better part Of valor. She has
heard of British bGstles.
THE clergyman at n marriage ceremony in
Atlanta, Ga, had just asked the coored BRIDE
| groom the solemn question, "Wilt thou take this
woman" &C., when an old flame poked her head
into the room and said, "Henry, jess dar you
to say yes" Henry sank into the nearest chair
without word, and tho company thoughtfully
withdrew.
Snow was such novelty in Stockton,
CAL, that snow storm the other day turned the
entire population out for q snow-ballng. The
managers of the street car lines withdrew all their
cars at 8 o'clock in the afternoon. The car win
dows were broken by the balls, and the drivers
! and conductors were mercilessly pelted from one
end of the line to the other with the police power.
less to stop the great frolic.
An amusing illustration of the ignorance of
| the Chinese in the matter of judicial oath, was
! furnished some time ago by the native usher in
| / he consular court OF Shanghai, He was OBJ
| served to be making an anxious search for some
| missing object and on being questioned by the
! judge he stated that. he was looking for tho
little book which is given to the witness to smell
And this man has been for eighteen years usher
| of the court.
DIR. CoRvIsART, who recently died in Paris,
was physician to Napoleon III. His uncle had
been physician TO the first Napoleon. Upon hear
ing of the defeat at Waterloo tho elder DIR. Coryis
art was seized with an apoplectc attack, from
which he never rallied Whom the younger DR..
| Corvisart heard OF the death of the prince i'm
perIal he suffered paralytlc stroke from which
he never recovered, although he fingered until
aboAt month ago
| 4 "A CLERGYMAN, not many miles from Glen's
| Falls lately married couple with the following
! ceremony and words: "Wilt thou have this
woman to be thy welded wife, to live together
Rfler Gods ordinance in the holy estate Of matr-
mony? wit thou lovo her comfort her, honor
| and keep her in sickness and In health--which
means you shall not kiss any other gln but
her-and, forsaking all others, keep thee only
unto her so long as ye both shall live? ?" The
groom having answered. "Iwill," the Clergyman
continued "Wilt thou have this man TO be thy
welded husband, to live together after Gods or
dnanoe in the holy estate of matrimony9 Wit
| thou love, honor and keep him in sickness and in
! health-.which means that you shall not kiss any
other man but hinl--and forsaling all others,
! keen thee onylunto him so long as 20 both shall
| live?n The proceedings were rather odd for
minister Of the gospel, to say the least.
IT now transpires that Bill Nye, the Lara
me Boomerang man, has been laid up with gout,
instead Of mountain fever as previously an.
nounced. What walking he does now is by the
aid Of a crutch ana cane. He Is going to make
| trip to New York in a few weeks and the YAM
KEGS viii then be afforded an opportunity Of see
ing what manner ofman the justly famed humor-