National Republican., 1883-10-01
-somoviae journal.
A Two.cExT stamp for each '1ottairo."


PATTI and Langtry are coming over in the
same Steamer
NOTHING pleases an Englishman like an
Englishman-uiton Netgs.
EX-SENATOR SHARON coufessos to have an
| income of 100000 a month.
TExAsm has been sentenced TO ninety.
| nine years in the penitentlary.
THE salvation army captain, Booth By
name, is engaged in arevision of the Bible.
IT Is now generally believed that the Hol-
man boom has expired under tho statute of limi-
tatiou.
HERBERT SPENcEI's health has bettorcd
so that he has nearly finished the third volume of
his sociology"
The Ohio democracy has about given up
the expectation of carrying Hamilton county,
which includes Cincinnati.
WHEN Hamlet said "But l have that within
which passeth show" 1t is believed that he had in
his pocket complimentary ticket for the circus.
| Lite
VERMONT is delighted with Gen. Hooker's
| law, under which the state government is sup
ported entirely by tax upon the gross earningsof
corporations
Mr.. BADBfT who is carrying lot ofstocks,
is such determined bull that he even declines 10
look ~ the constellation known as the great bear.
| --BO5l0n Post
SENATOR HARRISON puts it in this way
"The nearer democratic politician goes to tho
chicken coop the smaller his voice grows in the
song OF reform"
IT is in the nature of compliment to say
that mahs shirt clocks as if 1t had been struck
by lightning" Linen is bleached by electricity
Cincinnati saturday Night.
THE temperance movement in Germany,
headed By Won Moltke and Unser Fritz, draws the
line ut beer and wine. Tho purpose is to dis
countenanoe ardent spirits and inebriety.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat (republican)
fears the disfranchlsement OF some hundreds of
citizens by reason OF the extensive remaining ana
renumbering Of streets there, which affects tho
registry lists
IT is said in Boston that since the present
city government came in fifteen republican lamp
| lighters some of whom were soldiers in the civil
war, hive been discharged and their places filled
by democrats.
Mr.. ROBERT J. BURDETTE having recov-
cred from his railway accident will resume lee.
turing nOxt week. 1t is thus that he repays the
public for its expressions of sympathy-the re-
morseless ingrate
Mrs. RALsToN, widow of the famous Cali
fornia banker. is living with her two at their
new mining camp in California, where they are
working hard and where they have erected houss
for their mother
WILLIAM HORACE LINGARp and Lus-
combe searele, the actors had fight in the
American Exchange, London Neither is much
more than five feet in height, and the encounter
was comical in its fury.
EARL SPENCER and Secretary Treyelyan
q Q in favor of local self government for Ireland.
nat would make Earl Spencer a fgurehead
without figure and perhaps rightly So Then
re iigurehead might properly go.
JOHN SwINToN, of the New York Sun,
testified before the senate labor committee that
newspaper reporters were paid from $1,000 to
5000 per year. Since then he has received thou
sands Of applications for the S5 900 positions.
JUSTICE GRAY, of the United States su-
preme court, has ridden over three hundred miles
on horseback on consecutive days this summer
without fatigue. As the judge weighs three hun
dred pounds, his horse has not come off so well.
A DESPERATE named Russian Bill was
hanged, along with a number of others, u couple
of years ago, i'll the town of Shakespeare, N. NJ
The sheriff of the county has received d letter
from the American consul at st. Petersburg, max
ing 1t clear that Bill was son of Count Telfnia
FRANK HATToN's Iowa paper is rabdly
advocating prohibition, but Mr.. Hatton himself,
we are reliably informed, takes three fingers of
Worcestershire sauce, in a cut glass tumbler. with
apollinaris ON the side, three times day.-Chcdoo
NeWs.
A CORRESPONDENT wants to know chow
limburger cheese is made" Well, it is made
ST. 1ng enough to knock out the olfactory organ
OF the average man in the first round-and that is
all we know about such perfumery.-Nouisl islowR
Herald.
PRESIDE Mt SEELYE, who is one of the best
authorities political matters in the western part
of the stae says that Mr. Robinson is the strongest
man that could have been nominated, and that
there can be no doubt of his electlon.-BoSlon
Journal.
IT took a wild western journalist just four
months to bring about q reduction in the price of
the New York daily papers. So far. SO good. We
hope Mr.. Pulitzer Will now devote himself to tho
severe task of compelling them to print something
worth the reduced price Chicago Neigs.
THERE is rumor that Col. Aleck Mcclure
will shortly sever his connection with the Phia-
, delphia Times. AS he is about the only live man
in Philadelphia at the present time, his depart.
ure from the field he has filed so competenly for
so long time will partake somewhat of the
, nature of a hegra-Chtcdgo Nei0s.
: "THIs is Horrible" was the headline a
Cleveland editor wrote to go over an account of
the defeat of the local base ball club. But the
, straw.headed printer got things mixed and put
| that headline over a poem by prominent poet,
and the poet wouldn't believe that 1t was the
printers fault, and somebody is going TO get hurt
THE democrats in Williams county, Ohio
have nominated for country treasurer man who
deserted from the l23d Ohio regiment in April
1864. because he had fought all he was going to
! for the black republican party" Ten years ago
T, that would have made him popular candidate
with the mossbacks in Ohio but is probable that
they have ougrown that old hostility to the union
cause during the war;
, As precedent for Mr.. Robinson's not re-
signing his scat in congress while he is running
for governor of Massachusetts, 1t is recalled that In
5 1856 Mr.. N. p Banks was chosen member OF con-
gress from the seventh district of Massachusetts,
that in 1857 he was nominated for governors that
after he had been elected governor he participated
in the organization of the house, and that he did
not resign his seat in congress until the twenty
fourth of December.
THE presbytery of the Reformed Presby-
teran church, at its session in Cincinnati last
week. passed q resolution warning its members
against voting for the second amendment to the
constitution-the one prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors-on the ground
that so doing would involve the dangerous and
erroneous principle Of aiding and abetting the
enemies of Christ with the implements Of His
kingdom The presbyterY stated that the re-
, formed church synod had decided that the con
stitution of the United States was immoral, and
that Voting for an amendment TO the state consti-