National Republican., 1883-10-12

Ni' 'hAvN5ibul tllc HuIy nOuIS
The nightingale sang to his love,
There was the very deuce To pay
pOWn IN tho meadow near the lane
They met by chance, the usual way
The COW and that their railway train.
QUEEN VICTORIA and all her household
VIII attend the uuyeiling Of John Brown Is statue
at Balmoral.
RUSSIAN princess Of remarkable beauty,
1t is rumored, Will make her debut in Washington
society this winter.
The Rev. DIR, Brown, president of Hamilton
college, has been inYiied 10 sacoeed the lae Prof
Campbell at Dartmouth.
WAGNER's widow still refuses TO SEQ visit
ors, and her home presents II dismal aud funeral
aspect from the outside.
THE strongest evidence yet presented that
Miss Hill has real claim on Senator Sharon is
that he once called her "Buby.n
The Earl of Mount Cashol, aged 02 and
known us the "iather Of the house Of lords" is
about to marry very young lady OF TO-
LONDON Life announces that Henry Jamoa,
the novelist, has returned to Europe with the Ia
tention OF remaining there permanently.
MRS. II. LYNN LINTON, the English story
writer is over sixty years of age, but sin WORKS
indefatgably and keeps up her social duties
NEBRASKA women have established q papor
of their own, called the Homans Tribune, and
having us the mottu, Equality Before the Law"
| IT is not generally known that Pore Hya-
cinhe's wife, who accompanies him on his trip
to this country, isa Miss Butterworth, of wiscon-
| sin.
ONE of the great social events of the COM
ing Washington season will be tho marriage of
Miss Dora Miller, u daughter OF the California
senator.
THREE years constant study in Italy, says
an exchange, will make an American girl know
too much to sing church and too little to be use
full in opera.
ALFRED DE MUssET's widow has left 175,-
900 francs for monument to her husband, but
the work must be given 10 an artist VINO is both
capable and poor.
WHY would 1t not be an excellent idea for
the cultiy9tors OF booms to go about and get them
selves liissed BY the mobs? Itwould make them
more popular at home,
THE price of the Philadelphia Press has been
dropped from 8 to cents. II is inconceivable why
tho publishers stop there, for the Press isn't worth
AGENT at best.-C Chicago Herald.
AN Iowa woman claims that George Angus
tus saia didn't know what he was talking about
when he said America is woman's kingdom, for.
she says, 1t is just the opposite
BOSTON women," remarks Miss Howe in
her novel, "a Newport Aquarelle" "haye curl
| GUS olephantino way of carrying u Irritation
which is quite peculiar to them"
BEECHER says there is "a certain dignity
to be kept up in pleasure as in business" Pre-
cisely Now 1t wouldn't do for Beecher or David
Davis to attempt TO play leap frog.
TO THE Philadelphia Telegraph it is evident
that the political atmosphere OF Washington is too
| heavily laden with mnlnrin the moral haalth
of the civil service reform commissioners.
"MIsFoRTUNEs mover come singly," re
marks the Philadelphia Press. "Gebhard is with
u.s. Lingtrys coming, the peanut crop is failure,
| and Don PIatt Is constructing new opera !"
BOOK agent has been selling an illustrated
edition of Dante's "Inferno" to the residents of
Bismarck, Dak., and the inhabitants now wish no
was well located in the place the book describes
WHALES milk is now recommended for
certain invalids by physicians. The principal
difficulty appears to be to hud man who cares to
undertake the perilous task of milking the whale.
THE Louisville COurier-JournaI believes that
Dana's disparagng statement that Mcdonald has
no boom worth speaking about grew out of
the fact that old saddlebags never manufactured
any.
"IT is to be hoped" says the Atlanta Con-
stitution, "that if Tabor is elected governor Of
| IOluThuO Ic Will DC pGrIlltleu 10 respond
serenade attired in that wonderful two fifty night
| robe"
NINE. MoDJEsKA's maiden name was He
lena Bender. If 1t We're not for the strawberry
mark on her lett arm we might mistake her for IL
near relative of the well known Helen Bla2es.-
Chicago NelUs.
MR.. KEELY, the inventor of that wonderful
motor which the world is yet to see, thinks the
| shareholders of his company TOO impatient
aud Will take his own time to revolutionze tho
world with his motor.
EVERYBODY on whom the authorship of
"The Breadwiuners" has been saddled has de-
MED the imputntion. Suppose the guessers try
Dennis Kearney next. He should know some-
thing about bread winning.
The North Carolina editors are iunketing
in Boston. They excite quite as much curiosity
rs did the Cofean embassy II will be remem-
bered that North Carolina is the territory discoy-
cred by David Davis, of Illinois
To THE mind Of the Utica ObSerUer Frank
liatton has shown that his abnormally developed
check Is mated with some genuine common sense.
He thinks-and says bluntly-that the civil SER
vice reform movement is Il fraud
AS REGARDS the statement which appeared
in various journals last week in reference to the
salaries of Mr.. Willard are able to state upon
the best authority. says the Boston Transcript that
his combined salaries of presidents OF the various
corporations amount to $4,000.
CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE will not visit
Kansas City. Having never robbed n railway
train, and having no intention of founding pork
factory, he was not regarded as particularly no.
table attraction to the Kansas City people who
Just now in condition of rhapsody over O
"prncess Chuok' opera troupe
IT is the vignette Of Andrew Jackson which
appears on the new cent postage stamps, The
lkeuess is not particularly good one, there being
perceptibe hollowness OF the cheek and a stolid
expression about the lips which would seem to in
diCate that the distinguished gentleman carried
his qud on the other SIDE Of his mouth.
MATTHEW ARNOLD is on his way to this
country to wheedlc few pnltry ducats out of our
people. lie had better not visit Texas, as VIZ
learn from the tone OF the press of that state that
an impression prevails there that he is the man
who turned traitor 10 bis country, aud was the di
! rect cause of getting poor Maj. Andre hanged.
In o store window on Broadway, South
Boston, Is displayed quite curiosity. II is d
: large hornets nest enuasing quite u number Of
srnull apple tree branches IN full leaf, and rosy
apple, which has grown aud ripened in its un
woned Govern, half proIrudes from its side, seem
ingly forming part of the structure itself.
WHAT has become of John P. st. John