National Republican., 1883-08-13

SN'os'tN ~a"'S'Hoes
LITTLE girl in New York state has col
lected 900 newspaper headings.
BICYCLES have been sent to China and the
natives are delighted aud asonished.
MISSISSIPPI claims that it will compete
with the states of the west in corn production this
year.
CARBONATE, Col welcomed the first woman
by giving her town lot, a mining claim, and
money enough to buy silk dress.
THE sheriff recently seized Chicago hotel,
but he regrets TO say that clerk and diamond had
both disappeared L. Courter-Journat.
OSCAR WILDE writes Of the Michael-Ange-
lesque appearance of u London policeman. The
appearance of New York policeman is merely
Michaelesque .-Hdrper'S Weekly.
SNAKE matches are the latest wrinkle In
field sports on Long Island. The contestants start
In different directions, and the one returning with
the greatest number of snakes hanging to his belt
| Is proclaimed the victor.
The board of supervisors of Wapello
county, Iowa, are searching law books to fnd some
authority to appoint Mrs. CLANCY sheriff Of that
| county for the remainder of the term for which
Sheriff Chancy, lately deceased, was elected.
{ SOME of the most prominent and hopeless
old bachelors in Louisville recently gave an ele-
| CANT supper to an equal number Of the most
charming young ladies In the city. Since then ii
is whispered that three of the rash hosts have be-
come engaged.
| JOHN g. WHITTIER could not be present at
| the meeting of Prof. sullivan and the Maori and
was perhaps afraid to trust the telegraph with
poem, but it is not to be supposed that the heart
of the poet did not throb exclusively for New
England while the fight was on.- ier-JournaL
LONDON seamstresses are paid three pence
| for making boys suits. Children get two and
| three pence for making gross Of match boxes,
furnishing their own paste. Emigration is talked
| Of means of relief, but then 1t is said emigra-
tion would only take away the best of the poor
people, leaving the worst specimens OF poverty
| behind.
ROBINSON has been caught picking pocket,
and was transferred to a London hospital from
prison on account of seeming illness. He took to
his bed with very accurate limitations Of excru-
ciating agony. He groaned and cursed so terribly
that his fellow patients were horrihed. Then he
regained composure. aud begged to go out into the
air. Once In the yard, he knocked the attendant
senseess scaled the wall. and escaped to this
country with over SIS, 900 of accumulated swag.
LORD LoUTH, who has recently died, re-
sided for some time in the Clarendon house, New
York. He made his visit remarkable by contest
in the bar room Of the New York hotel with Mr.
| Tracy, of Buffalo. After thirty-fve cocktails Mr.
Tracy gave up, and Lord Louth drank thirty
sixth. The late Gen. Magruder acted as second to
| Mr.. Tracy. and the late Gen. Rowan to Lord Louth
| The event created much excitement at the time
and great deal of money changed hands.
MILE. LAS BoRDEs, q member Of very
old and noble French family, entered a convent
with the intention of devoting her life to works of
charity. When acting as a nurse IN hospital she
fell in love with one of her patients, and on his
recovery eloped with him to London, where they
wero married. Recently he applied to have the
contract annulled and their twelve year old son
declared illegitimate on the grounds that she was
a nun at the time Of their marriage, but the court
held IT to be valid.
THE western associated press took an ex.
cursion in special train to St. Paul Wednesday.
and the benighted people up in Wisconsin, hay
ing vague and uncertain idea that some very
distinguished people were coming, Immediately
conjectured that they were the President Of the
United State, and his cabinet at least. They as
sembled from their farms and wood yards at every
station and insisted on seeing the President.
Chicago Journalist, who wean side whiskers, was
regularly trotted out and passed off as the Presi-
dent-Davenport Gasette.
IT is proposed to call new London club
the British, and in number of members II is to ex-
ceed anything of the kind The principal feature
is that II is not to be in any way political asso-
claon but to have for its chief object the bring
ing together of all sorts ana conditions of men
who reside in or who visit the metropolis. The
subscription is to be low, without any entrance
fee and those who reside out of London will con
tribute very small annual sum. 1t is not to be
? proprietary club, but to belong TO the members,
and the building fund will be raised by shares as
in Joint stock company. The refusal Of large
plot Of ground near the Thames embankment has
been secured. 1t is proposed TO have 5000 mem
bers at starting
DURING the discussion in the house of lords
, of the bill permitting the marriage Of deceased
wife's sister by the bereaved widower and the Inn
| patient lover humorous peer Of the realm thus
answered one OF the objections to the measure
The noble lord objects to the bill because the
wifes sister Is really In law the sister of the hus-
band! If she is the sister Of the husband then her
sister is also her sister, and he has married his own
sster And II in lay he is the brother of his wifes
sister, then he is the brother Of that sisters sisters
and, submit, ALSO that the wife has married her
own brother The proposition IL proved on both
Sides and the only safe rule is to prohibit marriage
, between any man who has brothers with any wo-
man who has sisters"
. No DOUBT ere long "peanut flour" will be
: : an important product OF the south. The crop OF
, the country has averaged S3,00000c. "Iu Georgia
, there is q custom now growing old" says the Sa-
a vannah Net0s "of grinding or pounding the
shelled peanuts and turning them into pastry,
! which has some resemblance both In looks and
pastry is more oily and richer, and we think,
healthier and better every way. H. as some
people believe, Africa sent curse 10 America in
slavery she certainly conferred upon her a bless
ing In the universally popular peanut, which
I grows so well throughout the southern region
g that We shall soon be able TO cut or the now
: large importation altogether"
: REV. A. O. BEvINGToN, minister of the
Methodist New Counexion chapel at HRwarden
It says that Mr. Gladstone in a recent conversation
o with him at Hawarden thus expressed himself
A relative 10 the Gospel Temperance mission: From
!. the first have watched the temperance question
with great interest, but am bound to say that no
4 phase Of 1t has yielded me so much satisiac
4 tion as this has done. To witness the large num-
t ber Of ministers OF all denominations, and OF
course the still larger number OF members Of per-
r haps all the churches wearing the ribbons Of
4 blue, is an exceedingly gratifying circumstance
and speaks we'll for the future. Indeed firmly
t believe as far as this matter IL concerned that
l much brighter days will soon, IN Gods good
d providence, dawn upon Us.
= DRovER from q remote part Of Missouri
came into the St. Louis stockyards recently with q
herd of cattle, and after selling out he went 70 the
hotel and turned In, blowing out the gas, afer the
habit OF his kind. During the evening the snell
Of escaping gas became 80 noticeable that an in-
i' yestigation was made, which resulted in tracing
l. its source TO the grangers door. The hotel clerk
: therefore, began pounding upon the door and