National Republican., 1883-03-09

| --Boston Courier.
CoENEoTIcUT has 1855 clergymen and 1,1ee
bar tenders.
TIMOTHY REAGAN, aged 100 years, was
buried at Syracuse ono day last week.
NEXT Sunday, If it doesn't rain, will be a
good day to go cunning for weather prophets.
FATHER ST. CYR, a Jesuit priest, who first
! introduced religion in Chicago, died a few days
ago. 1t is said he died ola broken heart.
WE cannot explain it, but somehow It seems
TO us that Cleveland in the presidential chair
| would remind one of butcher in his Sunday suit
NEBUcHADNEzzARs doorstep has been
added to the curiosities In the British museum
Now If II could only get the OK that Nebuchadnez.
gar ate grass like.
The New York Commercial Advertiser man
calls freckles on young woman I" Brown eyed
daises slumbering in q field of cream" We sug-
gcst sea voyage.
LADY living at Athens, Ga, not only
has q number Of love letters written to her ly
John Howard Payne but the original manuscript
OF" Home, Sweet Home"
Mr.. GLADSTONE has lately tried breakfast
ing in bed for the first time. and rather enjoyed
It. Ifho had begun life in thlsway somebody else
would now be prime minister.
| A NEBRASKA man committed suicide bo-
cause he owed seventy.fye cents, a man who
! hasn't the business capacity to- Qwer more money
than that ought to commit snioide, .g To-
THE bright spring weather'will soon Danish
the sealskin sScque TO its moth proof chest OF
cedar. What heart aches this would cause but for
the consolation ofthe new spring bonnet.
IT will cost 412,0oO,O0O to run tunnel
under tho English channel. The question which
agitates the bold Briton, however, Is how much It
will cost to run the French ont Of the tunnel.
A LADY writes story about "My Hus-
bands Secret" Ho must have been young hus-
band TO have admitted he had one. The old mar.
red man knows better than to do so.-Boston
Globe.
No matter how popular cremation may be.
come among civilized people, cam balls will never
carry 1t TO excess. They do not believe in over
doing what is already well done, except, perhaps
on very rare occasions.
AN exchange tells of the daughter of a de-
ceased Boston man who was once wealthy bu is
now in reduced circumstances. We imagine that
the circumstances of a deceased Boston man
might not be very enviable.
The Florida legislature has passed bill
comforting police powers on train conductors. As
we understand 1t, they already possess such
powers. 1t is the duty Of q train conductor 10
convey people to tho station.
4 ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS was ever in SYM
pathy with the aims and ambitions of young men,
and there are said to be scores Of successful men
in Georgia and elsewhere to-day who owe their
beginning to his friendly efforts.
NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND pies and $4,000
glasses Of beer will be included in the cars free
lunch, This is only about two-thirds of glass
of beer to one pie We fail to see the "magnih-
cence" of such an entertainment
ONE Of the meanest Of the many disreputa-
Bile iconoclasts Of the present age is a Massachu-
sets man who says that Lydia E. Pinkham, a lady
whom we have all learned to love, patonicay, II
course is nothing but Mrs. Harris.
MOSQUITO has concealed in its bill six
complete surgical instruments, each so minute as
to be indiscernibe TO the naked eye. Catching
mosquitoes and studying their anatomy is the
most delightful paslime of scientists on warm
summer nigts.
MEMBER OF "the finest" which is the
New York police force was discharged on Mon.
4. day for disobedience of orders. According to the
records shown in court he had been tried on sixty
nine complaints in sixteen years service, and
fined l0l days pay.
A FRENCH inventor has discovered way
OF soldifying petroleum by which It can be used
like candle for illumi ating purposes, without
7 danger of explosion He is late by at least
quarter OF century. Gas and electricity have
the bulge" on him.
| lHlb ID Une ulue OF year when everybody
heart is broken by the announcement that the
severe winter has killed all the peach buds. ana
there will consequently be no peaches this year.
Somehow or other the peaches get around In
Z August, just the same.
1 Mr. IRVING, the English actor, is rapturous
, over some American delicacies that were sent
v him. The terrapin was perfect" and canvas
0 backed ducks ethereal" If good food has this
effect on Mr.. Irving 1t Is no wonder the aesthetic
IN alden thought his right leg is poem"
ANNOUNCEMENT is made Of the betrothal
: OF the Countess Gisela Walsersheimb and the
4 Baron George Washington, son Of tho Baron Max.
imilian Washington, of Gratz, Austria. The WASH
. ington family is a branch OF the old English
stock Of that name from which came the illustri.
> Gus first president OF this republic.
A sEvEN-YEAR older, with the pun ster's
y mark on his brow, at dinner asked his mother
. what was in jar on the table. Pickles, my
o SON." was the reply. "Then, mamma please
pickle little one ont for me" come with stunning
force from the child, and the mother fell over q
!. chair and fainted.-7he Drummer.
II CHINA possesses the longest bridge in the
o world. It is at Lagang. over an arm OF the
China sea, and Is ave miles long, built entirely OF
. stone. is seventy feet high, with roadway sew.
l. enty feet wide, and has 800 arches The parapet
is balustrade and each Of tho pillars, which are
i. | beNeuly-INo lotl apart oupHoIlS a pSuSsthl w
" which Is placed lion twenty Ave feet long, made
- - Of one block OF fmarble.
II THE analeps, vivaporous fish of eastern
ID Asia, has singular eye. 1t is divided horizon
l. tally into two hemispheres by membr9neou'
N band Each halfis perfect organ OF vision, The
N two upper halves are long sighted, and the two
II lower ones sighted. The Boston Post Is Of the
T. opinion that one would almost think the creature
" would be able TO set up job on itself.
OaoNTz, the pet name given to the former
residence OF Jay Cooke, on the Chelton hills, neal
"A Philadelphia is about to be Transformed into
az high toned boarding school for young ladies. The
building which Is five story mica granite struct
ture, is situated on knoll commanding splen
"a did view, in the midst OF forty acre park anC
a. ai cost Its owner over million dollars
e. A REVIVAL Of stories about Lincoln Is nov
ID in progress. The latest reminiseence relates b
in his feeling toward the south AT the close OF th
~ war; and his lack Of anxiety for the capture o
et Jeff Davis. When an officer called upon the Pres
ident to ascertain the disposition OF the govern
to ment toward the late head OF the defunct confed
". eracy, Mr., Lincoln told him the story of the tenn
he perance lecturer who expressed inclination 10
as stick In his lemonade II It could be put In unbe
n known TO him. Now" said Lincoln, II Jei
ed Davis should oontrive to quit the country unbe
es known 10 me, am not prepRted 10 say but tha
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