National Republican., 1883-08-17
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me new moon hung in an awkward shape
And was crooked and bent like the horn Of
ram;
The somber naples seemed hung With Grape
Ana the garden gate banged to with slam.
The brook oozed over the Shiny stones
from stagnant pools in the meadow marsh;
Or tcrooned along with plantivc means,
Ana the song Oft the whip-poorwlll was harsh.
He Jabbcd his ribs on the clumsy stilo
| For dark as pitch was the dusty lane
And his thin lips curved in bitter smile
AS he smote the weeds with a splteful cane.
Rough and ugly and long was the way.
| The sties were dull and the eatth was cold;
He hated the night and he dreaded the day.
And his heart seemed a hundred centuries old.
With the dirge of his sghs he tined his tread.
As one who pondereth bitter th ngs;
But he only whispered, with dropping head,
And heart that wondered" Kicked bv
iingsP Robert j. Burdete in LVe.
The Hon. John l.. Sullivan will hereafter
be mentioned as distinguished member of the
Boston bar.-LVe.
WITHIN two weeks every truo sportsman
in the country will rise to propose toast to the
great American quail-LVe.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has discovered that
the mouth of n Yellowstone trout is like the
question 1884 1t is open for debate.-Life.
THE American rifle team say that their
defeat at Wimbledon was due to bad weather.
No one will deny that It was a cold day.-LVe.
WHEN Prince Bismarck signed the edict
against American pork he was heard to mutter,
You can't make silk purse out of your sowa
here"-Bisnldrck Tribune.
SHE sang 81 want to be an angel" and he
swofe she was one already. To this she bushing
| ly demurred. Then he married her. Demurrer
misunderstanding Night
DIR. FRENo, the leading physician of Aix-les-
Bsins where so many people go to be cured OF
rheumatism, is q martyr to that alment, though
he is very successful in curing others of the com.
plant.
The idle scribbling Of names on the Brook
| lyn bridge is not without precedent. Upon the
worm eaten bulwarks of Noah's newly discovered
ark have been traced the initials s. b. A. and S. j.
| T-LUe.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER has sold q
million and half copies of his "Proverbial
Philosophy" in this country. 1t is some consola-
ton to reflect that he has never received penny
from them.-Pos, Express.
LADY PAGET, wife of the British embassa-
dor at Rome, must be master hand at scolding,
as one of her Italian servants recently committed
| suicide after breaking much valued china cup
rather than tell her Of the accident
StLADY BEATRICE KENT is the style adopted
by the Princess Beatrice on the continent. Eng
lish critics censuro the selection of ii tie as
name, and the departure from the usual custom
of employing "D'Este" as a non.disguising dis.
guise.
"IM glad Billy had the sense to marry a
sett':d old maid" said Grandma Winkum at the
wedding. "Gals is hity-tity, and widders is
kinder overrulin and upsettin'. Old maids Is
kinder thankful and willin' to please Chris
tidn at Work.
LEADvILLE parsons are too particular.
One of them was to oliciate at funeral the other
day, and when the master of ceremonies notified
him to begin by saying, "Now, old hoss, 1t
rs your play" the reverend tainted Now they are
calling him divinity dude.
APRoPos of Oscar Wildes purposed appear
ance the stage, the Rochester Post Express says
"a cat that would not gladly die for the privilege
of fhaving its dead body thrown at Oscar Wilde as
Romeo must have a very poor comprehension of
t he beauties of Shakespeare"
The Madison Square theater, "Young Mrs.
Winthrop" company, will be made up of the fol-
lowing strong cast Mr.. T.. J. Buckley Miss Estelle
Clayton, Miss Maude Stuart, Mr. william H.
Gillette (the original Professor Miss Jean Clara
Walters Miss Blanche Weaver, Mr.. Edwin Arden,
and Mr. Frank Colfax.
J THE watering places along the New Eng
land coast have not been well patronized this sea-
} that have blown constantly all summer. Mount
Desert has been especially chilly, and the fogE
have laid the foundations for numerous neuralglaA
and rheumatisms the coming winter.
THE Duke of Norfolk, with all his immens
wealth. is obliged to retrench. He has given so
much money for religious purposes and spent so
much at Arundel and other places that he has
been obliged to dismiss three hundred workpeople
and cut down his household expenses. He is q
very Insignificant looking man for a premier
r duke.
Miss FINNEY, alias Fortescue, left tho
Savoy theater previous to her marriage with Lord
Garmoyle, Earl Cairns's heir. Her friends are in
dignant ut the illusions TO the wedding as one in
volving degradation, pointing out that Lord Gar
moyles grandfather was butler and his mother
the daughter of a land agent. Her father is a coal
merchant.
OUIDA has written an article ON the copy.
, right question, in which she says that when
!, Americans stop pirating English publications
their commercial morality Will be purer than ID
= is at present" And when the Americans stop
reading Ouidas immoral novels their literary
tastes will be purer than they are at present.
. Norris.oDn Herald.
A POLITICAL view of the situation: "A
pretty time of night TO come home, John" said n
young bride, pointing to the clock which stood
s Gt lilo a, m, land you but Just married. too,
and somewhat thickly in speech, ~ am liberal,
9 you are evidently a conservative. Let us neither
u now now henceforth discuss politics 1t will make
:, home unhappy" ,"-London Society.
o THE three Fink brothers, Albert, Henry
# and Rudolph, all connected with railroad in
terests. They are Germans and engineers, and
their combined salaries exceed those paid to am
|. family in the United States. Albert Fink has
IS built some of the most important railway lines IN
l. the south. Henry Fink is with one of the larges
:, southern systems, Rudolph Fink is building the
main line Of railway into Mexico for the Boston
' men.
n THE Rev. Edward Woolsey Bacon ha.
r made sensation at New London by preaching a
% sermon in which he advocated decidedly ad
vanced views in the matter of the administration
ofJustice, and more than hinted that upon some
occasions parties were justified In taking the law
n into their own hands. 1t sustained the course O.
Is young Mutt in shooting Dukes-who had sian.
II dered his sister and murdered his father-aftel
n the jury had acquitted him.
D. Mr.. S. A. BINGHAM, q Connecticut editor,
10 went to Red Dog, Arizona, to start a newspaper.
He issued the first number, with leading
editorial bearing upon the obvious improprioty
of church elders keeping their faro banks opeI
20 during the hours of service. That same evening
Mr.. Bingham left town. He brought away with
n him an excellent sample OF native bitumen, NJ
~ extensive collection of feathers, and two smal
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