National Republican., 1883-03-16

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IT is now highly improper to ask even the
most intimate friend to "come over to the house
and have friendly little game of draw" The
poker festivity now n commerce party by the
latest New York edict.
TENNYsoN publishes another poem. We
know ii is his because his name is signed to It, and
that 1t Is poem because every line begins with a
capital letter. There is no evidence to justify our
first statement, apart from these two bits.
GREEN hair is popular with the young
swells In Paris. We trust 1t will be popular in
Atlanta. We have long been of the opinion thata
young man who smokes cigarettes ought to have
his hair painted green.-Aadnta Constitution.
A wELL-CLAD and respectable man recently
created II great stir in London by promenadng
the streets sandwichod between two boards, which
bore these pacards: General postof1ce. Dis
charged for not saluting clerk. Twenty-Five
years her majesty's servant"
AN exchange says that a Boston young lady
of wealth and position has astonished "society"
by cutting and making her own wedding dress.
The fact of her "cutting and making" 1t caused
no comment; IL was when she appeared in 1t that
"socety" became "astonished."
AN English lady once asked Richard Grant
White at a London reception whether. the people
of Chicago were troubled by. wolves now. Mr..
Mapleson says that an Englishman once asked
him gravely whether the American Indians en-
ioyed the Cincinnati opera festival.
GEN. THEBAUDIN, the new French minis
ter Of war, has disagreeable story to explain.
During the German war he was taken prisoner
and released on parole. On recovering from his
wound, however, he assumed the name of Thibau-
din Comagny, and took command of brigade
A NEGRO in Mobile, Ala, created sensa-
tion and caused himself to be suspected ofmurder
by making false grave and putting near 1t corn
sack saturated with blood His object was to
" hoodoo the witches who protected supposed
buried treasure of which the negro was In search.
IA PROMINENT insurance man estimates
that females Will live nine months and three days
longer than males after the age of 05 is passed.
We can credit the nine months, but the three
days portion of the assertion is asking us to be-
lieve too much. The experiment is worth trying,
however.-Norristown Herald.
CAPT BoYcoTTa few years ago dared not go
outside OF his grounds without body guard. He
madea visit TO America aud, finding no place like
home, returned to his boycotted house and sot
about the work of making his peace with the peo-
| pie. He went at II so earnestly, and with such
honest intention that he is now free TO 20 where
he pleases without police protection.
The editor of the Colorado Register call has
| in his time reported twenty-five hangings and cx
ecutions throughout the United States, and lie can
recall but three cases where the men who died
with q rope around their necks did not proclaim
from the balcony, before the trap was sprung,
that they had found the sweet fields of Eden and
were going straight to the shining shore
THEY were talking over music and the
drama at the table of their host, who, as they
were already aware, owed his fortune to his own
| unaided exerlions. You are fond of Rossin?'
| asked one OF his guests. "PassionatelY," replied
| the host. I" How do you like his 'Barber?"
" Don't know, sir-never patronlzed the man
have shaved myself for the last forty years"
LITTLE grains of sand scattered along the
shores of tho mighty ocean or over the pleasant
land are not of much importance, but when
couple of quarts of them are collected and placed
in au old stocking in the hands of a Chicago sand
| bagger, they become one of the most convincing Of
arguments and some Of Chicagos greatest men
have bowed to their ponderous power and force
| Peeks Sun.
THE people of Glasgow, the great manu-
| featuring metropolis of Scotland, have been going
| into ecstasies over two new Pullman palace car
| called respectively the st, Mungo and the st. An
| drew. American enterprise Is making itself felt
| among the canny north Britons and the next ten
years may witness the last of the "cabined,
| cribbed confined" and dismal bob-tail railway
cars now In use.
In the waters of the Northern Pacific swims
what might be called the olive of the sea-" 1t is
the latest of all fishes, and from it the Oil actually
drips-an oleaginous fluid as sweet and limpid as
that of the olive. Some day this hsh-which is
nothing else than the rice or reed bird hsh-wlll
be caught and squeezed till the oil is all out of
! him. The oil will be sent to Italy, and shipped
back in bottles the best olive oil for salad dress
ing.
! THE Arkansas Trapeller tells of lady who
! knows that her husband never shakes dice for the
| drinks, and that he is strictly sober, was awak.
ened the other night by her husband, who in his
sleep exclaimed: "Thrce trays to beat. Horse on
me-" "what do you mean ?" asked the wife.
shaking him. what does who mean2" "You."
! What about?" "Why, you cried out, Horse on
me-" "That's all right, merely had night
mare"
FAME is not such very great thing. Mr..
+ Mckenzie, of Kentucky, asked meif remembered
| the death Of Tom Marshall. at Versailles, and his
| last words. did not, so he told me. Marshall
said, us he turned his face toward the window: !:
"Thls Is the end! l am dying on borrowed bed,
under borrowed blanket in house built by
public charity? Bury mo under that oak tree
where there is plenty of room. have been
crowded all my life."-Denrer Tribune,
! ANOTHER society craze, Wnlcn had ltS
origin in San Francisco, has taken root in Chicago
and threatens to spread over the country. A
| Prof. Henson has arrived in Chicago from the Pa
| cihc slope, and will, IL is thought soon be much
sought after by the fair sex. He has reduced the
process Of tattooing TO fine art, and is prepared
to decorate any one who desires ii, The professor
| keeps himself very close and II has been found
impossible to obtain any information from him.
| but young lady, who boarded at the same
house, told a reporter what little she knew
She said the professor had large num-
ber of patrons in the highest social circles
of the city, whom he decorated with monograms
or such devices as are desired, but unmarried
ladies generally prefer to have their lovers names
prlcked into them heprofessor used needles for
the purpose of puncturing the skin to make the
dye which is q secret mixture prepared by the
professor himself permanent, 1t is said that the
professor had very large business in San Fran
cisco, Ladies moving In the highest circles Of 80.
ciety make no secret OF their being tattooed, aud
the young ladies especially considered It heroic,
and proof of their devotion TO submit to tho
process of having the name Of their true love in
delibly fixed upon their person. The tattooing
process is generally applied TO tho arms, but fro,
! quenty 10 other portions Of the body.