National Republican., 1883-10-27

most level head
BRAZIL has 100000 slaves, about one.ffth
ofwhom are Indians.
WISCONSIN reports haistorm which
knocked the horns off deer
LONDON has company which insures
against bicycle and tricycle. accidents.
A SPECIMEN of tho ibex was shot recently
in Madison county, Montana territory.
AT a gamo cock main to be held in Texas
this week there are 100 entries aud $4,000 stakes.
RAVENS have boen successfully used in
stead OF carrier pigeons at CoblenIz the Rhine.
New YORK greonbacker describes But
Ter as the iron ribbed governor Of Massachusetts
A MOBILE priest says that tho north is
away behind the south in religious point Of
view
They have just commenced coming Jokes
in England about that long satirized martyr, the
mother-in-law.
FIVE millions of the $10000,O0O deposited
in the Amoskeag Savings bank, in Manchester,
N, H., belong to the mill operatives.
w. s. Gilbert, the dramatist, is buildings a
S25OOOO residence at Kensngton, England. The
playwrights lot is indeed happy ono.
EVER since Horny Irving heard that Texas
Tom Ochiltree called him n bad actor, 1t is re-
ported that he has lost all confidence In himself
DURING the last thirty years the Church of
England has raised S2500O0,OOO for the building
and repairing of churches and oathedrals, and
ssOO,OOO for endowments.
I'VE have struck smoother road, haven't
weY asked passenger ofa conductor OH an Ar
kansas railway. mo" replied the conductor,
eve have only run off the track"
IT said that woman may travel from
end n IN ha
out fear of molestation. Any one who has ever
seen japanese woman will readily believe this
EVERY young man ought to take a vaca-
tion especially II he has girl. 1t will enable
her to retire at an early hour when he is away,
and thus get much needed rest-Rome Sentinel.
TALKING with reporter the other day,
Mr. John J.. Sullivan remarked: az never have
| said much about myself for l haven't had much
| to say" Now here is the modesty of true great
ness
GLENDALE (M. T.) jury hung for two
days, but when the sheriff told them there would
be horse race out on the street in an hour they
agreed in exactly seven minutes by the foreman's
| watch.
Miss BENNIE JONES is the editor of wild
democratic newspaper at Athens. Ohio, but she Is
described as "the wittiest aud brightest girl that
can be found between the rising aud the setting
of the suu."
In Burnet, Tex, o lunatic, named Luckey
set fire to lot OF straw in the jail and then defied
any one to come near. barber was brave enough
to risk his life ana save the lunatc and the Jail
| from cremation.
A YOUNG man who went into the kitchen
where his girl was baking, and inadvertently sa
down OH u hot pie just from the oven, and now
boasts that he descended from tho upper crust"
| -NorrfstO,0n Herald.
| "HAvE you got quail on toast ?" asked
| seedy looking party as he entered Market street
restaurant the other day. " Have you got an eagle
on silver?" asked the proprietor. And the con-
feronce adjourned sine die.
THE wife of Mr.. w. H. II. Murray has lust
returned from Europe with diploma from the
Vienna Medical college, both as physician and
surgeon, being, hor friends say, the only woman
in the country with this certificate.
THE plumbers strike is direct blow at
the very foundation of our freedom. 1t is start.
ling fact that these knights of the pipe and solder
never defy the long suffering public when the
balmy breezes of summer blow.-New York
Journal.
JOHN SwINToN promises to turn the readers
of his paper toward the new times and the bet
ter world whose aurora the prophetic eye will yet
behold" Mr.. swinton will have TO charge big ad-
vertising rates, If he is to accomplish all that
| C0urieJ-JOUrRdl.
Miss MARY ANN MILLER, having sued Ste
phen Beck, III Northampton county, Va, for breach
of promise, testified that the defendant had kissed
he little more than 100000 times. Thereupon
the jury gave her verdict for sl,00S33 assessed,
according To the foreman, at the rate of cent q
kiss.
IT is said that one New York produce firm
has paid an average of $50 q day for a month at a
time for kilograms to Chicago and the telegraphio
business of five firms with their Chicago CORE
spondents costs $4,000 year. And yet less than
half a century ago all heworld's business was
transacted without the wire.
THERE is man in Warren county, Georgia,
who was in seventeen battles during the conted-
crate war, was wounded several times, has been
struck by lightning three times, lay insensible
from one shock three days, and is now not more
than 40 years of age and is as healthy as any man
and weighs over 200 pounds.
A WILLIAMANTIC factory girl wrote her
name and address and her desire to be married In
a nice little note which she placed inside the hat
she had just finished Her father bought the hat
On his way home that evening he paused at a
house which they were plastering and obtained a
slender and supple lath. AS the novelists say,
1--WE will draw u veil over the scene which ensued.
Chicago Tribune.
: HEARD at the opera of lies Cloches de
lady of her chattoring companion. "She says,
'Taisez.vous! Taisez. vousr my DEAR" he replied,
, and then continued telling her everything that
would happen next. Suddenly a cross-looking
man in the seat ahead turned around and said
"Will you please tell me, sir, what taisez-vous'
= means?" Certainly, sir" he smilingly replied
? "it means shut upr" "Well. sir. wish you
would 'taisez-vous' during the remainder of this
, play, or else get out /" The chatterer "taisez
vOus-ed"
]. w. DAVIS and Robert Bagby, of Russell
vile, Greg, while hunting in the mountains to-
ward the headwaters of the Clackamas, came
. across small boiling spring They cooked some
eggs and boiled their coffee in II by partially i'm
0 mersing the pot. On examining the bottom OF the
7 spring they saw a whitish looking snake with
1 pink eyes, which they thought was dead. One o
Q them took a stick and threw II out on the grass
and both were amazed to see 1t glide swiftly back
Into the boiling water, Hardly believing theil
own eyes, they repeated the experiment several
times, with like result.
: A CHASTITY burial ceremonial that is prac-
o ticed by the Mormons riyets the hold poygamy
o has on the superstition of these creatures. Every
n wife that is buried has black cloth laid on he
face, and the Mormon women are taught to be
lleye that on the resurrection day, when tn,
righteous arc called into the joys OF their Lord
no hand but that of a husband can remove th'