National Republican., 1883-11-01
CURRENT GOSSIP.

SO loud and so long,
so fierce and so strong,
That her beau broke his arm in this mannah:
He'd fan her
This Hannah
When at the piannnh
with his twenty 6ve-cent red bandannsh.
BosToN house advortises shoes for
elopemenis" They don't squeak
MASSACHUSETTS ladies, meeting at social
calls, talk politics almost exclusively,
DURING the past year over 1s2, 900 eggs
were shipped to this country from Europe
THE burning question in Michigan is:
Does Gov Bogole travel on railway passes2
THIRTEEN business houses in Miles City,
NJ r., were recently destroyed by fire. Twelve of
them were saloons
! CALIFORNIA newspapers boast that Budd,
one of the new democratic congressman from that
state, wears forty dollar undershirts
UNDER the scepter of the czar Of Russia
| live thirty-eght different natonalites each
speaking its own language, which is foreign To
nll others.
FIVE women are candidates for the Office
Nebraska counties, and all are regular party
nominees.
THE remains of Harvey, discoverer of the
circulation of the blood, have been placed in n
thousand dollar marble coffin by the Royal Coll
lege of Physicians.
BERLIN tradesmen are so excited by th,
proposed opening of cooperative stores that the!
have asked the emperor to forbid members OF thu
army and navy to have anything to do with them
THE big diamond recently found in South
Africa though weighing nearly six ouhces Is not
estimated as worth more than $4,000, the color
being bad However a bath of acid has improved
1t.
The knights of Labor will present to Con-
gress next winter, through the chairman Of their
cooperative board. Henry +. Sharpe, Of New
York, bill to encourage, assist and provide for
the organization and settlement OF cooperative
colonies on the public lands.
LITTLE Jimmy Allen, aged IL years, grew
interested in the blasting being done BY well.dig-
gers at Princeton, KY, and, securing hdl pound
of blasting powder, dug a hole in the gfound, and
set off the entire amount at one blast He was
blown into an adjoining township, but will re-
cover
Mrs. ROSE RICH, the forewoman in one of
theilargest of New York dry goods stores, has
been stealing systematically for Eve years articles
which her husband afterward sold. He was
worthless and dissipated; she industrious and in
tegent. She is supposed to have stolen $4,000
worth of goods.
Mr.. ALcoTT, tho Concord philosopher, who
will be 81 years old next month is better this fall.
but he is afflicted with "heterophemy," or, more
plainly, the wrong word comes to his mind when
the right idea is there He will say, for instance,
"The chair Is anxious" when he means, "the day
is pleasant"
A POOR woman in Grand Rapids, Mich,
being left penniless and friendess by her hus-
bands death last February, was compelled TO let
the city bury him. Last week she paid back to
the director of the city poor every cent of money
expended for her husbands burial. She had
| earned the money by hard work, and saved 1t
only by the most rigid economy.
Two OHIO sweethearts were parting at the
dooryard gate. "If you kiss me I'll shoot you,',
she said, drawing his pistol from its pocket. The
smack and the pop were simultaneous. He writes
out his opinion--being disabled for speech by u
wound in the jaw-that 1t was his own fault, be-
cause he had no right to fire off his mouth" at
the girl, and as for the other explosion, he had
told her that the weapon wasn't loaded
HENRY SMITH of Danbury, N. c., q tobacco
farmer, became almost insane with rage over the
damage done to his fine crop by the rains and
winds. he walked over his plantation, swearing
E and Gursng the Almighty, and finally fell speech
less His farm hands carried him into the house,
; and physician who was summoned pronounced
II case of paralysis from which he could not re-
cover.-Mr Aulhatt:n In lions Journal
AT banquet given at the theater at
. Madrid in honor of the anniversary of the dis
covery of America by Columbus, the menu, which
0 was an international curiosity, was: Soup-Isabel
the Catholic American soup; fish from the port of
Paos from which Columbus set sail on his first
o voyage to America; entrees, loin d'Ameral, Cas-
titan partridge, Andes pheasants, jamaica punch,
roasted Brazilian peacock, Estramadura beans,
Havana sweetbreads New York ices Granada
n fruit. and Porto Rico coffee.
~ A PARTISAN woman projected restaurant
/ in which all OF the walters and other visible en-
- ployes were to be hunchbaoks, and she counted
Il on customers similarly deformed through adver
tising that they might eat free for while In the
strange establishment. Whether such concern
~ would excite profitable amount of morbid curl
n osy was not settled, for she could not get the
Is requisite staff, and became bankrupt before the
. premises which she had rented at $1,000 per year
v in the Boulevard des Capuchins were even
@ opened.
n CARPENTERS wages at ST. Louis are from
u so TO SO a day In Dakota carpenters are in de-
mand at So. 100 a day. Living there is costly. In
FL Paso carpenters receive from 81 to S. a day,
but there is no great demand for them as yet. In
Charleston wages range from 81. TO S225. There
IL is no carpenters union in that city. The carpen-
b. ters' strike ON the Newport News elevator con-
n tinues. carpenters union is being formed at
D Lynn, Mass. The Independent union at Cincin-
y natl is dsbanded. San Francisco union No. %
10 months. In Chicago the building trades are
brisk, and carpenters wages are s2.75 to So day.
MONEY was urgently needed by a church
d at Blandford, Mass, and a committee, with the
pastor at its head, devised novel scheme. A
90 challenge was sent to a number of young enat
6 Westield to come out and hunt squirrels all day
and at night cat supper in the church, the party
10 which had killed the least to pay 81 each or
70 all the meals served TO the surprise ofthe church
Al members who had joined in the hunt, the marks
"a men from Westfed beat them but the Springfield
Republican is authority for the charge that, when
II came to a count, number of squirrels that had
,v been shot several days before were frauduenty
~ introduced, so that the church came out hnan-
y eially victors.
ti- The New York Sun has noted the follow
ing curious suicides member of the Texas ba
committed suicide because his client berated hin
' for losing his Jennie Roberts, of Pttsburg
MT flung herself into stream after being refused
oh permission to 90 to ball.. George Atkinson,
IN San Francisco staked his life on his horse anC
ut losing, Immediately paid the forfeit with psto
shGt... Lange of 81, Paul, while riding on
railroad train, first cut his wrists with razor ant
then jumped through car window. "A Kansa
miller drowned himself in his mill pond because