National Republican., 1883-04-14


PARIS surgeons now mako dimples at one
| napoleon each.
THE sleigh stage which runs between Fair.
haven and Benson, w. has been used for 12i
years.
ACCORDING to the Post Express, man who
blows the foam of glass Of beer can be said to
blow his own horn.
IT is believed that Methuselah came to his
untlmely death through the excessive use Of to-
bacco.-Post- Express.
RENENY1 has found twelve-year-old girl
In Texas whom he pronounces the greatest violin.
list America ever produced.
MAURICE son of Charles Kingsley, man
ofliterary talent himself is employed in the office
of the Buffalo City Engineer.
| In Breslau, Germany, chimney fifty feet
high has been erected Of paper pulp, chemically
prepared to resist combustion.
A MARRIED man doesn't shiver now whom
he passes a sealskn sacque store, but the sight Of
millinery shop sets him wild.
A STRIKE of colored washerwomen in South
Carolina is said by Boston paper to be a rising Of
these women in their Dinah mite.
A QUAKER journal thinks the world is cer-
tainly getting better because burlesques are be-
coming less broad and sermons less narrow.
The wicked Post Express soliloquizes that
this is the season when rainy Sunday is too wet
to go to church, butjust damp enough to 60 a-ish-
ing.
Or William Blacks description of still life
the London ACADEMY says that his only rivals are
among workers with the brush and the etching
needle.
In Algodones, N. NJ, lives q Pueblo Indian
over 100 years old, and he earns his own living
by working on loom 200 years old Probably he
makes yarns. and this may be n sample.
JAMES PARTON has been lecturing on "The
Coming Mans Religion" Tho Post. Express says
his satanic majesty Is considering tho same sub.
ject-and with good deal Of complacency.
A LITTLE chap in Gallatn, Tenn, son of q
prominent turfman, was asked by his school
teacher to define "good breeding" "a mnro
with two Lexington crosses" was the instant
reply.
THE weather will soon be so warm that
people in the country can't burn their children
by locking them in the house and going Off to
church. Some other simple plan will have TO bo
invented.-Aldnta Constitution.
A FULL set of ivory poker checks were dug
up from the ruins of Pompeii the other day. but
the eminent savants still hesitate to pronounce
upon the high state of civilization attributed to
these people until they find the table with a hole
in the top.-BostoR Post
Mr.. CUMMINGS was candidate for alder
man in ST. Louis. He wrote to the Spectator:
"G Give me little puff. Ifyou ask any one who
knows me, you will find that am worthy of sup-
port. al inclose Sl0." The editor printed the let
ter by way of "littlo puff" and gave the money
| to charity.
A SHARK swimming about schooner of
the coast of Florida swallowed an alarm clock
that accidentally fell overheard, and when, about
two hours later, the alarm rang inside OF him his
terror so great that he Jumped twenty feet out
of water and deck hands on tho boat had to lie
down and laugh.
BROTHER GARDNER's philosophy: "What
we don't know we often try to make up for in ar
gyment. What we lack in argument we try To
| make up for in blab. II am easier 10 call n man
fool dan to produce facks and figures 10 convince
| him dat he am in de wrong 1t am safer TO call
nm old man liar than 10 wink ut a young mans
| wife."-Detrou Free Press.
Mr.. McMURTRY, Boston gentleman, res
Gently brought home bottle of arsenic for use on
the rats To prevent accident, says tho Transcript,
| he wrote on the bottle in big letters the word
Poison" "But what good will that do?' asked
Mrs. Mac; "the children can't read" "True,"
replied McMurty II didn't think of that" Then
he wrote beneath the label. This says poison"
There" he added, nov they will know whatit
| says"
The sick mans face became suddenly
| illumined with heavenly radiance; an unwonted
light beamed from his eyes, and he moved his
| lips as II he would speak. His fearful wife bent
down her ear TO hear the last words that should
| pass those lips which were so soon to be stilled
forever. In faint whisper, but yet full Of Joy and
peace and hope, the dying man murmured, IT
die happy; shall escape the house cleaningv
mi. ptgl Ifa al had al uaaIa
Transcript
A Boston woman located leak in ths
waste pipe of her wash basin by making use OF
the known fondness Of her cats for valerian. She
put the two cats In the parlor, where there was
appreciable offensive odor. She then poured the
oil into the basin of an upper room. The cat
directly began To sniff the air, and move toward q
| closet through which the waste pipe ran, then
jumped upon a shelf there and purred as If enjoy
| ing great luxury. The wall was cut away to ex-
pose the pipe, and a leak found at the very spot
indicated by cat satisfaction.
If the Springfield Republican is to be credited
| tho word dude pronounced IN two syllables) is
not q new one and is not of English origin. IL has
been used in the little town of Salem, N H., for
twenty years past and it is claimed was coined
there. 1t is common thore to speak Of dapper
young man as dude of q fellow" Of a small
animal as IA little dude" Of sweetheart as "my
dude" and OF an esthetic youth of the Wilde type
as a dude But how the word attained so sudden
and widespread n notoriety puzzles Salem. Its re-
yival at New York is credited to a disgusted Eng
lishman, who remarked, after visiting rich club,
that the young men were all "dudes."
PRINCE OF WALEs's last new fancy is Miss
Chappell, the niece of the well known music pub
Usher of Bond street. She is said TO be beauti-
full girl and deserving OF happier fate than that
OF being admired by the prince. Olive Logan
writes and probably with justice that these pref
erences shown to young ladies by his royal high
ness are felt to be-and by no one more than the
objects OF them-a serious social mlshap "Good
girls like Miss Chamberlain and Miss Chappell
arc in actual danger for these are not the days
OF the merry monarch. Virtue has rights which
even royalty Is bound to respect. Nevertheless
there Is an odium which will llnger when
woman is known TO have been admired by the
prince and respectable girls, but especially their
parents feel this very keenly know of young
Scotch girl who recently came to London on a
visit to some relatives, and soon after her arrival
she met the Prince Of Wales at ball, whore he
paid her great deal attention, and the next day
sent her magnificent bouquet with his compli-
ments Her relatives were so alarmed at the af-
fair that they sent the girl straight back by the
first train to Scotland, out OF harms way"
WHAT volumes might be written of the