National Republican., 1883-10-25
SITTING BULL wants to got rich.

SITTING BULL wants to got rich.
MANITOBA is overrun with lawyers.
CANADA is becoming very jealous of Dakota.
AKRON, OHIO, has practicing physician 92
years old
A GRANDSON of Marshal Ney has tdrned up
in oregon.
FRANCE has resident foreign population
of 100000.
NEWARK, N. j., has legislated bob-tail car
| oGher streets.
CHESTNUT parties are the order of tho day
| In Pennsylvania
Mrs. LANGTRY, sR., is near sighted, as
Freddie is glad to know.
MARIE ANToINETTE's harp has been founo
in an old curiosity shop in Berlin.
OVER 5,000,000,000 feet of long leaf pines
| nre now standing in North Carolina.
Now that it is an established fact that
cleanliness is next to godliness, there are people
curious 10 know what godllness is next to.
ONE day last week woman but % years of
age was married for the fifth time in Sacramento.
AN Easton, Pa, horse thief is trying the
DR.. Tanner dodge Of living without eating in
order, as he says, to beat the sheriff by escaping
through the keyhole.
CHARLES HOME of Palestine, Texas, ha
been arrested for shooting an organ grinder. "God
bless our Home !" is the pious exclamation Of the
Rochester PostErpress
THE king of Italy wants to insure his life
for E12000O in order make some provision for his
family, but the Italian companies decline the risk,
| on the ground that crowned heads are extra
| hazardous
Iowa saloon keepers arc all said to favor
prohibition rather than high license. Prohibition
means free whisky and high license means retire.
ment from business TO q good many of the retail
dispensers of tortyrod.
A NEWLY married lady was telling another
how nicely her husband could write "oh you
should just see some of his love letters "Yes, /
know" was the freezing reply: i've got bushel
Of 'em in my trunk Tableau.
THERE are at present 100 newspapers in the
United States of which the publishers, editors,
and chief contributors negroes Tho oldest Of
them is the Elevator of San Francisco, which has
already attained its eighteenth year.
CITIZENS of Oshkosh, Wis, subscribed ST.,
0Co, and gave 1t 10 the manager of the Northwest
ern fair IN consideration of their rejecting ar
offer of 81 900 from wheel of fortune man to b
allowed to run his wheel on the fair grounds
THE tunnel on the Arlberg railway, which
is expected to become such an important exit fol
Austro Hungarian produce to France and Switzer1
land will be nearly six and one-half miles long.
IL cApcCteu W Dc VI OClODeT.
THE young New York millionaire who has
bought Mile. Nixon, Grau's prima donna. is not q
dude. but one whose habits are simple, though
elegant He has strung $4,000 worth of diamonds
oil his purchase already. His name is Dadmann
1.-THE geysers in the Yellowstone Park are
undergoing some changes, and the one known us,
the New Crater" which broke out this spring,
has been constantly increasing In size, and now
promises to be one of the best in that wonderful
region.
Mr.. B. S. GLIDING, a member Of the London
school board. while addressing blue ribbon
meeting ut Hghbury, stated that out of 52l FAM
lilies living in that thicky populated district S1
were families who lived in one room, and as many
us nine lived in single apartment.
A LATE novel marries off its heroine under
the prescription Of the family physician as the
only means of saving her from insanity. Imagine
the sensation Of groom who is compelled to
realize that his mission in life is henceforth to act
us the substitute for lunatic asylum.
DURING tho war of 1872 two kegs of gold
coin were sent from Prescott TO Kingston, Ont b,
stage. The stage broke down and the gold was
/ seCreted somewhere near Hog Back hill, Some
| people think the coin may be found there still,
and many holes have been dug in search of tho
, missing treasures.
l SAN FRANCISCO policeman, who was
called liar by an old man whom he had ar
7 rested, testified that he had been church mem
Der for forty years, and had never before been
cused of lying. The judge considered the officers
admission such a surprising one that he promptly
/, convicted the prisoner
, AS AN accommodation to tho working
classes of Indianapolis, William ii. English offers
10 redeem all old cent stamps offered him In
good state of preservation. For three Of these
cent stamps he gives four bright new cent
stamps. thus giving the poor laboring man an ops
portunity to mail four letters instead of three
' Mr.. MEYER, of Paris, claims to have in
vented a paper indestructible by FIRE. Specimens
= | have been exhibited which had previously beer
= placed for four hours in d pottery furnace. Mr.,
. Meyer has also invented incombustible colors and
, ink. The invention is likely TO be of great value
and the incOmbustble paper will be in demand
for wills, deeds, account books, &c.
n "MR. ENGLISH, one of the gentlemanly
candidates on the late democratic ticket refuses
to consider proposition to run again, He says it
u cost him too much money, There is no doubt that
a Mr English was very extravagant IT is on
IS record" says the Atlanta Constuution 4" that no
purchased So worth of postage stamps and half
ream of writing pads When the result is taken
into consideration II must be admitted that this
5 mcney was thrown away
> WHISKY man ufacturers in Maryland, and
. also in the subbourbon districts across the river
y in Kentucky. were making arrangements, in case
+ Of prohibition tidal wave sweeping over Ohio,
TO furnish all the goods" necessary to proper irri
= cation in that state in neatly sealed tin cans
labeled peaches" The election results have col,
+ lapsed lhe beautiful scheme, and TO realize on
/, those pretty peach cans the owners will have to
sell them back to the fruit dealers.
: DURING Prince Bismarck's recent stay at
GNsen his dog Reichshund, which nearly killed
the dog of Prince Gortschakoif at the Berlin con-
gress, made savage attack on dog that be-
n longed to Il Gasten householder and finally killed
Il him. Bismarck witnessed the affair and punished
. his dog severely. few days afterward he called
on the owner of tho dead dog and not only apollo
y gized in person for the outrage, but promised TO
replace the slain animal with still better one.
A GERMAN statisticlan has calculated the
It chance which leading actress has of establish
VI ing herself well in life by marrying into royal or
d noble families. The results shows that she has
/. one chance IN SAG of becoming the consort of a
n prince belonging to reignng family, one In 40S
~ of becoming the wife Of second rate or younger
II brother prince one in BIZ of shuling oil her NOR
a coil in the capacity of duchess, one In 200 OF
breathing her last as countess and one in 40 OF
m dying baroness, II she Is out and out killing"
THERE Is another monster trial to come uT
shortly before Vice Chancellor Bacon, In England
which nrornises 10 last as long as the TichbOrne