National Republican., 1883-09-19
CURRENT GOSSIP.

In the absence of water sand was used with
good effect at Texas fire.
THE charge is made against Gov. Hamilton,
of Illinois, that when boy holds his horse the
boy gets no money.
A BosToN man has discovered that it Is
mans legs which drown him. If II were not for
his legs he would float. SO would n cast iron der.
rick
A JAR of whisky about seventy years old
was smashed by n crowbar during the excavation
at Bedloes island. Strong men wcpt when they
realized the awful calamity.
STURGEON says that it is possible for a man
to be Christian and belong to brass band, but
that IL would bo difficult for such mans next
door ncghbor to be Christian.
SENATOR CULLoM, of Illinois, says that
when he was governor he never, in making an
appointment, cxsctod promise. Perhaps he at.
tended to that part of tho business in advance.
SAMUEL BERGARD STAFFORD, of Maryland,
has lent to the managers Of tho New England fair
the cutlass OF his kinsmnn, the famous Paul
Jones, and the flag Of the Bon Homme Richard.
Two SCoTcH scientists have started upon q
dredging expedition in the Moray Firth, one of
their chief objects being to study the habits of the
herring They may rake up some old fish stories.
A LARGE cat sprang from the roof of three
story building in Cohoes, N. " aud caught a
sparrow, but fell to the pavement and broke her
neck, and the sparrow fed away. The cat was
killed.
A CORRESPONDENT, who recently enioyeda
chat with Henry Irving, reports that the dis.
tinguished actor recently acquired the habit OF
snuff taking. II is said TO add immensely to his
dignity.
ONE of the old soldiers at Grand army re-
union in Nebraska tho other day was feet
fy,nl tVk kay IIof 90 "a Ear iyi
Alma, Neb. Old soldiers grow very long in Ne
braska,
LORD CoLERIDGE is about the only famous
Englishman over here at present who is not writ
ing play for the Madison Square theater or 60
ing around saying he can thrash Bostons idol,
John l.. sullivan.-Pack.
FRANK JAMES begins to feel once more as
If life were indeed worth living. There are now
only two indictments for murder pending against
him. This Is a much better record than a great
many Mssourans can show.
A LYNN county (Iowa) liar has a stalk Of
corn nineteen feet high with odd rows of ears to
each corn. He Is probably the man who furnishes
horned toads and FIVE legged thingumbobs to tho
"greatest and only" circuses
CHICAGO is now fourth in the base ball
league contest. This does settle it. No member
of the Chicago club shall saw our wood or throw
may be for a job.-Chtcdgo Netcs.
Mrs. MARY f. KALI. of Ohio, the cam
| paign song writer, was thrown from her carriage
| by the breaking of wheel while driving with a
! party of friends from Uhrchsville to Guadenhut-
ten, and was slightly though not seriously injured.
THE man who wrote little pamphlet en-
titled How TO Get On in the World 4" was put off
| street car tho other day because he hadn't
| enough money to pay his fare. He can now write
another work on &" How to Get OF in the World"
The pneumatic system for rapidly exhaust
| ing sewers of their contents has been tested in
Texas on limited scale. The result has been so
successful in causing decline of typhoid fever
that 1t will soon be given further test on an ex-
tensive scale.
RECENTLY Senator Bayard delivered an ad-
| dress before the Germans of Wilmington, DEL, at
| their volksfest The senator is quite German in
his way At a school exhibition once when he
| was boy he recited "Bingen on the Rhine" with
much feeling.
LIszT seems never to tire of being flattered.
Attention is called to the fact that he is not good
| writer, and the SATURDAY. ReUiei1 also mentions
| that everything written in relation TO him seems
flted to be as bad as any literary work that he
| himself executes
A LEGAL gentleman met brother lawyer
on Court street day last week, and the follow
lnp COnVersuIlOu tOOk pldCc' wen, JuuBe, now III
busness?' "Dull, dull; am living on faith and
hope" every good, but have got past you, for
I'm living OH charity"
THE Luzerne Legal Register says: "The new
law in Kentucky, fixing one mile as the legal
| distance between church and saloon, was
passed for the purpose of ascertaining how rap
| idly Kentuckian can get overtho ground. Some
great bursts of speed are reported as having &C.
cured"
Thus far the south has sent to New York
about 100000 watermclons, 10000 OF which were
condemned by the board of health as dangerous
and calculated to disturb the midnight peace.
The north retaliate on the south only by send.
ing in that section n carefully assorted lot OF toy
pistols.
SOME tenderfoot wrote the following on q
postal card, dated Bismarck, D. r.. al Saw with
my owne eyes A dogg without Hare onn tit And
was Tole bi Mann that no to Be AL Rite that
the Dogg's hare was Al blode off by Siclone n
blizcrd as Ia call Them here 1t bees Hell doesn't it
William boomerang.
"WILLIAM SwINToN, tho we'll known jour-
naist." is the way certain papers are paragraph
ing John Swinton, the New York Sun thunderer.
This is quite rs ridiculous as the remark of the
Texas orator who exclaimed 'Pll tell you who
sot out the tree of liberty, twas George NJ. Wash
ington, of Plymouth RockW
| HOWEVER beneficial rs exercise no amuse-
ment is FREQ from drawbacks. In paper entitled
"Remarks on One Form of Tennis Knee" Dr. c.
NIansell Moulin, assistant surgeon TO the London
hospital shows that lawn tennis players are liable
to peculiar forms of knee sprains, which may be
| painful aud difficult TO treat.
AT Otto, Iowa. recently the hired man and
hired girl of Tom NIcNear got married, The neigh
borhood boys gave them charivari, and after
Tom had chased the crowd back and forth awhile
with an ak in his hands, he concluded it was
cheaper to negotiate, ana paid them So to quit,
They accepted the fee aud dispersed.
Ir was Blackhawk county youth who
bought half pound of powder, put 1t in his coat
pocket mounted horse and started for home
, When he had finished smoking his pipe he put II
! in the pocket which contained the powder, and
, Just then he thought cyclone had struck him
When he collected his senses he was lying on the
ground his horse was gone, and his coat was Oh
fire. The next time he makes powder magazine
of himself he will be careful where he puts hi
pipe,-sio'ln city Journal.
l NEVER was any mans luck more proverb-
: ial than that of ]. NJ. Hill, the manager of Mar
garet Mather, The latest instance is just at hand
Last Friday Hill packed and shipped to Mil
waukee his large and valuable painting o
" Francesca da Rimni." 1t was too large to senC
by express, so ii went as freight on Saturda!
Hill received word that the train on which th'
picture had gone had been wrecked between herr
: | and Milwaukee. He was bemoaning his sever,