National Republican., 1883-10-10
CURRENT GOSSIP.

CURRENT GOSSIP.
YOUNG women should remember that Go
linh was killed by bang on the forehead.
LONDON ladies' club, called the Somer-
vile, boasts over 1000 members. though it was
only organized in 1880.
Miss KATE PATTERSON, of Baltimore, q
granddaughter of Betsy Bonaparte, is engaged TO
marry Pierre La Montagu.
Don P1ATT is writing an opera. The down
iali OF this once brilliant man excites universal
sympathy. Bismarck tribune
A COLLECTION in Bowling Green (Ky)
chutch yielded 400 coppers No game was ever SO
heavily ooppered to lose at this
FEW days ago an officer in the English
army made dynamite belt, fastened 1t 70 his
body and blew himself to atoms.
SARA BERNHARDT, when asked recently
what induced her to marry, replied, BECAUSE It
was the only thing had not yet tried"
ONE of the leading physicians in China is
n Miss Howard, an American lady. who gained
considerable reputation in this country.
| HANLAN is said to labor under the belief
that Courtney and Hosmer sawed the course in
TWO when they recently cut down the record
Mrs. EDISON, the wife of the inventor is
the originator of what promises to be popular
|
UNLESS Judge Kelley improves in health
faster than he has oflate he will not be able to re-
turn from Europe in time to swear in the next
speaker.
| Rosa BoNHEUR, although she dresses in
male attire while at work, does not advise others
of her sex to do 80. at doesn't pay to be eccen-
trlc," she says
IT has been suggested that Alfonso engage
| John l.. sullivan as travelling companion in his
future tours to France. Can Boston part with its
foremost citizen, thought
A PROMINENT violinist is said to have pur-
chased for S3,4OO the stradiyanus once used by
Paganini. In Washington very fair fiddle can
be purchased for Sls0.
The princess of Wales is becoming deaf,
says London letter This will give her husband
chance to stumble into bed at the wee sma
hours without being detected.
NEXT Monday morning Sergt. Bates
Starts for tho southern sunny states
From every sympathetic mouth
Proceeds the pray'r: GOD help the southp
PRINCES WINNEMUcCA, of tho Piutes, Is
lecturing on tho wrongs of the red men. With her
tweny-oneth husband by her side she seems 70
have looked out for the rights Of some Of the red
men.
IT is said that Mr.. Tilden eats eight times
.dny, but unless he can drink about eighty
eight times day he can't stand the wear and tear
of another presidential Nomination. NorriStoGn
Herald.
BALTIMORE woman sneezcd so hard that
she became dumb. since which time large per-
centage of the married mon of that city are leav-
ing catarrh snuff lying loose and careless about
the house.
The Rev. DIR. Ever of st. Ignatius' church,
New York, was stricken with paralysis while
preaching in the church of st. John the Evange-
st, in Montreal, last Sunday, and has been uncon-
scious ever since
CAMPININI has arrived in New York. One
of the first people to greet him was Howard Car
rol, whom he kissed on both cheeks. lie is under
engagement with Mr.. Abbey TO sing ten nights
month for seven months.
A HORSE balked with New Hampshire
) woman the other day, and she quietly took out
her knitting and sat there for nine hours, when
the horse concluded he'd better be going along
He'd never had any experience with woman be-
FORE
NEITHER John G. New nor Frank Hatton
will resign. Both Of these gentlemen are editors,
and 1t would be cruel of them at the beginning of
q long aud bitter winter, to dep rive their papers
of what the law terms the visible means OF sup
port. .'H
Mr.. LYTToN SOUTHERN, son of "Dun-
dreary," 10 not achieving much success in his
fort to produce throughout the country the plays
made famous by his father, The man who under
takes TO initiate distinguished father has big
contract always.
MINNIE HAUK is making great prepara-
tions for a concert in New Orleans. She says sho
used to sing in n church choir in that city fifteen
years ago. This unguarded admission gives Min
nie's age away, approximately She can't be a
day under thirty-two.
GS,rf.
bluff, and that If he had really wanted 10 play he
would have challenged him for the champion
ship placed his money in the official stakehold-
er's hands, and allowed Schaefer to name the
place in which the game should be played.
LORD CoLERIDGE exclaimed, upon behold
ing Niagara falls: "This is the grandest sight of
my lifeI" This was before he had seen Henry
!, Waterson. He is now in Louisville and will
possibly be afforded the pleasure of witnessing the
q sublimest piece of personal scenery ON our conu
nent.
4 How LIKE the rest of all his sex
) Performed the young Alfonso rex;
Hewent back home from Paris hisses
And feasted on his spouses kisses.
=, He'd said, had Paris glen the kisses;
pllstay awhile-conlound the NIrs.l"
THE Boston Globe thinks it time to call u
Y halt on the Apglomaniacs who are substituting
a English terms of the American names used to
: designate United States money. 1t is bad enough
S to hear nickel called "tuppeneehapenny," but
1 when it comes to calling So note "a pun" it's
: enough to make the eagle stretch his neck aud
scream.
: JOSEPH X. EMMETT the alleged actor, lost
: his pet dog, and New York is wildly torn up in
consequence Chicago is not particularly inter
ested in this domestic emotional drama. If the
, dog had successfully and permanently lost Mr.
q Emmett 1t might have been otherwise, and con-
a gratulations might now prevail where only in
difference exists Chicago NeiUs.
IT is pleasing to note in the local papers
that the tables at the Coleridge banquet in Gin.
cinnai " literally groanod beneath tho weight of
: vlands, which embraced every variety ofdelicacy
the market could afford" Now If we had been
assured that "the cremo de Ia creme of society
j added eolat to this OCCASION" we could readily
understand that the affair was what the ST. Louis
If reporter would term a notable affair"
If THE first time Aimee sang in this country
c her weekly salary was $3.50 During the present
It season she is to receive $3.50. A gentleman who
ia has seen and heard her, within the past three
- months says she is merely reminiscence of the
y Aimee we used to admire and applaud. She has
y couple of daughters old enough to fly, and she