National Republican., 1883-03-27


will take his place before long
WINTER isn't lingering in the lap Of sprina
he Aas got her down and is jumping on hd
stomach. .-Rooheltcr Post Express
LESTER WALLACE says he does not firt od
the stage. man that is 60 years old and nearI
sighted ought not to hlr anywhere.
A NEW law in North Carolina forbds the
carrying of razors as weapons. The hip pocket |
pistol appears TO be in greater favor.
EX-SENATOR GORDON, of Georgia, is to take
up his residence in Florida with view 1t is said
to returning TO the United States senate by that
route
IT appears that Secretary Folger is ono Of
the gentlemen who do not write out "personalsr
about themselves every time they leave town.
Toledo Teegram
MEMBERS of the Missouri legislature now
get only dollar day, which seems very small
pay, though 1t is probable that every state knows
the value Of her own statesmen.
EX-Gov. REUBEN T.. FENToN has boon
spending some time in southern California, and
recently lecturcd in Santa Barbara for the benefit
ftho free public library OF that place.
The sudden temperance in politics of
william spraguo as the Telemachus of reform,
with Benjamin 4. Butler In the ole of Mentor Is
enough TO make the clans laugh. -Hdrtford C0u-
rant
The indianapolis Journal has an article on
Z" a new way to treat tomatoes" Our local candi-
dates are just now wrestling with the problem, "a
new way to treat BEATS" Beer appears to be the
favorlte way
IT is deemed proper thing in court to kiss
the Bible. But in Westchestcr county n Justices
name is Bible, and great fuss is making there
over the contempt of court committed by female
defendant who, in her JOY over winning her suit,
kissed that Bible.
II is said that 800 guests will be present at
the Vanderbilt Easter ball Tho champagne Is 10
cost $1,000. Figuring 1t at So bottle, this would
give but half bottle of champagne to each guest.
We estimate that the Vanderbilt ball will be a
very tame aflair.-RocheSter Post. Express.
New WORKERS can keep few of their
important streets clean " 1t was beautiful" says
Murat Halstead, TO see the snow swept into
heaps and carted away from Broadway and Fifth
avenue, so that within twenty -four hours of the
snowfall the pavements were clean and dry"
ODoNovAN Rosa has not yet been inter-
viewed concerning the accident to her majesty;
but he is probably ready to say he hired man to
put soft Windsor soap on the queens back stairs
to make her fall. His patriotic purpose is to free
Ireland by resorting TO crime.-NeU Orleans Plea
yune.
AN ENGINEER calculates that the earth car.
red down by the Mississippi river retards the
slndth part af an inch each century The retard-
alton Of the earth aud the progress of the demo-
cratic party exactly balances each other-Ransas
Cly Journal
THE bill to establish a state reformatory
} for the criminal youth of the state has been de-
, feated in the Missouri Legislature. The legislature
was sharp enongh TO see that roformatory
would have materially decreased the number
of annual recruits to the democratic party.-Rdn-
sGs city Journal.
PROF. KARL WITTE, who has just died in
Halle, was an infant phenomenon. AT the age Of
thirteen he published Latin treatise on the con-
, chold of Nicomedes, being curve Of the fourth
: degree. AT sixteen he was ready to fill profes.
sorship in the University of Berlin but was re-
fused simply on account of his age.
RECENT case of absolute honesty is tn I
of Waterbury, Conn., grocer who is fast losing
his customers. One Of his patrons of long stand
ing, whose family traded many hundred dollars
during the year. went himself to get q pound of
, oyster crackers The honest grocer in weighing
, them broke one cracker twice to mako the scales
balance.
The quail eaters, the sauerkraut eaters, the
goose, turkey, und duck devourers have had their
day and disappeared from public view, but the
great American pie eater has entered the CASTRO
nomic field in st. Louis, and in his effort scored
| twelve and a half pies in three-quarters of an
hour. lie is ready to wager pint of peanuts that
Q he can stow away eighteen pies in an hour.
"LIFE" says il is delusion of the Sun that
= there are no classes in America "Among Ameri-
can dignities judges of the supreme court, sena-
tors of the United States, and clerks of the III tn
Avenue hotel rank as equal and as pre-eminent
Next come bishops, prize fighters. Wall street
brokers, patent medicine men, and presidents Of
colleges and professional men, millionaires,
base ball players commercial Travellers and men
of letters"
In case in which Sir George Jessel, mas
ter of the rolls was told, on account OF his COM
ments as the case was progressing 1t was dili-
cult to argue with his lordship" he said that he
q always liked counsel to know what was passing
r through his mind, adding, " had the misfortune
, myself TO practice before judge who used 10 bot
tie up his mind 80 that you never could tell until
: he delivered his judgment which way he was lean
p Ing l resolved when was raised to the bench to
n take the opposite course and think my method
!. has its advantages"
t IT is very hard to keep the run Of French
slang as well as English ana American, but II Is
the function Of the press TO keep It's eyes and
n open and miss nothing. The latest Partisan 10
II "pchut." Nobody knows where II came from or
IS what II is supposed TO mean. Jtis pronounced in
l. kind Of Kissing way, and sounds like the IA
!, miar call for waiter or cab driver. II has
% driven the old word chic almost out Of exste
> Instead Of saying M or Nine. So.and.so has du
70 chic" the Partisan says now "M or Nine has dtl
- pchua" Sara B. has too much pchutt, Mrs.
= Langtry, we dare say, not enough.
10 ANOTHER important question has been adj
,r Indicated, and an anxious public will now know
ID what to do in such cases. Georgia court has de-
cded that man has no right to take off his coat
aud sit in his shirt sleeves in railway car. The
drummer who did so, and refused either to go into
v the smokeing car or put his coat on again, and
40 was put off in consequence at the first station, has
lost the suit which he brought for damages. II il
interesting to ncte that there is at least one thing
10 that even drummer is not allowed to do on rail.
10 way train II seems a trihe severe in case the
nj drummer's vest back was entire But what is a
h. man to do who buys irst.class ticket aud has nc
of coat to wear2-Ransas Ciy Journal
u AN American lady who has been passing
- some time in u circle very close 10 the crown In
y, England sends some curious and entertaining de.
M tails of tho private life of royalty TO a friend in
of this country, She writes: 1.-THE personal attend
II ants of her Britannia majesty have pretty hard
of life oft" They not so badly treated as poo
Miss Burney was when she went into bondage a.
second keeper Of the roles to Queen Vlctoriai
grandmother, but taking one consideration with
another" their lot is not happy one. The Hon
or Horata stopford acousin Of the Earl Of Courowr
IA and one OF the queens bedchamber women is the
m, queens favorile amanuensis writing most Of bel
mt letters and taking down whatever she dictates