National Republican., 1883-04-16

come" said Emerson. The hunter who captured
the polecat made a precisely similar remark
Courier journal.
The Pennsylvania legislature, during ses-
sion Of 100 days, prepared and offered 700 bills,
Twelve Of these only passed, and the governor has
vetoed FIVE Of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA, who once wrote leader
for the London Times, wrote with her own hand
the copy Of the notice Of John Brown which ap-
peared in the Court Circular.
Lucy HOOPER says that great many
Americans who want to "see Naples and die" do
see Naples and die, the Italian malarial fever car.
rying them of with astonishing promptness.
BoeARDUs and Carver are arranging for a
novel match, stakes 81 900. Each is to fire 100
shots and the one that hits the fewest democratic
candidates for the presidency takes the money
Post. Express.
The New York Sun says that elephants
never have children until they are thirty years of
age. This is very interesting, elephants having
children. We have always supposed that ele.
plants had elephants Express.
The cherry troo which Mr. Gladstone felled
in snowstorm during the Easter races has been
presented to tho Bursoin Liberal club whose
members purpose holding a bazaar in September
next, and intend to have number of articles
made Of the wood from the tree.
SAMUEL CRUMP of Pittsford near Roches-
ter, N Y, has recently sold TO Nathan Greeley OF
Kansas CITY, file OF the New York Tribune COW
erng the entire period of Horace Greeey's editor
ship period of twenty eight years. The edi-
tcns were weekly and semi-weekly, and were
sold for $50.
A"PowERFUL" scandal concerning the late
Prince Gortschakoi is that left mistress, pro-
fessonally named Lima Braun, but who is no
other nat
Lima, or Josie, whoever she is has begun suit
against the princes heirs for 2s,000 marks year.
which, she claims, the prince promised her.
The Society for the Preservation of the
Irish Language has made a report witch shows
that at the beginning OF the present century
there was not more than 400 persons who could
read and write Irish, while at present $4,000
speak the old language. This nearly equals the
number of Welsh-speaking people. There is
hope that the old Irish prophecy will yet be full
filled.
THE ludicrous aspect of the present dyna-
mite scare in England is shown by the fact that
not single man has been killed by the so-called
dynamite league. For noise, trouble, death and
disaster, one of our Fourth of July celebrations
lays over the present English excitement by sew.
eral hundred points. and yet we rather like 1t.
The English should brace up.-Ransas City
Journal
A CHILD has been born in Turkish Kurdis-
tan with full beard and moustache. perfect set
of thirty two teeth and no fower than forty dis
tinct and well formed fingers. As an agglomeras
tion of attractions for dime museum this wonder
will walk Off with the wanles. 1t will not be ma
lures fault II the monstrosity doesn't become tho
most powerful pianist ever known.-C Commercial
Advertiser.
SINCE Dickcns's death over 100000 vol.
umes of his novels have been sold. The Post
Express says the number might have been much
greater, only Mr.. Howells SAID that compared with
himself Mr. Dickens was very poor hand at
writing novels. Mr.. Howells says Mr. James is the
greatest novelist and Mr.. James laughs haw! hawl
Mr. James says Mr. Howells is tho greatest novel;
ist and Mr.. Howells laughs haw! haw!
DURING the recent floods in the west Ken
lucky farmer lost field of wheat In very strange
way. Aner the wheat came up there was a sleet
storm which covered the field with n complete
coating of ice. Before this melted the food swept
over the land, and the ice rising TO the surface
pulled the wheat blades out of the ground. This
adds new afliction to the long list of the farm
er's burdens. We have never before heard of
farmer who could complain that he had lost money
by rise in wheat.
THE two carpenters, Cardeillac and Gau-
tier, who were instrumental in getting up the
illegal demonstration in Paris on March 0, have
in the following polite and considerate manner:
We have the honor to declare To you that we
cannot comply with your invitation at the time
mentioned. We have just got work, and we have
been too long idle TO afford the loss of halliday
and to find ourselves once more thrown on the
streets of Paris without employment. We are,
however quite at your disposal any evening after
| 6 o'clock"
WILKIE COLLINS thinks Scott and Cooper
ho.yn .nI
tries where no other writer of English ever gets
| hearing "I was palned in America to see how
little Cooper was appreciated. In Buffalo bought
| a complete set of his works. and the bookseller
could not restrain his surprise that should want
an expensive edition. He had rare calls for them.
| America has never had but one noyelist-that was
Cooper. Indeed, she has had only few writers OF
| any great emlnence. He was original; he was the
founder of the ocean romance. No man wrote
| like him"
A SMART travelling man from Chicago tried
| to paralyze dining room girl at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, during the snow blockade. At dinner one
day he ordered "sponge soup" and "quail on
| fence" The girl went TO the kitchen and got a
quail and built fence on the plate out of kinding
| wood. Then she got piece of sponge from the
| bath room and put 1t in the soup, and served his
order in the presence of several other travelling
| men, who gave him the grand laugh. The land
lord charged him 81 extra for serving articles not
on the bill Of fare and it cost him So for cigars
and drinks to keep the matter quiet.
THE public is surprised TO learn that Peter
Cooper left estate valued at less than S20 1000
His SON in.law, Mr. A, S. Hewitt, says on the other
| hand, that those who knew of his unstinted gem
erosiy to all deserving applicants for his aid are
surprised to learn that he left SO much as he did.
He might have "left" SlO,Oo000O Just well as
| 81, 900 900 If the common mania for grubbing and
piling up riches which possesses most millionares
| had stayed his hand and chilled his heart. He
gave away about "a 900 during his lifetime aud
never made an effort TO earn large percentages on
his Investments. In many years he kept his iron
works running at q daily loss merely to keep the
men employed.
A NEW remedy for the headache has been
found by DR.. Haley, an Australian physician, who
says that for some years past he has found mini
mum doses Of iodide Of potassium Of great service
in frontal headache; that is, a heavy, duh head
ache situated over the brow, and accompanied
by languor, chilliness, and a feeling of general
discomfort with distaste FOR food, which some-
times approaches 70 nausea. can be completely
removed by a two grain dose dissolved in half a
wineglRSsiul Of water and this quietly sipped the
whole quantity being taken in about ten min
utes, In many cases, he adds, the effect Of these
small doses has been simply wonderful, as, for
instance, person who quarter OF an hour be-
fore was feeling most miserable, and refused all