National Republican., 1883-01-12
GENERALLY PERSONAL.
NEM YEAR,s nEsnLvEs.

Shc-Aud /, that all my dresses shall be plain,
He-G mean to get along without my beer.
She-I will not huy bangle all this year.
Hebron lodge and club mean this year to fly.
she-Onc bouquet in each month is all that will
buy.
He'll moi lose cash at poker now each night.
she-All dry goods shops Ill banish from my
sight
Hc-Billiords and pool and cards I'll throw aside.
she--Tll wear old frocks and get my kid gloves
dyed.
He'll parties shun, and only dance with you.
She'll buy no jewels save a ring or two
He'll fud n place where l can buy cheap
clothes.
she-And I'll stop buying costly embroidered hose.
He.Of resolutions dear, there's quite stock.
shc-Enough, when broke, to pave block
Mr.. CHAPLIN the speaker Of the New York
assembly, is only 81 years age.
JOAQUIN MILLER has cut his hair and beard
and is doing what literary jobs he can get.
KING HuMBERT is reported to be sinking
into "a condition Of confirmed melancholy"
A GEORGIA octogenarian is living with his
ninth wife. He is the father of ilty-three chill
drcn.
DIR. CARTER has raised 100000 for Will
lloms college since he became its president, two
years ago.
BosToN schools cost 81, ,392 71O annually, and
last year had J5,63o pupils in 522 schools, with
1875 teachers
Mr.. BALLARD SMITH, recently made city
editor of the New York World, is native of Cam
neton Perry county, Ind.
WHITT1ER's brother, who has just died,
was a clerk In the Boston custom house for thir-
teen years, retiring last fall on account Of his
health
THE only oil painting in existence of
Beecher, except the one owned by Frank d. Monl-
ton, was burned in the big Brooklyn fire last
week.
+. 4. BRowNEIL, who killed the assassin
of Col L Elsworth ut Alexandria in 1861, is in tho
pension service and is at present occupied at
Cleveland.
BARRETT has agreed to play Horatio TO
Murdochs Hamlet at the Cincinnati dramatic
festival. lie will also play Benedict to probably
Rheas Beatrice.
A FASHION letter says that "ragged-edged
note paper continues the thing in stationery" a
good deal OF business note paper borders on the
ragged edge STYLE too.
ST. CLAIR McKELwAY, editor of the Albany
Argus delivered an address at the seventh annual
meeting ofthe alumni association OF the Albany
high school, on American leadership"
AT the Inauguration ceremonies Gov. But
| Ter carried the cane which Gov. Hancock carried
at his Inauguration. 1t was originally the prop
erty Of Gov. Hancocks her. 1t was loaned for
he present occasion by Mr. John Avery, Of New
York.
! AN unknown party has forwarded to tho
National board of health all the way from Sicily n
| bottle Of alleged yellow fever cure, The direo-
tons prescribed twenty drops to be rubbed in the
soes of the feet and adds that it never fails TO
cure when thus applied.
] Tny Ill Al. 4 q
years, in Franklin county, Michigan, not
long ago, was once n neghbor of the famous
Daniel Boone. When he knew him Mr., Cole was
lad, but he retained until his death vivid recol-
lections Of the great pioneer,
A WEALTHY stockbrolser, passing along the
street in Paris, surprlies an urchn with his hand
| in the stockholders pocket, atemptinRto perform
| the handkerchief trick. "You young scoundrel,'
no eXclaims, with severity, "ure you not ashamed
of yourself TO steal-at your ageY
SERVANT girls living in and about Denver,
| COL, speculate in city lots" just ns they did in
mining shares in San Francisco q year or two ago.
Cooks residing in Colorado Springs and other
towns are allowed day off occasionally in order
to go TO Denver and see their brokers"
A PORTLAND paper tells story of
wealthy but very parslm on ious Maine man, who,
two or three days before his dea tn, awoke In the
evening, and, turning to the watcher at the bed
side, nsked: How much do they give you a
night?' 1.-TWO dollars and half" was the reply.
"Well, you needn't come any more: l can't stand
any such u sum as that" and he didn't.
In Chicago when woman kills her lover
she is sent to prison for a year. In Missouri she
can shoot another woman who has slandered her
and receive an "ovation" from the citizens in
cluding the jury which acquitted her. In Kansas
u woman who poisoned another for the sake of
securing her life insurance is sentence to le
hanged. The question now is, in which state are
woman's rights making most rapid progress?-
Kansas CHy Journal!
PROF. WILSON, of st. Louis, announced
that he would 90 into trance and remain in that
condition three days. Several physicians watched
him, and their opinion is that he really remained
unconscious for that period, Ifhe was shamming
he did 1t very cleyerly for he was motionless and
neither ate nor drank anything. Wilson says
that this was an episode in his development as
religious prophet. His next step toward periec-
ton will be fast of forty days.
MANAGER CHASE received a telegram from
X. E.J. Miles, director of the Cincinnati dramatic
festival, that Mile Rhea had been cast TO play
Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing;" Barrct,
as Benedict; Robson and Crane as Dogberry and
Verges, ana an exceptionally strong support.
Mile Rhea was first cast for Desdemona, Mary
Anderson for Emelia John Mccullough for
Othello, and Lawrence Barrett for Iago. Milo
Rhea has also been offered the part OF Opheliu in
" Hamlet" Eighty-four thousand dollars have
already been subscribed to make this the greatest
Shakesperlan dramatic event ever attempted.
SAID fellow traveller tho other day to
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Women are not as polite MS men in public. l
have often seen exhibitions of rudeness and self
shness ON the part of women tfata man would
not be guilty Of There is a case in point right
across the aisle That woman has but small
valise, and no one is in the seat with her, and
every other seat is occupied, while ago little
girl passed by in search of some place TO sit. She
looked wistlully at tho vucant place. and the
woman stared at her but she never budged. The
little girl is now at the other end OF the car stand
ing up. The majority of women folks are no
doubt sweet and agreeable at home, but as soon
as they get in street railway carriage their
good manners seem to leave them"
PROF. FRANCIS BOWEN, of Harvard, brings
to notice an almost forgotten translation Of the
bible by Charles Thomson, who was secretary of
the continental congress, and published hls work
In 1903, Thomson was distinguished teacher of
Latin and Greek in Philadelphia, and he spent the
better part of twentyeight yeaIs on his version of
the scriptures. Prof Bowen has been examining
the book, and It is his deliberate Judgment that
in many respects II is better than the revision of
1881 Thomson anticipated some Of the changes
recently made. He printed the texsin parag apis,
and the songs and poetcal citations as poetry in
lines OF unequal length. He also omits the pas
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