National Republican., 1883-02-21
A Mississippi dog bit off boys nose an

A Mississippi dog bit off boys nose and
swallowed 1t.
The French national debt is between FIVE
and six billion dollars. The first Napoleon must
have paid out II good deal for pie.
IT takes q writ of ejectment to get Phila-
delphia official out of office. Heroic and deter
mined men are not all confined to Ohio.
The dog law in Indiana creates q fund out
of which losses Of sheep killed by dogs arc regu.
larly paid, and besides that contributes 100000
year to tho school fund.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES says that bad
air, bad whisky, and irregular habits keep tho
doctors alive 1t is certainly true that there arc
doctors who indulge in these things.
A BROOKLYN woman has brought suit
against her husband for divorce and for $1,000
which he gave her on her wedding day, and
which he afleIward induced her to intrust 10 his
keeping.
THE Bermuda group of islands contains 1866
islands with a total of about 10 900 acres the four
largest being connected with bridges which af-
fDrds driveway over the smoothest and hardest
of roads,
A WASHINGTON woman has been arrested
on the charge throwing bricks at woman who
was sick in bed 1t is probable that the husband
OF the lady who threw the bricks was not at homo
to receive thcm.-Cburier Jourhdk
A WEDDING ceremony that was certainly
"done up brown" was that at Huntingdon, Pa,
Of Mr.. John Brown to Miss Lizzie Brown, by the
Rev Mr.. Brown at the residence of Burgess Brown,
whose son, Henry Brown, was best man.
ILLINOIS derives an income each year Of .
hal million of dollars from the tax on the earn.
ngs of the Illinois Central railway 1t is proposed
that this fund shall be expended annually In i'm
proving the wagon highways of the state.
THE bell boys In st. Louis hotels are talk
ing Of organizing union in order to be able TO
successfully combat the female boarders who ring
for them to know the time OF day, to tie their
Shoes stir their fires, and all such riAing things.
TRAINS on the Northern Pacific are sup
piled with a "grub box" to be used by the pas
sengers In case the train should happen to get
showed in on i,s journey. The box contains bread,
crackers. canned beef, Ash, and canned baked
beans.
A WOOD CARVER declares that those things
representing Indians. and which, from long time
back, have been the insignia OF the tobacco trade
are rapidly going into dsuse, although a few bat
tered members Of the tribe still linger about here
and there.
A NICE little California boy, just for fun,
stuck his knife into captured fish. The FISH hap
pened to be sting ray, and 1t at once fastened its
terrible tail to the dear boys fingers, and kept
him bowling and wrlthing until somebody came
and killed It,
MONTREAL is supplying New England with
bodies for dissection. The skeletons OF 10000
Canadians, supposlng themselves to be quietly
sleeping in British graves, will be considerably
astonished when Gabriel starts them out from
American soil.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET's new French novel 10
said TO "treat of shbject never yet handled by q
French novelist" The heroine, says the Boston
Globe, is probably a married woman without q
lover, and the hero n husband who is the father
of his wifes children
A LADY advertises that she has "a fine,
airy, we'll furnished bedroom for a gentleman
twelve foot square, another has "a cheap and
desirable suit Of rooms for respectable family in
good repair" still another has a hall bedroom
for single woman Sxl2.
IT is proposed by the Longfellow Memorial
association that on Feb. 81 the anniversary OF the
| poets birthday, a general subscription be made
throughout America in behalf ofthe memorial
which is to be erected in Cambridge, Mass, tho
| place where he so long resided.
A MINNEAPoLIs lady recently gave O
small dog six grains OF morphine, with the inten-
tion OF killing the animal. The canine went to
| sleep, and It was supposed had died. Three days
later however he awoke, and ever since has
been as bright and lively as before
| A Pennsylvania man who was mean
enough to rob his needy family OF food to buy rum
| was lately horse whipped by the yiglants. A Con-
necticut man for n similar offense was spanked
with red hot shovel in the hands Of a squad OF
indignant women neighbor.
THE Topeka Commonwealth recently sent out
circular 10 prominent citizens in 100 counties In
| Kansas asking for information concerning the
number OF saloons In each county where whisky,
wine, or beer Is sold. As a result Of its inquiries
| 1t finds coo saloons in operation, with several
counties to hoar from. And yet we are told that
prohibition actually prohibits in Kansasl
THE grand jury of ST. Louis last month
made an investigation by order of the court of the
dram shops OF that city and therreatlon to crime.
| In their report they declare that the dram shops
are the "birthplaces Of crime" and that 80 per
| cent. Of the crimes and pauperism are caused by
| them. This report was signed by all tn 10 grand
Jurors, two Of them being Germans.
AT the age Of o Richard Wagner entered
the Kreuzschule at Dresden, where the family
were then living but was not over successful ut
his studies The classics, mythology and ancient
history were his favorite subjects. He took les
sons on the piano, and played overtures ana other
pieces by ear; but he refused to practice and his
| master soon khNe llnl up 10 hNPNASoos nFNHO hko
| of II we find young Wagner writing tremendous
tragedy, in the course of which forty-two charao-
tiers died or were slain the want OF living person
ages compelling the author to introduce most Of
them IN the last act as ghosts.
A MoNTANA stage driver hit upon novel
method of saving wumans life week or two
ago. He was on the trip from Deer Lodge to
Missoula, and the cold was 80 intense that tho
only passengers, woman and her little child.
were IN danger Of freezing 70 death The mother
placed all her wraps around the babe, and the
driver saw that drowslness the first stage Of freez-
ing, had fallen upon the devoted mother He
put his coat around her, but her blood seemed 20
be standing still. Then he grew very harsh.
seized tho woman, dragged her from the coach,
and LEFT her by the roadside. "oh my baby I"
the mother cried. The driver cracked his whip.
The stage few over the snow, with the woman
running after The race was kept up for nearly
two miles, whom the driver took the mother in
| and again wrapped his coat around her. By a