National Republican., 1883-04-26

Virgil n. Pinkley, IN the Cincinnati Enquirer.
THERE are 10000 square miles Of almost
unbroken forests in North Carolina, comprising
pine, chestnut, oak, maple, beech, and hickory
timber.
AT breakfast the other morning New York
dude declined piece of shad. He had been told,
says an exchange, that fish food made brain, and
he didn't want to unfit himself for the position he
occupied in society.
THE announcement is made that Mai. Ben:
Perley Poore. who has written for the Boston
journal for thirty years, has severed his connec-
tion with 1t to edit the Boston Sunday Budget and
to complete life Of recolections he has written.
THE dramatic critics of New York do not
like Mrs. LanStry as Galatea This is about tho
judgment of gentlemen who are too profound to
detect the surface fact that they have not seen
Mrs Langtry as Galatea, but Galatea as Mrs
Langtry.
A GIRL in Janesville, Wis, was blown up
to the ceiling whilo lighting fire with kerosene
and when she came down she was blown up again
by her mistress. The Whitewater Register thinks
that she was probably of pretty good size by
that time"
The following good story is told of the Sec
rotary Of the San Francisco Philharmonic society:
A gentleman rung his door bell one evening re-
Gently and asked If a Mr.. - lived there. "No,"
said the intensely musical Henry, pointing up tho
street, he lives about an octavo-I mean eight
Acknowledgements Fanesco News Letter.
A SPECIES of spider has been discovered on
the African coast, the long, firm web Of which
closely resembles yellow silk, and is said to be
very nearly as good as the product Of silkworms
The matter has been Investigated by the Lyons
silk merchants with favorable results, and there
seems to be nothing to prevent acclimating the
insect in France
"MY son." said fond father to his studious
offspring, this picture represents the spot where
the Roman captives were torn to pieces by in
furiated wild beasts; IL is the Roman Forum. I
imagine, my boy, the horrors of scene where.
huddled together in their alright the trembling
captves awaited their-their destruction where
the savage beasts, maddened by hunger, bounded
into the Forum and-and ""went for 'um,"
chimed in the practical student. The lecture
closed.
LIszT, the composer, has been supposed to
entertain tho same enmity for the Jews that was
evnced by Wagner; but In a letter just published
in Hungarian newspaper he denies that such is
the case and says that Meyerbeer Heine, and
other Jews were long his warm aud personal
friends He also speaks of various services that
ho rendered to merltorious Jewish artists, and OF
aid that he gave to numerous Jewish benevolent
institutions In different countries during his long
public career.
BRETzEL and tho telephone-Herr Bretzel
(who has Just had telephone put up, calls for
the repairer next day. Lood a-here, my vrent.
tidn't you dole me dot dellervone shbeak Cher
man und converse in Cherman 2" "Yes, sir"
Herr B." Veil, py chiminetty! talk Cherman
10 dot dellervone yesterday NIT boitness, und py
und py 1t say Hello phawt the divil are you
jabberin? Come of, ye ould Dutchyl ton'd
all 1alla m qaaa mo
nerhimmel! Dake i'd away!-LUe.
The pastor of the methodist church in
Yonkers, recently received a lady 100 years old
upon probation, which leads the Kingston Free.
| man to remark that If she conducts hersef with
| proprlety for the next six months, overcomes her
| natural friskiness, gives up dancing, flirting,
| painting, powderng bangs, and low necked
| dresses, eschews false hair, false teeth, and
"pads," is prudent in the display of her pretty
| feet at the muddy crossings, is not over vain OF
| her personal attractions and accomplishments,
and puts on the quiet and dignifed demeanor due
| to her position, she may expect to be received
| into the complete relation Of q church member.
But she needs to be admonished that this ID q
world of temptation.
MRS. LESTER WALLAcK is the sister of Mil
| lals, the great English painter, and comes Of an
| excellent family. Wallaok ran of with her when
| he was q young man, and advertised himself
| largely by his brilliant stroke He was then an
ensign in the English army, and 1t was his army
life which gave him the English lingo that he has
always used with such unction since. He was
| born in VaTick street. New York, but his father
| sent him to England TO school, whence he went
| into the army. When he married Miss Nillais he
| hoped II would give him standing among the
! English people. They looked upon him merely as
an adventurer. Mr.. Wallack has lived for her
husband ever since, and has, apparently cared
nothing for social life.
PRovERBIAL philosophy from tho Now
Orleans Picavune: Uneasy lies the head that has
no erown....The pocket flask Is concealed
weapon. n... Taking picnic lunch on the grass Is
a no table event. The man slow TO promise is
| prompt TO perform. Frogs for lace pins have
suddenly jumped into fashion,. The travelling
circus is now called the roaming hippodrome..
The man who wants but little here below, is the
man about TO leave the world. The people In
the wilderness could not have all they wanted to
eat, but they were saved after manna.. Grief
is assauged with arithmetical precision when a
Vassar girl goes into half mourning for half
brother . The wise man will always take a
morning paper. The fool sometimes thinks he
can get along withoutit
IT is said that the first elephant on exhibit
tion in New England, and probably the frat In
the United States, was killed at Alfred, Me-, in
the year 1917, about one mile west from the viii
lage, in piece OF woods near the Round pond, so
called, on the old post road leading to Dover, N.
H. A man by the name of Davis had an alterca-
tion with the proprietor Of the menagerie the day
previous, while on exhibition at Alfred, and
sought revenge by shooting the elephant The
anair caused a great sensation at the time
throughout New England. Davis was subse.
quently apprehended but from some cause
escaped the punishment he 50 justly deserved for
the commission of the dastardly act. The locality
is known and pointed out to this day as the spot
"where the elephant was killed.