National Republican., 1883-02-09
srn1No plowlng bias not begun in Dakota.

SPRING plowing has not begun in Dakota
NINE. NILSSON is experimenting with plans
to bring on sleep.
BASE BALL games on the ice are popular in
New York this winter.
In Tennessee there Is q slight decrease in
the number of colonies.
A NATIONAL convention Of swine breeders
Is to be held in Indiana.
MARDI GRAs fills New Orleans with merri
ment in spite Of bad weather.
A CONFEDERATE monument" is soon tt
be erected in Nashville, Tenn.
THE silver coin which has accumulated in
the treasury vaults weighs $500 tons.
BAsQuFs and bodices, with very sharp and
long points back and 'front.' will bo much worn.
A. II. SWAN, of Ogden, Utah, recently
bought S25OO0O0 worth of cattle in that territory
IT is proposed to erect Presbyterian
church this spring at Taneytown, Carroll county,
Maryland.
IDAHo's population Is said to be Mormon in
the proportion OF two to one-that is, two women
| to one man.
! A SERVANT girl recently astonishcd q drug
gists clerk by asking for porous plasters with
holes in them.
Ar the Dundee knitting mills of Scotland
n woman must spin yarn siXty-flye miles long in
order to earn 81.
THE robust health of the English in gen.
eral is said to be duo to their diet They arc good
and substantial caters. aag
| IT is said that kissing cures freclSles, but,
says an exchange, every red-headed girl in the
country knows better.
| RUBBER has boon found in Bolivia on tho
| nn,l Tho IN
interfere with the meat trade
| MISS MARGARET MATHER, the actress, is
spoken of by the Buffalo Courier as ian incarnate
delirum tossed by q whirlwind."
! i PERSONAL" in Sundays Herald reads:
Flobience, darling, cruel mamma, soften your
heart and come to your dear papa"
Two gentlemen in Texas settled a disputed
game of poker by exchanging eight shots with
each other and wounding spectator in the leg.
WHEN two Americans get to fighting duel
over a Mexican girl it is pretty evident that the
| two countries arc bound to come together some
day.
A PENNSYLVANIA baby two months old
weighs one pound and half Its mothers we'd
ding ring can be slipped over the arm TO the el.
bow.
Mrs. MARY MURRAY, of Peoria, while in
toxicated the other day, lay down in stree on
the outskirts of the city, and was found frozen 10
death.
DIR. HINsDALE, the president of Hobart
! college, ut Geneva, N. Y, has been granted an
indefinite leave of absence, because of lack II
| health.
THE only time when man is generous in
drawing the line between his own and his neigh
bor's property is when he shoves the snow of the
sidewalk.
AN Albany man gave balky mule q big
drink OF whisky. When he gets out of the hospiu
he viii apply for patent on q new application of
an old motor.
Ir is related as singular fact that fat men
never commit crime. 1t doesn't seem SO singular
when you reflect that it is difficult for fat man
to soop to anything low.
In is said that the life of the poet Whittier
is much disturbed by women. one wealthy widow
actually proposed 10 him, and other women have
made violent love to him.
The trouble with Kaiser William was too
much sourkrout resulting in n severe attack lin
digestion. Six doctors attended him, which may
account for the emperor's narrow escape.
REPRESENTATIVE HERNDoN, of Alabama,
who was believed to be dying OF consumption sew
eral weeks ago. is so much improved that his ply
sicians now regard his recovery as very probable.
Is there any impropriety in calling n man
who lets houses n letter. III does not require
u very large stamp TO make him go if he is prop
erly Observation-Disclosures made joke IN Boston AdveI-
tlSer,
THE secretary of the Chinese minister, a
bright young Chinaman, was asked at an after
noon tea IL he would take one or two Jumps of
sugar in his cup. He replied: "No sugar,
cream, one spoon"
IT is said that the first daily newspaper
published in the world was established and edited
by woman--ElizRbeth Malet-in London, 1902.
Elizabeth probably had the advantage over mod
ern editors of belonging TO sewing society.
A GEORGIA couple waited over four years
for good opportunity to elope, andjust as ii came
the girls father took the young man by the hand
and said, "Speak up to her, Thomas; know she
loves you, and I'd be tickled TO death to have you
for son in law"
. FOUR clergymen, one Roman Catholic and
the others Episcopal, have been arrested atFort
Smith, Ark, for violating proclamation Of the
, mayor closing the churches and public schools
! aud prohibiting public assemblages on account Of
, the prevalence Of scarlet fever in that oity.
| The March number of the North American
ReUitD will contain, among other articles Of sFik-
ing interest, money in Elections" by Henry
George; Railway Influence in the Land once,"
by George W. Julian; the "sublugation Of tho
Mississippi" by Robert s. Taylor; and "Glad-
| stone" by Monoure d. Conway,
"WHAT on earth makes you announce that
D you extract teeth without pain? Didn't l hear
5 every patient you had up here yell?" You did,
I sir" replies the perpatetic dentist, "but those
were shrieks Joy which they uttered, sir, They
were so delighted, sir, at being painlessy re-
lieyed that they could not restrain their enthu-
siasm,"
Mrs. AUGUSTA SMITH, of st. Louis, is ono
Q of the ghtest of sleepers, She is awake twenty
! two hours out OF every day ON the average, and
when she does slumber II is scarcely more than a
doze during which she is partially conscious Of all
that is going on around her She Is strong and
= healthy, with a good appetite, and not particu.
larly nervous
SERGEANT Boston CoRBETT, the man who
killed the assassin of President Lincoln is living
in Kansas engaged in the cattle business, He has
Q become a religious enthusiast and in recentleJ-
= ter to friend In Camden, ~ j., says that he had
been directed by God to infict daily corporal pun
:, ishment upon himself as penanoe for having
, taken human life,
MARY KELLER young student of the
Pitsburg school of design, gave SO much promise
that persons interested in her contributed money
to send her to Italy for higher study Her parents
II lately received letter from her saying that Baron
Ferdinand Antonio SOnello had asked her to marry
= him, and that she would like to do so; that her
. poverty was sufficient proof that he had no mer-
- opunrV design aud that his ri otar aud enoial