National Republican., 1883-03-08

AN Iowa editor has lengthy editorial en-
titled "a Month of Horrors, and he was married
only about SIX weeks ago. Toledo Sunday Amer-
icam
LONDON Truth denies the statement that
the Duke Of Bedford is about to Join the church
Of Rome.
AK Ohio editor is said to wear No. 10 boots,
and the funny man Of an exchange asks If II isa
journalistic feat.
A MAN who had climbed Mount Blanc seven
times ia safety wAs killed The other day while try
ing to so up a sep ladder Isprudence any user
Boston POsi.
II HOPE you will forgive that naughty girl
who struck YOU jus now, my doughter?" "Yes,
! Will, mamma II don't catch her" was the in-
noeent reply.
"No KISS" he said, ploadingly, "no kiss
from my darling tI-night?" "No!" she said
emphatcally; "no kiss-i hear thers mumps in
your iamily!"
SEvENTY-FIvE per cent. of the Boston
school boys smoke cigarettes. This goes to show
that there need be fears felt for the next crop
OF idiots in Boston.
LIE PETIT JOURNAL, of Paris has daily
circulation of over half million, the largest in
tho world, aud less influence in proportion 10 Cir
culation than any newspaper in heworld.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that tho
scene of LoniellOw's inspiration IN connection
with Hiawathu" has been translated into IL beer
garden and is a disgrace to American civilization
cREcHE, or day nursery, has been estab-
llshed in Cincinnati by the Unity club, connected
with the Unitarian church In that city. 1t is the
first institution of the kind known west OF Buf.
falo.
DIR. BUEsEE the chemist, has been elected
foreign associate of the French Academy of
Sciences. This dignity" says the Medi,ai Press,
lis one of the higaest in the world ana is limited
to eight names"
The Paris omnibuses employ 1i,000 horsoa
at u daily expense Of $1,000 for food. In 1881
these omnibuses carried 10l0JO,0OO passengers.
The horses cost S3,OOj,OOO, aud the conveyances
and harnesses S2,50JOOJ.
A SOBER Philadelphia omnibus came near
upsctting aud the possible victims, with one ex-
eepton, threw mp hands of protesting leverage.
The exception sat motioness. " How could you
be so calm ?" my dear, my gloves are a mis-.
hti"
THE famon5 Gridley sack of flour, which was
sold aud resold during the war often enough to net
100000 for the fund OF the sanitary commission
is to be put on exhibition AT Stockton Cal The
sack started ON It's travels IN Nevada and its con-
tents by this time must be us musty as u church
fair cake
He is hardly n man and brother yet down
in Atlanta. negro, III company with two
women, who had the temcrity " occupy seats in
the gallery just outside OF the limit set apart
for his color was promptly elected aud put under
arrest in that city II day or two since
| VERcHcJANsK, in Siberia, enjoys the fame
Of being the coolest town IN the world. The
mean temperature during January was forty
three degrees below zero, in FEBRUARY hity-six
degrees, and in MarGl thirty-seyeu degrees.
Once the thcrmOmcter fell a piuhtv-nun a rrnaa
below.
IN a Chicago school recently the children
were asked to give sentences with the word
Capillary" little girl wroic 81 sailed across
the ocean in capillary" When asked what she
meant by that. sue turned to Webster's dictionary
aud trump Iantly poinled out this dcAniuon:
Capillary, " fine vessel" Further Investigation
showed that moIo than twenty scholars had mad1
| the same bluuder.
WHEN the survivors Of the Kenmure Cas-
tle whicn ioundored on Feb. >, in the bay of lis
cay, drilled away IN the cutter from the sinking
ship, they saw Capt Barrett standing calmly on
the bridge, smoking cigar and waiying II fare
weh :" The next thing knew" says II Mrs. Mann,
who escaped aud has reached Ensland, was that
on turning round l saw the end OF the ship. l hid
my face as could not bear the sight. Some one
said she is going down. and another cried: She's
gone
The admirers of Walt Whitman who quote
! Ralph Waldo Emerson as anotherudmirer of their
idol will not DO pleased by the newly published
! letter OF Emerson 10 Thomas Carlyle, in which he
speaks Of Whitman us "a nondescript monster
which yet had to rIble eyes aud buffalo strength"
but wanted good morals" aud Mr. Emerson sug.
gested also that, IL his correspondent found it
only an auctioneer inventory Of q warehouse.
you can light your pipe with it,"
A MICHIGAN man is said to have DISPOSED
of family of six or seven daughters in the follow
ing way: They were all of marrlageable age, II
not more, but none of them got married, although
all the young men Of the place were made well ONE
at the house. The old gentleman fuully changed
his tactics. He locked the girls up In upper rooms
nailed up the front gate, aud announced that the
first young man who came around would be re-
Ceivea by shotgun. This had the right effect,
| for the girls were one by one stolen away and
married.
A PROMINENT citizen of Hartford, Conn,
became dispeGscd with the way his wife dished
I up the flied potatoes Tor breakfast aud ordered
her 10 leave tie house, which she naturally re-
fused to do. lie then dismissed the servants,
turned Off the water and gas, and took lodgings
for himself at fashionable boarding house. His
wife hired a new lot OF servants, tapped neigh
boris water pipe, bought lot of lamps, labbed
the poker through her husbands portrait, and is
running up handsome grocery bill which he
will have to pay.
IN an article pleading for some kind of So
clal distlnction-Some new arlstocmcy-bas on
differences other than those OF birth and wealth,
the CoynW Magdsine says; In America, where
modern instinct, hnd their fresst field, we have
before our eyes the process of the gradual distr.
button OF the Old prcrogatives OF birth among
wealth, culture, and The proletnriat. In Europe
class privileged by birth used 10 supply at oncS
the rulers and the ideals of other men. In
America tho rule has passed TO the multitude /;
largely swayed in subordinate matters by organ
lied wealth. but in the last resort supreme The
ideal OF the new community at first was wealth I;
but, us It's best literature and It's best society
plainly show that ideal is shining in the direc-
ton of culture. The younger cities the coarser
Glasses, still bow down undisguisedly to the god
Dollar but when this Philistine deity is rejected
as shaming his worshipers, msthellc culture
seems somehow the only power ready TO install
iseli in the vacant shrine.
VIGNAUX, the Partisan billiard sharp, has
introduced a new game to the billiard experts Of
New York. He gave schacfera few lessons in 1t a
night or two ago IN the presence Of little COM
pnny Of tie best players in the city. Five corks
were used one being placed on each spot of the
table, one in the center Of the table, and two at
equal dis ances on.ho right ana len Of the central
cork Viguaux placed twenty five cent piece
on top of the central cork and invited some of tho
billiard players present to do the same There
were loud calls for Jake" and Jacob ,sohaefer,
aRer little urging came forward and deposited
quarter on top Of NignauN's quarter The little