National Republican., 1883-03-12


-Kansas Guy Journas
PHILADELPHIA has several very rich
women most OF them are widows.
The Lowell Citizen has learned that pet
rats are the latest freak of fashion. II this is
fact, 1t is rough on rats.
THE peanut crop of the country amounted
to over Two millions Of bushels. Long legislative
sessions are anticipated.
A PHILADELPHIA is making glass collins.
When body is placed in them tney can be her-
meticaly sealed, and no exhalation will follow.
ABOUT this time proprietors of summer
resorts begin 10 announce an expected visit from
the President this summer, and let houses and
rooms on the strength thereof.
The New York police arrest young girls
for masquerading as old women II would bea
serious thing If the case should be reversed. In
that event the officers would have both their
hands and all the prisons full.
THE car of all the Russias finally came to
the conclusion that the people are not lit Tor FREQ
dom. Very sngulary the nihilists have arrived
at the same conclusion in regard to the czars ht-
ness about the same time, and thus we behold
grand standof.
The doctrine Of the monopolist Is, "Ths
rich must be made richer and the poor poorer"
us an uneasness. as we cannot be too rich, bot
does anybody know when 1t is expected to take
ehect.-ROches,er Post Express.
A New YORK concern suggests that people
invest their money in "a whole imperial Austrian,
Vienna city, government bond" Now let some-
body offer an "entire Republican, United States
of America, Oshkosh, Wisconsin city, government
bond" and we warrant they will find takers.
SOME vulgar papers are asserting that the
German carp does not thrive in American waters
In other words, they are cnrpng at the carp, We
think II will prove valuable fish because II can
| be used for several things. For instance, even
after 1t has been eaten it becomes carpet
Kansas City Journal
THE new town of Naples, in Idaho, on the
Oregon Short Line railway maintains jail
which is at once cheap and secure. 1t is moth
| ing more nor less than deep hole In the
ground, in which prisoners are dropped with
the grim warning that the guards will put bull
let through every head which appears above the
edge.
THE great secret of Gambetta's power was
| the fact that he devoted his thought 10 ideas
rather than to the means by which he should ex-
press them. He once said: II only think of what
l want to say, not how am to say It," The trou-
Bile with our public speakers too ofen is that they
have ever in mind how their speeches will look in
! print. Ia
ONE of the most heartily applauded actors
in modern society drama is cat, who comes on
the stage stretches herself washes her face, lies
down before the fire, ana placidly eats the saucer
of milk which is set before her. She has been
shut up all day in box too small for her, and too
cold to be comfortable, and has had no food
meanwhile
A SELECT prize fight took place night or
two ago in q Bowery cellar New York city, Four
| teen rounds were fought, and one OF the contest
ants had his fuce pounded to a jelly. The affair
was kept very quiet. The manager said, Once
let 1t be known that prize fight is to take place
and every official in the city will insist upon
free pass, and where's your profit?"
A LITTLE nine-year.old girl on the east side
asked her brother-in.law last sunday to question
her on biblical matters to see If she had Ter cate
| chsm down fine. "Who was the first man ?" he
asked. adam" was the answer. "Who was
swal owed by the whale?' Jonah" "Who was
the 1t. ougest man?" Clarence Whistler" The
catechism was closed for repairs,-Ransas Guy
Journal.
WE were agreeably reminded this morning
of the near approach OF the balmy zsphyrs Of
spring; OF the long June evenings, and-and-the
lowing herds Of kline, and smell of new mown
hay, and dafiodils, and book beer and-and-
thunder and lightning, and all those things that
20 to make life Il poem and song We were
| ploughing our way through the snow drifts In one
of the many little parks in Rochester when we
stumbled over slgn half buried In the snow,
on which was inscribed the legend, O. Keep off the
Grass "-Ro;hester Post. Express.
THERE is an alarming increase of lawyers
in England. One hundred years ago there were
few less than 800, and at the beginning of the
present century there were between 600 and 200.
Now there are nearly 1000. The increase OF solic-
.I....e
1900; now they number nearly 5,0OO The popu-
lation of England has nearly trebed since 1900,
but lawyers multiplied at ratio nearly three
times faster. Ana this movement has gone on
Notwithstanding the changes by legal reforms
which have made laws less complicated than they
were eighty years ago.
AN interesting legal point is swelling the
head of "a Massachusetts, Justice. A young man
got very drunk in Boston, was arrested, and fined
for the oiense against social and Judicial deco
rum. With the same drunk in his possession he
went to Brocton where he was arrested again and
hauled up before the civil magistrate. There the
young man raised the objection that MS he had
already paid the law for that particular drunk 1t
was his own personal property, and not further to
be interfered with. The good old justice is now
weighing in the balauce Of his judicial function
the question whether man can twice be pun
ished for the one ofiense when that ofense is
progressive as in the case of intoxcation. A good
many filters" will await the decision with
anxious interest.
DISTINGUISHED people better be careful
about giving their autographs TO strangers. The
following story is told of Leon Say, the famous
French statesman and ilnancler. When Ploh.P on
was arrested, NJ. Say feared that his nephew, tho
Comte de Muntebello would resign his post as
ambassador TO Belgium, and at once hastened 10
Brussels to dissuade him from such action. Dur
lug the Journey thither he entered into conver-
sation with gentleman who soon began extoll-
ing the virtues and ability of Leon Say in most
. enthusiastic terms. Flattered by the compli-
ment. and thinking to impress the stranger with
his greatness, NJ. Say revealed his identity. The
other, covered with blushes and confusion, re-
lapsed into silence for a while, but when they
reached Brussels NJ. Say invited him TO dine
with him. The VicOmte de Segur, as he called
himself, did 50, and, on taking leave of.his dis
tinguished host, begged the favor of his auto
graph in an album already containing many IL
, lustrous names. This NJ Say readily granted.
4 Two days aflerward the statesman received let
ter from his concierge asking him II the 1000
a francs that had been paid 10 NJ dc Segur were on
their way, as he much needed the money. Tele-
graphing back for an explanation, NJ. Say learned
that gentleman had called at his house in Paris
and presented to his concierge note written in
h these words: Please hand over to NJ dc seguT
p the sum Of 1000 francs. l will remit you by next