National Republican., 1883-11-09

calleu you When girl.
You are so young; while Time of me
Has made cruel prey,
IL has forgotten you, nor swept
one grace Of youth away.
The same sweet face the same sweet smile
The same 1.-The figure, tool
What did you say2 1T was perchancs
Your mother that knew"
Alb, yes, of course, II must have been,
And yet the same you seem,
And for moment all these years
Fled from me like dream
Then what your mother would not give,
Permit me- dear, to take,
The old mans prlvilege-a kiss
Just for your mothers sake
W w Story.
REVISED by tough Never have I seen
the riotous forsaken."
INCoMPATIBILITY of temper is keeping
Mr. and Mrs. Irving apart.
THE only man who can patiently listen to
dictation is the stenographer.
THERE is n serious crack in the base of the
New York Worids column of democratic states.
WE are dono with the vulgar word "earth-
quake" Seismic Disturbances is what the pub
lie want.
n hbNAhD 10 uhSISu lOI llt uhllO VI SOluO
bonanza king in California or Colorado who has
not had row with his wifc or wives
SOME Engishmen who went out to New
Zealand to work derrick have been quieted by
being told that cannibals never cat holsters.
TooLE, the commedian, is o "keerful man."
In tho Artfu Dodger he still wears a pair of trou-
sers given him thirty years ago by tho actor wynd-
ham.
Mrs. NETTIE GURNEE went to Denver
several years ago with riches. silks, diamonds,
and $4,000 cash. She Is now social wreck.
| Opium
A DAUGHTER of Charles Lever is making
quite reputation for herself novelist under
the nom do plume of Sydney Smith" Blood
will tell.
THE sheriff of New Orleans astonished tho
frost bitten Chicagoans the other day by appearing
In the streets in the white duck pantaloons of his
orange cline.
A TEXAS turtle, sixty pounds weight, has
been blown from n river by tornado and landed
in distant field. Tom ochiltree has evidently
reached home.
PROF. NEWTON says that the earth receives
nbout8 O0OOOO0 900 of meteors every year, but they
| only increase the size of the earth one inch In
| lOO,OOO,OOo years.
| Now is tho timo for Mary Churchill, of st.
Iuulb, W curry lHlO CueCJ lHG VI HGT lllc
She has been well advertised and the American
stage yawns for her.
TENNYsoN, the poet; members of the royal
family, the prime minister of England, and other
dignitares were present the first night of ~ Es-
| meralda" " In London,
ROSE farm is q new industry in Alabama.
Two gardeners have three acres in rose trees.
This year they sold $4,000 trees to parties at the
north and had orders for 10000 which they could
not fill. They bring about $40 per hundred.
For ways that are dark" &c. couple
| of industrious Chinamen have been arrested for
running private postollice for their Celestial
friends. They brought over several thousand un-
stamped letters on the last Hong Kong steamer.
JAMES Crow, who died recently in London
at the ago OF 81, commanded the steamer Edin-
burgh in 1910, and was forced TO land Prince
I Louis Bonaparlo at Boulogne when he made his
futile attempt to incitc the garrison there to in
| surrection.
THE Marchioness Lansdowne, tho wife of
the new governor general of Canada, is said to
| bear wonderful ie emblance to Charles i, of
| England, from whom she is u descendant. This
will be very calling to the descendants of the
| highly-pious Mr.. o. Cromwell, If any of them
happen to be in Canada this season.
gaze upon that pure, beautiful evening
| star, and swear to be true while its like shall
shine: swear, my love; swear by Venus" ex-
| claimed Boston youth in impassioned accents.
How stupid you are" answered the Boston girl;
''that is not Venus, The right ascension of Venus
this month is 15h ON, her declination is 10 25
south, and her diameter is 1O.2"-Philade,phta
| Call
"BuTLER Buried Beyond Redemption" is
| the demoniacal head line screech of our partially
esteemed republican contemporaries. 1t is evil
dent that some people are not acquainted with the
| wonderful recuperative powers of Ben. Butler
Some twenty-five years ago. us Benjamin was pass
| ing along Washington street. Boston, large five
story granite front building fell on him. lie rose
up from tho debris, wiped his eyes with silk
| handkerchief, and remarked to some of the by
ISLANDERS "The dust in these streets is perfectly
awful; more attention should be paid to sprink-
| ling" With this he passed around the corner and
disappeared That was quarter of century ago.
| Mr.. Butler was more buoyant and elastic than now.
But he is tough, malleable citizen yet.-NeD
| York World.
A CHICAGO writer declares that, in New
| York theator he was struck by the extra vigor of
| the noise at a point back of the balcony seats.
| Straig htway he went up stairs, and got to the
| place in time to investigate. An usher wns in
| condition of wild yet methodical activity The
| amount and variety of the sounds which he was
making were astounding. lie was clapping his
| hands and so changing the contact alternately
| from fingers to palms that the effect of dozen
different hands was produced. lie was stamping
on tho floor with ono foot and kicking tho back of
| the seat with the other. He was crying " Brava!"
| and only intermitting his repertoire of ejacula-
tions when he shrlly whistled, His aggregate of
rumpus was estimated by tho observer rs equal to
the honest applause ofa hundred men.
SHE stood up in horsecar That maid, with
| careless grace; And oft the bold conductor APP
peared to scan her face Hor eyes were large and
dreamy, And golden was her hair Her crimson
cheeks were creamy, Aud he was-passlng fare.
Alone she leaned that morning Against the slid
ing door, And, all their GauceS scorning, She eyed
the sitters DER. While there she stood rejecting.
| Tho man of dimes and cents Was busily collecting
With industry intense But in his private pocket
No dimes he slipped that morn; And, llstless from
each socket His arms hung down forlorn. "Why
does he gaze so wildly2" Tho modest maiden
thought. While, fumblng his cash mildly, He
muttered, 81 am caught" His stare became 80
rigid, The maid was in despair, And, with glance
most frigid, She sought the outer air. Why did
her face burn hotter, And why was he not coolP
He took her for a "spotter," She thought he was
fool.--NeiO York Journal.
CAPT. MAYNE REID taught school in Nash
vile, Tenn, when he was a young man. The
Nashville American in sketching his life at that
time, says "Ho is described Us being not over %,
well made about five feet ten inches In height,
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