National Republican., 1883-04-07

Mrs. HANCOCK is at her sons plantation in
Mississippi, where she has been all winter
CINCINNATI takes psrdonable pride in its
music festivals but It doesn't boas. ofits mayor
Commercial Advertiser He Means well, but no
don't know
The Commercial Adrortiser has discovered
that the philosopher who wrote Zone good turn
deserves another" lived in an age when the hand
organ was nouonly
DRAMATIC personal in Kansas paper: "The
donkey which will appear ON the stage at the
whitney opera house this evening is quartered at
the Gilchrist livery stable"
AN economical young lady in Illinois re.
Gently hanged herself with awoolcn nuoia The
thing has been Out OF style for a number Of years.
aud was worthless for any other purpose.
The man who remarked that a conscious
ness Of having faithfully discharged the duties OF
the day soitcns tho pillow for the nights repose"
never Travelled all night in a sleeping coach.
THERE is n project to revive ancient
Roman games in the Colosseum. From pictures
OF that structure the Commercial Advertiser judges
that " old sledge" had been played there for sew.
eral centuries.
The friends Of prohibition in Iowa have
secured the services of Hon. Emory A. storrs, of
Chicago to argue their case before the state
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ablest of advocates.
THE National Cremation society, located at
Philadelphia, and composed OF beer drinkers,
holds Its meetings In n saloon. Its principal bust
moss, as body, consists Of consuming beer aud
bolognas without the aid of fire.
The New Orleans Picdyuno has discovered
that "the dude has two watch chains, but 10
watch" The dude is not such fool as he looks,
for he knows that the weight Of watch would
make him bow-leggod. Commercial Adrcrise,
The youngest daughter of Mai. Arthur, tho
Presidents brother, is very III with scarlet fever
at Governors Island, N. Y, whore Maj Arthur is
stationed The little girl, Susie, is more like the
President than either his daughter or his niece
when she smiles the likeness to him is very strik
ing.
FIRST dude, with an embarrassed smile
Say, Augustus, really believe Pee broken u cor
set laclng. Have you an extra one with your"
Second dude, with an expression OF horror
Really why, Algernon, where could you fix 1t
If had one? The gyurls are all looking at us, ye
know ?'-HdrJord Post.
II isn't the jumping rope SO r,any times
that has proved injurious 10 many - ung girls,
but 1t is the exhaustion produced by counting
aloud tho number Of times they jump The
Lowell Citizen has come 10 the conclusion that
people who have once heard girls jumping rope
no longer regard hand organ steam whistle
as much of a nuisance In comparison.
Mrs. CARTER, of Bellair, Ohio, has sued for
q divorce from her husband, and charges, mong
other things, that he cruelty compelled her to
| swallow spools and buttons The de-. dai OK
plains, or pleads In cxtenuaion of his .ruelty,
that he "caught her smiling at a railroad man."
This woman is not to blame for smiling at one of
those brass-buttoned fgureheads, Some Of them
look ridiculous enough 10 make horse laugh.
SHERIFF NICKEL, of Lincoln county,
Mississippi, passed COW in the road. lie said
"Shoo!" 10 her, which was obviously improper.
one may shoe horse or, shoe hen, but a cow
never The bovine made run for Sheriff Michel.
and the first thing he rnew he was flying through
the air twenty feet from the ground, propelled by
tho horns of tho indignant cow. The deputy
sheriff of Lincoln county administers the ofico
temporarily.
Miss MCLEAN, a young lady on Staten
lsland with fortune of 100000, has been sued
| for breach of promise 10y Herman Barn' h. q
/ thrifty German. The lover declares that Miss Nc.
Leans rejection Of him injured his health, also
that he did not care about her money. nj Nc
| Leans love letters were rcnd in court. In lhcm
she complains ,eclingly that she was "dresdfnl
| lonesome without him." Mr. Barmich sizes for
$4,000 because she is no louger dreadful lonesome
when he is absent from her.
Col. COLE, once the great railway king in
the SOUTH is living retired life at Nashville. He
is said to have softening Of the brain and cannot
| live long Mr.. II. Victor Newcomb, once the young
| Napoleon OF the south, and the most formidable
antagonist of King Cole, is living in New York in
u life of retirement, though almost bind and IN
possible hope of recovery, Four years ago their
names were waited on every breeze that came
from the land of sun To-day they are forgotten,
and Tomorrow they may be dead
A WOMAN in Medina, Ohio, had been
coughing more or less for nineteen y,ars. when
one day not long ago she fell down Slairs. Up
| TO the time of that accident the doctors were
persuaded that she had the consumption Bat
when she picked herself up after tho fail she
coughed up shirt button aud since then has
been a cured woman-cured OF the consumption
1t was because she failed to digest or consume
the shirt button that she had the consumption.
The doctors have now discovered that,
This is what they do not say lIe--Your
father must bo worth Vt least million, and you
would enable mc TO 30 through life In q style l
could never hope for without you. dOu love
you, It is true, Out-ono cannot expect everything
So let us marry. II your father fails can crawl
out of 1t somehow, She--VcTy Well You vii
never amount 10 anything, but you are good
enough as far 0s YOU go. have trAcd with SO
many men that most Of them bato me. anG may
not get better offer. II do ! can break the en-
gagemeut,--L
other day of q representative of fnresu house
that makes specially OF household MT novelties
"What is the latest craze? iuaniTgA "Ch,
brass and old iron In year this country will ba
wild over old iron and brass decorations for the
home, The factories OF Germany, France. aui
Switzerland are busy making mp these things
which will begin to pour In about next Gll'
"What are they q Everything you can think
Of Hat racks made Of musketS center tables
with the legs made ofswords; old guns cut down
for table legs; card receivers, cabiurs, brackets,
and mantel ornaments 10 look as if they weIu
made OF old implements Of war. Old iron aud
brass is to be tho next range in this line."-On.
einnaR Times. STAR
'"SHE lives in tho fourth story. =.
Retiring to rest at in the morning she risos at T.
goes through her correspondence then thrilsts
her feet under the CRATE, and, surrounded by her
iayorte cat, spends tho day in reading the news.
papers" such is n reporters account OF loui.r
Michel, the terror inspiring sibyl Of annrchy
One would not judge her TO be one half NJ iuru
dable being as her compatrot, Nine. T.,
Minck, who caused NJ, Guyot, The ullm.nd
town councillor Of Paris, 10 DO logged by l!.tol
stiluents for not being radical enough Size h.
lieves in painting the panorama OF history Wll
lampblaek and lightning, aud in order thai ti
rising generation might not be hacking In gt,ui