National Republican., 1883-09-08

The portraits of the heroine drawn for
Blacks novel, "Yolandc" by Mr.. overend, arc
said strongly TO resemble the beautiful Miss Cham
berlayne.
THE Post Express says Mr.. G.. w. Childs has
just mailed bulky envelope to Tennyson marked
private" Even poets willing to help one
another out of a bad hole.
QUEEN VICTORIA refuses to entertain any
body, royalty or not, at buckingham palace for
more than three days. She wants 1t distinctly un-
derstood that she is not keeping royal boarding
| house.
GUESSING parties are fashionable at the
seaside hotels. The landlords act discouragingy
by guessing out loud that none of the boarders
will be able to skip their bills without fight
Boston Transcript.
THE difference between tooth and n
watermelon is that one is improved by plugging
| it, and the other isn't.-Bdltimore Ercry Saturday.
There is also difference in the aches from tho
two. One is the toothache, and the other-isn't.-
Richmond Baton.
| A LONG BRANCH hotel clerk has made him
! self famous and popular by kissing babies (age
not limited, and has received many favorable
comments from admiring parents. Bashful fell
low; babies are well enough though to commence
on.-Boston Courier.
PARIS now possesses Russian colony, q
| Spanish colony Levantine colony, and an
American colony. 1t is probably only question
| of time and opportunity until the American
colony steals all the other colonies and skips over
the nearest adjacent boundary line with the
same.-BurIing'on Hdtckeye.
1T is a grand thing to be a genius. Queen
| Victoria asked Tennison to write poem about
John Brown, and in three days the poet had found
| five new rhymes for Brown, as follows: Celuloid
iutraptnl,lp nprihalipn traneaptinna rnu.
lar and cairniolesiac No poet living, save Mr..
Tennyson, could have thought of these rhymes
Burlington Hdwkeye.
| NASHVILLE is agitating the cent question.
The smallest coin in circulation in that city is the
fve.cent piece, and shopkeepers are beginning to
see the folly of keeping out the once desplsed
cent One dry goods merchant estimates his
losses at 81 TO S. day on account failure to make
exact change. Another merchant is going to use
postal cards in making change If the cents do not
come into favor
WANTED-An Accurate Liar" So reads
an editorial caption in the Philadelphia Record.
at is scarce article" says the Buffalo Com
nercdl-talent of that sort. Tho reportorial staff
OF the New York papers are largely composed of
liars of one sort or another but accurate liars do
not abound among them. The Tribune has ono
or two OF the most conscientiously mendacious
reporters in America, and 1t is very proud Of
them"
FRANZ IIsET, who will celebrate his SOW.
enty- second birthday on Oct. 90 is at present at
Weimar, where he displays that marvellous INTEL
| lectual activity which has distinguished all the
great composers in their old days. He is at work
on grand oratorio, "Stanislaus," which was be
gun years ago, and his spare moments he has
| lately devoted to the composition of a third
Mephisto waltz, second and a third vnlse ouble,
&c. Three times a week he receives his nu-
| merous pupils.
THEODORE THOMAS has laid out tho plan
for somewhat novel series of entertainments in
New Iork-concerts for young people. A number
of ladies of influence among them Mrs. Henry L.
Howland Mrs. Robert b. Mnturn, Mrs William
Bradford, and Mrs. Alexander Stevens, have or
children UetITles Of three afternoon concerts for
is to furnish and lead an spd 16years Thomas
singers. The concerts will be held Rp9 engage
han. The object is to cultivate in children love
for the best music.
A GENTLEMAN was knocked off his seat
and threatened with death by waiter in New
York restaurant on Sunday because he had thu
presumption TO complain that the dishes served
MIN were not cooked as ordered. The waiter was
probably one OF those foreign noblemen" who
are said to swarm in New York restaurants He
was not accustomed TO being spoken to In that
tone and forget his native dignity for a moment
Inc a1air VIII be q lesson to insolent patrons of
restaurants to take what they can get as it comes
and sit up and look cheerful no matter what han
pens
IHE theatre de la Renaissance of Paris ia
very attentive to the dramatic critics. The man
ager has provided for their use special and lux
uriously furnished writing room, where, before or
afer the performances or in the intervals between
the acts these gentlemen can at their ease indite
the criticisms lackey, gorgeously arrayed ia
likewise in attendance, ready at any moment tc
drive to the editorial offices with the COPY. the
theater paying his travelling expenses In this
Otherwise admirable arrangement there is how
ever, one slight drawback. The funkey, we nm
dersiand, has strict orders to open every envelope,
examine the contents, and accidentally" mislay
every unfavorabe critique.
SOME of the papers are inclined to be severe
upon the earl of Onslow, the noble Englishmau
accompanying the Willard party, because he pre-
fers not to mingle with the other members of tbh
excursion. The earl is fvery ancient and noble
lineage. His grandfather was Robin Hodge a
veterinary surgeon In the reign OF George III He
was created an earl for having personally relieved
the kings faYorite stallion of severe case of tbe
bolts, and was granted an estate in Cornwall
where for many years he grew the finest potatoes
in the kingdom. The onslow potato is to this day
| the best brand Of the fruit exlant The present
earl Of onslow is rich and aristocratie, and Is
proud, as he should be- Of his noble lineage-C -CAi-
cdgo Nelgs.
THE Anglo-mauia in France now dictate
that people Of fashion shall carry umbrellas in
stead OF canes. In England they carry umbrellas
because 1t rains so easily in that country In Paris
| they carry the umbrella because the English do
| rive and twenty years ago, says a Paris corre-
! spondent, the gentleman who would have dared
| 70 carry an umbrella when he went TO the theater
or to pay visit, who would have ventured to
/ cross the boulevard on fne day, with this pre-
| servaliye instead Of cane, might have run the
| FISK OF ostTocism from polite circles. of being
| blaekballed at the jockey club People then. on
the contrary, affected ostentaton in Drawing
storm, as though 1. was peril; preferred the
/ sacrifice Of u new hat and the chance OF pneu-
monia TO the ridicule of precauton which was
olassed as only worthy of Joseph Prudhomme and
Jerome Paturot. But times have changed since
the empire, and the supreme Of "good form is to
be never without your umbrella, at any time nor
at any season. 1t is very elegant, very received"
very English, in short, and nobody who knows
anything is ignorant of the fact that for some per-
sons English is synonymous with perfection. The
umbrella has become as obligatory as primary
education and service In the army although Il il
not yet gratu ous, as five hundred franc un.
bTella in the hands of "gommeux" of 1888 is no
rarer than a cane of that price was among tie
"dandies OF 1880 and the "peits creves Of 1869
one OF the present Duke dc Morny's collections A
II is said that he has 1909 speolmens-Cost l,OOOG