National Republican., 1883-04-11

Laramie boomerang.
A CALF with double mouth has been found
in Indiana. lie viii make his way in society,"
New Orleans Piodyttnc.
The arch@ologist of the Commercial Adper.
hser announces that the daintlly dressed dude be-
longs TO the garb age.
THs city of Hamburg proposes spending
iV0OVo marks (of which theempire will give 10000
In rebuilding the free harbor
THE windows Of houses in the Philippine
isles are made ofpellucid oyster shells, which ad.
init light but cannot bo seen through.
A NORTHERN man in South Carolina was
described to visitor as "new conner" though
he had been resident Of the state seventeen
years.
IN Cincinnati they pay $500 for a choice
box for one dramatic entertainment. Ifthis goes
on somebody will have to start another flood
fund"
SPRING has really broken loose in Massa-
chusetts. The Boston Herald says the robbins nih
able to sing now without first stopping to break
the icioles of their bills.
The Courier-JoarndI makes the important
geographical discovery that tho only Peruvian
Town known TO the American mule is Iquique /.
Query as to the last syllable?
"h' JohN La oULLIVAN, OF Boston, has
realized $4,000 this year from his close aud intel
ngent deVotlon 70 tho manly art This gentleman
was at one time known ns "sluggerr Sullivan,
The latest advertising swindle is that of a
man who advertised q sewing machine for os
cents In stamps. He found numerous dupes, who.
In return for their stamps, received a cambric
needle.
DIR. MARY WALKER goes to extremes. In
nj IA vi har u.
she has them cut high in the skirt. This reversed
style shows her pantaloons 10 good advantage
Ne0 Orleans Ptcdvuno
JOAQUIN MULLER requests that his body be
burned and his ashes scattered. 1t might be well
enough TO scatter Joaquin after he is dead but the
best thing to do with him Just now Is to put him
In barrel.- Courier Journal
AN Indiana state senator writes to an In
dianapolis paper that during the recent session,
on one occasion, one-third OF the senate were too
drunk to understand what was going on and IN
adjournment was found necessary.
Mr.. LABoUcHERE asserts that "nothing
will be settled as to the governorship general OF
Canada for four months TO come i" but that neither
Lord Wolseley, Mr., Forster, nor the Duke of AL.
bany Will be sent out to succeed the Marquis OF
Lorne.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that never
before in the history of the new northwest has the
spring movements Of immigrants and home seek
era set in toward the inviting fields of western
Minnesota and Dakota so early, and in such ire.
mendous volume
WHAT is woman's sphere?" asked the
lady principal Of public school on examination
day. And a little rod headed urchiu in the cor.
ner squeaked, Mcel" In the confusion that
followed the freckle-fa faced fiend escaped-com-
msrcidi Advertiser
AT q wood cutting contest in Mexican
county, Pa, few days ago, two women won the
first prize for crosscut saving. There arc proba.
bly, fow divorces in Pennsylvania. remarks a prac.
tical philosopher. great deal can be overlooked
in wife who can saw all the wood.
A SMALL boy was arrested in this city
for stealing alantern, violin, and q hatchet. He
was probably preparing to represent three we'll
known characters to the public: Diogenes Ole
Bull, and washington-the light Of other days, the
music of the present. and the acts for all time.
AN old gentleman tells the Louisville
Courier Journal that the English sparrows are
larger than the first English sparrows that camo
here. OF course they are. Everything English
swells when II comes to America The American
Englishmen are many times moro English than
the Prince of Wales.
In pigeon shooting matches the eyes of the
birds are sometimes goughed out to make them fy
slowly, for the accommodation ofunskilful marks.
men. When the marksmen arc very inexper-
fenced 1t might be well to clip tho wings and cut
of the feet in addition to coughing outthe eyes
In this way the amatuer sportsmen can kill them
with club.-Post- Express.
Mr.. WILLIAM NJ, CoNNoR, the manager of
John Mccullough, has at last succeeded in gain
ing control of the 81. james hotel New York, ayd
will take charge on the first of May. Mr.. j. ia
Sprague, for many years manager of the Hot{'
Emory, in Cincinnati. and the Gait house, II
Louisville, will be the active manager of the ST.
James. Mr.. Connor states that he will continue
TO manage for Mr.. Mccullough this and the next
season. Although he denies that Mr.. Mccullough
is interested in the hotel venture, Mr.. "Plunger"
Walton, the present lessee, says he Is.
A PHILADELPHIA girl who won't marry, I,
says l think the distaste for married life does
not exist so much with young men as many sup.
pose. II there were any Of the right kind of
young men-youug men with noble principles
and superior intelligence as we'll as personal
graces-it might be different; but the race seems
dying out. With my present tastes and views
am not likely to marry any one, SO just dance be-
cause can get more enjoyment out of that than
anything else. There Is no difficulty in getting
partners, and that is all think society men are
good for-to dance with"
IN recent lecture on y Inc Gr0Wth oil th0
Locomotive Engine" before the engineering So
ciety OF the school OF mines at the Columbia col.
lege New York, Prof E. r. Hutton told the story
OF a race between Peter Coopers engine and an
old gray car horse more than half a century ago.
He said that one Of the chief obstacles Of the at
tainmeut OF high speed Id those days was the lack
of sufficient draught through the Are box In the
stack Of Peter Cooperssm experimental engine,
the lues of which were made Of gun barrels, was
n fan wheel run by belt 10 increase the draught
With this device IL was thought that the locomo-
tive would outrun the car horse, and race was
arranged, the engine and the ear horse TO run on
parallel tracks The start was even, the lecturer
said, but the engine soon began 10 draw away
from the nag. The distance was increased, ar
the prospect OF brilliant victory for the ocomo-
tive was all that could have been desired when
the belt slipped of from the fan wheel Peter
Cooper lacerated his hands In an attempt 10 read
Just the belt, but It proved frutless. and instead
OF diStanoing the old gray horse his locomotive
and the experienced nag came In necknnd neck.
THE "stars of the coming Cincinnati fess
tival are all native Americans save two, MeCul-
Tough and Mile. Rhea. The former was born in
Ireland and the latter in Belgium. 0fthe others,
Murdoch and Elsler both hrst saw the light In
Philadelphia many years ago. Barrett was born
In Trenton, N. j., Nat Goodwin In Boston, Clara
Morris in Cleveland, and Mary Anderson in Sac.
ramento, Cal. With the single exception OF Clara
Morris, all Of the stars" Of the festival, both
male and female began their theatrical careers as