National Republican., 1883-06-15
BRIEFs roR BREAKFAsT.

W1eGINs merely smiles, shakes his head,
and says nothing. 1t is believed that he has re-
pented.
THE Boston Post pertinently suggests Gen.
Sherman as the proper man for professor OF hirt-
ing at West Point.
THE next national sangorfest is TO be held
in Buffalo July lG Every two years these gather
ings are held in one of the leading cities
GEN. MCCLELLAN informs Texas reporter
that ho is not candidate for president. The
country will feel relieved at this announcement.
CHICAGO has failed to get satisfactory de-
signs for statue of Lincoln to put in her Lincoln
park, and will wait for something good before or
derlng.
VIOLET CAMERON, a very popular English
comic opera singer, has been engaged by Boston
manager for next season to create several new
roles which he intends bringing out
THE venerable senior and presiding bishop
OF the American Episcopal church, Doctor Smith,
may be said to have been citizen under every
President Of the United States. He was I've years
old when George Washington died.
ALL that Mr.. Tilden needs to do now to
persuade New Workers OF the truth Of Mr.. Waiter
sons touching tribute to the formers new gained
muscular vigor is TO come out on the Boulevards
and upper Fiflh avenue as a champion wheel
MANY. y Mat aud Express
GEN. SHERMAN kisses every girl to whom
he is introduced. Now IL Mrs. Sherman should
adopt the same system with her young gentle
man acquaintances, how the old war horse would
kick. It is often q very poor rule that works
both ways.-Buriinoton Hdwkeye.
WHILE Mr.. Gladstone delights in telling
trees. Lord Salisbury is devoted to tenns-not
lawn tennis but the real game. Sir Stafford North
Ia Mr.
loves whist best and Lord Randolph Churchill Ia
an enthusiast over the chess board.
A WHILE ago an Englishman bequeathed
his two daughters their weight in one.pound
notes, and one Of the girls received fifty zone
thousand two hundred to ffty-seven thousand
three hundred and forty four for her sister-over
quarter Of a million Of dollars each.
THE windows of houses in the Philippine
Isles are made of pellucld oyster Shells which ad-
NIT light, but cannot be seen through. II is not
explained how the woman who sits up till after
midnight to ascertain what hour the beau Of the
young lady opposite leaves overcomes this diff
culty.-NOrrislo,Dn Herald.
IT is a cheerful reminiscence to bring to
mind just now that Immediately after his corona
ton. which took place under most happy auspices,
the late Car Alexander IL asked one Of the maids
ofhonor in attendance how she enjoyed the cere-
monies. "Oh, so much, your majesty" she re-
replied " l hope we shall have another soon"
IT may be pleasant for the owners of stock
in Mr.. Jeromes race grounds at Jerome park and
Coney Island TO know that at the auction recently
of the stock of precisely similar association at
Epsom In England, 81, ,040 worth of original shares
in that race ground realized El5,s32. The last an
nual dividend on the original stock was at the
rate Of 10 per cent
A GENUINE gold field is said TO have been
| found in Europe. Italy is to be the land favored
with realization Of the mythical Tom Tiddler's
ground and podere di Moseto Tidicr is said to be
at Sassaforato picturesque town, in which the
! guide book tells us small inn is kept by Bilan
cioni, with civil people and clean beds" One Sig
nor Perietti is the discoverer.
THERE lives in Munich, aged eighty, the
daughter OF Palm, the bookseller of Nurberg, who
| printed pamphlet against Napoleon !, and was
relentlessly shot by him in spite OF all efforts.
| She lives principally upon small pension paid
| by the successors Of Berlin house, at whose In
stance the pamphlet was printed, but whose
names Palm refused to disclose.
THAT the craze for acting among tho "up-
per ten" of London society is pretty strong the
following note from one manager to another ap-
pears to prove: "My Dear B: am in im-
mediate want of several guests for my coming
revival. should be much obliged to you. there
fore, you would kindly send me two or three
earls at your earliest convenience"
THE great northwest is receiving an unex-
pected impetus this year in the shape OF imml-
grants. In 1880 the population of Washington
and oregon was 100000; this year the two terri
tories will contain probably 100000. II Is esti-
mated that steamers monthly land 5000 passenger
immigrants at Portland, Greg, and that the in
crease for this year will easily reach 10000
! AN old maid died recently in Norway
leaving will in which she directed that her es-
tate be divided in six equal parts and distributed
to her six discarded lovers, who are all poor. l1
explanation of this bequest the deceased left the
following upon record "These lovers eithei
, courted me for my money, which they may now
have or else they loved me, and for that reason
/, they shall have the money, because disbelieved
, them"
ELLA WHEELER, whose love poems have
been severely censured on the ground of thei
supposed immortality, in the course OF O spicy re-
ply to her critics, says My friends have advised
! me to wait and not have my poems appear In
book form until am to use their words, married
2 or dead. But so long as believe the poem;
proper to publish at all, do not feel the need o
, a husband or tombstone to shelter me from fur
ther criticism"
Archbishop PURCELL is now in bette
health than he has been for the past two years
He recognized Bishop Fitzgerald and Fathe
/ HALEY, who visited him on Monday, and smieC
when they shook hands with him. He endeav
ored TO speak, but his articulation was so poo
/, that he could not be understood. He eats anC
!, !, sleeps well. and seems to enjoy himself In tn
company of those who are making the declining
years of his life as pleasant as possible.
PEOPLE who heard "a Life on the Oceal
Wave" sung TO threadbareness quarter of a cen
d tury or more ago may not generally know that tn
o man Henry Russell, who composed IL, and first
q sang It in public is still living, hale and hearty
! | but he is and he walks London streets and Rams
gate pier and sands like ghost Of the past, albe
a happy, genial, and substantial ghost. He has
comfortable fortune, and lives contented in tn
growing fameof his son, Mr.. W. Clark Russell, tn
: novelist.
a THE editor of the London Sportsman, VIII
It visited this country, seems to have accommodate
n himself to the ways of the republic with remark
Q able sweetness and content, as the following e'
tract from an interview with him, on his return
London demonstrates: ibid you mako an
speeches when you were in American" the
y asked him. YES" was the replyi II was fr'
Q quently called on to respond" And what di
s YOU say for the most part2" "Thank you, don
mind If / do"
IT is related that Janauschek recently b'
= gan professional tour at Rochester, Her mar
a ager thought that the city might be prohtably fla
y tered by the declaration that the actress, becau
" of high regard for its culture had chosen 1t f
tho starting place. lie therefore invited sever
newspaper reporters TO an interviews but Janal
schaL thraw away tho onnortunity," Why do yC