National Republican., 1883-02-10

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Speed thee for the mutton talow-
Grease the little darings nose
-DenUer Tribune,
BALTIMORE has 10000 children of school
age.
THE new name for the robe dc mutt is nap
sack
oU1DA, the novelist, secured $1,000 for
novel.
GEN. MANDERsoN is the best story teller in
the west
ST.. LOUIS has "sacrcd wrestling matches "
ON Sunday,
JOHN G.. WHITTIER says the world is get
ting better.
A CRY is going up for fire escapes on college
dormitories.
IN one shoe factory in Lynn are thirty de
vorced wives
Iowa has her first colored lawyer, young
man from Chicago.
HOWARD GLYNDoN, the magazine poet ia
Mrs. Edward Soaring.
GEORGE w. CABLE, tho novelist, has on
tered the lecture field
OvEREXERCIsE on roller skates has killed
four ambitious Louisville girls,
In the Observance of Lent some people seem
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CALIFORNIA is destined to become one Of
the greatest wine producing districts in theworld.
| CALIFoRNIA is overrun by tramps. So
much for encouraging its Kearneys and Kal.
| loohs.
THE society young man is like bric-a-brac,
ornamental in some places and nuisance in
| others.
THE New York SIM speaks of dentists who
are women. Perhaps it means women who are
| dentists
OLIVER BRIDGES soldier of 1912 and 1915,
died recently at Castine, Me-, aged 90 years ami
7months.
A CRITTENDEN county, Kentucky, sports
man claims to have killed twenty-five partridges
at one shot.
A LONDON physician says the English SPAR
row is subject to the smallpox and can easily
spread the disease.
THE general opinion in Tennessee and Ala
bama is that treasurer who really treasures Is
| not to be treasured
A NAN who fancies everything he sees, and
seizes everything he fancies, is not altogether
reliable member of society, r...t
Mr.. WALcoT, of New York, will probably
eschew quail on toast if not other delicacies,
during Lent, with pleasure.
THE Lowell Courier wants to know the
good of n tariff on skeletons. Perhaps 1t may be
to protect the industry of grave robbng.
The propriety of restoring the death PEN
atty for murder in the first degree is agtated in
the state of Maine and favored by a majority of
the people,
A Boston woman has just completed
$50 900 mansion entirely on the proceeds from tho
sale of doughnuts. What it cost to bury her Gus
toners is not given.
THE Cleveland Leader asks why Mr.. How
ellis should devote 200 or 300 pages 10 giving "a
Woman's Reason" when the whole world knows
It Is simply-"because."
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY will celebrate her
sixty-third birthday on Thursday Of next week.
and reception will be rendered herby her Phila-
delphia friends on that day.
ONE Hudson, an Englishman, skipped across
our continent recently, and of course wrote
large volume on America. In 1t he speaks of con.
gress as ga sorry looking set."
FAR northwestern journal describes q
girls narrow escape from death on II certain rail-
way crossing, and says: "That crossing is bound
to give us good item some day"
OUT in Cincinnati they have given as r.
r." the cleading editorial writer on the Commercial
Gazette, the title of Southern Railroad" because
his editorials are long and do not lead anywhere.
THERE dwells in Elmira New York, a
statesman, the Hon. Jacob Schwartz, who has
changed sides politically so often that ho is gen.
orally known as the chameleon Of the Chemung
valley.
" l HOPE smoking is not offensive to you"
said German baron TO an American lady, light
ing his pipe Oh the deck of steamer. 81 really
cannot tell" she said, indiaerently. mo gentle.
man has ever smoked before me-"
7 THE meanest man on record is the one who
| hiq n mir of gRatpq ~ hn Nynull
cry for n week, and when the time was nearly up,
, and the boy felt certain of the skates took him
into tho shed and thrashed him.-Puck
A BALTIMORE coroner's jury found in the
case of colored woman on Friday "that She
came to her death from natural causos-cramp
collie, produced by eating sausage for breakfast
and in the opinion of the jury the sausage was
good"
THE Princess Louise was discovered in tears
soon after arriving in Bermuda, and much sym.
pathy was felt for her that the force of circun-
, stances necessitated heightened absence from
, her husband, the marquis. Later, when II was
learned that she had been eating q quantity Of
raw onions, this sympathy became somewhat
modified.
AN historic mule was rafIled for at Rich
mond, on Staten Island, Saturday night. Credible
l witnesses say that the animal was at one time
| owned by Con. Scots father, and did service in
tno war OF 1917 NnSH Lnc IGDelllOH DIOke OUT lnO
veteran was sold at Washington to thegovernment.
The mule was ubsequentlypurchased by Harmap
Cropsy, who rafled him OIL
y DAKOTA beats them all. A young gentle
l man recently from that country says that 1t is a
: fine productive counry-in fact, just the country
Y in which to procure wealth, He says one farmer
s planted six acres Of corn and three Of potatoes,
q and the corn grew TO such an enormous height
= that the sun could not rise in the east, but was
D obliged to back over and come up through the po.
0 tGto patch.
d CONVERSATION overheard in n street car.
i First young debutante: "oh, Pm so sorry Lent is
( here" Second ditto: on, how wicked; I'm real
glad, for my ball dresses were getting frlghtfully
shabby, and besides mama says 1 am looking n
little worn with the late hours and brilliant lights,
una am to go to bed early, and stay good deal
II during the day in tho dimly lighted church Lent
p is really great comfort TO me, and the dear
y thing sighed piously.
= THE Elmira Gasctio says "Samuel Will
4 Jams. colored murderer, confined in the jail at
= Lyons seems to need no sympathy. With the
" help of his banjo, which has been conceded him
: by the prison authorities, he beguiles the time
IS both for himself and his fellow prisoners, and
teaches them the steps of the liz while they await
their hour of doom. The llghtheartedness of tho
man who can thrum banjo under the shadow ol
the galows is something to envy.
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