National Republican., 1883-09-01

l2,OOO,OOO pounds, turkey, Persia, Arabia,
Russia, Belgium, India, the East Indian Is
lands, the Sandwich Islands, Mexico, and all
of the Central and South American nations
their full quota. The business is growing, and
the medical profession is fearful that so long
as the trade Is permitted there can be no
insurance against the introduction at any
time and at all times of smallpox, cholera,
yellow fever, leprosy, and any and all Of tho
plaques Of greater and lesser dogreo that are
common in many of the countries emu
merated. Any movement of this kind in
congress will very naturally meet with de-
termined opposition from paper manufacture
ers, whose pockets will be in danger.
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"There is o woman in the bureau Of print
ing and engraving" said the tall, gaunt
man, who is very supersttious. speak Of
this because | am very superstitious myself
l picked up q horseshoe on the street yester-
day and, although knew there was nothing
in it, carried that chunk of dirty iron
around with me all day, afraid to drop it
until reached home That horseshoe cost
me $1260 that know of and perhaps three
times that amount in ways I do not know
anything about not counting the loss OF
three pounds of flesh and a volume of nervous
energy. 1t wore blisteIs on my hands, tore a
SO umbrella to shreds, and caused me to forget
$3.50 pair of shoes which laid own on
the seat of herdic forgot the disreputable
talisman in life insurance Office and paid
ten conts horsecar faro to go back after it
While l was travelling there and back to the
place started from the Treasury department
shut up for the day, and / missed a chance to
get hold of q last years report, which 1 could
have sold to Boynton for $5. / hung to the
horse shoe though, and on reaching home
threw it into the farther corner Of my back
yard, and there it lies.
"That printing and engraving woman is a
bigger crank than l am on the subject of horse
shoes. She is finding them continually, and
would part with her life rather than lose or
let go one of them. She takes them home and
makes ornaments Of them-pen racks, paper
weights, and tho like. To conceal their ugl. :
ness she has them gided, and, as il costs
thirty cents to decorate a horse shoe in that
way, she finds the tax quite heavy sometimes
You see, she has about two miles to walk
every morning, and she occasionally reaps a
harvest of shoes that are shed by the night
liner horses. When the night liners want to
steal upon an easy customer they make their
horses take their shoes off and slip along bare
foot You didn't know that! Well, de-
clare, thought everybody knew that.
zone morning very mean blacksmith
down on Fifteenth street. two or three blocks
this side Of the bureau, who knew the little
woman's weakness, laid for her, aud when he
saw her turn out of the avenue and trip down
in his direction he dropped about hundred
old horseshoes along the sidewalk and cutters,
scattering thom for block or more. Tho
poor victims eyes, sharpened with supersti-
tious fear, never missed one of them, and
when she arrived at the end of the plant
she had a load John Sullivan would have
hesitsted to tackle. She thought it
must have hailed horseshoes, and that she
had struck the path of the storm center. She
had horseshoes enough to make necklace for
Barnums Jumbo, and she actually lugged
that back breaking collection of old junk a
quarter of mile. Then tho wicked black
smith overlook her and told her what he had
done. When they dug him out from under
the pile of horseshoes, he said he thought the
Washington monument had fallen on him."
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another thing came to my notice the other
day which the newspapers ought to take
up" continued the tall, gaunt man. ~ went
to Baltimore on the b. and p in the company
of several beautiful young men and gallant
ladies. There are several tunnels between
the two cities, you are aware, and the talk
naturally turned on the opportunities for
stolen OSCILLATION tunnels afford. As we
neared the first long tunnel everyone in our
party prepared to pucker The young men
took accurate visual surveys of the situation
of the young ladies, got ready to be rudely
hugged, while crusty old bachelor across
the aisle wet the back Of his hand 80 that he
could give it a resounding kiss and make the
passengers in the car think everybody in the
car had kissed in chorus.
"The train plunged into the tunnel with a
roar and rattle, and everybody drew a
breath of expectancy, followed by growl of
disappointment. The lamps in the car had
been lighted, and the illumination spoiled all
the fun. You never saw so many shades and
grades of disappointment and disgust fit
across the human face in less time than
chased each other over the faces of the mem-
bers ofthat company. lam "agin" the prac-
tice of lighting up the cars in going through
tunnels, and think IL ought to be stopped. 1t
constitutes an unwarrantable interference
with the rights of the people, and is soulless
deprivation of pleasure without accompany
ing compensation"
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L. J. Du Pre- secretary of the "World's
Arbitration league" when interviewed on
his hobby recently, gave utterance to the
following, which deserves o place in this
| column:
"The Worlds Peace society, or Arbitration
league, consisting of statesmen and philan-
thropists of this and leading countries of
Europe, propose to establish here, with potent
capital weekly review designed to promote
the purposes of the society. 1t is designed to
mako the existence Of the paper perpetual by
giving it building, press, and machinery,
and then require subscribers to pay only
for paper and ink. They will pay no rent
and no interest account An editor and bust
ness manager will be employed. Two pages
of twenty-eight, and no more, will be devo-
ted, each week, to the purposes of the Worlds
Peace society. A newspaper thus endowed
will soon be self-sustaining, and finally be-
come, because of its cheapness and universal
ity Of diffusion, a powerful non-partisan ex-
ponent of opinion. Very certainly, un-
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