National Republican., 1883-04-18
TABLE Talk.
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We know thee gentle Spring Thy feet do tread
The earth with many eloquent reminders
| OF blossom.laden trees, and scenes bespraid
With verdant things, to wit--tho organ GRIND
ers.
Thy breath is laden with hundred scents
That's dolorous-from roadway, lane, and stub
Como waves OF balm, and whom we turn from
thence
We get sweet draughts Of burning garden rub
BILE.
At thy sweet kiss the lips OF earth grow moister
Thou weakest unto life eaoh horal sleeper.
And even though thou takst away the oyster
Thou dost amend by making eggs the cheaper.
And so we bless thee gentle Spring, with blessing
AS true as those OF Antony's for Casar,
For art thou not. for months at least. supprossng
The sausage chopper and the griddle.greaser7
-Roms StHtinei.
W1dGiNs will lecture This impels the
Commercial Advetisr 10 state that there Is no balm
| in Gilead.
THE statue Of Lord Beaconsfsld in London
| will be unveiled by Sir Stafford Northcote on
Thursday, the anniversary OF tho famous leader'A
| death.
The Catholic bishop OF Leghorn has got
Into trouble with the popo for saying that divine
Providence has placed the destinies OF Italy In the
nands OF King Humbert
DURING 1852 Iowa produced thirteen pairs
oftwins and one gang OF trlpleu. II is moro than
likely that the Rev. Dr. Dix will receive a call
rom Iowa. Courier. Journal.
Rev. DR.. NEWMAN says: "voting is Just
as sacred duty as prayer" He is quite right.
but ho did not observe that some mon vote good
many more times than they pray In the courso Of
year remarks the Lowell CRissn such Ia some
mems idea Of duty.
DECIDEDLY rough on Newport IL is to hear
that there were not sufhoient hotel accommoda.
tions thero for an English visitor 30 Ahe had 70
come TO Boston. Newport IA exclusive enough 10
hown upon hotels, but this time she proved too
exclusive. boston Herald
PATHOLOGICAL research develops the fact
that the word "dude" is pronounced "dewdee"
Poets who have been rhyminE Il with rude"
crude" snood," &C.. oan now change heir teri.
nationsto "booby, ""woody" "soody," or anything
else that's applicable. Commercial Advertiser.
The bicycle rider with q cultivated taste
FOR the beautiful will never pass a carriage con.
tanning young ladies Of his acquaintance, while
he will ride for miles at the side. He knows well
enough that the profile Of bicycle rider ia well
enough, while front or rear view Is "puhickly
ridiculous. ."-Lo0en Citisen.
GREAT Cesar !" exclaimed Harlem man
yesterday when he met a friend whose vest and
coat looked as though he had been huggine n
hogshead oflard, whats the matter with your
clothesf" The unfortunate man smiled siokly
grin as he replied In 4 hoarso whisper: "I tried
to carve chicken for the hrst tno IN my life last
evening "-HariepI Times.
A CORRESPONDENT says that In the aver
age New York house one.fourth of the timo OF one
servant is employed in responding TO the ringinRs
Of rngmen and small peddlers. The Boston Post
sensibly suggests that this could be somewhat
remedied by the employment of athletic servants
who would kick the trainps clear OF the sidewalk
and into the gutter and then 60 out and Jump on
them.
In the language of the sentimental agri.
cultural editor let us HE away to the green fields
aud dsport ourselves. The mocking birds are be-
ginning to build their Mary Ann fats, the bum
blebees are beginning 10 humble. the red heifer
chokes herself with clover when she tries 10 low,
and everything looks lovely. Let us hio away
and become genuine Arcadians. Atlanta Constitu.
ton.
PRINCE GoRTsCHAKorF was fond of sound.
ing phrases; he used them 10 influence Others
and he was influenced by them himself Kata-
kas, the Russian minister at Washington-a pro.
tege OF his-bocame implicated In some exceed
ingly doubtful transactions and was recalled Ia
consequence. Gortschakoff sont for him and
rated him soundly. "You have abused my conn
denoe," he said. IL win hing you back into the
crowd from which took you" "The crowd OF
your admirers" aptly replied Katakasi, who was
a man OF wit The answer so pleased 0ortscha-
kof that he pardoned the delinquent and gave
him another post
FROM tho philosopher of the New Orleans
| Ptcdyune-" One must got up early to beat car.
pet. There is charitable money in broom drill
Ing. Tho bandolinc bang girl is apt to appear
stuck up....The donkey never suffers from soften
Ing OF tho brayln'. If winter is lingering in the
lap OF this spring 1t will soon get roasted. Tho
man who aspiros 10 be leader OF men should
have few leading ideas. IL. Tho candidate for
speaker should not have too much to say until
he Is landed. "A man may have an eye for the
beautiful, but 1t will not be glass eye.. The
preacher who divides his sermon into too many
heads leaves no room for a body"
CHARLIE CHICK, Of Reed City, Mich, was
out looking up some land boundaries the other
day. Hearing his dog barking little way Of, he
slipped over TO him on his snow shoes. Here the
dog had large buck by the neck and the two
were making the snow fly. He took o club and
beat the dog of, not wanting to kill the deer at
this season Of tho year. No sooner was the dog
loose than the ungrateful buck made OF Mr. Chick,
stu ok one ofits feet through HIS snow shoes and
knocked him down. The dog came to his rescue
and attracted tn % deer's attention long enough to
allow Mr.. Chick to get his revolver out and send
ball into Its neck. This rendered It more furious
still, and 1t made frantic efforts to trample him
into the snow with Its sharp hoofs, and would
certainly have killed him had the dog not secured
q good hold on his throat and held on until Mr..
Chick got up and stabbed him to death with q
dirk.
THE French police have had incessant COM
plants made :of the depredations ofa pickpocket
wherever a crowd was gathered The knayo was
well known to them, but they could not catch
him In the act, and pickpockets are never ar.
rested unless detected In aagrante delictu. The
detectives resorted to a stratsgem. They got q
female detective to put on large cloak, with
great gaping pockets, in one OF which was thick
purse, well stuffed with money. The purse was
tied by long string to tho pockets lining. She
went to an omnibus station, where there Il always
large crowd, and which for this reason tho pick.
pocket haunts. He soon espied her. Presently
the purse was In his hand "Haltl" The detect
ives had their hands on his collar and led him OFF
to jail, dazed by the resistance offered by the
purse and by the rapidity with which he was col.
Jared. He confessed to the police that he had for
twenty years practiced his profession" and had
only once been arrested, as his rulo had been to
hook only one purse daily; that secured, he went
quietly homo and spent Its contents.
NJ. CLARETIE's respectability, says the Lon.
don World. was one Of the features that most as.
tonished his colleagues of the pen, next to hia