National Republican., 1883-09-04

--Neu York Morning Journal.
COMPLAINTS are heard in New York that
Mr.. Elliott +. Shepard bagged Lord Coleridge as
social prize to be worked for the glory Of the Van
derbit family, OF which he is a connection by
marriage.
THE presidential canvass in Kentucky will
be made on q platform calling for whisky for
snaEebites only, and a law will be passed forbid
ding the killing of snakes under the direst penal
ties.-POst- Express
THE New Orleans Picdyure man justifes
himself with the reflection that ii man who be.
lieves in destiny might as well get drunk as not
when he feels like IL. Let the moon refuse to get
full and 1t will break up the greatest scheme Of
lighting the world ever saw.
THE Count of Paris has notified the courts
of Europe of the death of the Count of Chambord.
1t is reported that the courts were not very much
surprised, as they had heard that he had been
sick for some weeks and that his death was likely
to occur at almost any moment,
The Chicago News thinks Mr.. Edison is
undoubtedly pretty nearly correct when he says
the telegraph operators lost nothing by the strike
The industry which presumably suffered most
and we have made careful study Of human ma
ture as found among the teegraphers-was the
fifteen ball pool industry.
A MEMBER of the Pennsylvania legislature,
who although well to do, is noted for the very
plain style in which his domestic affairs are
conducted, was stopping at New York hotel with
his siX-year-old daughter. AT the dinner table.
one day, the little girl asonished the guests by
| exclaiming, 10. papa, papa, these forks have got
handles, just like spoonsl"
Mr.. IRVING has arranged for the publica-
tion simultaneously in America and England ofa
diary with his impressions of this country in q
dialogue form. Mr.. Irving says the Post Express,
is unjust to the rest of the world. There is CONT
| mental Europe and Asia and Africa. Does he
| imagine that those countries are not warmly in
terested in what he thinks OF us?
A LONDON "ssssiety" paper complains that
American tourists are ill dressed, I'll hammered,
and Ill voiced" That is because when in England
they do as the English do. Our esteemed fellow
countrymen are too amiable. In foreign lands
| they efiaee themselves too much. Let them be
their own sweet, simple selves and they will win
| the afectionate admiration even Of the British
| Jenkinses.
ALL readers of Mark Twain's "Tramp
| Abroad" will remember his clever burlesquo on
the involved and complicated construction Of
German sentences in the appendix to that vol
| ume. They will also be amused to hear Herr
Lindau, sthe editor of q German literary journal,
now In this country with the Willard party, say
that Marks ridicule is keenly relished in Ger
many, and is actually working change in tho
MRS. VINCENT, the buxom veteran of tho
Boston museum, thinks that William Warren will
return to the stage. She says he cannot stay away
from it long, ~ urged Mr.. Warren when he told
me he intended to leave" she says, ito give up
the idea. Why, said, you'll not be happy as
long as you're away from your old place. II you
| want to leave now, take a rest for three or four
months, or year even, but don't think of giving
up the stage yet. And 1 believe he will be back
some time too
Mr.. TILDEN has yacht and span of Ken
lucky thoroughbreds dumb bells, and Indian
clubs until you can't rest, and has ordered half q
dozen shirts with blue horseshoe pictures OH
them. When anybody disputes proposition
that he has made, he pulls out roll Of bills,
quietly remarks "Money talks-put up or shut
up" and then expectorates over his shoulder end
walks of on his ear 1t is reported that Mr.. Tilden
will come into the possession of large property
on his twenty-frst brthday.-Post- Express.
THE emperor of Annams treasury is not
likely to be riaed by inscriptions officials con-
sidering the formidable guards who protect the
state money. Retaining sufficient cash for cur
rent use, the emperor seals up his reserve funds
in the hollow trunks of trees and throws them
into pond in the palace grounds which is kept
filed with crocodiles. To get at the money the
Paris Temps says 1t is necessary to kill all the
crocodiles and, as this cannot be done in secret,
the Annamite SOVEREIGN feels quite secure from
being robbed.
, GREAT attention is given to the English
railway stations. At Shrewsbury, for example,
writes a correspondent of the Hartford Courdnt,
a city of half the size of Hartford Conn.,, or say
25 900 inhabitants the station cost 100000. Along
the route grade crossing is scarcely ever seen.
When 1t is the gate is kept shut, except when
some wants to cross the track. Its normal con.
dition is TO be closed Tunnels and bridges are
frequent. over these in many places ivies are
grown, and other climbing vines; and at many
stations the cultivation of flowers, stimulated by
prizes offered by the companies, has been carried
to AN art. Crossing the tracks at stations is not
feasible and walking on the tracks through the
country Is forbidden. Look from the car window
half day and you see no one on the track ex-
cept an occasional railway employe. The whistle
scarcely ever blows, except at stations. The
guard notifies the engineer that all 10 ready by
blowing shrill little whistle which he carries in
his pocket. The engineer pipes G shrill answer
from the locomotive whistle, and off you co.
quietly and without the infer nal bell ringing and
leaping on the last car that we ore used TO.
THERE is lady hero who has 800 dresses,
every one ofwhich must be worn before the sea-
son is ended. writes q Saratoga correspondent
The season ends on the twenty-ffth Of September;
she arrived here on the twenly-ftth day Of July
that is two months that is to say, sixty days, Sixty
into 800 goes five times. Therefore, as an accu-
rate mathematical computation, she must change
her dresses five times day. She does it. Not
long ago she startled the whole place by wearing
the same dress the whole day long. Even bets
were made that she would not fetch on the twenty
fifth day of September the last dress out of her
: trunks But she averaged up the next day and
; changed ten times Perhaps you do not believe
she has this number of dressesl But she has, and
! most expensive ones, too, they are. When she
! came here saw a procession of huge Saratoga
trunks going up stairs. II had been duh for a day
/ or two, and congratulated the proprietor on the
rush of business the trunks evidenced. "Oho"
no said, that is only one person." / rushed up
on the upper landing and counted thirteen She
A hires two additional rooms TO put her trunks in
) This is no exaggeraton, but fact Many of these
dresses from the aelier Of Worth of Paris One
a evening she entered the parlor, and friend In
0 position TO know whispered that the cost of tho
. dress she wore was 81 800, ldoubt II not In six.
= teen days have never seen her with the same
k dress on twice. She is from the west and her
l. husband is prominent and very wealthy banker.
}, He seems to enjoy the beauty Of his WIfe and tho
appearance she presents