National Republican., 1883-02-15
GENERAL GOSSIP.


And the people shall be hunting for congress-
some wog viii take this record aud with pleas
Before The, peoples noses will be humorously
showing her.
Aud won't 1t then be quoted
How senators have voted,
And by the people noted,
And won't they grow ,uspicious2
Then won't the sad experience of certain ones
That foolng round the circus they've been
stepped ON by the elephant2
SQUARE cornered aprons without wrinkled
70 Ids are popular for overskirts.
AN old bachelor in Powell county, KY, is
the happy possessor of one hundred house cats
SHELL shaped frills of lace in two narrow
straps across the shoulders take the place of
sleeves in low corsages.
| A MAN in England who, it was said, had
been drunk for thirty years, died in few hours
after having sobered up.
THE man who first discovered gold in
eastern Oregon died in Baker City last week. lie
died penniless and alone, though ut one time very
| rich.
ANOTHER glutton has been heard from. He
halls from Massachusetts, aud signs his name
Oliver Swet His boast is that he will ent pot Of
beans daily for thirty days on Il wager of $500
BUSY doctor sent in certificate of death
tho,other day, and accidentally signed his name
in the space for "cause Of DEATH" The registrar
says he wishes the profession would be as accurate
| generally.
OLIVER BRIDGES, who died in Castinc, Nc,
n few days ago, at the age of 90 years. served
throughout the war of 1912. His father went
through the revolution, from Bunker Hill to York;
town. and his four were union soldiers, from
Bull Run to Appomattox.
WHILE saving veneer from walnut knot
| ludinuinn 1igpOVprpl n hp AZ cd Of
| the wood q perfect picture of spaners head.
| The lines arc as accurately drawn as IL by the
pencil of an artist and when framed this natural
| curiosity has all the semblance ofart.
An Auburn sportsman is said to have cap
tured an immense owl of the Arctic species while
huntn In Broome county, New York It Is nearly
white and huge. looking fowl, being so COM
pleoly enveloped In feathers that the long, sharp
claws and hooked leNk are hardly visible.
FELIX PYAT, the man who has Just recom-
menced the publication Of lie Vcpgter In Paris is
a rcd mouthed socialist, who has done more harm
IL the world perhaps than any one man now alive.
1t was he who incited the commune TO pillago.
murder, and burn, and sank France into the
lowest depths Of disgrace. The one desire Of Gam
| bettas life vas to hang him.
THE Truckee river, California, is frozen
solid to the bottom. Whole schools of speckled
trout are imbedded in the crystal just where the
blizzard left them. Thousands Of people are on
gagged in chopping them out with axes. Aior be.
ing left in cold spring or river water for about
twenty minutes they begin to wggle and are as
lively as ever inside an hour.
THE Conciergeric where Prince Napoleon
wOs confined has twice served as q prison for
members of his family Prince Napoleon ufter.
ward emperor, was shut up there in 1910 when
he was awaiting his trial before the chamber Of
peers for his Boulogne expeditions and Prince
Pierre Bonaparte was detained there in 1870 after
his manslaughter of Victor Nor.
MRS. d. HELDER, postmistress of Nelly,
near Leadville, is u brave and fearless piece Of
femininity. She walked three miles on snowshoes
Friday morning, while the mercury was hunting
the bulb, to render assistance to drunken fellow
named John Auter, who had laid out all night and
who had nearly perished. Her assistance saved the
mans life.-RocGy Mountain Netcs.
WESTERN enterprise is world famous. Tho
officials wanted to hang Milton Yarberry in the
exposition building at Albuquerque last Friday,
but the citizens protested. II murderers could o
preserved until fair time and hung in a large
building thestock in exposition associations would
pay 900 per cent. dividend We throw this out as
II mere suggestion.-RdRsas city Journal
A BROOKLYN coachman stole from fellow
servant, and expended the money so obtained in
, buying fried oysters and theater tickets for tho
girl he loved. While there is nothing remarkable
about the manner Of the expenditure, 1t is little
singular that the person from whom the money
was stolen and the girl who ate the oysters and
used the tickets which that money purchased ID
one and the same individual. No cards.
, LAW student had just been admitted to
the Boston bar and had opened an office for prac-
tice when the death of his father left him s6OO0O
He was in such haste to get and spend the money
that ho left the office without stopping to lock the
door, abandoning his fine library and furniture to
his creditors. He wasted his fortune so wGntony
inot pt,1y a Nyaor ha fq nd nt,f
at Lewiston, Me-, rs broken-down drunkard, liv-
, ing on the charity of old acquainances.
THE membership in the London clubs aggre-
gate nearly 100000. Their property is worth some-
thing over S25,0O00O0. There clubs exclusively
for clergymen, and Others whose members devote
4 their meetings to high gambling. correspond
ent of the Boston Herald says that draw poker is
{ the tAvorie game. lie saw Frank Lord from
New York, lose $4,000 at Brookss in one night,
but subsequently he regained s5 900 at target prac
tice with a pistol. His adversary at cards was
Lord Rodney, captain in the Life Guards.
y HAVING been accused of mystifcation in
, the matter OF Mr. GlGdstones condition, tho Lon.
u don Lancet repels the charge in the following
q clear, simple, and emphatic manner: In the first
place, the premier's "sleepelssness" ought to be
, described as "wakofllness," that being clearer
definition of his "pathoogical-or perhaps we
should say ysiologcal-condition" u very
, simple state of affairs, in which "the hypothesis
0 Of cerebral anmmia Is erroneous, seeing that II
: is the "vaso motor SYSTEM" in which "a change
involving contraction Of the arterloes must
occur" that Is ut fault.
= Mr., LABoUCHERE, in the pages Of the Lon.
II don Truth, thus describes the "mashor'' term
4 that has recently been imported, and is now ex-
= tensivel understood in the British metropolis
= He Is Il fungus not an honest mushroom, or even
n respectable toadstool, but n wet, spougy, aud
: unwholesome emanation from n rotten and pois-
. onous soil. Rldiculously over dressed, starched
: mp to the very eyelids, smothered like girl in
jewelry decked out with flowers like footmau,
diotc in countenance and sparse ia conyersG.
l. tlon with knobbed stick to suck, he has become
t an observed form Of social cold veal"
+ An incident occurred in the Southern
l. hotel, 81. Louis, last Tuesday, which illustrated
'r the apothegm that virtue is It's own reward"
is William Bauerlein, q Milwaukee drummer, while
ar passing through the gentlemens parlor picked
- up pooketbook containing $4,000 in cash, Ger.
=. tincatcs, and checks. Shortly afJerward Mr. Me-
IA Gillicuddy the Indian agent at the Pine Ridge
Is agency, who has lately figured before the public
in connection with the troubles with Red Cloud
D. rushed into the office and told the clerk he ha /
of lost his pockethook and wanted carriage to 30
a to police headquarters and offer reward Of $500
" | 4, IT,. In much excited