National Republican., 1883-06-11

And patent. waved-thy poodle shaved
Thourt the tonest girl in town.
My powdered pearl, my gilded gill,
Fair dudinotte, look down. "A. Dude
THE inaugural excursion Of the r. e. O,
Special series to Luray Cavcrns comes of
Wednesday of this week
THE Barber boys are little too tough to bo
called young shRvers.
NINETY-THREE thousand acres of land were
planted with timber In Kansas last year
THE career of an American army officer:
He cuts wood. plays poker, and is fired out
NEARLY 100000 pineapples were shipped
north from Key West on two days Of last week.
EVEN such papor as tho Boston Post COM
plains of boat races and base ball on decoration
day.
-B. & o. SPECIAL excursion TO Luray We'd
nesday, leaves Washington $50 a. M, and re-
turns to the city $40 p. m.
FoRTY-srx democratic papers in Indiana
are solid for Tilden and Hendricks and a fresh
bar'l
EXTENSIVE gold and silver deposits have
been discovered on the northern end OF Van
couyer's island.
THERE are twenty-five copper furnaces in
Tennessee which turn out annual yield of
100000 pounds of copper.
LONDON girls of the highest social position
are making 1t fashionable to take lessons In dress
making This is q move in the right direction.
DIAGRAMS for reserved seats b. &. o. Special
Excursion to Luray Wednesday now open at
B. & o. ticket offices
JAMES SANDERsoN who died in the Mil
wnukee poor house last week, was locally noted as
the man who once owned the whole site of tho
city.
The dudes will wear mourning bands
around their hats because their Egyptian proto-
type, Suleiman Daoud, has been sentenced to
death.
The Iowa democrats don't expect to win
this year. but they expect to get some valuable
practice in the contest, They shall not bo disap-
pointed.
DIAGRAMS for reserved seats b. & o. Special
Excursions to Luray Wednesday now open b
B. u o. ticket offices.
KATE KANE, tho Milwaukee lawyoress who
duckod the court is out Of JAIL and the Judge goes
TO court armed cap APPLE with gum oyercoat and
an umbrella.
ALTHOUGH not more than one-tenth of t.
students at Cornell university are women, OUT "a
nine recent elections 10 the Phi Beta Kappa throu
were of women.
A CANADIAN social scientist declares that
in long experience and observation he finds that
with thus far no exception the applicants for dl-
yorces are blondes.
EVERY passenger on the b. & o. special ex-
cursion TO Luray Caverns Wednesday will
have reserved seat without extra charge.
THE Petersburg appeal wants high mo
ument built by the south for Aleck Stephens u,
the man who gave the liberal movement IN that
section the greatest blow.
| MCCLELLAN wants the democracy to como
| out for revenue only, and as the democracy have
always been very kind ito Georgie perhaps they
will do 1t for his dear sake.
MILE. PIccoLo, q Partisan actress, drove SIX
burglars out of her house with arevolver the other
night and then held two of them, who had
climbed tree, until the police arrived.
SPECIAL conductor thoroughly conversant
with the country en- route and with the Cav
erns goes In charge of the B. d o. Every We'd
nesday Excursions to Luray.
THE season is opening at Cottage City in
very promising way. The cottages aud stores are
being opened gradually aud an air OF business
is manifest on the streets, avenues, and squares of
the city
do YOU believe in spirits?" the young
lady asked the new pastor. mo, my daughter"
replied the old man. al don't believe in anything
this side of heaven. preached in Washington
twenty years."
THE car has got into the king row at last
Now he can move back or forward us he chooses,
but in view of the odds against him he will do
well to sklrmish back aud forth within easy run
of the double corner.
THREE dollars and half covers all the cx-
pense of the b. and o. special excursion TO
Luray Wednesday.
GEN. GRANT says that when the northern
and southern people meet on a line they find that
after all there is very little difference betwe US.
The institution which was wiped out by the L, ,eaG
war has made us one people,
No danger of starving this year. Kansas
farmers still hold over 5,00o,OO bushels OF Old
wheat and Illinois has about 100000 gallons
of old rye on hand. Singular, isntit, how diff
ferently different states measure their Rrain.
FIRST of the B. & o. Special Excursions to
Luray Wednesday, June l3.
The present month so far has been remark
ably prolific in marriages of u fashionably daz-
zlng character. Perhaps this is because tho
fathers OF the brides wish TO shift the expenses of
the summer watering places to other shoulders.
ENGLAND, with 81, 900 inhabitants, has
only 10000 residents of foreign birth; Germany,
with 45,O0O,000 only 10000, while France, with
81 100000 has more than 100000. In France
there has been an increase Of 100000 in the last
five years.
No EXTRA charge for reserved seats in any
cars on the b. q o, Special Every Wednesday
: Excursions to Luray.
IT is fact not generally known that most OF
the tobacco stems from North Carolina tobacco fac.
} tories are shipped to Germany to be manufactured
into snuff for the German peasants. They arc
collected by Winston firm and shipped thence in
, immense quantities.
DID you ever notice the warning, Paint"
posted on door that you didn't feel the matter
with your fingers just to find out If It wasn't dry
I enough to take down the sign2 You probably
. never did. 1t would be contrary to human ma.
ture--Rochester Express.
Four hours at the Caverns by the b. &
= o, Special Every Wednesday Excursions to
! Luray
AN engineer on northwestern passenger
train, in approaching cut, saw that II was filled
, with cattle, He could hot slow up in time, so he
, pulled the throttle wide open and went through
tho herd like d thunderbolt, killing ten beasts
a without derailing his train.
0 THERE are about one hundred lacrosse clubs
In the United States, but third Of which arc
!, members of the Amateur Lacrosse associationJ
Q This association will send an American team to
: England next year, Five thousand dollars has
Q been guaranteed to meet the expenses of the
, trip.
No crowding ON the b, X o. Special Every
y Wednesday Excursions TO Luray. Only one
: hundred and fifty tickets to be sold in Wash
ington, and every ticket calling for regularly