National Republican., 1883-11-02

And the weary are Mt rest
THE sausage cover is a grounding case"
Mr.. TENNYsoN's poetry is said to be i'm
proving.
PEDESTRIAN CHARLES RowELL is coming
over OH the Alaska
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD girl is lecturing to de-
lighted audiences in Texas.
LAMBKIN, after week in Wall street, saws
1t is tho weak that go to the wall.
In speaking of tho Prince of Wales, Col.
Tom ochiltree uses the expression, "me and AL
OVER the door of Mr.. Goulds house is a
Latin inscription. "Let no evil thing enter here.'
A BALTIMORE man the other day. while
taking bath, became q raving maniac. The
shock was too much for him.
In a tornado in Mississippi turtle woigh-
| ing sixty pounds was blown out of Pearl river and
landed in distant cotton field.
FIVE millions of the 100000 deposited
in the Amoskeag Savings bank in Manchester N.
H., belong to the mill operatives.
THE Boston Post alleges that Mrs. Langtry
is democrat. VIII the papers never cease hurl-
ing vitupcrations at that poor woman?
WHILE marriage ceremony was being
performed in house from Bryan Tex, thieves
stole the wedding feast from the dining room.
QUEEN VICTORIA has decided to give Lorne
garter She doesn't like to see him running
around with his stockings festooned around the
tops of his shoes.
TWENTY-FIVE preachers were present at
the hanging of man in Illinois the other day.
The old Puritan notion that ministers should not
| have any fun has almost passed away.
ONE cypress tree in Ogeechee swamp, near
Egypt Ga, measured thirty-one feet in circum-
ference seven feet from the ground. AT the ground
1t measures thirty-nine feet in circumference.
A BABY lived only five minutes, but in that
brief existence had time aud ability to say,
Famine for five years!S Plenty of people in
Michigan believe the story, and are alarmed BY it.
MONTANA language expressive of tho diff
Guilty OF climbing very steep hill: "Iou'll have
to stick your toes into the face of nature clear up
to your elbows If YOU want to cross that divide"
THERE is family living in Nashville,
Tenn, whose members in the past three years
committed four murders, but have always es-
capped punished through some technically of the
law.
A PARTY of footpads followed Senator and
Mrs. Tabor and their $4,000 worth of diamonds
home from the theater one evening last week
They didn't attempt to steal the diamonds, how
ever.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL diggers at Canterbury,
England, found u score of ancient skeletons, some
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decorated Roman bowl, and curious flint insru-
ments
SERVANT girls are scarce in Texas. In
nearly every town in that state from dozen to
fifty young women could find employment at
household work at wages varying from Sis TO $50
month.
The New York Christian Witness published
he ten commandments the other week. and now
the Texas papers are reprintng them under the
headline of pearls of Thought" credited to the
Witness,
HINDoo coffee suppers are fashionable in
the church circles of Fort Wayne. The girls act
mattresses, in Hindoo costumes, as to the style
of which a Clergyman has felt constrained to re.
monstrate.
"DEAR me, you don't mean to tell me that
Uncle Sammy Tiden is alive YETI Well, do de-
clare never would have believed II. thought
he died of old age when was little girl."-So-
jOtlraer Truth
AMERICAN women going to Europe with
out escorts will hear with satisfaction of the es-
tablishment In Amsterdam and several other cities
in Holland of a hotel for women, to which men
are not TO be admitted as guests.
Miss Cora A. BENNIsoN, most worthy
lady and an able lawyer of Quincy. H., in COM
pany with Miss White, an eastern artist, are doing
the tour of the world without male escort The
plucky ladies were last heard from at Yokohama.
JAMESTOWN has a beautiful young lady
named Plow. and the young men OF that town who
have always borns hatred 10 farm work now
every ono Of the, esEnf sad anxious to spend
portion Of their ~ solains tho Plow-B Bismarck
Tribune
A New YoRK wins firm proposes TO send
baskets OF wine % clcrgymen carefully labeled
,'canned peaches" 10 "ayod suspicion" When
ever parsons health Il little queer whisper
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Hartford Post.
IT has been fully established that the poem
"Old Grimes IS Dead" was written by Albert G.
Geeep, OF Hartford, Conn. Why the death of old
Grimes should have attracted so much attention
in Hartford is not stated, but most likely he had
his life insured.
ONE Of the Indian pupils at Carlisle, Pa, is
said TO be almost incredibly clever at performing
, arithmetical calculations. He should not be al
! lowed TO return to his tribe. Such an Indian as
that would knock the profits of trading posts
higher than kite.
A HARTFORD intelligence Office advertised
in one ofthe evening papers for 1.-TWO young ladies
not afraid to talk four hours day at 81 per hour
Y and II kept seven policemen busy for three days
keeping the pavement in front ofthe Office clear Of
eager female jaw athletes,
THE floating gardens at Kashmir, in east
ern Asia, seems TO be one OF the wonders Of the
= world. They cover an expanse Of water about
: nine miles in circumference, and on subsoil Of
i grasses and aquatic plants they grow melons and
r cucumbers and crop is raised of great value.
Q IT is said that glass is gradually beginning
d TO take the place OF wood and iron in the con-
y struotion Of bridges in England. The inventor
!. makes blocks Of glass; which he hardens by
i special process. In soldlty 1t is said to leave
y nothing to be desired. The experiments already
a made have given surprising results, and the cost
u is below that of bridges Of wood or iron More
over the glass cannot be injured by insects, like
o wood, nor rusted like iron.
. A coLoRED man in North Carolina, who is
over so years of age, has been married twice. is
the father of fifteen children, and has Just pur-
chased his fourth pound Of coffee and first coffee
q mill His first wife lived ffteen years after they
!. were married, and during that time had bought
o one pound of coffee. She kept part Of 1t five
years, and at her death left some Of 1t behind for
n her husband and children.
a. GENTLEMEN in search of picturesque wives
n should 20 to LoTeto, in Italy. The women ara
dark and lovely. They wear jaunty costume,
2 consisting of sixteen pettcoats on week days and
u eighteen on Sundays and holidays. These pott-
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