National Republican., 1883-03-19

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THE esteemed Cincinnati Neics has long
editorial devoted to Julius Cesar. II confirms tho
rumor that the lamented Julius is dead-Aidnta
Constitution.
IT is whispered that Blanche Roosevelt is
the author of the nown novel, marked In Haste'"
IL certainly reflects scenes in Parsian social life
In which she played part,
Bur one thing can be said against Nine.
Nilsson, thatshe has never had a scandal attached
TO her name. Hergenus, however, must be urged
in extenuation of her virtues.
THERE is natural sequence in the titles
oi Robert Grants books. His Frivolous Girl" is
followed by IAN Average Man" That is very
much the way the masculine average runs.
WRITER in Our Continent says that when
one wants TO compliment a New England woman
one must cnll her bright; but when one wishes
to please southern woman one must say she Is
sweet.
THERE is man in Luzernc county, Pa,
who placed so much confidence in Wigglnss
prophecy that he cut down big tree lin front OF
his house. and the tree in its fall crushed the
house.
LONDON Truth says "the present way of
dressing the ballet in a costume of paddedleg
tights is not indecent, but ugly" Would Il make
the matter any the less ugly by taking out tho
padding A thousand times, nol-Rochester Post
Express
ONE of the youngest married couples on
record was seen at Castle Garden few days ago.
The husband was II and the wife 1G years of age,
and they had two children Of their own. They
were from Hamburg.
FIFTEEN genuine Sioux Indians who are
seeing Gotham amuse the people All hotel by cat
ing with their hands. All attempts to induce
them to eat with their knives, like New Workers,
have failed.-Roches.er Post Express,
MR.. RAvoNINAH1TRIYIAR1v the distin-
guished foreigner now in America, is the posses
sor OF "quick, strong, noiselcss Intellect"
This is doubtless inferred from the intrepid man
ner in which Mr.. r. approaches hotel registcr.--
Courier Journal.
OWEN LovEJoY's historic press, which the
foes of abolition threw into the Mississippi at
Alton, ILL.,, is now In the Office of tho Bemond
(lowa) Herald. The editorof that paper offers to
exchange 1t with the Illinois Historical society
for new power press.
HOTEL war in st. Louis has some interest
ing features. Mr.. and Mrs. Livingstone claimed
the propretorship Of the Windsor hotel, and It
took twenty-five men for three days with n
sheriff IS warrant to get Mr. Livingstone out. AZ
for Mrs. Livingstone, after emptyng a revolver
out OF the window, she concluded to surrender.
and marched out with honors war
THE Big Indian wigwam in New York is
the scene of gospel temperance meetings" which
are conducted in highly entertaining manner
1t ndverlises "banjos, bones. clappers and al I
such devoted to the holy cause III n righteous
way" 1t seems to be kind of gospel minstrel
show. Somehow, piety doesn't seem to attach to
bones and clappers, but that may be a ridiculous
provincial prejudice.
JANUARY opened with frightful list of ac-
cidents. February followed with another list
puually formidable March IN n fort atn nn
set up TO the end of the first week, when tho Ma
varre was lost with sixty odd souls almost as great
a disaster as the Newhall house fire. We now
register for March the Navarro, the terrible ex-
plosion of giant powder on the Northern Pacific
the sinking Of the Yazoo, and the loss of two pilot
boats, or 100 lives in all. The month is not half
run, and will, no doubt equal January and Feb
ruary in caamites.-Ransds city Journal.
A PECULIAR case of insanity heard in
Chicago court last week was that of Mrs. Elizabeth
Boland residing at Dill Thirty-frst street. She
suffers from melanchoia, and her friends fear she
will take her life. Her great sadness is caused by
her inability to fully understand the Catholic re.
| lglon. She imagines she swallowed priest and
that he attempted TO suck her life blood when she
swallowed another priest that he might induce
the first to quit his vampire work. 1t didn't work
at work at ALL Mrs. Boland says. The two priests
began lighting for her blood, and she was worse
of than ever before,
THE union of piety and peculation seems alb
normal in New Jersey. Besides producing mos
quito which rivals In size and ferceness the tiger
that turks in Indian juugles, New Jersey seems
to have taken out patent on religious embezzlers
When Boice, the bank president who robbed VII
dows and orphans to keep up u yacht and simi.
lar extravagances, went to the state prison. there
was highly affecting scene IN the church of
which he had been Sunday school superintend-
ent. The minister who gushed over this scamp
had better beware unless some of the boys who
sit under his mnistrations take up the idea that
thief who is caught becomes martyr.
Mr.. w. w. AsToR gave magnificent recep-
ton in Rome on the 22d of February, which was
attended by all the titled people in Rome. hut the
American clement was conspicuous by its absence,
not even the rector of the American college being
invited. The guests admired the splendid RuspigA
lani palace and contTasted II with the modest
home Of George p. Marsh, who was American
minister for so many years, but who always ell
terained his countrymen in preference TO others.
MT Lowell on the same day gave reception in
London, to which all Americans sojourning there
were asked Comparisons between Mr.. Astor
and Mr.. Lowell's taste are invited.
OCCASIONALLY the editor is in, and when
that happens somebody usually gets hurt In
Braddock, Pa, the local journal chose TO light into
! the young men of the place for habtually loafing
and drinking. One of the loRfers proposed to re-
talate OH the editor who at first refused 10 fight
but when he had got his blood up by having abuse
showered on him concluded to give the loafer as
much as he wanted They went at 1t with great
vigor and determination. Nine rounds were
fought, and at the enid of that time thore wa,
hardly enough left Of the loaier to call out
Enough" An editor who figured the thing out
gives the following as his experience: Promised
licking 1,257,99i times; been licked, o."
MARIA SoLGER, of New York. is perhaps
the finest illustration Of the lokleness Of her sex
that can be named at present She was to have
been married to John Ould, n barkeeper, ON last
Sunday" oud lavIshed presents upon her, be.
sides having paid her and her sisters board for
five months past On Sunday night preparations
were made for the wedding and six boxes of wine,
besides CARLOAD of other things were provided
by the bridegroom expeotant But no Maria ap.
peared. Mr.. ould nevertheless concluded 10 in
augurate the festivities which were not seriously
impaired by the absence OF Miss Solger Within
a week she appeared. She was then Mrs. Emily
Rosa having married French truckman in the
interval. Mr. ould philosophical over the event,
and remarked that perhaps he was just as we'll
Off No doubt oft.
The news CONES that Sarah Bernhardts
London marriage was highly irregular and that
she has ceased to call herself Nine. Bernhardt-
Damala, and is become simply Sarah Bernhardt.
The truth is that 1t was suspected soon after tho
event, that some of the numerous formalities at.