National Republican., 1883-02-17

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the cash is also.
SENATOR EDMUNDs was once the president
OF a baseball club.
SOMETHING new in woolens-A baby in its
| first flannel shirt
CARDS are the devils books. By all means,
them let Us cut them.
WHOM the gods would destroy they first
make other people mad with.
BISMARCK reads and writes without specta-
oles, and his hearing is very acute
SOME persons are so artificial that they even
talk of their minds as being made up.
lT seems natural, doesn't it, that when a
mans business gets run down he winds It UP.
1T's no wonder that the Mormons think
highly of their religion. It's very rowivelng
AFTER holding Office for fifty odd years.
Hannibal Hamlin has mounted the lecture pat.
! form.
GEN ROBERT TooMBs submitted to an opera.
tion for q cataract in Atlanta, Ga., last week. Ho
Is nearly sightcss.
CAPT. SHAW, tho chief of the London fire
brigade, has sent to Chicago for some of the fire
appliances which he saw in that city.
A CHICAGO husband received one cent
damages from the fellow who ran away with his
wife, and then remarked that he was ovorpaid.
Pies date back TO tho time of the Romans
and came originally from picardy Some ofthe
original pics are still on sale at railway reslau-
rants.
| AMONG the few remaining classmates of
Edgar A. Poe in Virginia are Col Lewis L. IIarvic,
OF Amelia ex-Mayor Clark, of Manchester and
Hon. II. NJ II. Hunter
ONE Of the first lessons that ought to be
taught at the many fashionable cooking sohoo
! is. " Never stir tho lnlh pun 4
smooth the hair with the other"
BILLERIcA in Massachusetts,, has the proud
distinction OF being the only town of its name in
the world. 1t has now 500 more inhabitants than
ithad in l7I6, and is proud of its growth.
MR.. ALMA TADENGA has in his beautiful
studio at Bedford park piano of exquisite tone
ana euriously ornamented case, upon which are
inscribed the autographs of all the great artists
who have played on the instrument Among the
names are those of Rubinstein, Liszt Nilsson and
Patti.
MIR. KALLocH, the preacher who was once
mayor of San Francisco, and who then cast very
dark shadow, is in further trouble. His congre-
! CATION has decided to give him years vacation
without pay, because he lot the church for n Sun.
day evening sparrlng match thatwas attended by
Il crowd of hoodlums, for whom the regular or
ganisL played sacred music before the sparrng be-
gan.
FRENCH joke, literally translated by a
student in the New Yorl; World Office: " A mister
strong elegant passes before a poor He feels at
her pocket. Not Of Titles pennies. He Is already
passed when II remorso takes him: he reGomes
upon their steps and gives piece of 10 pennies.
Tho mendiCRnt, q man modest without doubt
rests stupeled before the little coin white and full
Of dclicaoy' Ten pennies oh, thank, miserl
But and you?'"
A GRAVE and dignifled d. D., after listen
Ing 10 the recitation of putppligm ~ q pl pf
children, was asked to make few remarks 10
them, Whereupon he arose and said; al desire,
my young friends TO express an unqualified ap.
probation ofIhiS exercise. / regard the catechism
rs the most admirable eptome of religious belief
eNtant" The superintendent pulled his sleeyeaud
asked him to explain the word eplJome, which ho
eluodated as follows BY epitome, children
mean-that is--it is synonymous with synopsis"
For THE past two week two gangs of work.
men, ten each, have been digging lor foundations
to piers for the new bridge over the Niagara for
the Canada Southern. The foundations are TO be
solid stone, 70 by 40 feet. The locality is about
200 feet above the suspension bridge, where tho
distance across the river is 800 feet aud the dis
tance between the piers will be about $50 feet.
The cold weather, however, has now caused
suspension Of operations. The ice hus made all
bank travel dangerous while on the Canada side
It Is made impossible
A DETROIT joke in Scotch dress: Scene
Paisley railway station; Glasgow train about to
start; old lady comes rushing up to the carriage
window: Old lady" Is this smoking compurt-
meniY Jocular young Irshman, dnsldo)-" Come
In, ma'am; ye can have yer smoke here; no.
bodyl interfere wild ye." Old lady, Qudignant.
l ly)-" asked you If this was u smoking compart-
ment, sir?" Jocular young Irishman-" II is not
ma'ain, but yer welcome to smoke as long as you
plazei there's nobody here but a clergyman an
nesilf an wo won't say u word"
IT is related of Gustave Dore that many
years ago, while OH a tour In Switzerland he hap
poned to lose his passport. Arriving at Lucerne.
he asked to be allowed v speak to the mayor TO
whom he gave his name. "You say that you are
NJ Guslavo Dore," replied the mayor, "and
believe you; but" ho added, producing pencil
and piece of paper "you can easily prove It,"
Dore looked round him and perceived some wo-
men selling potatoes In the street. With few
touches he oleyerly reproduced the homey scene
and appending his name to his sketch presented
1t to the mayor "Your passport Is perfectly in
order" remarked the Official but you must allow
me to keep It as souvenir and to offer you in
turn one in the ordinary form"
AwRITER in London Spectator draws this
horrible picture of New York: The Empire city
is an extraordinary tumble Of dirty, mean streets,
ragged telegraph poles rottlng wooden shanties.
monsrous advertisements garish signs, fronts
made hideous by daubs of crude red blue, and
green paint, oYertopped, spondically, by enor-
nous piles of heavily ornate architecture aud
overshadowed by network Of wires and by tho
elevated railway, Nor is the street population an
attractive one. The women are terribly over
dressed and to stranger the mems faces wear
sad preoccupled, almost saturnine expressions
smiles are rare and laughs are STILL" Could
this atra- bilious visitor have been oscar Wilde?
Has the bunco experience turned his milk into
gall2
THE English sparrow is game. A gentle.
man at the Society Of Natural History last night
related q battle that he had witnessed. The cook
had thrown out some crumbs and odds and ends
from the table, and their sayory smell attracted
mouse who edged along through the grass and
nlbhed to his hearts content An English spar
row sat above him on braRph Of slokly looking
elm, and no sooner did &is keen eye note the
sorouching object bobbng through the grass than
with n swoop he bounced down and darted his
tiny bill into the head of the mouse. The latter
jumped and reared at the pugnacious bid, who
was of and back again. repeating the dose. A
third and fourth time this was done until one
Of the eyes Of the mouse was picked out, ana ho
hobhed along evidently desiring toget out of tho
way lilo no longer ran he orawled, and before
, he reached place of safety the sparrow had so
weakened him by his persistent piokings that he
easily killed him.