National Republican., 1883-11-05

a'NN AHia aNAIHNis
TES counties In Tennessee havo no news.
fareu.
SANTA Rosa, Cal, has pumpkin weigh.
CoirHipoE said that American roast beef
was pretty iaIf anicic.
GEonor Gown, son of Jay Gould, Is to
I marry Miss Carrie hstur.
] As English woman. calling herself Fnalo.
has walkod is1i miles in .0lp honrl
/ TnERE are more baptist churches In East
reuncs % ihan po'tonicoi or Eua Mills
/ roSs Of vOnison aro arriving at New yorh.
nni ihc demand a iar behind the supply
/ 4 Cbuors, y. s.. couple were married the
I nrst day ihcy met, and divoroed on me thlri.
I THE Pcuusylyania steel works turn out
enough steel rails in day TO lay eight miles Of
track
Eoas bring sia5 per doton in Malden.
Montana ans 'he supply is not equal 70 the dc.
AT Indiantown, Leako county. Mississippi
I nity-h,e Chuciaw Indians have Joined the Bapus
cnuich
A MURDERER In Kansas jail charges hvo
cents Tor a l00k, aud is tnus doing a thryine
business.
AfNNAiHN hNNANNa HAN ANA NNNNhANN - tANhluG
more mental uud physical diseases than beer
drinking.
THE Lansing. Mich. Journai called a man
'big hearted aud The next day he ordered bis
paper stopped.
WEST TRoY, n. ", Il excited over a
maniac living in a hole iu the woods near there
He offered boy siOo 10 let him cat his throat
wArcHMEN In tho Cincinnati wholesale
district DECLARED that the ghost OF a Nov York
travelling salesman appears 10 them each night
ALEXANDER MITCHELL was accompanied
home from scotland by bis brother Geofge who.
besides being older Is taller and more lmp,slng
Az. old village lady who had arrived at the
advanced age ofg2 Lost her sou. who was ~ n
expected IT," she cried. Il never thought that
should raise him FariEdH Pcltags.
WoRRMES digging Ia tho bed Of phosphate
recently discovered u Cambridge. Md. found last
week the pctrincd tkuls Of threo children, anu
the foot, ankle, aud slipper OF a woman.
In the isle Of Man It ia the custom Of parties
about TO be married 70 carry salt IN their pockets
Although we omit the saline ceremony in this
country, the promise to "love, honor. aud obey Is
understood to bo taken cum graao sais-Bosi0n
Courier.
THE idea Of congratulating man because
he has reached his 7O.h birthday, as thought that
~
man could only reach his eth birthday again
there'd be something TO fetch the band out for
burlington Hdickeye.
"BEARs squeezed on Northern Pacific"
read Fifth avenue lady yesterday. "werc they
caught between the cars, wondor2 What wild
country that must be, way out there. 1 suppose
the locomotives have bear catchors Instead OF COW
catchers."-Hoel Nat.
THE Georgian's mouth waters while no
talks f'possum, hedged in with brown gravy aud
sweet potatoes. with sugar on them. Georgia
editor, who attended hunt and the subsequent
feast remarks: ut was the first 'possum we ever
ate, but If our legs hold out 1t will not be the last
one"
WILLIAM NJ. SPRINGER is not n candidate
for the speakership, but he would ike to DO chair
man of the judiciary committee. Ills claims upon
this honor are protentious. He has been drawn
, upon many coroner's jury, and he once n
witness before the probate court at Peorla-
Pioneer Press
p. L. BARNUM and his big elephant have
returned to Connecticut and gone into winter
quarters The only elephant now abroad in tho
land Is the democratic animal in Ohio. II is an
orphan and without keeper and there IS every
, indication that it will die of inanition and the
cold before the spring. -Aibdny Journal
SLEEPING CAR porters want to become Van
derbilts and Astors too fast. Even the way un-
wary travellers turn their pocketbooks inside out
to fee them doesn't seem TO satisfy their pecunary
hunger Rhea, the actress, lost her watch in her
sleeping car on her way to Philadelphia and now
: the detectives looking for tho ubiquitous
porter
AN officer in Russian regiment of sappers
: Lieut. Kondinof, has invented an instrument for
the certain and easy interception of telegraph
messages in time ofwar. The wire from which 1t
is desired to steal dispatch is cut and promptly
Joined TO a small box containing the new ma
chine. 1t then Immediately transmits the mes
9 sages to roll of paper which can be read upon
the spot or sent to headquarters. The box, which
weighs only about seven pounds also contains an
instrument for sending false answers to the
enemy.
t PROBABLY the Oldest tree in New England
1 is an elm, situated at Pettaconset, r. l. An old
record kept by person living in that city and
now ninety years of age, and handed down to her
by her ancestors furnishes the fact that 200 years
l ago this tree was planted in the place where It
now stands. The circumference of this tree at
the butt measures 25 feet and 1t holds nearly the
1 same measurement to the limbs, about 80 feet.
1 The limbs are as large as mans body very long
q and very crooked. They hold their full size
A nearly 10 the end with onlya few small branches.
MARY CHURCHILL, the missing st. Louis
> girl, writes short letter TO her father assuring
him that she has not eloped, but is engaged at
/ / earning her own living in honest way. She
says she is happy but what would seem to contro-
vert this statement is the fact that her letter is
mailed at indianapolis. 1t is not hard to imagine
how Il girl could better her condition by fleeing
from St. Louis to indianapolis, but how she could
truthully say she experienced an emotion of hap
piness in either place is beyond all human conf
Il prehenslon. on.-0mdhd Herald.
= The way to spell baritone nowadays is
barytone-that is, If you're writing about one oil
y the Eyetalian opera fellows The barytone is in
s variably the disappointed lover He has cres-
J. cendo legs, ana wears soulful lavendar tights; he
= has adrooping moustache and some side whlskers
= and the critics always mention him after they
IT have got through with everybody else and want
J. to fill out another paragraph before tackling the
: "orchestration" and "the bill for this evening"
The barytone is in short all that that spelling o
e his musical kind would imply.-Caicago Press.
u The great personal esteem in which the
=, la to Edwin A. sothern was held by the American
" public was never more beautifully demonstrated
. than by the marked encouragement which is being
% held out by that public to Mr.. Lytton Sothern
4, now presenting line of his fathers famous char
20 acteTiZatlon throughout this country. 1t must be
- conceded that the young actor has inherited much
% of his fathers genius, but considerable share o
. the very large patronage he is enjoying is DUE VIC
y think, to the genial sentiment of friendly admra-
81 tlon our people had for the dead comedian. Mr.
sothern seems to be of this same thinking, and