National Republican., 1883-04-06


the pests,
And have to stand from every side his friends
unkindly iests;
And helpless, meanwhile to resent the Jokes he
tears bis hair,
And longs that he might once more sit in comfort
in a chair.
VERMONT is the state where ladies are
hanged and men are frozen to death in March,
Courier Journal
1T is said that the scar on the queens knee
has disappeared. We had no idea that 1t had ever
appeared.-Post. Express
HER MAJESTY is loyal to the Brown family.
John Browns younger brother succeeds to tho
post OF confidential servant.
The students Of Boston university have
successfully produced the Electra" of sopho-
clcs In the original Greek.
IHE story that an agent Of p r. Barnum Is
IN farls negotiating with Louise Michel for a lee
turing tour In America is probably canard
Two makers of buttons have suddenly dis
appeared from New York Button, button. who's
got inc button manufacturers 2--Coupiey-J Journal
Gov. BUTLER's health is excellent, and he
Is quite boyish IN spirits. on the whole, he looks
many years younger than he did u few years ago.
A GOOD deal of comment has been caused
because Georgia man broke his back with A
sneezoi but how much more wonderful Il would
have been had he broken his knees with his back,
THE Albany Express says that Miss Blake
Is dealing simply in what may yulgnrly bo called
'hoswash.'" And the naughty Post. Erpress asks
Isn't this rather a tough reflection Oh DIR. DixY'
The fashionable young man, instead Of the
fashionable young woman, Is to have "dawRr
hereafter. No swell can reach the height OF the
syIe WiIhouta Newmarket oyerooat and purp
running after him.
IN tennessee law has been passed forbid
ding tho sale OF liquor within four miles of a
onurch. runs law is properly enforced the min.
ister will probably be abo to make himself heard.
--Roehester Post. Express.
FIFTH avenue is doomed. Trade has
marked Il for It's own, and In ten years more tho
" rcsdenters." to use a western phrase viii he
largely driven out into side streets and up town
about and beyond Central park
II THOUGHT" remarked the victim. After
tho dentist had dragged him around the room sew
eral times, 81 thought you advertised TO extract
teeth without painr 80 do, sir" replied tho
operator, blandly ut doesn't hurt me at ALL"
IHE Baltimore directory for 1883 is out al
ready. Population OF the city, 100000. Churches.
2o'i OF which the Methodists have 81; the Epis.
copalians Sc; the Roman Catholics 81. Most peo.
plo would have given the Catholics the leading
place.
TWICE as many mon as women die OF
pneumonia" The poor men! How they do suf.
ierl Thoy work hard and die early. But thew
PROBABLY have twice as good time here as tho
women and ought not to begrudge the latter few
extras.
BALTIMORE bishop says thero is "a great
ueai Oh wealth in honest poverty" With equal
proprlety ne might have remarked that there is a
good nf iiGbn
you oont understand this, ask the assessor nbout
when he comes around on his annual tour.
Harlem Times.
A LETTER published in the Indian Snectoto,
says that there is n numerous tribe in orissa who
worship Queen Victoria as goddess. A GOODIES.
falling down flight Of stairs and knocking pieoe
out OF her knee! We wonder what these neonle
Imagine the Prince OF Wales to be. They might
worship him as an ."ldle."-Rochester Post. Es.
press.
Mrs. HENRIETTA CALDWELL, of Louisville.
ky was one Of the converts of the 'nountain evan.
gehs', Barnes. She has recently named two of
her children, who are twins, Jesus Christ" and
ueorgeo. Barnes" local paper INDUCED in
some caustic comments on this strange act for
which she has instituted libel suit against the
paper, claiming $4,000 damages.
THE Denver Inter- Ocean saws that Corros.
.
ity. The Inter. Ocean should bear I'm mind tbnt
thls Is avery large country. and that when the
tte truth there is in the United States is divided
among 0OOOO,OOO people, single CORRESPONDENTS
supply Is so limited that he must necessarily be-
penurously frugal with it, Courier. Journal
NOVEL entertainment Is planned by An
American leader of fashion, says Boston Jenkins
AT o o'clock a. m. infants in arms are invited IN
appear with their nurses at 10 children from in
fancy to years Of age will appear; at II o'clock
tne ages VIII vary from TO II. Noon will witness
gathering of maidens Of 15 and youths of 20. In
the afternoon dowagers and pater.1amillas and
IN The evening ladies from 20 to an uncertain age
IN an article upon "Type-writing and Pho.
biography" published in Harpers Bd.ar IN the
series How Skilled Work Remunerates Women. -
the writer says The best private secretary Is one
who can write shorthand and can operate atype
| WRITER Ihe Young woman who can write short-
hand ana operate typewriter is In demand to.
day, and she can reasonably expect to earn from
s'Oo TO $500 year IT, of course, she has had good
common school education"
A DOG owned in Portland, Me-, has quite n
fancy for travelling. When the freak takes him
ne goes aboard the Boston boat and makes O quiet
trip of l5o miles by sea. When the boat reaches
Boston he disappears In the crowd but never fails
10 return and make the homeward trip at night
NO one knows where he spends the day after leay.
lug lhe Doat nor how he manages to keep posted
on the boats departure which is two hours earlier
In winter than in summer, but he never gets left.
A LATE Chinese envoy at the court of 81.
James says In published diary that he saw MOTH
ing IN the west superior to that which prevails in
the east, excepting knowledge that can turn out
a machine and nothing else" At every turn he
was confronted with evidence of the immeasura.
bic superiority Of Chinese civilization, with its
humanity and justice" over the angry rivalry
and unrestrained greed" which no regarded az
the bases of the socalled civilization of the west.
cru barbarlans.
AM asked to state that young Boucicault
leaves the Court theater next month 10 appear NJ
Wallack'seld theater rs tho Amadan, the title
role OF the play which his father has written for
him. Having tested tho piece In Boston. Mr..
Boucicaut sends for his son TO 90 to New York
and create the part there. The Young actor.
dramatisrs version Of Besanps novel, "The Chan.
lain Of the Fleet" which was to be produced at
the Court this season. is to be held over on ao
count OF his absence. new play by Pinero Is 10
be substituted for It, The career of this clever
son OF clever father opens well and is full of
promise Miss Boucicault who mado her debut
at the Adelphi the other morning, is Mr.. Dion
Boucicaulrs neice, not his daughter.-London COR
respondent
IN is curious fact that tho number of
women who reach one hundred years and upward
is nearly double that Of equally long lived men.
They lead less exposed and often more regular