National Republican., 1883-08-23
A USE for bangs-to conceal mosquito bite.

USE for bangs--to conceal mosquito bites.
VICTOR HUGos name Is posted among the
delinquent taxpayers OF Jersey for non.payment
of taxes on two doee
SINCE no has beon governor, Blackburn Of
Kentucky has pardoned $40 criminals. "a fellow
feeling makes you wondrous kind" gov.--
Hd,okeye.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM HENRY GREEN, of
Princeton College, is mentioned as a probable
successor of DR.. Cattell in tho presidency of La
fayette college.
MAN has at last been discovered who
claims his wife can cook better than his mother
did. He married farmers daughter. His mother
was society leader.
LAKE Moosehicmagunticjockn
JUS, in Maine, wants to become a summer resort,
but no tourist has ever yet had the courage to ask
for a ticket for that station.
"PUCK" suggests that the only thing left for
Courtney is to row q race with Noah's ark.
| 'Twould hardly be safe, because once the dove
went out and Saw" something, and 1t might re-
peat the performance.
The women of Boston seem to be losing
what little interest they at first took in exercising
the inestimable fright" of voting. Only forty of
them have thus far this year come forward 10 be
assessed for poll tax
MAIL carrier in Chautauqua county, who
has kicking horse, has sewed the beasts ears to-
gether at the tips, in the belief that horse never
kicks without working his ears, and If unable to
| move them win not use his heels
In Japan press regulation has Just gone
| into effect compelling editors to hold original
manuscripts three weeks for the inspection of the
police. In this country great deal OF 1t
"holed" until the paper men seize it,
WHILE defending and indorsing Hoadly,
the Cincinnati Enquirer admits that 1.-THE cost of
| democratic nominations for the governorship of
Ohio should be reduced. They are entirely too
high in comparison with the commodities"
A THIEF was arrested in Louisville, KY,
on the day be fore the opening of the exhibition.
He offered 81 600 for parole until after the show
as he had confidently expected to pick a large
number of rich pockets, aud disiked to have his
| plans frustrated.
The Kaw Indians, of Indian territory,
| have dwindled from 10000 in 1870 to about 800,
| The tribe was noted for the physical power and
warlike disposition of the men, but the smallpox
and other malignant diseases have nearly blotted
1t out of existence.
IN a California cemetery large monument
stood over the grave of man whose relatives
were dead A woman boldly had it removed to
her own lot, planed OFF the inscription, aud had
1t lettered again to suit the mortuary require.
ments Of her family.
The Hartford Times speaks Of a pretty gov
ernment clerk Of the feminine gender, named
Lillian -, who has established faro bank in
| her rooms at Washington, to which she invites
otherwomen and her admirers to play. A genuine
tiger lily" so to speak.
THE National Baptist says that the first
Sunday school of Sweden was started thirty-two
years ago, in Stockholm. Now there are in that
city forlysix schools, with $50 teachers and 6425
scholars, and in the whole of Sweden 10000 teach-
ers and over 100000 scholars
ONCE upon time Byron called himself
George Lord Byron O miner" recent cata-
logue has ventured go several steps further and
describe the poets "Hours Of Idleness" "a series
of poems, original and translated by George Cor
don, Lord Byron. minor poet"
AN earnest effort is being made in Georgia
to raise funds by subscription for the purchase of
Liberty hall, Alexander H. stephens's late resi-
dence, the intention being to erect there monu-
ment and to keep the property nearly as posi-
BILE in the condition in which Mr.. Stephens lett it.
The famous live oak tree near Jacksonville,
| Fla, known as the DEVILS riding whip" which
| is situated threequarters of a mile northwest of
the devils mill hopper" near GAINESVILLE, meas
ures S3 feet AZ inches in circumference one foot
from the ground. The tree is hollow, and affords
ample shelter for forty hogs.
THE Cathedral of Berne is said to be richer
|
church in Christehdom, not excepting Canterbury
cathedral. Their money value would not be less
than sSo00OO. They have undergone recent exami-
| nation, and cases have been found which have
not been opened since the reformation.
A FRENCH officer who has witnessed the
impassability of Mongolian criminals under the
most atrocious tortures comes to the conclusion
| that the nervous system of the Chinese and kim
dred people is SO different from that OF Europeans
Oh &C.
part of The suffering of more highly organized
races.
THE Rev. DIR. Parkhurst, of Chicago says
that the profits of the Moody and sankey hymn
books have been in the neighborhood of 100000,
and that neither evangelist has derived any per-
sonal advantage from the publication. The profit
funds h ave been collected from the publishers by
a committee, and they have applied the money to
charitable and evangelical purposes.
Mr.. ST. JOHN, the ex-governor of Kansas,
is thought to be the worst fisherman in the coun-
Try. lie went trolling for pckerel at Silver Lake,
N. Y, the other day, but talked with q companion
constantly until their return 10 the shore. He was
leaving the lake when a boy said: Look a here,
Mr.. Man, there's pickerel on your line ye forgot
to pull in" The pickerel weighed four pounds.
The business of mine inspector under
the Pennsylvania law is to see that the mining
laws are observed, aud that those who go down
into the earth to labor are not exposed to un-
necessary danger There are ten state inspectors
and the usual appropriation for them Is g 900,
or $500 apiece. With this they are expected to
pay all expenses, including the cost of prose-
cutting the mine owner who violates the ventia-
tion act and like laws The present legislature
cut down this appropriation to S2000 and is crti-
csed for this unwise economy.
LAST Friday a cat belonging to lady in
Rochester, while eating its food, swallowed a
needle with long piece Of thread attached. The
needle stuck in the animals throat and caused
intense suffering, The lady went 10 q prominent
surgeon. who after examining the feline, admin
7 istered ether. The soporlfo had the same effect
on the animal as It would on a man, and the
needle aud thread were successfully removed
from the throat Of the unconscious animal by
making an incsiou under the lower jaw. The
cat is now apparently as well as ever.
HERE are some curiosities of current sui-
cidos Magruder killed himself In Maryland be-
cause of grief for his first wife, though he had
taken second and entirely worthy one Marks
drowned himself In Kansas mill pond, the dam
for which had just been built as the water proved
insufficient to turn the wheel Jennie Roberts, OF
Pennsylvania flung herself into stream after
being refused parental permission to go to ball.
Picketts, a member of the Texas bar, had no
desire to live when be had lost a case and been