National Republican., 1883-09-13

JOE JEFFERSON buys dozens of razors every
year. What he does with them is a mystery no
one has been able to penetrate
THE proposition that William S. Holman is
Lydia Pinkham resurrocted is not seriously enter
tuined in well informed localities.
A MUSICAL institute has been founded at
Cordova. Spain. The governor of the province
has contributed 10000 francs to the act.
LORD RONALD COVER in his book says that
Beaconsneld had an imperious face. and Mr..
Roden Noel says that 1t was like mask.
THE camels introduced into Arizona some
sixteen years ago have so increased in numbers
as to become troublesome, and it is proposed to-
hunt them.
KATE CLAYTON will play this winter in
"The sea OF Ice" The Burlington HdtcSeye thinks
It will go to her, because there is no danger of
that catching fire.
THE man who wrote little pamphlet enti-
tied How to Get OH in the World" was put off u
street car the other day because he hadn't money
enough to pay his fare.
STURGEON says that it is possible for n man
to be n Christian and belong to brass band, but
That 1t would be difficult for such mans next
door neighbor to be a Christian.
The publishers of the Century magazine
have been compelled to print new edition of the
September number containing the second in
stallment of "The Breadwinuers."
Mr.. WM. SwINToN, the we'll known jour
nalist and writer Of school text books is about to
begin the publication of S,ginton's Story Teller,
which is to be devoted to short stories.
A DIssoLuTE soldier in PHILADELPHIA who
had been in the habitof pawntng his pension GER
tiflcGtos varied the performance not long ago by
pawnng his sXteen-year-old daughter
STANLEY, the explorer, after penetrating
far into tho interior of Africa has returned to
Stanley Pool, and will retrace the country covered
in his former journey along the east coast.
NATIVE wines were supplied at all tho
banquets during the week ofthe:Knights Templar
conclave in san Francisco. and tho Cat says that
the stock in the cellars was almost exhausted
A RUMoR that Mr.. Gladstone has consented
to accept peerage during or at the close of the
next parliamentary session Is in circulation aud
finds many believers among the well informed.
THE number of commercial travellers in the
United States is, according to statistics, 100000.
The average cost TO the employers is $4,000 for
each salesman an aggregate Of S600 900, 900 per
annum.
THE legislature of Georgia in 1888 passed
an act Offering reward OF 5000 for the head of
William Lloyd Garrison. That act, never having
been repealed, is still on the statute books Of
Georgia.
MEMBERS of the salvation army in Phila-
delphia have turned themselves loose as active
politicians, and placarded the city with posters
reading: "Wanted-6O00O Christians to vote as
they pray
UNCLE REMUs on courtship: "Man want
gal, he des got ter grab 'er-dat's wat. Dey may
squall and dey may hutter, but futter'n en squall
in ain't done no, damage yet es knows un, Ell
'taint gwine ter"
The smallpox hospital of San Francisco is
filled with lepers. The papers of that city advo
cate the building by the government on an island,
OF lNz Ireto where all cases of leprosy through
out the country might be removed.
The notorious and amusing jealousy be-
tween St. Paul and Minneapolis has taken the
dire shape ofwar over the directories of the two
cities. Each directory man swears that the other
is a liar and public opinion i'll the two cities Is
drawn up in military line.
THE Cleveland Leader produces tho follow
! ing: "a Maryland farmer and his wife several
years ago gave penniless stranger nights lodg-
ing, and continued their hospitality for several
| months. He suddenly received a cable message
| and left them. Now they have received q check
for $4,000"
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Pittsburg pig iron
| man, who drove an American four-in. hand
| through England and wrote a book about 1t, is
| said TO have Joined with prominent English
radical in buying nine evening newspapers at q
cost Of 81 100000 for the purpose of pushing radi-
| calism in England.
| DANA, of the Sum- it is said, has taken
| peculiar way to amuse himselfin his old age. He
| owns majority OF the stock of the Sun, which
| brings him an income OF over 100000 year Lat
| terly he has taken to collecting china and chick
ems. He has already $4,000 invested in china
| and $4,000 in fancy chickens.
| WOMEN and girls "doing" the European re-
| sorts are seen with the Mother Hubbard cane,
which they hold before them, leaning OH it with
| both hands. These canes are often seen in London
| parks during the season. carried by elderly and
| young women, large bows OF ribbon being tied
| near the top of the cnne the same color as the
dress,
| A NEW ORLEANS neighborhood is alarmed
| by ghostly drama performed every evening at
| 1880. Al that hour Il headless horseman dashes
| up TO deserted house, enters, and conversation
| Is dimly heard. Then the horseman dashes away
! and Immediately there appears ut all upper story
window, surrounded by weird light, the figure of
beautiful girl, with dagger In her breast, who
gazes beseeohiugly after tho headless horseman.
An English Clergyman in Berkshire re-
Gently rebuked sabbath breaking IN way that
some people might resent. Tho peaceful village
was startled In the midst of its Sunday afternoon
quiet by the loud and rapid tolling Of the church
bell for twenty minutes. The town turned itself
inside out trying to find what was the matter. 1t
was finally announced that the worthy rector,
while engaged ia a pastoral visitation, had been
scandalzed by tho sight of lawn tennis party in
the grounds Of one Of the principal houses in the
parish, and he had taken this means to remind
the crglng members Of his hocS Of the inJunctions
| OF the fourth commandment.
A NEW YoRK stock broker, who was on his
way 10 Buffalo last week. observed. says the Val
street Duly Neps that Of his fellow passengers
was closely regarding him. and after time the
man came over aud asked: Didn't see you in
Chicago in 1872" The broker wasn't In Chicago
that year but thinking TO humor the stranger he
replied in the Affirmative. Don't you remember
| Of handing II poor devil a silver half dollar one
night in front of the Tremont?" 81 do" "Well,
I'm tho chap. was hard up, out Of work, and
about ready TO commit suicide That money made
a new man of me by one lucky shin and another
am now worth 5000" ''Ah glad TO hear IT,"
"And now want you to take IS in place of fifty
cents l can't feel easy until the debt is paid"
The broker protested and objected, but finally, just
TO numor the man, he took his $50 bill and gave
him back SIS. The stranger soon withdrew, and
everything might have ended then and there If
the broker on reaching Buffalo hadn't ascertained
that the " twenty" was counterfeit, and that he
was SIS out Of pocket,