National Republican., 1883-10-15

nRnuiul OF peaches IN the contribution box.
THE fast railway train that runs from
Paris to st. Petersburg is called the "blitzzng."
MISS JULIA CARSON is to deliver course
Of lectures before a San Francisco school for
cookery,
TWENTY Indians of the Omaha tribe are in
Europe giving exhibitions at salary of $50 per
month EACH
A YOUNG lady at Blssfeld, Mich, claims
to have pared bushel of apples in three min
utes. Michigan girls never lie.
A BROOKLYN man has run away from his
wife for the fourth time leaving note stating
that this is positively his farewell tour
"WHEN This Cruel 2.Cent War is Over"
words by James Gordon Bennett, jr., and music
by the New York newsihen, is announced
A PITTsBURG man suicided because he bet
on the wrong horse in race. Remember this, o
ye sports and don't bet on the wrong horse.
MARQUIS TsENG. "the Chinese Talleyrand,r
is genial little gentleman, of singular simplicity
and gentleness of manner, which conceals sterner
stuff.
DUTCH HANK,"a well known gambler of
Syracuse, N. Y, has died, leaving fortune of $780,
900, earned by cautious betting on reasonably sure
things.
Mrs. HENRIETTA SMITH, of Cincinnati, has
boy whose father, she says, was once vice pres-
dent of the United States She gives no names,
however.
PROF. PAUL PAssEY, of Paris, says the
United States is tho dullest country he ever
visited. He probably didn't go out and interview
the cowboys
AN equatorial tribe of Africans has named
Henry NJ. Stanley "the fathor and mother Of tho
country. He must be "biger man than old"
Washington Chicago Ne,Os
]. r. HENRY late of Decatur, Texas, but
now of the peuitentary, is said to have had three
wives under the same roof when the Wise county
officials arrested him for bigamy.
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD sailed for this
country on the twelfth of October in the Servia
His wife and daughter accompany him. He exc
poets to return about the middle Of February.
A WOMAN at Youngstown, Ohio, has been
given a nightgown by a church society. and the
modest correspondent of the Cleveland Lsdder an
nounces that she was presented with slumber
robe"
MRS REYNOLDS, daughter of Elmiras mil
lonaire, DR.. Eldrldge, has created q sensation
there by sending her husband adrift because he
was spending the 100000 she had inherited
foolishly.
GEoRGIE WYBLE, who, two years ago, won
| the first prize Of beauty at New York museum,
was missing from her home, aud the police found
her posing as "Gracie the dude girl" In Bowery
museum.
THEY arc building, in the Delaware and
| Hudson Canal company's Green Island shops u
| snow plough 20 feet long by 10 feet wide and 10
feet inches high. 1t Will require four locomo-
| tives to push It,
LITTLE EVA BRITToN, who has obtained in
the United States $4,000 subscribers at so cents for
| the Hurricane, of Charleston, S. c., paper that
has no existence has at last been arrested In New
| Orleans as a swindler.
Mr.. DEzENDoRF has very properly sunk
| out of sight-not voluntarily, 1t is true, but on
| the same principle that a toy balloon sinks
soon as its hafpenny's worth Of gas leaks through
| its pores.-C Chicago NetUS,
IN Brooklyn, N. Y, George Mills, his wife,
and four children lived in single room. George
killed his wife, and when the police broke in the
door they found hanging over tho bed the motto
neatly framed: "God Bess Our Home"
Young sapheads of the male persuasion
now collect hairpins that have done duty on the
heads of their lady friends. label them with tho
name of the wearer, and exhibit them proudly.
The foolkiller seems 10 have retired from busi-
ness.
AN eastern paper says: "Howells, the
novelist, parts his hair in the middle, and shrinks
from mingling with the human race" Guess no
doesn't shrink from the race any more than the
race shrinks from him. If that is the way he wears
ulS Heur'-IWCuoo NetOe
WILLIE LYONS, of Des Mones, Iowa, while
playing with the works OF clock, applied his
tongue the cogs after he had started the wheels.
The tongue was drawn in, aud the boy and clock
were inseparable until ieweler took the wheels
apart This rather practical way of giving to
time tongue
DIR. HAMILTON GRIFFIN, Mary Anderson's
step father and business manager, is now doing
the great social act in London. He recently wrote
to Henry L. Abbey, requesting letters of introduc-
ton to his brother, Westminster whom he had
heard prominently mentioned since arriving In
Engand.-Chtcd0o MlCs.
A YOUNG man living in Dayton Ohio, has
commenced proceedings to ascertain by judicial
decision whether the father of a young lady to
whom he was attached had right TO enforce with
horse whip his order TO keep away from the
front gate. 1t is rather late in the season. but 1t
is hoped that the point will be definitely settled in
time for next summers gate swingers.
THE Troy papers are having lively time,
calling each other hard names and throwing out
=, vague intimatons as to the pedigree of their re.
spective editors. Western journalism isna trlhe
rantankerous occasionally, but II takes an editor
who is showed in six months ofthe year, and sub
sists on huled corn and condensed milk to handle
the English language in all its fierce sublimity
THE peculiar agility with which Mr. Dana
eludes all attempts Of the Buffalo Courier to pin
him TO some definite expression Of opinion on the
tariff question reminds the Rochester Post Express
Of story about Buoher 'My lord duke" said
Blucher TO Wellington, at a critical state of tho
battle OF Waterloo wherefore do you not lead
your men OH to victory 2" Whereto the duke
magnanimously replied, as a gentleman should
at is not for the likes Of me to be spoken to by
the likes of YOU"
CURTIS McGREGoR, of Caddo Peak, Texas,
= had his arm mutilated by gun. 1t was ampu-
tated near the shoulder. He was able TO sit up
and walk about the room but complained from
the first of pain In the ampuated hand and de-
clared there were bugs i'll IT, This continued un-
til the eighth day after amputation, when friends
oxhumed and examined the amputated arm,
which had been buried in box with cloth
wrapped around It. large bug was found in the
, hand as stated by McGregor.
JUDGE FORAKER, the defeated republican
candidate for governor Of Ohio, had asuperstitious
, dread of the ninth day Of october. He told a
friend only last week that he had great faith and
believed ne would be elected but for the flct that
the election came offon the ninth Of October, On
a this day, when child he fell from walnut tree
! and broke his shoulder blade; on the same date,
while a young man. he lost 500 on three-card
monte; on the ninth of October, while in the
| N and had 10 10 he I,cs