National Republican., 1883-06-18
GEN. CRooK has come back all straight.


I've one more barrel the party can get
But won't ruu-you had better bet" n.
GEN. Crook has come back all straight.
THE cyclone crop is not failure this sea-
son.
WEST POINT is now great place for big
guns.
WICKED correspondent represents Gen.
Sherman us saying that when he dies he wants to
be kissed TO death.
EVERYBODY in New York who weart n
white hat isn't n politician, but every politician
In New York wears white hat
A SCIENTIFIC magazine recently published
an article entitled, "H How to Act in Tornado"
II Is full OF valuable suggestions to amateur actors
DIR. McCosH is said by the Now York Epen-
lng Post to have secured the full endowment of
s2o'OOO for the school Of philosophy at Princeton.
BAKER having inherited fortune desired
an appropriate coat of arms. "what, design
would you suggest2" he asked friend "a loafer
couchant' armed cap a pie," was the tart reply.
The house OF the late Commodore Corne-
Illus j. Vanderbilt aud all its beautiful contents at
Hartford, Conn, will be sold at auction on June
2S' The sale will include paintings, statuary, Or
naments, &c.
The king of Italy says that if ho were not
n king he would like to be Journalist AS we
nave a sneaking notion that we would like to be
King 1t might pay Humbert to communicate with
us by cable.-Rochester Post Dispatch
A CRANK went into the Sunday school at
Unity church, Des Moines, on Sunday morning
with his arm ornamented with live garter snake
twned about II, and seated himself in the Bible
class. The people werr murf. put out at the In,
PRODUCTION of the primitive foe of mankind.
JUAN CAPIsTRANo is tho Oldest man in
California, and his years number l2l. That such
is his age Is shown by the records of the Mission
san Antonio, where he was baptized. He lives
near the mission, at the base of Monte sante
Lucia, and whistles to show visitors how happy
he is.
THE Chicago Nc'rs says that during the last
five years not less than s5OOO.OOO have been taken
from the pockets of the Chicagoans by operators
In western mines, and In mot one single INSTANCE
nave the mines proved profitable. There would
seem to be moral somewhere in their expert
ence D
The meanest dead-heading yet reported is
III Portland, Me-, where the board OF mayor and
aldermen have voted themselves admission to all
places of amusement free, and have decided 10
wear badge of some appropriate design" SO
that their identity may be known to the door.
keeper.
The New York papers have very little to
say about the remarkable scene in court the other
day, when August Belmont from the witness
stand called the lawyers of the opposition
id liars" and "d--d loafers" for inti-
mating that he had no right to boar the name of
! Belmont.
MIR. PULIrZER's success is said to be largely
duo to his wife's talent, sympathy, and pluck.
The wife of Col. Mcclure of the Philadelphia
1WeS is large stockholder in the paper The
Tines Democrat, of New Orleans, is mainly owned
by Mrs Burke, while Mrs. Nicholson is the con.
trolling spirit ofthe Ptcaylule
HIDEsABRo SAFE, Cornell graduate of last
year, who, before entering the university studied
| at the Oswega Normal school, has returned TO
japan, his native country, after marrying young
lady OF indianapolis, and is emp loyed at salary
ofslS,OOO year by the japanese government in ita
agricultural department.
"THoRA," the play Modjeska is to produce
in Chicago next August, is an adaptation from the
Norwegian of lbson and 1t is from the same story
that Mr.. Lawrence, Of this CITY, took his first play
The Child WIFE," Modjeskas version is the
work OF u foreign adaper and was originally pro-
duced In London about year ago.
| A NEW ZEALAND correspondent writes that
for half-pay officers men retired from business.
| DC, New Zealand is a Paradise on earth-meat
| iour cents pound and other articles of food of
corresponding cheapness. There are large num-
Der OF retired from business" men in Washing
ton who could be spared to 20 to New Zealand.
! GEN. CHAMBERLAIN will attend the
commencement exercises of Bowdoin college, of
which he is the president lie seems TO have re-
covered from the effects of his journey from Bos-
ton to Brunswick, and with careful home nursing
1t Is believed he will soon be himself again. His
countenance is covered by II full beard concealing
| to some extent the marks Of his Illness
SIR julius BENEDICT thinks Malibran was
the greatest prima donna he ever heard, and
Matio and Sims Reeves the greatest tenors Cam
| panini he ranks with country church choir
| howlers" Faust" he regards as the greatest
opera, and says mono has been written since
worthy of mention, IL Trovotore" " is " rubbish" !"
Aida and Carmen " "trash," aud Pinafore'
| "rot"
MRS. LANGTRY denies that Mr.. Frederick
Gebhardt had any pecuniary interest in her affairs
during the season just closed also that Mr.
Schwab was acting under directions from Mr. Geb-
hardt. She says "a professional woman may be
said to live two liyes--one public and the other
| private. do not allow my friends who belong TO
tho latter to interfere with matters that belong TO
the former"
PITTsBURG jury gave verdict agains
a railway company for the amount of money
stolen from passenger in sleeping car. "Snco
the defendant" said the judge, sold ticket for
" III huutlou 10 the regular rates OF passage, and
offered the facilities for sleeping as an induce
ment to pay the extra money, it bound itself to
protect its patrons while they were asleep and for
the time being helpless"
RUSSIAN traveller in the Malay peninsula
claims to have found in use there the smallest
coin In the world, IL is n minute wafer made
| from the juice of tree. Its value is about tho
millionth part of dollar. What a coin for Sweet
charity" Just think of the enormous increase In
! church attendance that would be brought about
! ifsuch coin were introduced in this lcountry,
Buttons would be the widest extravaganza.
The Dore enthusiasts will have no Shaks.
peare to enrich their collections according 10 the
London World, which says: He has not left more
than half n dozen finished drawings, the rest of
| Shakspearian sketches being mere scratches such
as he drew when an idea first struck him. short.
hand notes, Ineligible only TO himself and vet
Dore had been passionate student of Shakespeare
for years, with the hope of illustrating him.
| A BROOKLYN girl thus "gives away" an
| important secret TO the New York correspondent
OF the Cincinnati Enquirer; "All summer long,
and whenever else we go away from home, we all
of us always say we're from New York. Our
fathers and brothers arc there in business, you
know, and everybody knows New York. and alto
gether It's much easier and pleasanter to say we
come from there than to so TO explaining ali
about Brooklyn, and-and-well, Beeoher."
SINCE wO rk on the Cologne cathedral wa
begun in 1864, nearly 1l,OOO,OOO marks haye been
expended. The last sheds about the structure