National Republican., 1883-09-12

LABoUcHERE, of London Truth, mover
touches liquoB of any kind.
| MILLION bats are said to live in the dome
oftbe court house at Drenhnm, Ga,
| SENATOR McPHBRsoNis friends DENY the
rumor that he inlcndsto resign his seat.
The sum Of SAC, 900, 900 represents the value
ofnew buildings In New York city this year.
| TENNYsoN is afraid the queen will ask him
| to write a few VERSES, on tho late Mr.. Marwood
BRONSON HOWARD che dramatist, Is liy-
ing royalty in England on royalties from his play
QUEEN VICTORIA has intrusted the task oP
writing her biography To Miss Koddic, q Scotch
lady
A RATTLEsNAKE's rattle is on exhibition
In Lake City, Fln having thirty two rattes and a
button.
GEORGE G. NILN, tho ox-olergyman of
Chicago. is organizing u dramatic company In
| the west.
OMAHA spends $780, 900 year on her public
schools, andthe larger portion Of tho money comes
| from liquor licenses.
In six months 7,05s books in the German
Language have been published, making an average
offory-ive works day.
EX-SENATOR DAVID DAVIS, of Illinois. has
declined to deliver the annual address at the
North Carolina state fair this year.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is defending the
Chinesc ON the Pacific sope hence his lectures in
that region are financial fnilures
PRoF. FALBY has prophesied that the un-
fortunate Island OF lschia will again be devastated
oy an earthquake on the fifteenth of October.
IL. Ii. BANCROFT, the California historian.
mas gone to Mexico and Central America TO study
antiquities. He left several old fossils behind
him.
A TEXAS hen sat for three days on q nest
lnll OF hail stones before discovering her mistake
lhat Is the kind of spring chickens thcy have
down there.
LYDIA THOMPSON is on the shady side of
forty She made her debut at the Haymarket
theator, London in 1865, ana hat was before she
had entered her teens
GERMANY has q temperance revival such
as was never known in that country before, tits
led by Count Moltke, and many eminent men are
among its foremost workers
PATTI is engaged for two concerts at Bir.
mingham ard Manchester. She is to receive 5000
LOT each, being the largest sum yet paid in Eng
land forsuclI performance.
BRAZIL proposes to permit aliens to become
na'hralzed who have resided four years in that
country. Provided tho alien marries a native
brazilian. two years will make him a citizen
ONE of the largest pearls in the world was
receutly discovered in the pearl fisheries of Lower
California. It'll tho sizs of a dime, measuring one
inch in length BY three,fourths of an inch IN
thickness. m ,g ,,y
! MoNsIGNoR CAPEL is reported to have said
tnat II he. were politician he would be home
ruler; but he would not be a fenian for the rem
son that he believed being fenian would be
against the grace of God.
If the accident to Minister Vests car ON the
Northern Pacific had resulted fntGlly, how Quickly
oDonovan Rossa would have uttered mysterious
nothings about 1t, aud pockeed hard earned dol.
lars In consequence e.-Boston Heroid.
The wife Of one of tho Ohio candidates
Keeps scrap book OF all tho newspaper clippings
about her husband. If she takes all the pnpers
she will probablybe surprised TO learn what an
abandoned wretch she has been living with all
these years.
THERE has been remarkable boom this
year III iron aud steel shipbuilding OH the Della
ware river So far the various yards have turned
out 81 iron vessels aud steel ones besides 80
wooden ones, The total tonnage of the iron and
steel vessels has been 5000 tons.
A THEATRICAL manager in Paris provides
room for newspaper men in which to write
their criticisms aud messenger to carry their
copy to the newspaper offices; but the messenger
has orders 10 read the copy and lose the manu-
script If itcontains an unfavorable notice of his
show
A CURIOUS war against wire fences has
broken out in Texas. Miles aud miles of them
have been cut down and destroyed, leaving the
stock to run at will. Tho governor has been
asked by the leading stock men to call out the
militia. but he has refused. and they have deter.
mined to take the matter into their own hands.
MILTON HAY, who was warm personal
friend Of Abraham Lincoln, among other things
says Of him: II never sawa man with less instinct
for commerce. for gain by barter, or any of the
usual methods ofgetting rich He knew nothing
about them. That Is, perhaps. why he had such a
happy temperament. He trusted Providence and
did what came along"
THAT'S an Engliahmau all over. The cor.
respondent of one of the London papers lost his
trunk on his way TO the Northern Pacific spikine
and turned round and gave up the job An
American would have invested in few neces-
sary articles and never said or thought of the
trunk again--thatis, If he started on such an ex.
pedition trunk encountered.
THERE live in North Haven, Conn, within
distance of three quarters ofa mile, six widows
whose combined ages amount to $40 years an
average of ninety and half years apiece They
are all natives OF the neighborhood, In independ-
ent pecuniAry circumstances, and retain their
mental faculties, together with remarkable
strength and health for their advanced years.
| IIib Now bSuiOru supeIlntenuenU OF schools
says that out of ninety children who enter the
high school sixty will insist on studying Latin.
Why? Because thor parents, who never studied
the language themselves, think it will, in some
, mysterious way help the children. The high
/ school fetch has more humble adorers than tho
i college fetich and Mr.. Adams might proftably
lecture thereupon.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has a great liking for his
old clothes aud wears u suit long after the trous-
ers have become "baggy' at the knees When
new suit has been Obtained for him and placed in
his dressing room, he eyes 1t a'kant and puts on
his old friends every morning as before. Then,
after few days, his servant cutters the dressing
room steathily and carries away the old suit, thus
compelling the premier to appear next morning
clad in the new garments.
"WHAT are you doing there?" demanded
q policeman OF man who sat on fence howl
ing THAT feller in the house shot my dog be-
cause he howled, and am carrying out the dogs
/ contract I'm going to howl here until think
the dogs death has been sufficiently avenged.
If he shoots me- my son will howl ont my con-
tract and If further harm should beilll my fam
iy my wife viii come out and howl till he can't
rest Oh, but we are howlers. ."-ArkansaW Irav-
eicr
''Boss KANT take dis twenty-h' cents.
It's got hole in IL what's been plugged up" said
negro grocer TO a customer. ''But you must take
Il. / got Il from you last night Don't you re-
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