National Republican., 1883-02-16

Beneath the bounding arch,
l watched the glowing cycles as they run,
All passing in grand triumphal march,
To meet the sun.
And so / wait alone
| Until the glory of the night has ceased,
And the red eagle mounts his blazing throne
In tho lar east.
-Edpard c. HR
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDaE has at
last fixed upon August for tho time for ha yiAit W
the United States.
PANE in the stomach would let enough
light in to show how one bears up under atliic.
tion.-Nelo 0ricdns PicdguNe.
THERE is an epidemic among cats in
Blakeiy, Ga. ana the inhabitants are thinking OF
holding monster praise meeting
EXCELLENT gloves arc made from the skin
of the prairie dog Tan bark is used to reduce the
hide TO lexibilty as tho dog bark is then too stiff
to hide,
In is said that the death of Mr.. Critchett,
! the eminent English oculist, was hastened by re-
morse for II grave mistake made by him in an
! operation.
The music of an accordion will cause an
oyster to open It's mouth. The same soul-stiyrlng
harmony will make man follow the example of
the bvalve,
LET us not try to comprehend women or
eternity; but If we are determined to ponder on
the one or the other, and still retain our reason,
then lot Us give eternity the preierence.-N,p
York LyC
EXPERIENCED lumbermen say that the sup
ply Of walnut is rapidly diminishing, aud that
fully three -fourths of the good stock throughout
he country has been consumed within the last
ten years
THE st. Louis Post Dispatch informs its
readers that order regns in Warsaw, and tho
masher no longer disturbs the peace of that beau
tiful city. Has the masher been turned into pill
lar of salt2
A CHILD of August Meyos living at No II
Vine street, East Cambridge foil down on Monday
and cut n cash in one of her gums, which bed
profusely, and in the evening death ensued from
loss of blood.
GIVING complimentary tickets for church
services has never been tried. There are persons
who have so much of the beat in their compost.
tons that 1t Is believed they would go to church
ifthey could go on free s-Erpertenced Editor
As NEARLY rs can be discovered by peru
sal OF the eastern press the only unfortunate ea-
turo that threatens to make Albani's season in
this country failure is the fact that she is pure
woman and attends strictly TO her own business
Denuer Tribune.
CAPT. ANTHoRNE of tho British steamer
Stanmore, claims that he literally proved the ef-
fcacy ofputting oil upon the troubled waters in
storm. This is something like miracle, and might
be tried with good results in domestic tempests.--
New York Evening Telegram
To Drill glass NJ. Gougy, of Paris, recon-
mends that a three,cornered saw file be sharpened
IN the usual way, but with Que corner taken Off so
that the cross section of the drill, the point,
is that of q truncated cone, and the end of the
drill is Of narrow chsel shape.
YOUTHFUL wedding is reported to have
occurred in Fayeito county, West Virginia last
week. Isaac N. Savage, lad of 10 summers, met
wooed, and won Miss Ellen i. Knox aged ID, in
one and the same evening. The next morning
they started out on foot and were married by tho
7 roadside, passing minister performing the cere-
} mon y.-SDencer BultCtin.
THERE is watch in a Swiss museum only
three-sixteenths Of an inch in diameter inserted
in the top of pencil case. Its little dial not only
indicates hours, minutes, and seconds, but also
days of the month. 1t is n relic of the time when
watches were inserted in snuG boxes, shirt studs
and finger rings. Some were fantastic oval, oc.
tangular, cruciorm, or in the shape of pearls,
tulips, &c.
DR.. HAMEL editor of the GOrlit= German
conservative paper, has been condemned to two
! mouths imprisonment for challenging the editor
of liberal journal. The bearer of the challenge
will have six weeks imprisonment, The defense
made was that duellng was q recognized social
custom in cases of injured honor and that an i'm
, prisonment of one day would be sufficient, but on
ais occasion the court did not sec 1t in that
light
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Is n very popular
winter resort for northern people, and at the
present time the crowds there would compare
favornbly with the summer visitors at Saratoga or
Newport. Northern enterprise is making itself
felt in that paradise Of the sunny SOUTH for, ac-
3 cordipg to q correspondent the Yankees arc
l orowding in, buying and planting orange groves
? everywhere while the natives arc picking whor-
+ teberries and playing with parroIs,-NeO loH
Commercial AdUerti=er.
THE Scientific american, a very reliable
paper, gives the following recipe us a sure cure
for corns As the remedy is very simple, IL any
of our readers are afflicted with corns 1t would
probably be we'll for them to give 1t trial: Take
one. fourth cup of strong vinegar; crumble into II
some bread. Let 1t stand half an hour, or until 1t
softens into good pOultioe Then apply on retir-
ing at night. In the morning the soreness viii be
gone and the corn can be picked out. If the corn
is very obstinate one, II may require two or more
applications 10 effect n cure
f.. The latest official statistics of the Society
Of Friends Quakers, for 1882 show that in Great
q Britain and Ireland the total number of members
regular attenders of the friends meetings who arc
: not in full membership, About 250OO scholars
adult and junior, are regularly under instruction
by the friends in their Sabbath schoolsi but very
few of these become members of the society," and
only about 5000 out of the $4,000 are estimated ia
bo attenders of the friends meetings. This little
church Of $4,000 members is, however represented
q in parliament by about ten members.-LoHdoH
. Itlegrdph.
IS NJ. ALBERT WOLFF, the distinguished art
h critic, in an article in Figaro describes Dore
>f as in recent years one of the most unhappy OF
i men. Ills great success as an illustrator led him
10 to covot distinction historical painter but
his achievements IN this line OF art did not meet
with that appreciation the part Of the Partisan
critics which he had looked forwardto His early
training was defective, his drawing was not cor
% rect and he was never moro than brilliant anna
tour 10 far as the technical part Of the art is
lr cerned. passage in one Of NJ. VOLTS critiquei
y offended him and caused the rupture of frend-
" shin of fifteen years. Five years afterward the
Ut two happening to be casually called together the
10 painter held out his hand, which was readily ac-
u cepted, aud the friendship was resumed. He
then, with tears running down his cheeks poured
into the critics ear Il narrowing tale of disap
pointed ambition and hopes deceived, "Thet
os was not" said NJ. Wolf, "in all Paris a more un.
m hOppy mani no was disguised with everything