National Republican., 1883-03-17


IT is said that n Texas jury is like the
cotton crop. It's worthless unless it is glnned and
packed.
On a recent journey to Mentone the Duke
and Duchess OF Connaught travelled us MIR. and
Mrs. Sussex and escaped recognition.
An old captain on the lakes used to be called
sinbad, the Sailor" till he lost a vessel; now
they name him sallbad, the sinner."-SWacuse
Herald.
ANEW York physician declares that hydro
phobla is a disease OF the mind. lie should come
to Georgia md expostulate with the dogs,--Con-
sitdioa.
ANuneducated Gloucester fisherman named
George W. Harvey, has exhibited some water color
studies in Boston, which are attracting consider
n bic attention.
THE hairpin product Of this country is two
| tons per day; and yet scarcely n woman in The
land has enough hairpins TO do up her back hair
on hand at any one time.
They have way of turning old newspapers
into glucose and making that into sugar. We
can easily imagine good newspaper making n
mans life sweeter, but tn, it can also be used
eventually to sweeIen his coffee is a new idea.--
Boston Herald,
A POET says: "0h summer land Oh,
sunny south turn to thee ! ope my mouth and
in the sunny south costs about ton cents drink
and Its other name is old rye. The poet must have
sold poem. -Norristo1on Herald.
A WooNsocKEr man who came TO Boston
to do o little business and hear lecture by Mark
| Twain is reported to have stumbled by mistake
upon talk by Rev Joseph Cook Was It fun.
N.Y." queried his family at night wall. yes"
slowly replied the traveller ait was funny, but f.
wasn't so darned funny"
AT Newport, on Saturday and Sunday, tho
high tide aud heavy sea washed ashore about 200
bushels OF man moth clans, some of them weigh
! ing over pound and n half the largest ever seen
there People gathered in crowds to reap this
chance harvest Of the sea. For once in a way 1t
paid to so claiming at high water.
AN orange eaten before breakfast cures the
cravings for liquor and improves u disordered
stomach. We mako known this recent discovery
| for the good Of the cause. Say nothing.-OR city
| BIi.sard OF course we won't say anything; we
are not the kind to give fellow journalist away.
| But it's awful, the ruin and misery caused by ac-
cursed rum -Rochester Posl. Express.
The iron will of Prince Bismarck, it Is
| said, is rapidly breaking down. Not long ago,
according to report more or less apocryphal,
| he said with IN uch bitterness If It were not for
me the world would have seen three great wars
less and eighty thousand who died in their bloom
might have lived, and how many parents broth
| ers, sisters widows would have been spared their
| griefand tenrsl"
DE LEssEPs is neither dead nor yet sleep.
ing. II is true that the Panama canal scheme
languishes, but 1t is only one of the great engi-
neers hobbies lie has sailed from France to
superntend the surveys for the big ditch which
is to food portion OF the Sahara Desert, and the
world will doubtless be filled with glowing pro-
phesies of the North African paradise that is to be
| created by the protected inland sea,
MRS. LILLE DEvEREUX BLAKE says "If
twenty boys were brought up in the same way az
gIrls-laced kept indoors, taught sewing, EN-.
| broidery, and playing the piano-what sort OF
young men would they be at 2l ~ And like a
true Yankee the Boston Star responds with an
other: " If twenty girls were brought up in tn
same way as boys-allowed the freedom which
custom accords the male sex, their frailues
winked at or excused-what sort of young women
would they be at 81 ?"
WE are in re ceipt of an anonymous letter
from DevereauX, Georgia, stating that "Cimbo
West Col certainly did swallow half grown rat
alive for thirty cents" That Cimbo should havo
swallowed half grown rat for thirty cents does
not surprise us. Now, If he had swallowed u three
hundred acre farm with q full grown mortgage
on It., and then swallowed himself, we wouldn't
mind referring TO MIN as n man trying to keep
abreast with the sensational world that he lives
ln.--SpuTtu (du) ouHOedW
WHEN George " was on tho point of sail
ing for Leth to visit Scotland It was observed by
n wag ut Walters that " OH the fitting up of his
yacht the king showed n deal Of taste.-and deuced
bad IL was" The remark is eminently applicable,
thinks the London Truth, to the recent embellsh-
ment of st. James's palace, the interior of which
now more resembles anew hotel than an ancient
palace. Anything more shabby and tawdry and
utterly incongruous than the decorations and fur
nishings of the state rooms and the approaches
thereto 1t would be difficult to imagine.
CLAYTON, the actor, while playing his great
part of Hugh Trevor, in "All for Her." at Brighton,
and when his best scenes was utterly knocked out
by persistent loud talking in stage box Unable
to proceed, he at last went mp to the box aud said,
Ladies and gentlemen, fear my performance
interrupts your conversation. AS soon as ] can
proceed without distressing you l shall resume
y my part" The speech was received with tre-
mendou applause by the audience, and cries Of
: "Turn them outp The box was mute. One gem
0 tleman sought to pick quarrel with him AFTER
ward, but after little conversation thought bet
y ter oft.
0 THE following curious puzzle is said to beat
the celebrated "l3-l5.1I," and whether 1t does OF
, not the investigator can determine Take n strip
l of paper or card board l3 inches long and wide
l thus giving surface of 65 inches. Now cut this
hlIlp ulugOHhllyt uh lIut hh you Chl blNluB TWO
q pieces in the shape ofa triangle. Now measure
s exactly inches from the large end of each strip
: and cut in two pieces, Take these slips and put
0 them into the shape of an exact square, and II
r will appear to be just inches each way, or 81
square inches, a loss of l square inch Of super
fetal measurement, with no dininutIon Of SUR
4 face, The question is, what becomes Of that
O inch.-Age Of Steel.
A SAD story of life was recently reported
4 among the coroner's inquests in London. Seven
teen years ago a baby was found on the steps of
= workhouse. There the child was kept three
A years till IL was time to send her TO Hanwe
school and from school the girl passed into EN-.
ployment ms domestic servant. She was, heI
master says, cheerful and happy. But a few days
ago she suddenly dlsappeared from the house, aud
O the next day her lfelessbody was found In pond
& close by. There was nothing % suggest reason
i for suicide. No one could tell ofwhom she wa,
: born no one knew the manner Of her death
! From darknss to darkness, with little space oI
= happy life between.
VANDERBILT violently, voubly, even vi
ciously, yociieIales piud very yehemently tina
various vile, vindictiye, versatile vagabond,
j. vampires Yultures, vipeTs, and yarles of a yenal
n vOracious, vncillating vengeful, vulgar PrCss
Q have voluntarily yoided and vented Wllainousll
l. yiruent views OF his vanished voyage to thl
western verge. Vanderbilt yindicntes himself by
voluminously vauntng his vast yalor, virtue, ant
vigilance. The veteran IS vsibly yexed, however