National Republican., 1883-11-03

Aud cast IL In the seothing pit
And so the skin was tann'd.
Then came cobbler to his side
with tools that cobblors use
And denly wrought that mouse's hide
Into a pair of shoes.
"Tell me-" asked, 20 ccbblcr toll
For whom these morccaux be?',
"A lover bade me build them well
For his true love-" quoth he.
"Where dwolls this maid with fairy feeiyn
In wondorment cried;
The old man shifted in his SCAT
Washington" he replied
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Miss JENNIE scoTT, age years, is loctur-
Ing In Texas.
SENATOR PLUMB objects TO the practice of
some papers in printing "er ut the end of his
name.
EUROPEAN immigration TO the Argentine
republic is increasing. Last year the arrivals
numbered over $1,000.
BosToN's four richest men are Frederick l..
Ames. sl5,O00.0OO John NJ. Forbes 81 O,oOO aud
Oliver Ames and William G. Weld, $4,000, 900 each.
THERE are not sufficient grounds upon
which to base the rumor that Frederick Gebhard
has challenged Julian Hawthorne for calling his
last novel fortunes Fool."--Graphtc
REV. +. b. NIXON, Methodist, of Phila-
delphia, was deposed for lamiliarities with the
women of his flock. lie then went on a spree with
bartender, stole $780, and was sent to prison.
MAN may be the noblest work of creation,
but he doesn't think about 1t when, on hearing
his name called on the street, he turns aud finds
it is only some one calling his dog.--tMcago Tsle.
gram.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina. in
gpeakiuu N enid
Gently: :" was mighty nigh dead to get here but
I'll be hanged If am not higher dead to get
away"
MR.. TILDEN has grown so giddy and
worldly of late that we wouldn't be at all surprised
IL his yacht proved to be nothing more nor less
than one of Emma Abbotts famous snacks s-Chi.
ca0o Telegram.
"YEs," says Mrs. Parvenu, eve had q real
nice time at Rchfield and Sharon. When we left
gave my cards 20 lots OF people on the piazz but
most Of 'em forgot to give me theirs.-Ncw York
Maj and Express.
THURMAN docs not want to 90 back to the
United States senate, he prefers to be nominated
for the presidency. AS this is purely an Ohio
matter, 1t should he referred to Mr. Mclean
Commercial Gazette.
DAVID DAvIs's exceedingly bad humor
since his return home induces the belief that dur
lima he must have roasted astradde OF barb
wire fence Christian Advocate.
THE bird population of Wisconsin is esti-
mated at &c per square mile, or 3,565,OOO for the
state. Each bird is assumed to eat fifty insects
day, or 5000 for the summer. Hence all tho birds
will consume 81 ,ssioOO insects year.
Mr.. TENNYsoN's poem for the Youths Com
pdnion is said 10 be the best pleco OF work he has
done for some years. If this is the best that can
be said for the poem, we cannot conscicntiously
| advise the public to read it.-Presbpter.
=, We boldly submit that 1t is to John A.
Logan's credit that. having written two plays he
had the delicacy and mercy not to in flict them
upon the public. A deep seated sense of graft
| tude compels this candid confession.-Eggpt In
teHtgencsr
THE Chicago NepS says that 1903, 479.37 is q
big grab. So 1t is, but the principle involved 10
the same as that upon which the Neics sloshes
around among its exchanges and reprints its good
things without credit Please put pin there-
| Bismarck Tribune.
| IT would be hard to overestimate Proctor
Knots lhoughtfuness in presenting President
Arthur with a fishing pole at this appropriate
time when the ponds are frozen four feet thick
aud even the bullfrogs are sunk in ten feet of
mud.-Sport,mdn.
ANNA DICKINsoNs dramatic company
went all to smash earlier than usual this season.
The one consollng feature about the ponderous
wreck and ruin is that it gives the public the best
of reasons for hlariousy celebrating thanksgiy-
ing day this yeaE-AAlance.
WE earnestly advised and warned William
r. Morrison not to turn his presidential boom
loose until spring, but he paid no heed to our
| friendly words. And now comes the sickening
news that the boom has skatcd into q hole on the
! Illinois river.-London Times.
DAVID DAVIS, when questioned about tho
report that he had had little experience in tho
drop game" replied that there was not word of
truth in the story land 1t was fanciful product
from the fertile brain of some enerprising vulture
of the press" The judge has been studying
English since his retirement from politics.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN is neighing softly
to himself in the hope of convincing somebody he
is dark horse. George is too slow for these
times, If he really wanted TO be candidate ho
ought to have started in eight or ten months ago,
so as to get himself squarely before the public
before some one else was elected. .-Erchan9e.
A ST. LOUIS judge has officially decided
that poker is a game of chance. and is. conse-
quently, under the Missouri statutes, a felony.
This leaves train robbing and mumblety-peg as
the only amusements which can be safely in
dulged in by the people Of Mr.. Frank James's i'm
maculate commonwealth. th.-Aanchester Union.
In is understood that since the reduction
in the price OF the New York Times to two cents a
gentle melancholy has come upon Mr. George
Jones, the manager of that once proud sheet
There seems now TO remain but one thing lor Mr.
Jones 10 depart his hair in the middle and
shrink from the human race.-lHwaukee Sentinel
IT is pleasant to know that Gov. Ben Butler
has such high opinion of himself that he kisses
his hand to his reflection in the looking glass every
4 morning when he brushes his hair Our acquaint
ance with the gentleman's past career had led III
to fear that his modesty might induce him to vote
for the wrong man next week. Christian at Work
Mr.. MCCULLAGH, editor of the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, denies the rumor OF his engage
ment to Miss Maud Howe. The rumor probably
arose from the fact that during his stay at Old
Point Comfort last August he had danced with the
young lady several times aud made her phllo-
pena present of an autograph album.-HoustoR
Post.
Col. ALEXANDER MCCLURE announces that
he has no Intention oil severlng his connection
. with the Philadelphia Times. On the contrary
the colonel contemplates improving his paper by
adding full iuch to each of his wristbands anC
wearing his collar somewhat higher over hi
chronological bump of philoprogenitiveness.-
Courier Journal,
WENDELL PHILLIPS is billed for the ad
address before the Cotton Planters association a
Vicksburg next week. There was time when he