National Republican., 1883-06-16

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So ffisk about
They're always liable to get away.
But once upon thy trail
inc gallant sportsman's chase can neve fhf
w A. Cro6at, IN The Boston Globe
MR.. JOHN w. GARRETT has sent his fine
Arabian horse, Damascus, as a present to King
Humbert, of Italy.
THERE is in Atlanta cat with six legs
Ihe boouaok which can kill that creature at the
first shot Is not yet invented.
HERE is another item for the impecunious
young man. Petersburg Va, young lady was
poisoned by eating ice cream
CONSISTENCY is jewel which does not
adorn the dladem of the Christian who crowds his
weaker neighbor to the wall.
TOMORROW will be the 10Sth anniversary
of the battle Of Bunker Hill. Boston will cele.
brate 1t in the usual style on Monday.
GEN. SHERIDAN is to describe in the Julv
number of the North american Rcvsto the part that
he took In compelling the surrender of Gen. Lee.
A SPANISH grandee has an entire bedroom
suite of furniture made of glass. This is evidently
a mere freak Of eccentricity Anybody can see
through It.
A KANSAS child has double thumb on its
right hand. When It learns to play the piano Il
S'h 9s'ihV shS hSyS turn ONcT lne music ut the
same time.
HAMM. n Halifax man, will row double
scull race at Pullman, Ill. The first Ham who was
a pullman in II single scul race once rowed
around with Noah.
The Indiana supreme court has decided
that married woman cannot enter into &C. part.
nership with her husband or any other person for.
the purpose of carrying on partnership bust.
| ness.
LAST year over 253000 pounds of ostrich
feathers were sent to England from Capitoun, the
value of the feathers being s5lOOOOO 1t is said
that the total is seven fold what the total was ten
years ago.
NINE. JOHANNA WAGNER, a niece OF the
great composer has been appointed pro fessor of
singing at the Munich conservatoire. This is the
first time such professorship has been granted In
Germany TO u lady.
THERE is, after all, some hope for funny
men," Mr. RobertJ Burdette, of the Burlington
Hdwkeye delivered the annual address before the
cadets ofthe Pennsylvania military academy. 1t
was solemn occasion.
A KENTUCKY widow eloped the week after
her husband died, and now she thinks 1t outrage
GUS the way the neighbors talk 1t is the opinion
fthe Boston Post that she showed good deal of
consideration in waiting till he was dead
IT is said that Capt. Webb intends to at
VmpI W SWIM the Wnrlpool rapids in Niagara
river If he fails. the sum he would have re-
ceiyed for his exploit will, by arrangement 90 to
his family which is now In this country.
AN Illinois justice received twenty-fve
cents and croppof blackberries for marrying a
couple. The groom was worth, financially, lust
that quarter, and the bride promised the berries
The Boston papers are fond of twitting
Gov. Butler on the 'cold day" he experienced at
Harvard. But the grim old fellow, whenever
chance offers, will make 1t sultry enough for the
trustees OF that venerable but misguided institu
tion.
AN association of colored men fifty strong
has grown out of the twelve months efforts of a
dozen of them, and they are now building a
school house for poor children of their race. This
is the spirit which prevails in st. Bernard parish
Louisiana.
IT is said that a man who weighs $50 pounds
on the earth, If transported TO Jupiter, would
shake the ground with the ponderous tread of
$4,000 pounds or 2215 tons. If David Davis ever
visits that planet then good by Juplter!-New York,
Commercial Advertiser.
ALITTLE Newport girl hearing her mother
reading about Queen Victoria almost living on
mutton with carrots and turnips, exclaimed:
"And she eats that And she doesn't get any cake
or Ice cream! Goodness gracious l wouldn't be n
queen for anything. "-Rertucky State Journal
FRENCHMAN has recently gone deeply
down into statistics in regard to matches His
figures show that an Englishman burns eight
matches day, Swede nine, German eleven.
and Frenchman fifteen. The number of matchea
consumed in Europe every year amounts to two
thousand millions. Nobody is likely to dispute
these figures.
ONE day recently Meissonier called at De-
taille's house, and, finding him out went into the
billiard room to have some practice. In making
difficult stroke he cut q hole in the cloth, and
being unable to repair II, pasted bit of paper
over 1t and made thereon an exquisite little
sketch. An art collector has offered 5000 for that
patch, but Detallle win not part with II.
AN Iowa man boasts that his first child was
born in heterriory of Michigan, the second In the
territory of Wisconsin, and the third in the terri
tory of Iowa, and all In the same house and spot;
SO did the name change under successive di.
visions. Senator Jones, of the same state, vet
living was the last territorial delegate to congress
from Michigan, the first from Wisconsin, and one
of the first senators from Iowa
"DID you ever notice how suddenly a
timid woman who is humming an operatic air
will switch off on to a religious hymn when a
storm comes up and she hears the first clap Of
thunder" asks the Norristown Herald Not to
any extent; but we have noticed that when a
thunder storm comes booming along about mid
night woman always makes her husband get
up and close the blinds, while she covers her
head with the bed clothes and stufFs her fingers in
her ears.
For some weeks people in this country and
In England have been ut a loss to imagine what
internal device o'Donovan Rosa and his fol-
lowers have been sending the sea to destroy
the British nation, The conspiracy has been dis
covered. From the London Times of recent
date 1t is learned that large numbers of American
mosquitoes have been carried across the Atlantic
In cargoes of grain, and now attacking persons
in the north of London with great feroclty.
o'Donovan Rosa chose his weapons well.-Phid.
delpfta Times,
MADAM MoHL, widow of the famous ORR
entail scholar julius Won Mohl, is dead at the age
Of 81. Many years ago as Miss Mary Z. Clark,
she was the leader of the best circle OF English
society In Paris, and upon her marriage her in.
nuence became much wider. Her parlors were
daily thronged by learned and distinguished peo-
pie Of every nationality. Among her close friends
were the late Dean Stanley and Lady Augusta
Stanley, and she 1t was who nursed the latter in
Paris through the first stage Of the disease to
which she finally fell victim
THE king of Bavaria is vain of his per-
sonal appearance. lie desires his photographs to
fatter him. He is becoming fat. The monarch
whose flesh trespasses the limit of n dignhed,
portly presence is no longer every inch king
His Buperiluous inches are anything but kingly