National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-11

Time fur ter gedor dc con;
How much do ken eat nobody nebbor knows,
Time fur ter gedor do con.
De young houn' pup snuls de ar rs we pass,
Time fur ter geder de con;
An he barks at de rabbit what hides in de grass,
Time fur ter geder do con.
An er dribe ter dc con crib an open up de do,
Jurangy no. Jis or talkin like or doan' kere;
Wese got ter git dun fore do col wins blow,
Juransy no, SO early In dc day.
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A TErRE HAurEproduce merchant shipped
10000 rabbits 10 Indianapolis on Monday OF this
week.
TRIrLrTs. uained Abraham, Isaac. and
Jacob Klie, aged ~ years, arc living in Bucks
county. Pennsylvania.
THE Prince Of Wales refers 10 champagne
as "the boy" The Hartford iosl thinks he would
probably speak Of Jersey lightning as the old
man eloquent"
PEOPLE In Zorro Haute, Ind, have boy
cotted the telephone company there, and have
ordered all tho instruments taken from their
houses, because of high prices. A new company
will DO organized.
THE shipments Of anthracite coal over the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad for 1888 In
creased 5000 tons over the previous year. and
over the Delaware. Lackawannn, and Western
| the increase was 4l5, $50 TONS
MAN writes q Colorado journal that he
was born In 1850 and In 1869 he mad a wife and
four children, two boys, II and years OF age, anO
two girls, respectively, 2and 6years old" The al
| Of Colorado must be very rarihed, indeed.
II MAY be oross.eyed, and an old sinner,
aud o robber, aad n demagogue, aud anything
else that may come handy, but 1t would hayo
been cold day for the newspaper writers II 1 had
never been born" Benjamin. r. Butler.
~ WISH / were a baby" murmured bash
full bachelor who was making his first call on q
sweet young lady. "How ridiculousp she OK
claimed. why do you wish so2" because a
woman can never look at baby without kissing
| IT,"
| "TwENTY.sEvEN HUNDRED bills presented
at Washington" exclaimed fond little Pittsburg
wife. what q lot Of bills! And here Is my John
making terrible fuss over one little milliners
bill with nothing In 1t but three little bonnets and
two small hatsl"
The Brute: No, il is not nice thing at n
| dipuer party, when the nan next to you rises to
propose toast, for you to slip plate covered with
| gravy and debris into his chair for him to sit
down upon We shouldn't blame him at all for
disliking you for IT..
| THE authorities at Saint Giles, in Belgium,
have supplied the police on night duty with
|
boots the, police are so perfectly noiseless that
| they are at least placed on footing Of equal adj
vantage with burglars
To SUCH an extent 10 the monkish idea of
exclusion Of the opposite sex carried at Mount
Athos, the holy mountain Of the Greeks, that no
| female OF any kind down even to hon, IS per-
mitted to enter the peninsula, which Is thirty
miles long by ten broad.
GEORGE W. GARDNER and w. II. Eckmsn,
| two members Of the Cleveland Canoe club, have
| Just reached New Orleans. after having padded
in their frail Gran from Cincinnati. They started
on Nov. &c. travelling by day and camping on the
banks Of the Mississippi by night.
MRS. REUBEN WALRATH, of Openheim,
Fulton county, New York. was blown from the
| yard of her homo on Friday, while taking clothes
from line, and carried several yards into the
branches Of @ tree. She sustained fractured
shoulder and leg aud other injuries, but may re-
| cover.
The Belgian authorities are reported to
have hit upon q peculiarly delicate volatile ink
| with which TO print their postage stamps. and by
the use Of strongly resisting obliterating ink to
have made 1t about impossible TO use the stamps
a second time by discharging from them the OBJ
literating marks
JOE EMMETT is said to have an abiding
faith in the virtue Of drinking his matutnal cock
tail from alternate hanos. In q dream he was
| told that by beginning Monday morning with his
left hand, Tuesday with his right, Wednesday
lifting the drink 10 his lips with the left hand
| again. he would finish the day with good luck
and would play to full houses.
The plans for tho new bridge over the
Ohio river at Cincinnati have been completed.
and work on the structure will be begun at the
| latest by snext spring. The new bridge, which
will be the fourth to span the Ohio at that point
will be built very much after the plan OF the
Pennsylvania bridge, between Cincinnati and
Newport. The cost of the bridge is estimated at
| Sl,250,00O.
GEORGE p. A. HEALY, during chat in
New York, said: when / was painting Prince
Bismarck found him very grumpy. But before
the work was completed he became very afable.
| and asked me TO paint portrait of his wife and
daughter. Dore Yes, knew HIM well. recall
that the last time saw him he was In ecstasies
about the American women, whose graces no
thought unexcelled."
TRoLLoPE received $40 for his first pro.
ductlon and S35, 600 for one of his last. Capt.
Marryatt received 100000 for one Of his works,
and Lord Lytton $4,000 for the copyright OF the
cheap edition of his works by Messrs. Routlsdge
g. Sons. In addition to the large amount paid at
the time Of their publication. while 1t is well
known that Messrs. Longman paid Lord Beacons.
field $4,000 for "Endymion."
"THE people be d" utterances Of w.
H. Vanderbilt Is not, as Is generally supposed, q
specimen Of his polteness II Is related OF him
that while showing his art gallery to one Of his
lady guests he pointed to a certain picture and
said: Il told the artist TO put the most beautiful
Of women into the picture, but"-bowing very
low-"he did not succeed" The chronicler of
the above leaves us In the dark as TO the reply Of
the lady.
1T is against good manners under the
French republic 10 utter tho Divine Name In pari
lament. The president Of The Tomato. insdver7
tently following old fashioned ways spoke the
other day OF NJ, Henri Martin as having "ren1
dered his beautiful soul to God" He had the
Official report corrected, and II now stands on
record simply that NJ Henri Martins beautiful
soul has entered into rest.
A GENTLEMAN whose fortune had boon
made in railroad stocks, and who has snowy es-
tablshment uear Boston, took unto himself sec
ond wife. A lady Of the neghborhood went TO
| call upon the BRIDE and In a lapse OF the rather