National Republican., 1884-06-11

Because it's easy to bestow,
Aud dinlcultto keep"
THERE is an English quarter" at Carls.
bad.
ONLY ono editor in Denver eats his pie
with fork.
A GARaLE of cold, strong black tea Ia a
remedy for sore throat.
CHICAGO has thirty professional fortune.
tellers aud clarvoyants.
CAPT. LEITCH, of tho Inmsn line of steam-
ships, has made 5iO ocean voyages.
MRS FAIR, the wifo of Senator Fair, has
gone to Europe to pass the summer
New YoRK fish dealer has double
turtle Ia siamese twins brought from Florida.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT the New York reformer,
has gone to Dakota to pass q month or so on his
rancho.
| STURGEON weighing eighty-five pounds
was caught at Dubuque recently with an ordinary
hook and line.
THERE is o rumor in England that the
Salvation army is about to organize hallelujah
bicycle and tricycle. corps
DIRECTOR NEUMANN, Of Berlin, according
to the Boersen Courier is organizing plans for giv-
ing German opera In America next season.
THE ideal ear of corn is one with twelve
from the tip and well. capped at the tip.
The widest colts If properly handled,
often become the quietest and safest, generally
developing Into the most enduring horses.
| Mr.. RUsKIN declares it to be high time
that the public leH OF praisng his manner of say
ing things and began believing something he says.
The last resident of Cornucopa, New, once
a fourshing mining camp, moved to Tuscarora
tho other day, and the horn OF plenty" is now an
empty space.
| MARY ANDERSON now tells her friends that
she has determined to settle in England after her
next visit to America. She does not announce the
name OF the happy man.
The value of the neat cattle subsisting on
the natural grasses along the slope of the Rocky
mountains from the British possessions to Mexico
is placed at 5000, 100000.
A WEALTHY English gentleman is trying
to convert the poor heathen in India by inserting
Mr.. spurgeon's sermons as an advertisement in
some OF the native papers.
AMONG western newspapers arc the Tomb
stone RpitdDh, Bismarck BroddAre, Dakota Biz
sdrd, Washington Hatchet Laramie Boomerang,
North Bend FldR and the Editors Eye.
The supreme court of California has re-
| Gently decided than apartment which has
| partition running half way to the ceiling ia
a room, according to the legal sense of the word.
CHINESE doctor is practicing with great
success at Deadwood Oak. Patients come from
all the surrounding towns, and their remains are
often sent homo to their weeping friends by ex-
press.
PRINCE BISMARCK has just purchased the
estate his own iavorlte Friedrichsruhe, which
is known as wadesruhe He is said to have
looked upon Waldcsruho with longing eyes for
many years past.
tviI
bushels OF shells his oyster farm at East Haven
Conn. His losses from starllsh. which recently
appeared in great numbers upon his oyster beds,
is estimated at $4,000.
LANDsEER's great picture, "The Monarch
Of the Glen" everywhere familiar by the engrav-
: ing his brother made OF It, was sold recently in
London for the large sum of 6,6l0 TO Mr.. Eaton,
member of parliament.
WALT WHITMAN got $50 for his last con-
tributlon of eighteen lines in Harper's Magazine.
II the idea of the Harpers Is to encourage Mr..
Whitman to confne himself TO eighteen-line
poems, they desarye credit,
THE Luke Vorhees cattle ranch in Wyo.
ming comprises 100000 acres of land, 10000 of
which are inclosed by one barbed wire fence.
The ranch has water frontage of thirty miles,
and will easily accommodate 5000 head of cat
tie.
AN Indiana judge has decided that holders
of passes, injured on railway, can collect dam
ages. Railroad companies. however, will con-
tnue to print the usual conditions" upon the
backs Of all passes. They serve, no doubt, to
frighten of many alawsuit.
THERE Is now on exhibition at Tooths
gallery London. u lfe-sized portrait OF samuel
, Ward, painted shortly before his death by the
I young English artist, John Elliott, at Rome. 1t Is
said to be equally admirable as portrait and as
a work of art, and is highly pl I'D BY Mr.. Wards
; relatives.
PINE trees in some portions of North
, Carolina are dying in large numbers, 1t is sup-
posed from injuries Inflicted by the "bore worm,"
or "sawyers." which played havoc with the pines
in that state about thirty years ago. Their raw
ages are not confined to the old trees, the young
= ones dying just as rapidly and numerously.
IN France lately a young conscript failed
to answer to his name when the council of reyis.
ion was sitting person present said that the
young man had hanged himself preierrng death
to com ug before the council 1t was true. The
young ans father was in the revision hall and
thought that his son was there with the other con-
scripts
IT is generally supposed that the term
OZARK horse" is OF American origin. But Thack-
cray used 1t in his Adventures of Phillip before
1t became current in this country, and in exactly
/, the same sense US We employ 1t. "Well, bless my
u soul" Phillip is made - say, referring to some
" mysterious candidate Tor the mouse OF commons,
!, che can't mean mo- Who is the dark horse he
= has in his B''ble?"
o THE destruction of plover eggs in England
o to crafty the greed of the poultry dealer and the
"fashonable appetite of the rich for theee dein-
4 ties has b0en great that fears entertained
of the extinction of the birds. About quarter Of
million of plovers' eggs reach the London mar
kes every spring The nests robbed and
A robbed again until the poor birds are exhausted
~ and can lay no more.
10 A LITTLE Georgia boy went homo the
y oher day with portion Of his pants missing, aud
" his father began to Chide him about 1t and to
y question him as to whore he had been to tear his
a pants into such alright. The little fellow, al
& quick as thought, told his father that he hat
1. been down TO the creek, aud while he was wal <
IS ing along the bank fish jumped out of IN,
y water, bit out the seat of his pants and got b"
d to the water before he had time to catch It.
l. DID you ever hear of blacking boots with.
Is out blacking? 1t is done here. / went on board
% the American war ship Essex the other evening
n and saw the operation. banana skin Is used,
aud with good effect. thought at first that tht
rnd simply served to moisten backing which hat
been previously applied, but was assured that thu
N Shoes of the officers aboard had not seen any black
n ing since the ship came here, quite number o
~ weeks ago. throw this hint gratuitously for thu
n benefit OF the American bootblacks. Letter
% A GENTLEMAN visited the house of Henr!