National Republican., 1884-06-12

Are wondrous WISE
And for the past two days or more
As the suns calorlo rays did downward pour,
Blue-bottle flies in legons
From all the surrounding regions
Have congregated on the sidewalks
In ilocks, holding confidential talks
Caucausing for q convention,
Which to shortly hold is their intention,
whether to nominate a fly President
Or to quarter themselves on each Lake resident-.
All we know is thisthato on sunny da VS. like these
They congregato upon the sidewalks underneath
the trees
AS were, in countless leglons,
Delegates from all the surrounding regions.
Chicago sun,
THE Petit Journal of Paris, claims circu.
laton of6i5,OOO daily.
LONDON has q greater popu lation than the
entire Dominion of Canada.
THE Mississippi civil service law shuts
saloon keepers out of office.
PAPER bottles are now made on a large
scale in Germany and Austria
The wood pavement being put down in
Paris is II United States patent
JAMES d. FISH lives in flats, saws a con.
temporary. Lived on flats would be more peril
ncnt says New York Truth.
THE world thinks that ex-senator Sharon
must be n charming man. Ho had TO pay lady
| $500 to get her to agree to stop sparkling him.
| BLAINE aud Logan were nominated ON n
Friday, and so were Hayes and Wheeler. Garfield
and Arthur were elected on u Tuesday and inau-
guratod on Friday.
STORY is told of Philadelphia official
| who, on being handed n $50 bill as Il brbe, coo!ly
lit his cigar with 1t. IIe was doubtless disguised
because 1t was not sl0O
| WAsHINGToN COUNTY, Miss, produces
more cotton than any other county in America;
| ityields $1,000 bales year. Yazoo county is Sec
ond, with $1,000 or $4,000.
P1TTsBURG astrologer predicts that Jay
Gould will meet violent death within eight
years As Mr.. Goulds tomb is constantly kept in
the best of order there is nothing whatever in
| this prediction to cause him uueasiness.
MARRIAGE suporstitions hold great sway
in Philadelphia, and the number of people who
fear to violate them is large. June always sees
great increase in the number of weddings, be.
cause May is not considered so lucky.
A GERMAN scientist has drawn attention
to the fact that the Sute one of the great streams
of British India is probably the swftest large
river in the world, having a descent of 10000 feet
In $50 miles an average of about fifty.seven feet
per mile.
Four HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS is the
estimated value of the pipe which the Shah Of
Persia smokes in public on state occasions. 1t is
called "El Kalidin," and is.entirely encrusted
With conglomerate Of diamonds, rubes, pearls,
and emeralds
TALKATIvE Wiie-"Charles do you think
you would marry again II / were to die"
Chares-"Woll, wife, to be frank with you, I
might; but there is only one woman in tho world
would have" Wife-"And who pray, is she?"
Charles-"Ahem-Bec Jones!"
THERE is kind of monkey in Madagascar
NI,nN Al.
the natives seldom try to capture specimen, but
one has been brought to New Haven, where its
ferceness In hinging whatever missiles It can get
hold of causes visitors to keep at respectful dis
tance.
Mr.. JOSEPH MEDILL, the proprietor of the
Chicago Tribune, is described as u man having n
little the appearance of the typical Mormon elder
with white locks falling from his straight, rigid,
almost pald head, and with red face, warm blue
eyes, and some folds of tat who would now pass
for seventy.
II is gratifying to note that our market is
not affected by the financial crisis in New York.
Strawberries are firm and active, cucumbers 10
cents apiece mot including medical attendance,
and hand painted string beans are to be had az
the ordinary price of paris green. Spring butter
remains strong, with or without boxing Gloves
Chicago NtirS.
MR.. ANDREW d. WHITE, tho president Of
Cornell, weighs hardly ll0 pounds. He has lean
arms and large hands, q head running back TO q
high. crown and dark hair streaked with gray.
"Ie stands straight; has a countenance expressive
ofboth iexibility and purpose, and under the
scissored beard and mustacho are seen the jaws
Of sound animal structure"
! LADY WILDE has written volume of
scandinavian adventures. Her singular son con-
tinues to lecture and high critical authority re-
ports that he has taken to surprising his audience
by talking good sense 1t is pleasant to learn that
his American tour has had such beneficial
effect. Physicians may be interested in the phe-
0 nomenon. Mr.. Wilde's mother shosld withdraw
I her remarks against us.
GAMBLING has taken tho place of religio n
in the United States, aud that accounts for almost
everything we see. From childhood up TO grand
mother they gamble in everything. You can see
+ the morals every time when you pass the Chicago
q city hall, which covers an enormous square, IL
= elaborate in everything and republican nowhere.
i II looks TO me like the fallen tomb of an ancient
elephant who had been about quarter of mile
+ high and wanted his own sarcophagus. Gaths
Letter.
Q FRENCH public prizes are ething worth
5 having. The following have just been awarded
Q by the Academy OF Sciences: NJ. Legrand du
Saue, So OOO for medico- legal studies epilepsy
aud the value of wills made by insane or hysteri-
cal testators; NJ. Fauyel, $1,000 for studies on
| CHOlcTu NM plIuuss hOuAi NOZhTu' anu uulliler
each 81 900, for studying the cholera in Egypt
and MN. CASTOR Tissandier. Duroy dc Bruignao
. and V. Jain, $1,000, for advancing the science of
L aeronautics.
SIMON YANDEs, an old and wealthy resi-
dent of indianapolis went to the public library
that city and seized and made off with three
copies of u novel entitled "From Dawn TO Day
light" written by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecho
l. while she resided in the Indiana capital. Th'
book contains reflections on Mr., Yaudes's family
"a and the three copies said to be the only one
to be had now us the book is out of print. MI
Yandes proposes to justify his action before thu
II library board
ALL the historical precedents were against
II second term for President Arthnr, First, becaus
~ no New York President (and each of her three wa
10 vice president first has yet succeeded h imsel o
been succeeded by the party which elected him
10 second, only one of the seven presidents who hay
SO gone directly from the office of vice president Il
the first office has ever hau second term MS pres
10 dent that being Thomas Jefferson; third, NJ
o. eastern man has yet had a second term as pres
dent. All Of the seven who have been re- ele cte
TO that Office have come from tho west or Virginia
TX IT is not unreasonable for people to expe
that the federal officials known as bank examin
l. ers should know exactly what the condition