National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-19

Anu MS love, Win n rival, laughed loud that day
AS the bucket came up with him,
The boom booms loud, and the boom booms
clear,
And the boom goes off with bang,
Aud the boomcst boom OF all my dear,
Is never a boomerang.
Lite
CHARLES O'CoNoR left an estate thought
to DO worth about S., 100000
LADY WILDE the mother of Oscar, has a
book of poems ready for tho press.
Miss EMMA NEVADA, the young American
prima donna, intends to slug in this county noxt
season.
CYRUS MCCORMICK Just before his death
gave 100000 to tho Northwestern Theological
seminary.
No RAIN has fallen on the limo OF tho Texas
Pacific railroad, west of the Colorado river, since
| last August.
THE importation Of coffee in 1888 reached
625,I63,A79 pounds, or ten and ono.haf pounds for
each inhabitant of the United States.
IN 1888 Chicago proAigates wasted over
Sl5,O0O00O in their 3l0O liquor Saloons and $4,000
of them languished in jail for disturbing the
peace.
LAWRENCE BARRETT will return about the
18th of July and win open in Denver during ex.
position week, going thence to San Francisco and
California.
WILHELM GERIcHE has been engaged ut
salary of $500 year for five years, to sucrccd
Mr.. George Henschel as conductor of the Boson
| symphony society
DURING her tour in this country Ellen
Terry is said to have acquired an American uc-
| cent. She also acquired u good many American
dollars.-SdUdnnah Nous
DION BoUoIcAULT is having special car
built for himself and his company by the wor-
cester Expressing Car company for his next sea-
| sons tour. An annex car will be used for the
Kitchen, baggage, machinery, and servants.
Tom KEENE starts on n trip around tho
world with his company and family in May, 1885.
They will go west to Australia, East India, and
| overland to England, but fortunately Mr. Reene
has decided not to try tho temper of the English.
EMMA ABBOTT says sho will give $4,000
| for pretty and sentimental opera with little
| fun and plenty Of melody. Here Is u chance for
| the youth who persistently whistles sweet Vio-
let's to earn an honest living by striving after the
unattainable.
CALIFORNIA editor having managed five
| different newspapers within the last twelve
months, all of which collapsed, has Just ventured
| upon his sixth journalistic enterprise. Having
named the new paper Kind Words neighborng
| contemporary says he probably did so because
kind words can never die.
81 NEVER take cold," says Emma Abbott,
though I'm MS afraid of draught as 1 am of d
mad dog. There are somo singers who Just beg
| cold to come and take hold of them, but I'm not
| one Of them. The coolest day in winter ride In
| an open carriage-Nilsson told me about that
but always alone for talking in the open air is
death to a singer"
THE Rothschild family have just lost tho
| ~ iph hnH hrnn oh tins nj
pality of Frankfort to prevent the latter from pull
ing down the house there in which Mayer Roths-
| child laid tho foundation of the immense fortune
Of the family. The council has resolved on the
immediate demolition of the residence. as well a.
of the Jews quarter
In recent edition of the London Times
| appears an advertisement for q lost artificial nose
'Inasmuch as l will be compelled 10 remain at
| home until my nose is returned, not having money
enough to purchase new one" says the adver-
tiser, 81 trust that the finder will have the good
ness to return 1t without hopes Of other reward
| than the thanks of It's owner"
AT Prohli5 near Dresden, was recently
dedicated the first monument ever erected by a
single Saxon village community to one of its un-
pretending members. II was in memory of Georg
Johann Paliizsch. who died in 17sS, after leading
the life Of plain farmer. But he was the first
discoyerer OF the Haley comet in l75S aud of the
| fresh water polypus, and he introduced lightning
rods into Dresden and potatoes into the country
along the Elbe.
The bodies of Beethoven, Schubert, Gluck,
and Haydn, have just been disnterrel from their
resting places In the suburbs of Vienna and re-
| moved 10 tho Central cemetery, The tombs of the
| four great musicians are intended to be grouped
ound monument which is TO bo erected to the
memory of Mozart. The remains of Mozart cannot
be transported to the Centralfeldhof, since tho
1.lu g
Flute" has never yet been discovered.
HEAR that your brother is given to SOM
nambulsm?" Whats that?' "IIe walks in his
| sleep" "Well, that makes mo smile guess
you don't know my brother. lie is the LATEST
white man in Texas. He wouldn't walk in his
sleep, no matter how sound asleep he was. IIo is
too lazy entirely. might not be surprised to
hear that no had ridden in street car In his
sleep; but Us for his walking. that ia out Of the
question. He doesn't walk when he is wide awake,
ii he can help it."
The committee in charge of tho recent
Phillips memorial meeting in Boston has been
embarrassed by question of how 10 settle with
MIR. Curtis. That gentleman, In a recent note said:
"For the service to the memory of friend greatly
beloved could not possibly accept any pecuniary
compensation. The city Of Boston, in asking me
to speak of Wendell Phillips, conferred upon mo
one of the greatest OF honors, for which shall be
always grateful" check for handsome sum
was sent Mr.. Curtis.
Mr.. w. s. GILBERT, who passes for
shrowd man Of business, makes his pieces pay
him at a rate heretofore unknown 10 the dra-
matte author in England. Mr.. Gilbert, Sir Arthur
Sullivan, aud Mr.. DOyley Carte, owner OF the
Savoy and other theaters are supposed to divide
in equal shares the proceeds Of these operas to the
production OF which they have Jointly devoted
themselves for some years past No one knows
what the amount Of income thus distributed is,
but common report puts It at over 100000. Mr..
Gilbert's contract with Miss Mary Anderson may
serve as an instance ofhis gift for driving bar
gain During the run of "Pygmalion and Gala
tea" at the Lyccum, Mr. Gilbert has levied 10 per
cent on the gross receipts moro than $1,000 u
week.
Or Postmaster General Gresham tho Wash
ington correspondent OF the Rochester Union
writes: lie was subordinate in command ito Gen.
MCPHERSON. When Gresham was before Atlanta,
Just a day or two prior to its fall, ne was
wounded badly, a shell carrying away the Heshy
part Of his leg above the knee. lie sent word 70
McPhersou that he was disabled, and had been
ordered to the rear. Mcpherson sent back a SYM
pathetic message and an escort, and Gresham was
carried by roundabout course to point where
he received medical attention. When he could
| be further removed he was put into a baggage