National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-14
CURRENT GOSSIP.
AN OLD MANS soLItoauY.


Like spectres fitting along Times journeyings 49,
In search Of ideal joys
Vain dolusions
Echo their hooking voices, as from the surging
deep
OF the hearts Utmost oaverns these mimic
Harpers Of the wearied soul awake the drowsy
spirit
OF selfcontent and echo back the derlsive song
OF time lost-of hours misspentl JP. b..
IF you had your WISH" he said to tho maid
The maid who from Boston came
And the dearest thing on earth would DO laid
AT your feet, what gift would you name2"
moment she sat In reflective thought,
While her mind Few TO other scenes,
Then replied: 81 would wish for great big pot
ofmy ohildhood's dear sweet pork and beans"
-Bismdrck Tribune.
OHIO has coal in thirty Of 'thirty-eight
counties and put out s220,229 tons In 1ss3--a gain
of 900 tons.
WHEN the territory Of the United States IL
as dcnscly settled AS that OF France there will be
6soO0O,OOo people hero.
In costs tho people Of Great Britain $751;
600 a yearto man the three royal yachts, though
they are in service few weeks In the year only
The playthings originally cost 100000.
The proprietor of the great Cafe Bauer in
bVtlAu Tcnu1nx room In which TUO
journals In eighteen languages, including Turk.
ish, Chinese, and Japanese arc regularly filed.
A STEAMBOAT named the Stanley has re-
Gently been shipped in sections by the British aud
African steamship Senegal for the Congo river.
on arrival the sections will be conveyed 10 Stan.
| ley Pool aud will DO used on tho waters OF the
Congo between that point and Stanley Falls.
Miss NINA BACHELOR, of Kentucky, who,
besides being the most beautiful woman in Paris,
| where her red-gold hair and dark eyes will make
| wonderful social sensation this season, IS pro-
claimed by her professor, NJ saintpieyre. as a
future star Of tho frat magnitude in oil painting
HENRY LoNGFELLow's children are hav-
ing constructed plain marble sarcophsgus, six
| feet long and four feot high, to be put over the
poets grave in Mount Auburn cemetery. On the
! front Will be carved Henry w. Longfellow"
while the back will give the dates of his birth and
death.
| DURING tho.six months in which the bat
tie of Telcl-Keblr was fought the receipts Of the
i telegraph company which forwarded press dis.
patches to London was 100000 more than in the
half year that followed This fact is cited as an
illustration Of the extraordinary development Of
newspaper enterprise.
"WHY are you whipping that boy2 asked
a policeman. Hes my son." "What has he done
TO deserve such severe punishment" He amt
| tohc hOtHlub Yet, DuL Us 4 am EOln away from
home to-day, to BIO gone some time. and KNOWN
that he'll need it before get back, l thought I'd
better give 1t 10 him now"
A NEVADA Chinaman has received Chinese
papers giving an account of the fight at sontay.
| His translation is as follows "Fench Niger
steven feet high Cloat alice same elephant
| sklinl Chinaman cut him knife and slord; no
cut him! Chinamsn shoot him; bali no glow in.
| Chinaman luu like hell"
REV. j. G. WooD, of New York, possessed
| for four years a large lump OF dry Nile mud, a
hole in one Of the sides showing that mudish
was within it, The other day he carefully cut the
| lump open, and found the inhabitant in good
condition, doubled up with its tail over its head
just as when 1t went TO sleep more than twenty
| years ago.
| NUBAR PASTA is not young looking man
| for his 80 years. He has frank, strong face es.
peoially marked with heavy gra1 moustache
| and large eyes. He married daughter OF
wealthy Egyptian banker. and has one SON
Boghos Bey-apd two daughters The son studied
for some time in England, but II is not yet known
| whether he inherits his fathers talents or not
Nubar himselfis the best linguist in Egypt His
English accent Is perfect
ANOTHER disastrous result has followed
the production of Italian operas In London, and
| Notwithstanding that corporation formed of
| Neultny DHCkeu sCneme, the loss has been
| heavy one US compared with the Prospectus
issued when the company was formed. The last
report of the Royal Italian Opera, limited, of Lon.
don, shows that, instead of the estimated profit of
f43OOO per annum and is per cent, there is II Ia
sud, a deficit of f26oOO. and no dividend at all.
THE house in which Gen. Burgoyne. a
prisoner OF war. partook of the hospitality of Gen.
Philip Schuyler is still standing in Albany, N Y
twas built by Mrs. Schuyler in 1861, while the
general was in Europe, from whence many arti-
Giles for the furnishing of the house were sent
and was their town residence. The mansion at
schuyerville, which, with the generals mills,
was burned by Burgoyne in 1777. was their coun-
try seat. and far surpassed the Albany house in
point OF grandeur and costly fittings
The Earl of Aylesford, who at one time
was the greatest spendthrift In Europe and the
intimate friend ofthe Prince of Wales, Is living
near Big Springs. Texas, on 27OO0 acre farm,
His brother. Hon. Daniel Finch, is with him,
Some time ago the carl was divorced from his
wife, banishcd from society and limited to $50 600
n year, SO he busted himself In Texas They
spend their time riding hunting, and having fun
with the cowboys, with whom they are very pop
ular. The cowboys call the earl 1.-THE Judge " and
| his brother the kid"
M. DE MAUpAs, who was project of police
in Paris when the coup d'etat was accomplished
on the second Of December, 1851, has Just pub.
lshed his account of the affair. He says that
Louis Napoleon had only $4,000 In cash where.
with TO effect his revolution. and that his credl
was so bad that no wine merchant would supply
him with the five and twenty thousand bottles Of
champagne which were thought necessary for cor
| rupting tho troops. In this emergency "cham-
payne was specially manufactured out Of aerated
water, brandy, and strip.
GONE March day." says the venerable
Bishop Pierce (Methodst) of Georgia, ~ rode ten
miles through drenohng rain TO Flatrock
chapel, only to find two persons thore, man and
| boy. After waiting a few minutes / said, We
might as we'll leave here as there will be no con-
gregation' But the man quietly responded.
Through five miles of peting rain have come
| TO hear preaching l saw my duty and replied.
You arc right You are entitled to it, For one
hour addressed my little congregation, and was
| never listened TO with more attention"
NJ. PAILLERoN, the newest member of the
| French acadamy, is the youngest in age, About
5000 persons applied for admission to the recep'
ton, but scarcely 1000 were able TO secure places
Victor Hugo and Emile AuRiar appeared rs spon
sors for Pailleron, tho former, contrary to usage
appearing without academical costume. Hugo
| was asked why he appeared in that way, and
answered that he was too old to got an appro =
pirate costume. Some one answered; "Oh you
would live TO wear II out" NJ. Pailleron is best
known as the author Of lie Monde GU ION
s'Ennuie."
| pRnE WARPEN of Dover N T. In a Lar.