National Republican., 1884-06-13


For month ia play daisy
Land of Liberty hut feel lazyl
Scissors.
CALIFORNIA is just eating "thc first apples
Of tho scason"
BurTALo's juno festival has sold $4,000
worth Of seats.
THE yalodictorlan of the Atlanta, ILL.,, high
school is a colored boy
DETROIT pays $05,OOO year for sevonty-
two electric light towers.
A YOUNG man asks-"When Is tho best
time to mover" When is his ront duo?
A NoIsELEss roller skate has boon invented.
| but the bumps on the loor sound as loud as ever
MEIssoNIER has painted only 42O pictures
In my years, but these are SAID to be worth s1O
0O0,OOO
BENJAMIN c. PARKER, "tho fashionable
portrait painter, will have II studio ut Newport
| this summer.
| Ir is noted ns an interesting fact that the
| wages ofsIn have not boun cut down TO any per-
| ceptible extent.
A BosToN clergyman recently asked:
what has fool more than wise mann" lie
usually has moro lip.
mo-" said n druggist, "there is not such an
awful profit on n glass of soda water. You see
the wear aud tear OIL the glass amounts to soino.
thing.
AT Bethel, VT, recently, dog treed three
young bears, but while its owner went for u gun
| the old bear recovered her cubs and made good
! her escape.
THERE is good deal of excitement in
Brewer, Mo-, over the discovery of u cave. Some
say 1t wus dug by burglars and thieves and others
believe that the Elliott murderers hid away there
THE latest criminal charge against the
sparrow is that he persists In playfully biting OF
the heads Of bees, totally neglectng the business
part Of that sometimes seriously in earnest insect
THE Hindoos expose their dead on tho
banks of the Ganges and the Hooghly to be car.
ried away by the alligators. The Parsees expose
their bodies upon high gratings to feed the birds
ofprey
lr is said of Modioska, that she loves to sit
in II window and paint clouds. Tho lady would
make more of a sensation by sitting on cloud
and painting windows. Besides it would be
| higher art.
FIFTEEN Massachusetts, girls are about to
undertake IL tramp Of 800 miles in the Ad.
irondacks Somebody has been giving them some
exaggerated pointers about the number of uu-
married men who have taken to the woods.
"PAPA, want to make mamma present
next Wednesday, because It Is her birthday" 80
| II is, my child; had forgotten It," ~ want to
| give her something she hasn't got; can you think
ofanythngT eyes, get her some patience"
THE only people it appears, who practice
sea burial are the aporgines of tho Chatham
islands. When fisherman there departs this
| life they put baited rod in his hand, and after
lashing him fast i'll boat, send him adrif to sea.
FROM the French Miss Jennie is finishing
dinner. She has already eaten small dish Of
strawberries, and prepares to eat a second, when
her mother gently stops her. Thou knowest that
there Is one of them for me-" Miss Jennie remains
u moment hestating, then says suddenly, what
a pity that began with thine!'
OVER 10000 women work ut the watch
making trade in Switzerland. They do much of
the finest, most delicate work. There are two
sisters, who carry OH matchmaking and jewelry
| establishment of their own. In San Francisco all
of the day district telegraph work is done by
women. They are paid from $40 to s6O month.
THE great English industry Of betting on
horse races Is likely to receive new impetus now
that some ingenious soul has devised the novelty
of advertising "a most mysterious dream for sale.
1t foretold the winner of the Derby TO tho adver-
tiser in u way which is undenable. The price Is
G5," &C., &c. Even America cannot surpass this
THE report that Mr.. Nathan Appleton has
| undertaken the rescue of Gen. Gordon at Khar-
toum, on being investigated, turns out to have for
| Its sole foundation the fact that he has gone to
| Europe intending 10 make voyage up tho Nile
since receiving legacy of the income of 100000
from his half brother, the late Mr.. Thomas G. APP
ploton.
A WOMAN residing in Detroit has written
an explanatory note to the editor Of the Free Press
of that city over her own name, In which she says:
~ saw in your paper the other day an account Of
n divorce suit brought by mo. wish you would
say in your next issue that done 1t in Il moment
of haste and passion He did strike me with q
hammer, but 1t was a tack hammer My own tenn
per is bad, and perhaps deserved It,"
A BUMPTIoUs Englishman, Figaro says, was
dining with lady at u table d'hote in Boulogne.
Seated opposite to them was German, on whose
hand were some rings. After gazing at the Ger
man, the Englishman said to his companion in
low voice; 81 hate to see man with rings on"
A supercilious sneer was all the German youch-
safed After a little time tho Englishman again
said to the lady: "Do you know what should
do with ring II had one ~ Before the lady
could reply the German leaned across the table
and, In sulky growl, said: Wear 1t in your
nose"
A SAILOR tells of parrot he saw in Spain
which spoke Spanish murdered French, knew
some verses of Racine could say grace, repeat
tho fable OF the crow, and count thirty louis,
They dared scarcely to hang its cage at the win
dow, for when II was there and the weather was
fine the parrot talked ceHselessly. 1t said every
thing II knew npOstrophizod all passors' by, ex-
cept women, and talked politics. 10 one of these
birds E.ince Loon owed his life. lie had been
condemned to death by the father. and the parrot
took II SO much to heart that he kept repeating,
"AlGsl my master Leon" and the sorrow OF the
bird made such an impression on tho brutal
father that he released his son.
TIE cowboy sleeps with his saddle for a
pillow whoroyer night overaIos him, eats at any
camp whero favor or fortune drives him. and i'll
turn is every ready TO assist or divide with his
fellow mGn-who pcrchanCc drops In on him rest
ing NJ his cabin or beneath tho shade and shelter
ofsomo tree, rs tho case may be- Toe genuine
Texas cowboy was hardly ever known TO do Il
mean or cowardly act, but his reputation has been
inuingod upon-lu iaGt ruinod-by dosperadoes
who know but littlo OF cowboy life and magma
nimiy, hut palm themselves oil upon an unsus-
pgclng public as man. eating, man destroying
cowboys from the outposls of Texas. OF course,
the knight of the larat, when under the influence
ofliquor, Is noisy; aside from this he is u harm
less creature.
THE man frog was first exhibited in 1868
at French country fGte, lie had IL stout i'll.
shapon body, covered with Il skin like leather
bottle, ana face exactly like Il frogs large eyes,
an enormous mouth, aud the skin cold and clam.
my. Ilo attracted good deal of attention from
the Academy Of Medicine and delegate was de-
. puod to make him hn object Of study He went