National Republican., 1884-05-13

Across the pool with nlmy wings
The Devils Darning.needleS" fly;
And deep among the shady flags
The croaking frogs securely lie;
ed-winged black birds liquid notes
Sound clear and sweet "Co.chee Co. cheei"
And in the breeze's cradling arms
The cattais rock III airy glee.
Ernest McGoGey, in The Current
WILLIAM BROWN says that the New York
Ne,rs, owned by Ben Wood and himself, cleared
100000 last year.
THE worst thing said about Pere Hyacinthe
since he came to this country is by a Kansas City
paper. which describes him as being u perfect
picture Of Ben Butler
WILLIAM MCHUdH who was hung in Gin.
cinnati Friday for wife murder, was one OF the
three men who entered matrimony under tho
auspices Of the great matrimonial bureau started
in Cincinnati few years ago.
Miss MARY BOWMAN, of Pottstown, Pa,
who recently sued Charles Clark for bewitching
her now threatens to shoot that person for ''eend-
ing his voice. to her. She hears him insulting
her when he is miles away, aud wants the thing
stopped
A LADY wrote to o noted physician that
she had been losing her hair, and wanted to
know what to do about 1t. He advised her either
to keep hor bureau drawer locked or discharge
her hired girl and employ one whose complexion
would not suit her hair. '
AT the Westminster Kennel show, in Madi-
son Square garden, New York city, "dog den-
tiSr has put out sign, indicating that dogs
teeth may be filed with gold. or that when he
gets very old and his teeth drop out he may be
supplied with set Of false teeth.
ONE of the provisions in tho life sentence
imposed in Berlin on Carl Schenck, one of tho
trio OF servant girl murderers, is that the auni-
versary of the killing of each Of his victims heis
to be confined for that day in dark cell He will
thus have to spend ten days per year in total
darkness
Col. MAPLEsoN says he has seen tho late
Sir Michael Costa standing bareheaded in snow
storm, bowling to the ground. when the Prince of
Wales was passing and sneczng furiously all the
time Mr.. Mnpleson thinks that Sir Michael must
have accumulated something like the sum Of
81 100000.
The Indian boys at Walker Lake, Neb,
with utter contempt for the integrity of their
neither garments, tie baling rope TO the hind axes
of wagons, and, sitting down in the dust, by hold
ing fast TO the rope enjoy sort of coasting or sand
slide, which may be wearing and tearing in some
respects, but which seems to afford great pleas
ure.
IT now turns out that London Is the victim
of now Yankee humbug A late brand of Amer
lean cigars introduced there and smoked by oil
the dudes Of Regent street with great satisfaction
are found to be made of tobacco paper-that is. q
cheap kind of paper soaked in tobacco juice stale
beer, and strichnine, and then rolled like the to-
bacco leaf .....
WRITER in the Wheeling Intelligcncer is
sorcly puzzled in his inability to tell why 1t is
that society allows man TO place his arm around
a young lady's waist and draw her 10 him as with
hooks of steel during Dance and yet shrieks
| with the widest horror and dismay If by chance
| he is caught In similar position when the pair
| are standing still. s
| The members of che Mexican congress wear
| faultless suits of black. A great many OF them
| also wear white neckties and white gloves, so
| that the house looks like full dress party. A
recent visitor in Mexico says that almost all OF the
members are of middle age, with black eyes and
black hair. Hardly gray haired or bald-headed
man could be discovered among them.
| JAMES MCBRIDE of st. Louis, claims to
| have received communication from the spirit of
Samuel T. Glover in which the whereabouts of
some valuable papers relating to the Glover es-
| tate was given. Sure enough, they were just
| where the spirit indcated-mixed up among a
lot of other papers, where they probably would
never have Deen found. Mr.. Mcbride is a law.
yer, and had no faith in spiritualism until after
| he found the papers.
AN old Arkansas darky who has spent his
life in the cotton fields, in explaining to north
ern man the necessity of keeping the grass ami
weeds out of the cotton patch, said 4" De little
cotton am mighty easy discouraged. Jes one lit
tie blade or foxtail will skeer it outen n week't
growth. Dey is awful shy. De easiest touch o.
de babys fingers ain ez soft ez natur. Nobody
makes no difference how gentle, ken shove dc
tener cotton sprout in de dirt without mashin' IL
but natur can shove 1t through hard clod-"
AN undertaken in Newcastle. on Tyne, in
the north of England. inserted recently in
local newspaper the following advertisement
"Why live and be miserable when you can bt
buried in comfort for three pounds ten?" Com
Portable sepulture Is one of the chief objects II
life of the British proletariat. The Irishman'
passage to the grave is soltened by the prospect
what the Shaughrauns mother calls "a mighty
grand funeral" The French ouyrler alone de
spises this, and lays by as much money as will
give his daughter modest dowry. The British
workman, II he wishes to stand we'll with his fol
lows, belongs to a burial society.
THE Calcutta correspondent of the Londol
Times states that by the destructive fire whic
occurred recently in Mandalay the great tempt
of Gaudama was completely destroyed. All th,
gold leaf stuck on the brass image of the Gaudam
Buddha by successive generations of worshipeT
and valued at from 100000 to s5OO,OO0 has beer
7 melted of by the heat This result of the fir
appears to have caused great CONSERVATION, bein
held by the superstitious to be sure sign of tn
downfall of the Burmese empire. In disastrou
fire at Rangoon over forty houses were burnt, au
n the damage is estimated at S50OOO to 5000 0O
1 The fire originated from some one dropping
!. lighted cheroot upon bundle of canes in q rata
store
DIR. ScHLIEMANN's enthusiasm is boundei
A when he makes an important find" "Thr6
cheers for Pallas Athena |" he writes from Tlryr
> "I have succeeded here In wonderful way, ha
ing brought to light an immense palace wit
Is innumerable columns, which occupies the ent
upper Acropolis Of Tlryns, and Of which the foi
n and all tho walls are we'll preserved.
paramount interest are the wall paintings, whiC
a my architect and collaboration, Or, Dorpheld,
ST now copying with the same colors OF the vel
10 highest interest are also the vase paintings, vii
N tho most primitive representations of men al
o. animals. The plan of this wonderful prehistor
N palace can be made with great accuracy, and
70 will excite universal amazement, for nothing Ill
70 this has ever turned up. Tho capt.
, found is one ofthe most ancient Of Doric order
j. discovered"
% THE Paris correspondent of the LondC
:. Daily Ne,Os has the following explanation Of d
"a wild stories of Irish dynamite plotings in Pari
w. Low-class Irishmen, some Of whom have clear
~ been reared in English slums continually pest
- me with offers to furnish news about the dynami
conspiracy. None of them bear the test OF eros
examination, and all end by tales Of distress Al