National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-06-09


Oh blissful oxaltadonl
! SYRACUSE is making war on its gamblers
| WILLIAM BLACK is writing another High
land story.
| GOOD composltor Is one who mover shakes
for beer while there is Il fat take on the file.
The half bushol that will hold two peclSs is
the reform measure most needed by potato sellers.
BEAR meat is q regular dish in Russian
hotels, and strongly resembles bull beef in tex
ture.
Mr. Henry IRvING has presented to Mr.
Lawrence Barrett number of interesting and
costly stage relics
| A WESTERN paper announced a railroad
collision recently with the heading, Boiler Empty
and Engineer Full"
| THERE was q sound of devilry by night
and ali the booms had gathered there their
booty and their rivalry.
OF class of twelve young ladies in an
academy in Hampton, N. H., u few years ago, eight
have died OF consumption.
"WHY live and DO miserable when you can
be fortaby buried for three pounds ten?"ist tho
touching advertisement of an English undertaken.
NIcoLINI smokes Opera cigars that cost him
500 hundred, and his wife, Patti, not to be out
done, Away has private box Of her own on tho
| vi hlBllls VI tlo OpeIu
WILL s. CARLETON tho poet, is tall,
browneyed light-hared man, who inscrbes his
name in printed characters like those of a school
| boy in hotel register.
A MAN in Kansas have started five papers,
each of which died within n short time. lie has
just started another aud calls 1t Kind Words, be.
cause, he says, kind words can never die
CUBAs entire sugar crop this year will not
be sufficient to pay tho government taxation on
population. The most liberal estimates place the
crop Mt 100000 tons, which would yield but
s24,7jO,O0O while the tax amounts to s3o.OOO,OOO.
The ohairman's gavol at the Republican
| national convention will be made OF pieces of
wood from every state and Territory in the Union,
including Alaska. But It will be none the stronger
| for that.
SOCIETY paper says: Buttons are small
and unpretending This season." The truth of this
assertion never strikes II man more iorcby than
when lac ondeayoFs TO find he lost collar button.
- Boston Post
A LONDON journal has just been informing
its readers that tho preservation of the Adiron-
dacl forests is at last agitallng the people of the
west, who wish to protect their valuable prairie
lands from drouth."
LOUIS KossUTH still clings to tho Lutheran
faith in which he WAS brought up, but does not
deny that Byron may have been right when he
wrote that religions take their turns, and other
creeds will rise with other years"
BASE BALL is taking the place of bull fight
Ing in Cuba. 1t is pleusanter for the bulls but the
players suffer terribly in broken knuckes and
thumped bodies. On the whole. bull fighting is
found safer for the men than the American game.
CHARLES READEs funeral was very poorly
attended, and Il London paper takes those authors
and journalists who did not put in an appears
ance to task "Only four miles out of London
from Easton station" It says land yet scarcely
anybody thcrew
In Russia the heir to the throne comes of
age at 10, and is then usually placed in charge of
some distinguished person especially in the con-
fdence Of the GEAR. 1t Is thought that Count Ad-
lerberg, who held high position in the late cars
household, will be selected now
As AN instance of the cratic movements of
fish, 1t is reported that black grouper was re.
Gently caught in the vicinity of Block island.
This fish has never before been found north
ofthe Carolina coast The grouper is an edible
fish, and sometimes IL attains the weight of 800
pounds.
REAL live umbrella was brought in by
one fthe passengers from Jackass Thursday. 1t
was tied behind the saddle, and was an evidence
of civilization and tender footedncss which wa
greeted by the boys In camp with a subdued but
prolonged howl as The owner rode down the street.
An umbrella among miners and prospectorsl
What neGt?-7 tc'T d A!ene Nuggd.
"IsN'r that smell of broiled steak do
liciousY' said Dumley to another boarder, as he
entered the breakfast room. Il feel just in the
mood tor nice cut of steak this morning." Yes,
indeed" replied the boGrder from behind a
greasy. looking piece of fried bacon, the smell is
delicious. It is waited in through the open win
dow from the adjoining housc."-Cdh.
Two students of the university of Texas
Iii,
when m elderly gentleman took or his hat and
smiled "Who is that old duner who took Off his
hat TO me? ale is one of the supreme court
judges You were introduced last night at tho
banquet" "IIumph! He must have been drunk.
don't rGmemDereYer having seen him before, -
Iefns SJtnOs,
The actuary of large London Insurance
, company, In making an exhaustive investigation
OF the accounts for the past ten years. has discov-
, cred that ducng that period tho coincidence
, fund" Of the company has amounted to over
| $1,000. This fund is made up Of sums sent in
/; anonymously by people who have in previous
, years received money on account Of fires, and
l whose conscience subsequently prompted them to
make restitution.
0 DIR. KoCK, who has Just returned to Berlin
from india, where he has discovered the cholera
: germ, is described as Of medium height very
hin. with serious, splrltuele Students face.
His beard is brown, but his hair Is becoming gTays
! | aud This, together with his glasses, makes him
I seem to 10 older than forty years There arc
~ | those who declare that the discovery may make
Koch as famous NB Jenuer or Harvey.
"IT's no use, Mary" he said, as he got of
the train ut Il station IN New Jersey and found hs
wife waiting TO drive him homo TO the farm,
whats happened2' "Why, down in York the
) bulls arc predicting Il big wheat crop" well
isn't that what We HOBO for" "Nca, but the beaTB
7 say that England won't buy bushel Of us this
u FIJI" "Oh, WE'LL Samuel, shouldn't worry over
IT," she said, as she surrendered the lines. "It
y, wheat is big ana prices low wen make up for II
. on the cider You know we can wator that almost
. half and sell all we can make"
= TINS country will not DO a success until
Is English editorial writer's pay more attention to
1 American politics. star correspondent of one
}, ftho great London dai!ies visited this country
% some time ago, and while in Arkansaw sent the
o following letter to his Journal "Arkansaw Is situ-
ated between Memphis and San Francisco rs
climate is mild in winter, but in summer, am
told by IN old inhabitant it is extremely cold
m The governor of this state receives 100000 year
Df which he spends mainly for the entertainment Of
is his friends. am much concerned In American
m politics and never tire Of studying tho situation
of At the present writing the country much stirred
- H. 49, H. l.