National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-08
CURRENT GOSSIP.
CoLoRED REVIVAL.

Glory hallelui
Tell dem not ter shout an cry,
But If dey wants ter sec the by-m.by
Ter drap der sins an clim' sbord;
Glory. glory
Tell dem, sister, not ter wait;
Glory glory, gloryi
But ter start rite Off fer do pearly gate,
Glory hslelu'
Tell dem de void am almos done.
Case dars spots upon de sun.
De las ter come hab no reward;
Dey'll be driffen way wild de namin' swo'd;
Glory, gloryl
Ask GABRIEL ter como down he.ah; .,
Glory, glory glory
An pierce dar hearts as wild spe.ah;
Glory hallelui
Ter I'LL dem wild de great desire,
All ter 'scape de 'ternal fire;
Soon deyll tar der ha'r au' rave,
Case 1t am too late ter save.
Glory, Gloryl The JIdoe.
THERE were 1880 houses built in London
and the suburbs in 1889, forming sos new streets
and one new square, and covering a distance OF
7b1s miles.
OF the 557 locomotives turned out by
Philadelphia establishment in 1883 no less than
15l were exported. In this line of manufacture
America is beginning to successfully compete with
England.
AMONG the humorous incidents of the great
food in the Ohio the postmaster at New Richmond
telephoned the postmaster at Cincinnati: az have
packed the postofice in the garret and don't want
any more mails until spring"
PARIS paper says that the English gam.
blers At Monaco are the most determined and lose
the most 1t Is said that each day when the play
begins the bank has In hand $500 900. as the play
becomes brisker this is sometimes raised to 100000
more.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs of Georgia, has lately
refused $40 an acre for tract of 1000 acres In
Texas. He owns great deal of land there and
when ho was in Paris and sold some Of the land
ut So, he used to say that he was living on an acre
OF dirt day.
AN attempt was mado to sell the Stockton
hotel AZ Cape May at auction in Philadelphia OH
Tuesday. The highest bid was S9S,000, and as the
| West Jersey Railroad company, which owns 1t,
was unwilling to take less than Sll0 000 the prop
erty was withdrawn.
IT is reported by French journal that
| King Humbert wrote to his sister recently in
reference to Unser Fritz's visit: II am beginning
to get tired of all these royal and imperial princes
who come to the quirnal for inn, where they put
up before going TO salute the pope"
AN Alabama justice of the peace, who was
tardy in paying over claim Of $50 which he had
from the claimant asking for the money, promptly
paid the amount by check, less $3.50. which he
fined the claimant for contempt of court because
of the letter.
| A FRENCHMAN writes to the New York
Star: "Mr Bismarck will affront tho United States.
Very good. So shall we then take him into the
hands and play on him the hose now. When that
he cannot love the hog American. then shall he
defend from the powerful eagle American his
bald head Bismarck, bah"
DETROIT gentleman, recently returned
from Havana. says that the Cubans have got all
our punched silver. He asserts that while Ameri-
can silver is abundant in Cuba, 1t Ia good speoi-
men which has less than three holes. 1t evidently
comes handy to have neighbos not so smart as we
ourselves All sorts of poor stud can be worked
of on them.
DURING some excavations at Epidaurum,
in the Morea, among the ruins Of a celebrated
| temple to Esculapius, FIVE statues were found.
| One was Roman attired In the cblamys. another
satyr. another Hecate bordering over spells
and expiatons and two others were Of goddesses
not yet identified. Thirty inscribed tablets were
| alto found
A RECENT advertisement reads az followst
III the gentleman who keeps the shoe store with
a red head will return the umbrella of young
lady with whalebone ribs and an iron handle to
the slate-roofed grocers shop he will hear Of
something to his advantage as the same is the
| gift of a deceased mother now no more with the
name engraved on it."
| .
nSN LIE =" Eli ~ Vi Io''s'iiie' gays tnss
sue mas wooueh les, her iate husband spor'ed
one, her QUEST sou LOOK one 70 ms grave with
nun, anu her o'hef boy ana only child Is stuooing
atoun i' on peg. She eurus sussesteu 70 smart
abut the family veakness that a wooden sIso was
enough better than a wooden head.
SOME Time since DOCK puplisher IN Provi-
dence received an order from New Orleans to be
sent O. .. D. II was forwarded with instructions
TO collect Sl25. few days ago the publisher re-
ceived through the express company sl25. The
same day postal card came from the purchaser
saying he wouldn't have ordered the book had he
known II was such an expensive one, but II was
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IHE manner IN which arid districts in
eastern Nevada store up supplies OF water is thus
indicated by the Phoebe Record: The prospectora
high up In the mountains will now be able 10 pile
up the snow in such quantities that they will be
able to getalong the coming season and have plenty
ofwater. By covering these piles ofsnow with sage
brush they slowly melt away during the summer
months. The water is caught in barrel sunk in
the ground or in a shallow well plastered with
'iaS'
AN oregon man who has dog that catches