National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-01

o, hend, in fclonious sleel
But revenge will come when my vanquished yoice
Returns in its might TO me.
-New York Journal
Az orange rind on the pavement
Sent the lawyer head over heel.
He split his docskin trousers
He shook up his morning meal.
While the wreck of his new Prince Albert
wouldn't tempt tramp to steal,
SO he sadly said to his tailor
g I've lost a suit on appeal"
SOUTH CAROLINA man discovered that a
chalk mark around barrel Of sugar is a sure
cure for ants, and Is now mad because the patent
Office refuses him patent for It, The ants had
the stronger pull"
DO YOU know the Jacksons 2" ask ed a
lady ofe young man who lived In their neghbor-
hood. mo, I'm not personally acquainted with
all the members of the family" he replied, but I
always speak to tho dog at the front gate as 90
past.
MR.. LAWRENCE BARRETT Is making con-
siderable OF n social spread in the English me-
tropolis. He has a furnished house, for which he
pays $3.50 week rent, and he holds many largo
and small entertainments there in the off hours
of his time.
GILBERT DE La MATYR the greenback
advocate and OK. congressman, is pastor now of q
fashionable church at st. Paul. He has intro-
duced an orchestra, causing an exodus Of the old
fashioned members but young people crowd the
house Mt all services.
ONE of tho candidates for constable in
Wilcox county, Georgia, bases his claims for pre-
fcrment over the dozen other candidates on the
fact that he had thiry.siS nephows in the confedA
crate army. all of whom wero killed but three,
and two of these were wounded
INDIANA makes very marked distinction
IL, Min har
female school teachers. OF her nearly 1000
teachers last year. over 5000 were women. and yet
they were paid an average OF only $3.50 peF
month, while the men received an average Of
s5740
MYATT HARE recently died in Nelson, Va.
and 1t is said of him that he never bought match
lii his life. A FIRE, either open or banked. waa
kept up continually on the hearth. In this ho
trod in the footsteps of his father, and tho FIRE
upon that one hearth was q continuous one for
more than 100 years.
MISS SAVANNAH EMERICH, who keeps q
flower stand in Philadelphia, is said to be an heit
to foreign estate valued at 600 1t is said
she will have no difficulty in proving her GLAZING
The estate is in Germany, with 100000 in very
hard cash in the Bank Of England. There are al
half dozen other claimants in Philadelphia.
A WHITE squall caught party of tourists
movig across a lake in Scotland, and threatened
TO capsize the boat When II seemed tina. the
crisis was really come, the largest and physically
strongest Of the party, in state Of intense fear,
said: LET us pray" mo no, my man, Z" shouted
the bluff boatman, "let that lttlolman pray; you
take an oar"
The Earl of Aylesford, noble Texas cows
! boy: "What in thunder do the newspapers want
of me? Can't fellow move about without being
| captured by reporters? Do l look like Jumbo q
sacred white elephant. or an improved specimen
OF the American dude ? Newspapers are curse
| anyway. They have ruined America and are
running England. Please let mo Co."
AT Ceur d'Alene, says traveller who res
Gently arrived Mt Denver, everything is very dear.
1t costs % cents TO get paper by mail and 80 cents
| for a letter. Nothing is considered less than a
| a quarter. Shaving is quarter, hair cutting so
cents, aud any kind of a meal costs ST. and eggs
so cents extra. You can't get place to sleep for
less than 81 even though you bunk on the floor.
ONE of tho curiosities of Paris at the pros
ent moment is the annual Foire aux Jambons or
| ham fair, which stretches from the Faubourg du
| Temple 10 the Bastile. The hams, however, oc-
cupy but a very small portion of the space COW
cred by tho booths. The fair is vast bazaar
wherein may be found tools of different kinds old
iron, slippers, pictures, faences, old cloth, and
old clothes, hats Of extraordinary shapes, antique
carved woodwork, &c.
| SYLvANUs MERRICK died at his homo in
Syracuse the other day ut the age feS. He was al
somewhat noted character, having been one Of
the rescuers of Jerry, fugitive slave captured in
that city in 1851, while on his way to Canada. A
posse of citizens charged on the court, seized the
slave and carried him over the heads Of thes
| crowd. twas Merrlck who slammed the door in I
the sherii"s face. and tho delay allowed Jerry to
! escape Merrck was indicted, but under wrong
name, and before the error could be repaired he
| had gone to Illinois, where he remained until the
| excitement had passed away.
GEN. FORREST was once approached by an
| Arkansaw man, who asked, General, when do
| you reckin we're going TO get something to eat?'
"Eatl" exclaimed the general "did you join tho
| army merely to got something to eat9 "Wall.
| that's about the size of it," Here" calling
officer, give this man something to eat and then
have him shot" The officer understood the joke.
| and replied "All right, general" The Arkansawl
man, exhibiting no alarm, said. bile me ham.
| cap'n, stew up couple o. chickens, bake two or
three hoecakes. fetch gallon o. so o. buttermilk.
and load yer guns. With SIGH inducements, the
man what wouldn't be willin' TO die Is blame
fool" A hearty meal was prepared for the sol-
der, but he still lives
A NEW system of telegraphy has been tried
in Boston. The musical system of notation is ems
ployed. Just as the pitch of half note Is deter
mined by the bar in which it occurs, a tele-
graphic character is by this method given six diff
ferent meanings, according to the styles through
which 1t is sent and the position in which 1t Ia
recorded. The bars of the staff are ruled by an
instrument which makes a red line on the receiv-
ing strips as they move forward, constant cur
rent from local battery being passed through
them for this purpose. When n message
is to be sent by hand six keys are used at the
transmitting stations, each corresponding TO
stylus at receiving station, or one key pivoted to
swing easily over six contact points may be ems
plOyed. The speed of ira nsmission lis double that
by the Morse system.
The good people of former days had a
queer idea OF what constituted n sinful posture.
The New Haven colony in 1869 passed statute
with the following clause "Whosoeyer shall in-
! vaigle or draw the affections OF any Made or
Made servant either TO himself or others, with
out first gaining the consent Of her parents shall
pay to the plantation for the first ohense 40 shil
liugs; the second, ca for the third, he shall b
Imprisoned or corporeously punished" Unde'
this law, at a court held in May, 1869, Jacobeth
Murtine and Sarah futile were prosecuted "ior
setting down on chastle together his arms
around her Waste and her arms upon his shoulder
or about his neck, and continued in that sinful
I posture about half an hour, in which time he
kissed her and she kyssed him, or they kyssed one
another as 20 witnesses testified"
GoUNoD tho production of whose new
opera "sappho' is tho great musical event of the
season In Paris, IeSembles-if we may credit the
account given OF the great composer in one Of the
French papers-mauy another artist and man of