National Republican., 1884-05-10
Boston girls are forming walking clubs.
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CLARA BARToNs Red Cross boat is at Cairo
REV. AUG. BEssoNIEs, Of indianapolis has
just been invested by the pope with the title aud
dignity OF monsignor. Ho has been connected
with the work of his church in Indiana since 1899
BISHOP ELLIOTT, of Texas, went to Del
Rio II few days ago to dedicate law z. Il.
church. Just before he reached town a cyclone
came along and blew the structure Into thousand
bits.
AN eastern insurance company has refused
to insure houses in which spherical fish globes or
water bottles are kept. They act rs sun glasses.
and three fires are recorded from this cause last
winter.
j. A. PEABODY, of Earragansett, r. l., lost
n good scarf.pin In the woods twenty nine years
ago, and, after many searches, gave II up lost.
Sunday he passed the spot, brushed away q few
leaves, and found the pin.
A DOG was dug out of the debris of q snow
slide in Colorado few days ago. He had beon
confined in u narrow space next the logs of
buried cabin for thirty two days, and when found
was in good health, but thin.
II PRESERVE my equilibrium under all
circumstances" she was heard to say In pause
of the music to tho towheaded youth who was
her escort "Do your" he answered softly.
mother cans hers" Then the music resumed.
GIOVANNI CELL, an Italian at New York,
married dark eyed daughter Of his native land
Thursday afternoon, and hanged himself before
night. saying he had intended for two years past
TO kill himself, and thought this was good time
| to do it,
ORANGES, pineapples, and all tropical
fruits cost twice as much in Mexico within sight
of the orchards, as they do In Bostono New York.
Until goes away 1t is difficult to realize that
the best of the country is sent TO the home cities
| in the east.
| SAMUEL ]. TILDEN alive is my first
| choice" said Maine democrat a few days since,
land Samuel j. Tilden dead is my second choice"
| This goes to prove that the democrats who have
been voting for Jackson for forty years are aware
| that he is dead.
| Two DAUGHTERS of John Bennett, of
| Providence X. l., married brothers, Ira and Frank
Vaile Four months afterward the two remaining
sisters married two brothers Of exactly the same
names as the others-Ira and Frank Vaile-but in
no way related
THE manager of one of tho California
ostrich farms announces that he has scattered
poison around the entire ranch TO catch dogs aud
cayotes, as u sight Of these animals throws the
birds into paroxysms of fear. They never get rec
onciled to q dog even If raised in the same pen
with them. 1t is an instructive fear. Dogs in
stinctively chase them.
A FLOWER has been discovered in South
| America which Is only visible when the wind ia
blowing. The shrub belongs to the cactus family,
! and Is about three feet high, with crook at the
| top, giving it the appearance of u black hickory
| cane. When the wind blows number of beau-
uful flowers protrude from little Jumps on the
stalk.
THE preponderance of widows over widow
ers in England is often remarked. The census
| returns show this to DO unmistak ably the case
There were in 1881 close upon 100000 widows
In England and Wales, the number of widowers
being less than half many. or these 1000 900
widows $1,000 were under 35 years of age. In Ire-
land and Scotland the number of widows was in
each case three times that of tho widowers.
AN old theater goer claims to be able to
determine the relation existing between couples
by noting the facial expression as the play pro-
crosses. Now and then cruel mother In law
joke is introduced, At which the young man
laughs, while the lady seems hurt and annoyed.
This is a sgn the couple are engaged and the
maiden has vague fears that the two people she
loves best in the world will not get on we'll to-
gether.
CGuR D'ALENE the new mining camp in
Idaho. may not be panniug out In the matter Of
gold and silver we'll as was expected but in
other respects 1t seems to be doing quite well.
One of the advertisements of the many concert
saloons already established there reads follows:
"The Golden Gate, Enright Weber, Proprietors.
The most Elegantly Furnished Saloon In the
Camp! Free Lunch! The Tiger Growls Night
and Dayv
The official returns of the financial situa-
ton of Germany for lSS3.'Si are rather unfavora-
BILE. The revenue from customs and tobacco Ia
$3.50 0A marks less than the estimate, while the
total revenue from the imperial customs is about
ll750,OOO marks below. In fact unless thorough
change in the sugar industry takes place. catas-
trophe is imminent. This is chiefly owing to the
e enormous overproducton that has been going on
and the consequent fall in prices.
A SINGULAR coincidence is related concern-
ing the recent death of DR.. Yandell, of Louisville.
On the day of its occurrence he described the
of patient TO whom he administered chloral
for angina. 1t relieved him for a few moments,
but he then fell back in his chair and died. The
doctor was himself subject to angina, and n few
hours later had an attack, for which he took q
dose of chloral. He, too, experienced momens
tary relief from pain, but soon expired.
Mr.. BARNUM sat in his circus at Philadel-
phia talking with friends when the lady eques-
trans passed in review. Said the old Snowman: :
There they go, brave as lions and as gentle as
lambs, unthinking Of danger II is just likely
one of them may fall and break IL limb before the
day Is over Last season one of my best ladies
met with serious accident. That is the risk and
the luck of the show business-the nearer the per-
former comes to breaking the neck without ac-
tually doing so the higher the salary"
SETH GREEN barely escaped the other day
a bit Of grim irony at the hands Of the three
dreadful sisters who snip with their scissors the
fine thread of human life, The famous expert In
the propagation of fish was sitting on the step'
of a house in Rochester N. Y, when he saw a tall
flagstaff swaying In the gale. He sprang as de
and hardly had he left the steps when wooder
fish, weighing sixty pounds, that had surmounteC
the flagstaff, crashed down on the very spot where
he had been sitting.
EX.Goy. HENDRICKS gives the following
account Of his conversion to democracy, his an
cestors all being stout whigs ~ think know
lust when became a democrat In the first Jack
son campaign was years old. One day durinI
the heated end OF the campaign my father sen
up to the house for some papers which he needed
and my brother directed me TO take them TO hi
office. As went down there had TO cross tn
public square, upon which the democrats hat
n Just erected a hickory pole with a hickory spill
broom on the top of 1t, seeinga worthy neighbo
whom much respected, asked him what wa
the meaning Of that broom on the top of the pole
and he answered, 1T means that If the democrat
carry the election they will sweep things clean II
the public Offices Then resolved that woul'
be member Of the party that kept clean offices
for understood then that he meant that homes
men should have the oolces."