National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-20
Whose hidden fountains fow may guess.

tourant in Montreal
In Sweden o man who has been drunk
three times loses the right Of suffrage.
LONDON has a paupor population of e9223
outside Of asylums aud almshouses
A BACHELOR is man who has lost the
opportunity of making womun miserable.
AMERICAN coachmen arc finding moro
favor in the eyes of the far sex than English no.
blemon Just now.
THEODORE LYMAN says tho Morrison bill
was the work of an indolent man to save himself
labor and trouble.
The father of tho late Judah p. Benjamin
was Spanish Jew. who kept little fruit stand
in Charleston, S. C.
A NEPHEW of Joe Smith, the great Mormon
leader, named Charles Millikln shot and killed
himself at Colchester, Ill., tho other day.
Miss JESSIE FoTHERGILL an English
novelist of some flme IN this country us well a
at home, is visiting relatives in Baltimore.
A REFUSAL to reveal tho combination Of
his safe has caused the wife of Georgian to in,
stitute proceedings for divorce This suit W i'll be-
eagerly watched.
HUGH FARRAR McDERMoTT, the poet
| signs of Il Dull necked cloud" Good boy. Mex
thing he will find will be a stub-toed meteor ore
| comet with swelled head
Bishop ELLIOTT of Texas. won't to De
| Rio few days ago to dedicate a new church
Just before he reached town q cyclone came along
| ana blew the structure into thousand bits.
GEN BooTH, OF tho English salvation
army, Is accountable to one for the receipts OF
the army. Last year they amounted to 81 100000.
In America this would DO called u "blind pool"
GERMANY produces yearly moro now
books than any other country. Recent returns
| declare ntimbar n nj M
while Great Britain produced G, lI5 and the United
| States only 3,iSl
THERE is a gratifying spirit of fairness and
candor in the discussion Of the presidential ques-
ton by the press. The day of gross abuse of OPP
ponents aud blind praise of iayortes is fast going
by.-BOsloH Times.
LET man with 81 toss coppors for cent
against man who possesses 500, and II will not
be long before one man will have SOL and the
other nothing. There is no chance about it; 1t is
u mathematical certainty.
Mr.. LEWIS LELAND, of the Sturtevant
house, is suing tho manager of an evening news
paper of this city for $4,000 for libel, aud all his
professional brethren are anXiously watc hing and
waiting to sec ifhe will get IT.
APRoPos Of cooks, London magazine says
History has preserved the account of the famous
French cook who required fry hams TO 'garnish
his dishes and when demonstrated with by his
master declared that he could concentrate them
all into bottle the STA OF his thumb"
AMONG the inventions recorded in the
patent Office Is one styled "lie-saving coffin" 1t
is so arranged that any motion by person acci-
dentally buried alive is registered above ground.
This will be great convenience TO Ohio medical
students who have no use for live bodies.--PhRa.
CuM.
THERE'S no calamity could befall a
..at. =.
dianapolis woman to her husband ooh, no, my
dear; not 50 bad us that. For instance, you arc
not n widow" he answered swcetly. She held her
breath two seconds, and then retorted, ~ said
calamity sir"
, THE Nickel Plate is my sons road and
he will DO more apt to know about it than T." sa i'd
William II, Vanderbilt. His little boy probably
had It in his pocket, mixed up with tops, broken
slate pencils, barlow knife, aud lot of taGy.-
Ptlsburg Chronicle telegraph.
The United States army is to have 1900
, yards of gold lace for the adequate enumeration
OF officers brought all the way from England. 1t Is
expected that the turbulent red man of the plains
will be greatly impressed by the display.-Augustd
(Gd) Chronicle and COnsiitutiondltt.
A DISTINGUISHED entomologist contributes
the following:
, The June-bug has gaudy wing,
/ The lightning bug has fame,
4 Tho bed.b bug has no friends at all,
But lac hustles all the same.
y NEVER compliment u woman on her good
Q looks If she cannot see that your eyes acknowl-
edge her beauty your tongue may as well save tho
: wear and tear Of prasing it.-BOst0n TanscripL
Trying to compliment homely woman with
ones eyes would be rather severe strain on the
u optic nerve
= THE stone yard in Trenton, N. j., which
| tnI inf a nho
i ing the tramp nuisance, in which the able-bodied
r paupers were compelled 10 work. resulted In u
f profit Of $780, while the prison woodsawing yard
4 maintained for petty Offenders who were not
tramps made further profit ofS252,
i. THE judge at Paz do Ixtacalto, Mexico
N when holding an investigation over the death o
y Fellclano Rosas, makes the following statement
y given verbatim: "On tho same day, /, the judge
following my convictions went to the place where
s. the corpse Of Felicano Rosas lay, aud, standing
IS there, asked who struck him, Having asked
II that question three times 1t did not reply because
i it was good and dead"
70 YoUNG Mr.. Roosevelt the reformer in the
New York legislature, thus expresses himself con
o corning his political future: 81 understand thI
o ephemeral nature ofmy present notoriety. looL
n at 1t all as philosophically az you possibly can
While enjoy tho situation, know that the allieC
Y. forces in politics Will make short work Of me a
II soon as they can get a chance"
4. CARDS are out for tho wedding Of OsGs
IS Wilde Tho lady who will link her fortunes
4. with tho apostle of mthctioism is tho daug liter
n "bencher" ana possessed of moderate income
~ in her own right Conscious oftho future, osca
~ has already shorn of his prouso locks, and nov
~ wears his crop rs short as possible The lady
~ slightly aspirates, Gnd 1t will edify the apostle 4
il be thus hailed In the street by his lady-ove: "Ho
a Hos-Gar Ito, Hos-oar"
r "YoU will have to order some more woolel
~ stockings" said New York dry goods clerk T.
10 his employer. "Why, what's the matter. We ha,
VI an oyerstocli day or two ago" &C. know Il, bu
we havn't any left sold the last pair only fey
v moments ago" :" II is strange" said tho proprie
IN tor, "that there should DO such demand 70
IL WOODEN stockings at this season. You are sur
ID YOU have made no mistaken" Yes l am sure
os The panic on Wall street is the cause of it, Tn
ry people use them In the place Of banks"-Philads
IN phta CAL.
40 THE feet of elephants kept for show pun
~ poses are trimmed two or three times year. TIL
sole of an elephants foot is heavily covered wit
a thick, horny substance Of material similar to III
ho three toe nails on each foot and as ii grow
~ thicker and thicker II tends to contract an
~ crack often tanning the animal. Barnum recent
al subjected his elephants TO the trimming process
oo With knife two feet long great pieces OF horl
10 six inches by four and quarter of an inch thiel