National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-09

OF her cheek grow deeper yet.
Snowy aud fair the hand beneath,
And brown the palm above,
And the brown closed softly over the white
As the parson spoke Of love.
Alb, who is wise, when deep blue eyes
Meet his and look coyly DOWN.
Who would but drink, nor care To think
OF cnvy's jealous frown2
Twas but TO bend iii / felt her breath
Grow warm on my cheek, and then
My lips just softly touched her own
As the parson said amen. Puck.
The marquis and marchioness of Kildare,
at their wedding in England few days since,
introduced something novel in the routine OF
marriage ceremonies, for the bridegroom elected
TO DO unattended, so there was no best man, but
10 make up for his absence, perhaps, there were
eleven bridesmaids.
RoERT FOREMAN, o down castor" who
had desire 10 sec the county, started out two
years ago from his homo in Maine on donkey
70 satisfy his desire. Since that time no has tray
eied on donkey. back from Maine to the Pacific
coast, and recently stopped at Cleveland on his
way back TO his home.
A LOT Of mischiovous Boston boys took q
large load Of wood from farmers Sled left in the
street night, and with great labor piled 1t up
IN a citizens woodshed, under the impression that
he'd be charged with stealing Il. They found the
| next morning that the citizen had bought that
wood the night before.
A UTICA gentleman relates that he once
asked Theodore Parker who was dining with him,
a question concerning Wendell Phillips ortho.
doKy, and Mr.. Parker replied II do not care to
say that he believes or rejects the five points,
hut will say that he practices one OF them-the
| perseverance OF tho saints-which is much better
than belief in the other four"
DOCTOR" said our young man to jocu-
lar dentist, IL hear you've been saying that I've
got mouth that always reminds you OF the
mouth OF the Mississippi. Is that so?' "of
course not, my dear boy" said Burton. II never
said anything SO cruel. All said was that when
j was reaching for one OF your rear snags al
ways felt safer when / had life preserver
around me-"
On tho east wall Of the Paris corn market
has been set up inscription recording that on
the same site formerly stood the hotel Of the
qneen, afterward called the Hotel de Scissors,
which was erected for Catherine de Medicis In
1872 by Philibcrt Delorme The last remains of
this hotel, the astronomical column. were pur-
chased in 174s for 5000 by Petit de Rachaumont,
who gave the column 10 the town Of Paris.
THE ice crop upon the Hudson river, said
TO be the largest crop ever gathered has all been
housed at the average cost Of is cents ton, and
some of 1t put in at the cost Of 10 cents ton.
The work began in December, when the ice was
eight inches thick, and when the larger part was
taken it was twenty four inches thick. There
will probably be an unusual demand for ice on
account Of the impending hot political campaign.
WILLIAM LEWIS, Welsh squire of the last
century, died while in the act OF raising to his
lips quart pot of ale. bis favorite beverage, OF
which he is supposed to have consumed during
his life enough to float man -of.war, and which
no doubt contributed largely to his enormous size.
He weighed 300 pounds, aud crane had to be
constructed for the special purpose Of getting his
body from his house to his grave.
AT gentlemen's dining party at Hartford
one of the que SITS, catering TO what some consid-
cred depraved taste for ice water was seen to
lower his goblet before II touched his lips and
peer into Its crystal depths with his eye glasses
'What is this? he asked, as he agitated the water
with his fork "a little fish, declare" Aud
sure enough there was "wee bit" OF fish, TWO
small to be seen easily with the naked eye, but
plainly visible through strong Eyeglasses. and
lively enough for drinking purposes. Stir hi m up
and he would dart swiftly through the water an
loose himself behind the ice.
Mr.. SANDERsoN, the superintendent Of the
government elephant catching operations in Ben
GAL who speaks with more authority aud larger
experience than any other European. states that
. there is not, nor never was, such creature a
white elephant in the ordinary acceptation of the
term" The so-called sacred white elephants OF
toe kings OF Burmah and slam are ordinary ele-
pnanls' possessed oil marks analogous 10 those
whlcn may may DC seen on the specimen now In
the gardens In that one the pinkish color ex-
tehus al over hetruhR haii way up the iorehead'
and the same marks are found on the tips Of the
ears.
ROMANTIC marriage TOOK place recently
AZ Antioch OHIO. young man courted a young
, lady seven years They were engaged to be mar
ried ana ne had asked her parents for her. He
took notion not 10 get nnrriedibut TO go away &c
|. college. He told mis- brother, seven years older
than himself, that no would give up his girl tc
him, II no would furnish him money enough to
school him TWO years he consented TO this, pro-
r Viding he would make IL all right with the girl
The girl agreed, II she couldn't get him, rather
than to miss getting one OF the family she would
a take the old bachelor. The young man got hi
4 money and started ior college Is was gone bn
few weeks VII MS Drolher aha the girl were mar
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