National Republican., 1884-06-14

This individual singular
Is too excessively lngular
He's one Interrogation, no matter what you may
say
Combined with great audaoity
He shows much pertinacty;
To escape his prosecutions, you're Obliged TO run
away.
Should you not in strict conformity,
Reply to this enormlty.
And answer all his questions dreadful fate would
be your lot.
With natural obliquty
And consummate iuiquity
He'll pervert your speeches purposey, and say
what you did not.
- CARL soHURz is to deliver fifty lectures in
New England next winter.
Mus. LANGTRY will spend from $1,000 to
$4,000 in dresses for next season.
ELLA WILCOX, neO Wheeler, has Just sung,
81 will be true, though thou art false to me-" Is
there trouble already?
An exchange tells its readers how to skim
milk In cities one good way is to let the chalk
settle and then drain the water of.
CONNECTICUT hen has taken two young
porkcrs under her wing. "She intends to have
ham with her eggs" remarks the New York
Graphic.
Ir is reported that c. b. Lewis, the an
Quad ofthe Detroit Free Press, will afler Sept l.,
take up his residence at Newburg, N. y, where he
formerly lived.
LITTLE daughter of d. c. Hayes, of
Columbus, buried twenty.seveu years ago was
exhumod Monday, and she was just as perfect In
face and form as when she was laid away In 1857
MAX oRELL is amused. A Bcngali news
paper of some standing. issued In Calcutta, has
translated and published piecemeal John Bull
and His lsland,' with the heading Letters From
Our London Correspondent"
ANOTHER enormous gas we'll has been
struck near Pitsburg. The political gnomos must
DO holding an underground convention, or else
the spirit of the late Chicago cyclone is working
subterraneously. y.-NeV York Journal
A NEWS item states that no less than 225,O00
persons live in furnished lodgings In Paris There
| is nothing very remarkable about this They are
| much moro comfortably fixed than If they lived
in unfinished lodgings -NoTts,oDn Herald.
MEANWHILE jeweler has a clock which
! only requires winding once IN 400 days. 1t has
| been running steadily now and keeping correct
lime since oct. 6. There will be no necessity for
winding that clock until after Blaine is elected.
Two sisters and brother named Plonk
| living near Lincoln, N c., cling to life remark-
| ably. The brother is still called "the baby"
although 96 years old One of the sisters, Mrs.
sallie Weaver is 90 years old and the other. Mrs.
| Jane Toutheron, is 08.
| IT seems a little bit strange that a man will
SIT in his parlor surrounded by books and spend
| his time looking at pictures of scenery through
I stereoscope when he spends his time on the cars
reading, instead of looking at precisely the same
kind oflandscape all around him.-Puck
CHAUNcY NJ. DEPEw is u frequent visitor
on the street. He attends many impromptu rail-
road lunches The reporters like him, us he
always has his speeches neatly printed, and on
| every second line appears the word applause"
and his peroration invariably ends with great
cheering"
LITERATURE comes every year moro and
| more completely under tho dominance of the
newspapers, and now that an ingenious inventor
has devised process by which, with the aid Of
electricity and photography, 100000 copies of O
sheet may be printed in an hour, everything else
may as well retire from the field.
LAST week there was great cricket match
in London between the Australians and tho ALI
| England eleven. DR.. Grace made tremendous
| innings, lie scored more than 100. young
swell" was on the grand stand. and he shouted
"Grace is over n hundred" "Dear me-" said an
old lady standing by "aud he looks so young for
| his age"
WHEN Carl Schurz was senator from Mis-
| souri, some CaifUrnians sent his wife beautiful
|
probation Of the senator's vote on some important
measure in which they were interested. He i'm
mediately told his wife to return IT, as h could
not receive any gift while in oice and the casket
was accordingly returned.
LONDON Truth finds the following in the
| Scots Md0d-tns, March, 1855: "There was lately
presented to the empress of Russia laboring man
| who haA two wives, the first of whom brought
him four times four children at birth, seven
| second
once brought forth three children, aud the other
six times two. The whole number of children by
the two wives amount to seventy-wo."
WILLIAM MARSHALL, who died last week,
at Fort Mackinac. Mich. was undoubtedly the
| oldest enlisted man in the army. He entered the
service by enlisting in company of the fifth
United States infantry August ~, 1923. After
serving in tho field through the Florida aud Mex
lean wars he came to Fort Mackinac on duty
about at this post without intermission up to his
death.
MRS SHoDDY Ito storekeeper)-- r)--Show mo a
| thermometer-one OF your very best, you know.
shopkeeper-This, ma'arh, Is one Of our very
fnest-supcrb mountings, graduated with incest
exaotness Venetian glass, you know, and the
finest quicksilver, Mrs. Shoddyy-Quicksver oh,
yes; that would do we'll enough for the kitchen,
TO be sure but want one for my boodor, Let me
have one with quick gold.
In Vienna it ia said that since the great
financial collapse eleven years ago the suicide
manip was never so acute. The latest reported
are that of mine owner from Leipzig in hotol;
a theatrical manager, well'known throuGhout
Germany, at Carlsbad; an engineer drowned in
the Danube at Vienna, and private in a regi.
meDt, engaged in celebrating the seventy first
anniversary Of the victory of Aspen.
IT was ut dinner party, and they were
oritoisng MIR, Brown. "But, pa said little
Johnny mt Brown has u great mind" "what.
makes you think so, son @' asked the father
looking around seriously ut his guests "Oh, |
heard him say so himself" At this there was
general laugh. "You heard him say so himself
eh2 Come, tell us what he said" "He said he
had great mind to sue you if you didn't settle
that bill you owe him"
OF the members of the United States sona
ato ut tho commencement of the late civil war,
and who took their seats at the memorable first
session of the thlTty-seventh congress- July, 1851
but twelve now survive as follows; Willard Sauls.
bury, Of Delaware; Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois;
James Harlan, of Iowa; Samuel G. Pomeroy, of
| Kansas; Morton $. Wilkinson aud Henry NJ, Rice
OF Minnesota; Daniel Clark, Of New Hampshire;
James W. Nesmith, of Oregon Edgar Cowan, OF
Pennsylvania: Henry B. Anthony, OF Rhode
Island; John Sherman Of Ohio, and James II.
Doolttle, of Wisconsin.
DURING the illness of the president OF
New England cotton mill his son was sent to
Washington on some private business, and when
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