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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
TonsorInI Electricity.


In barber shop on Broadway the
electrical current is beginning to com pete
with muscle. A small dynamo fasten cd
to the ceiling converts electricity into
motion. From n fly wheel run belts that
keep number of propeller fans in rapid
motion. At the customers pleasure the
speed can DO regulated SO as to produce
light zephyr or western cyclone. st
works WE'LL" said tho boss barber, "and
only costs cent an hour. I'm always
little afraid that something will 20
wrong, and then somebody may get killed
by an electric shock.
There was o man here yesterday with
an electric revolving hair brush. You
attach it to the main circuit and it rotates
very swiftly and electrnes the hair at
the same time. He said it cured badness
and asked me TO lot him try 1t. / said all
right. He fixed up tho machine, got in a
chair, and told tho journeyman to go
ahead. 1t looked like nice job at first,
but suddenly there was snap, and the
inventor began to hollo 'Murderp We
got him away from tho machine after a
minute, and thon we found that he had
been taking a ten-horse power current
through his body, aud was almost para
lyzed. He wrapped up tho pieces Of his
machine and walked out muttering, az
guess I'll have to improve this before !
can put 1t on the market"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
ConnubiaI ejaculation,


A Frenchman recently died. who, mar
rates writer in the London Standard, on
his wedding day some twenty years ago,
took the original resolution to keep o
yearly account Of the number of kisses
exchanged with his wife until their un ion
became severed by the death of one or
the other. He was destined to be the
first to so, but when on his sick bed,
foreseeing that he would not recover, he
begged friend to let the world know
the result of his twenty years account
keeping. During the first year of
welded life the kisses exchanged reached
the colossal figure of 36,500, or 100 day
on an average, but in the following
twelve months there was notable de-
crease, not moro than 10000 Being in
scribed on his register; while the third
year shows still greater falling of, the
average number of kisses being about
ton day; and after the lapse OF five
years farther reduction is recorded, and
the account keepers task was simpli-
fed, for only two kisses were exchang ed
during each twenty-four hours-''one on
rising, one on retiring to rest" Later
on, during the last ten years of his mar
ried life, they 'only kissed each other
on leaving for or returning from jour-
ney," and he had very little trouble in
making up his annual domestic statistics.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

GROVER CLEVELAND was born in
Orange county, N. J. He migrated to
New York when a boy, and, like many
other boys who have become distinguished
men, began his business career as clerk
In country store. When well-grown
lad he went to western New York and
taught school in the vicinity of Buffalo.
In the evenings he devoted himself to the
study of the law, and in due time he was
admitted to the bar in Buffalo. He was
q studious. painstaking lawyer, and at
tanned respectable position at the bar.
The first Office Of Importance that he ever
filed was mayor of Buffalo, and the next
was governor of New York. Mr.. Cleve-
land is q bachelor.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
His Experience.
Kentucky STATE Journal.

htHluChy otutc JOufWut.
"Why don't you get nice looking h at
and look Ay?" said young married man
to his economical wife.
because cant. afford it," she replied.
"a fly hat costs money"
"Pshaw You don't know how to pick
hat. can pick you one for "a. Let's
stop in this millinery store here and I'll
show you how to pick hat"
Then they went in, and after looking
about awhile he saw ono that pleased him
and which he knew would make his wife
look "hy."
What's the price Of this oneT he
asked the sales lady,
Eighteen dollars" she replied.
What did no do? Did he take i'll He
said not word. but dropped onto the
cushioned stool near him squelched
man. Then he got up and said
Lets go home" And they went.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
An Unlucky Thief.


In 1866 diamond valued at over 60O,-
900 was found in CHILEAN mine near
Caracotes. Its owner, Mr.. joan Pareso,
hawked it about Europe, and at length
found q purchaser in Queen Victoria. 1t
was put into the hands of Bond street
(London) jeweler to be set, and for eight
days was exhibited in his window. Ono
fine morning the jeweler found the case
in which it was specially set apart
broken aud the jewel gone. No trace OF
the thief could be found, and the jeweler
partially Unidentified the queen for her
loss. On the 18th of May there died in a
miserable lodging in Strasburg man of
20 named Julian Partridge. His land
lord was amazed to find in Partridge's
pocket huge diamond, wrapped up in a
letter. telling that he, finding himself
dying, wished to explain that the dia-
mond in his pocket was the ''sunsbeam,"
which he had stolen, but, knowing that
Mr.. Pareso had shown it all over Europe,
he had not after all dared to attempt to
sell it. The diamond was returned to the
queen; who, Of course, repaid the jeweler
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
Elshing,

Filming.
May this be fun, sitting in the sun,
With book and parasol, as my angler
wishes,
While he dips his line in the ocean brine,
Under the delusion that his bait will catch
the fishes.
IT'S romantic--yes but must confess
Thoughts of shady rooms ut home somehow
seem more inviting
But dare not move. "Quiet, there, my love-"
Says my angler, "for think monstrous fsh
Is biting"
oh, of course, it's bliss---still how hot IL isl
And tho rock I'm sitting on grows harder
every minute,
While my fisher waits, trying various bats,
But the basket by his side, see, has nothing
In it.
1t isjust the way to pass July day
Arcadian and sentimental, dreamy, idle,
charming.
But how lerco the sunlight falls, and tho way
that insect crawls
Along my neck and down my back is really
quite alarming.
"Any luckr gently ask of the angler at his
task.
"There's something pulling at the line" he
says; Eve almost caught IT."
But when with blistered face, we our home
ward stepsretrace,
We take the little basket Just as empty as W
brought 1t.
Ella Wheeler Ritcor.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

champions OF human rights that they are
TO be pardoned for availing themselves Of
this opportunity Of making point. The
effect of IL, however, is entirely spoiled
by the sbsurdity of the next count in tho
indictment preferred against the republi-
can party. After charging the party with
stealing and squandering the public reve-
MUGS, 1t exhibits as the browning outrage
"a surplus of 100000, 600" in the treas.
ury. This is probably the first time in
tho history Of governments that party
has been charged with prohigacy because
1t has taken care Of the revenues.
0feourso public interest centers most
in the tariff plank. This is very re-
markable piece Of literary composition,
and is intended to be interpreted in the
east as o declaration in favor Of moderate
protection. and in the west and south as q
demand for the collection of duties on i'm
ports for revenue only. Gen. Butler,
who was member Of the committee, says
that IL is an multiplication declaration,
and tho fact that the resolutions which
he 81 omitted as substitute, and which
distinctly recognized the principle of pro-
lection in levying duties, we're voted
down shows that the convention was uu-
willing to declare in favor of protection.
All the comfort that the manufacturers
and laboring people can get from this
plank is that the democrats declare they
are not quite ready as yet to destroy tho
industries in which thew are engaged.
They will BIO given year or two Of grace.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

WITH the democratic nominations out
of the way, Buffers probable course be-
comes the burning question Of tho hour.
Benjamin was treated with scant courtesy
in the convention just closed, and he
certainly has it in his power to do the
democracy infinite mischief in return If
he chooses to do SO. If he formally in
augurates campaign as the candidate of
the greenbackers, workingmen, anti
monopolists, and other conglomerate or
CARNATIONS that regard him as their
peculiar representative, he will draw a
formidable vote from tho democrats. 1t
is safe to say that his action will be looked
for with secret uneasiness by the shrewdest
leaders Of the great unwashed.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

tNSuJO NCUo.
The Kansas democrats are perhaps the
saddest.looking specimens of humanity
in Chicago at the present time. A Kansas
democrat isn't Of very much use, and he
seems to know it. He hates to tell you
whore he comes from. If you ask him
whore he lives, he doesn't say "In Kan
sas;" he makes some such indefinite,
vague, misty reply as "Out west" or
Near the Arkansas line" He has no
pride in his state, has tho Kansas demo-
crat. His life seems to be one long, bitter
regret that he didn't stop just little way
the east side of the Missouri river on his
march westward. He tries to dress and
talk like Missourisn; he processes q
fondness for corn bread and catfish and
bacon grease. But it is all an apparent
lie, and he knows that everybody else
knows it. So he creeps along through
our streets, dogged-like and mean, thor
oughly ashamed Of himself and heartily
wishing he were some other fellow.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

distance from Krechevitsky to Yam Ijora
is 105 miles; tho ride was accomplished in
thirty-eight hours, at the end of which
tho cavalcade arrived at their destination
in excellent condition. As they rested
eleven hours at night and made two halts
of seven hours in all, they we're only
twenty hours on the road. The frequent
change from walk to trot, with occa-
sional dismounting, was recommended by
the riders as tho best means of keeping
their horses fresh.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
A GENERAL RunaEr.
An Assortment OF Stories and Wise
Chat CuIied From the Exchanges.
Chicago Advertisers.

NeW York Graphic.
The Chicago merchants tax their in
genuity to the uttermost to devise some
new and striking way of advertising their
goods. One merchant there has turned
his sign ovor his store upside down. A
clothing house has secured the services of
giant out OF museum to stand on tho
sidewalk and distribute handbills, be
sides giving Waltham watch to every
ono who buys Sl2 worth of clothing
Another store farther up the street an
nounces on its windows in large letters
that strangers are safe here" while q
man across the way has the Shoes Of his
customers blacked by u boy in uniform.
A firm of retail liquor dealers who have
five or ak stores in tho town, have in
front of each q statue of some celebrated
Scotchman, presumably nation Of hard
drinkers, such as Scott, Burns, Sir Colin
Campbell, Robert Bruce, SC. These
statues were made by some local sculp-
tors, and arc lifesize and we'll executed.
Tho average Chicago drinking saloon 10
decorated with the most costly stained
glass, generally of very gaudy colors, and
in bad tasto, with oil paintings within and
a profusion Of plate glass and fancy
chandeliers.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
Misplaced Kindness.


Here. mister, you've dropped your
overshoeW shouted gentleman in a
Mission street car the other day, as an
old man got out crossing and hoisted
h is umbrella.
The old party didn't appaer to hear. so
the kind-hearted passenger seized Q No.
12 gum boot that lay on the floor and
hurled it after the oblivious party, his
property taking him square in the back
of tho neck as the Car rolled away.
Tho passengers were all astonished at
the shoe-losers irritation, for he shook
his fiat angrily after the ear. and Wake
Off without picking up :his rubber.
Everybody roared, especially the shoe
thrower, until little boy stopped eating
peanuts and said to him:
~ guess you dropped that shoe your
self, mister; you've only got one on"
And the explosion nearly Jared the
car of tho track, as the benevolent gem
tlemsn climbed out to catch the next car
back,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
A Word from Ireland.


It ia notorious, and .vo think, regret
able circumstance that our countrymen in
America have generally identified them
selves with the democratic party. To that
party they have been of incalculable use;
from that party they have got absolut ely
no benefit. A large number of them have
tired Of being ex-officio hewers of wood
and drawers Of water to the bosses Of the
democratic caucuses, and their manifesto
ton Of independence is sorely exercising
those English papers which would well
come return Of the days when the great
republic Of the west was more intolerable
in its administration to an honest man
man than nominally despotic state could
be. We are glad to know that the
Irish vote is so important q factor
in the adjudication of the chief
prize of American politics, and if 1t
be Independently exercised in the ap-
preaching presidential contest it will,
malgre the croakers and iRnoramuses,
take q strong man to head Mr.. Blaine in
the run home.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
Tho Sun cholera Remedy.


Now that it has been ascertained that
the cholera has appeared in Europe,
prescriptions are in demand by corre-
spondents, who write to the editor as If
he were personal friend and family
physician. For moro than forty years
what Is known as the "Sun Cholera Medi-
cine" has stood the test Of experience as
the best remedy for looseness of the
bowels ever yet devised. As was once
vouched for by the New York Jop tal of
Commerce, mo one who has this by him
and takes it in time will ever have the
cholera" Even when no cholera is an
ticipated it is an excellent thing for the
ordinary summer complaints, collie, diar-
rhea, dysentery, &C., and we have no
hesitation in commendingi 1t. Here it ia !:
Take equal parts of tincture of cayenne,
tincture of opium, tincture Of rhubarb,
essence Of peppermint, and spirits of
camphor. Mix we'll. Dose, fifteen to
thirty drops in wine glass of water,
according to age and violence of the
attack. Repeat every fifteen or twenty
minutes until relief is obtained.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

GEN. BUTLER then presented a minority re.
port, signed by himself alone, and spoke one
half hour.
The above paragraph Is the only notice
the Posi- takes of the very able and sensi.
BILE speech made by Gen. Butler in favor
of the tariff plank presented by him in
his minority report to the democratic con-
vention to be incorporated in the series
of resolutions under consideration for
adoption. He spoke for one-half hour,
and the views which he disseminated
were evidently not relished by the con-
vention any more than by the Post but
why should they have been suppressed by
the only really representative demo-
cratic paper in the district2 Pos.
sibly there were too many truths
in tho generals remarks to make
them pRlatable, too many really good
Tepu blioaa ideas to be presented to the
readers Of an opposition paper, or there
might have been the fear that some OF
tho l,5eO, 900 Of labsring mon whom Gen.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
A GREAT many papers tina. a few weeks

A GREAT many papers that a few weeks
ago considered it very smart to speak Of
some friends of the President as Mike"
and "John" and steve" are now very
much saraged and are writing indignant
columns because opposition papers, in
abiding to Mr.. Elkins, call him Steve"
This is very low journalism, but no m ore
so on the part of democratic journals than
it was on the part of anti-Arthur papers.
Papers that are constantly complaining
of their neighbors should BIO decent them
selves,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

IN 1876 the strenuous opposition OF
John Kelly to the nomination of Tilden
led to placing his particular friend, Hen
bricks, at the tail of the ticket. The
precedent then set was followed yes
terday, and probably the underlying
thought was the same. II remains to be
seen II the formidable Tammany chief
tain can be reconciled to Cleveland's
nomination because Hendricks has been
tackled on to the ticket. Perhaps John
does not love Thomas as in days Of yore.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

Butler claimed to represent might read
and understand. The suggestion has
been made that Gen. Butlor's speech be
printed and circulated as a republican
campaign document, and placed in the
hands of every laboring man In this
country. They will BIO glad to know
what the acknowledged representative of
the laboring men, himself delegate to
the democratic convention, says Of tho
platform upon which the democratic can
didato for president must stand or fall.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
william and the Tile.


A goat stood by the orchard wall
A goat serene and fat;
He spied a little distance off
on the ground a white plug hat
And in jiffy swallowed 1t whole,
And his heart went pit-a-pat.
Then joyfully on his hinder limbs
He assumed a butful pose,
Then stood in gentle royerle,
Like bard in a poppled doEe,
And wriggled his tail and blinked his eyes
And twisted his purple nose,
ooh, can the boot and the oyster can
And the old hoopskirt digest !"
Just then he jumped ten feet Off the ground
With a motion Of vague unrest
He suddenly found that the old white hat
Was raging hornets nest, --EA
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
The Song Of the Streams.

With ceaseless murmur of song
. We slip through meadow and wood,
And we love to linger long
Where old dead cities brood.
With stealthy sweep or with swirl
Through highland and lowland we flow;
In fiood-time our waters we hurl,
In drough we move shrunken and slow.
We sing, like the birds who beside US
Are filled with the Joy oftheir days,
And we follow the course that doth guide us
Throughout the long lsngth Of our ways;
And when In some mightier river
Or depths of'the sea We arc tost,
There also we live on forever,
For naught that hath lived can be lost
William Sharp.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
Tho Long Lishte a vista.

look down long lighted vista,
Where sunshine and shadows creep through,
And memory brings back the loved ones
That pass In procession in view
The dear, honest friends that knew.
There's Molle cherished In childhood,
Whose voice has been hushed by the tomb,
Whose frolic in meadow and wildwood
Was bright us the blossoms in bloom,
And sweet as the sweetest perfume.
There's Laura and Matte and Fannie,
Whose pictures hang in the hall,
Where memory decorates many
But these are the dearest ofall
Who come TO my heart at my call.
There's Howard and Luther and Landon,
Who've passed through the vista Of years,
And now from the hilltop they stand on
May look back to the lost ones with tears
And trust in their God without fears.
peer through that long, lighted vista,
Where brlers and flowers abound,
Where virtue and sin ever battle,
And pleasure can noyer be found,
While sorrow pursuas like hound.
You ash me the plaos Of this vista.
Inquire from the Pole TO the Pole.
The starlight and sunlight Vim answer.
In the throb and tho sigh oft soul,
Isthe vista that leads to the whole.
80 John A. Josce.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is OPP
posed to Grover Cleveland now as the
democratic candidate for president, as it
was opposed to him in 1882 as the demo-
ocratic candidate for governor of New
York. Now. as then, IL favors tho repub-
lican nominee. Unlike certain other
great journals it had no lapse from the
republican faith when 1t was the cunning
thing to bolt regular nominations.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
Marching Cavalry.

Cavalry officers will be interested in o
recent experiment which was su ccess-
fully carried out in Russia by regiment
of the dragons Of the guards. They rode
from Kreoheyitsky, Ia tho district Of Nov
gorod, to Yam Ijora, by the order of the
Inspector general Of the cavalry, who
wished TO ascertain the condition in
which the regiment would arrive at its
destination after long forced ride. The
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
Dreadful to Contemplate.

ItVVT1Vo11I 4 VoF-I17lJTNoos
Congressman Stevens of Attica, who is
also member of the democratic national
committee, is authority for the statement
that in case of Cleveland's nomination,
William Purcell will withdraw from the
electoral ticket and refuse to support 1t.
The will draw tears from democratic eyes,
but not to the extent of the other state
ment he makes, that August Belmont will
refuse to contribute dollar to the cam
paign fund.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

The Associated Press is to BIO congratu-
lated in having an agent of untiring in
dustry at Wilmington. Del. The country
would not know how to got along with
out daily bulletins of the happenings in
the office of the Euery Euenin0.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

HENDRICKS is the marplot of Nc
Donald's fortunes. In 1880 his churlish
course prevented Mcdonald from 'receiv-
ing tho nomination for the presidency at
the hands Of tho Cincinnati convention,
and now he cuts Josheph L. out Of the vico
presidential honors. Perhaps some Of
Mr.. McDonald's friends may conclude
this sort of thing has gone far enough,
and find in the ballot box medium for
expressing their disapprobation.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

As THE chairman Of tho Indiana dele
CATION at Chicago cast the full number of
the votes-thirty-of that delegation for
Thomas A. Hendricks for vice president,
1t looks to the man up tree as though
the Hon. Thomas A, Hendricks, of In-
diana, voted for himself.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
A PoliticianS wish.
,.,A.S a. r.. 1.IA-

! want to bo q delegate
And in convention stand,
With promises poured in my ears
And shekels in my hand,
Then proudly with the delegates
I'd yell with all my might,
For revenue and tariff too,
And for my faction fight
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

EDITOR DANA, Of the New York Sun,
has felicitous opportunity afforded him
for renewal of his celebrated statement
of Hancoek's points. Cleveland is also
"a good man, and weighs $50 pounds"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

THE democrats are pertinacious in
sticking to the same localities in selecting
candidates. New York and Indiana have
furnished the men for the third consecu-
tive time.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

Hoec fabuIa daeet Mr.. Bayard, that it
is better to be an ordinary bsrnyard alder
man in the democratic party than to be
a scholar, statesman, and gentleman all
your lifes
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

As A platform maker Mr.. Morrison is
evidently destined to become great. His
first effort contains everything but poetry.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

NOBODY seems to have discovered just
which one OF Morrison's old speeches he
worked off on the convention as plat
form, and perhaps 1t doesn't matter.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

Mr.. JOHN KELLY now knows how 1t
feels when o mountain falls on man.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

THE committee on platform was in ses-
sion thirty-six hours, and the members
seem to have kept writing all the time.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12

ORGANIZED labor does not take kindly
to Cleveland. The boycotters will get
their work in on him in way that will
Aan