The national Republican., 1866-12-18
Pen, Pencil ana Scissors.

Pen, Pencil and Scissors. -,
TRE will Of the late Sylvester Packard, of
Boslsn,, bsqussahs two hsndrsd Thousand dollars
70 Tufts College, dsonsrviiis. -, III
SsxAroR SUMNER will feed fat his ancient
srudss against the word "whitsr during the holi.
days. W.
A CLERGYMAN, in addressing prayer in
behalf Of universal suffrage without regard to race,
color, age or ssx, said: "Paradoxical as this may
seem to thee, oh Lord, II is nevertheless true"
ST. JoHS's DAY occurs this year on the
27th inst. According to ancient usage, the annual
election for ocsrs In all masonic bodies must take
place previous to that time.
TBAp. SrxvESs entertains the same con-
tempt for the Constitution, whom II stands In he
way Of hls political sshsnss that shasP sP-toothsd
rat does for thin pine boird hstwsss Ainsslf ~
. rish shssss. ,.'.- 81. g.. = =.
We understand that among the applicants
for astaeAp 70 the New Orleans riot investigating
committee wss one from . long curly haired indi-
vidssi, - Post Laarsats but he eoamittss didn't
~ II In that light. .ar -. gr
NorHINo has been heard from Louis Fox,
the missing bllisrd.pisysr, Of Reshssssr. Hi
friends are very much alarmed By his continued
sbssnos. and Il proposed to have the sheriff Offer
. reward. r..... -,... ..-.. =, ........
TIE Washington correspondent Of the
New York Com~saal Advutiar says that the
rsai sserst of he failure to sngra the educational
qualincatioa on The District Of Coiunbia suffrage
bill is to bs found In The remark Of Mr. Sumner,
that that would not secure the necessary rofine
force" --.
A STORY 10 told Of mother who sent her
own dssusrsotyps 10 midnight meeting IN
London, hoping that her abandoned daughter
might 80 II and repent The picture was passed
around In several nsstinss until ct last II met ths
eye for which II was intended and the guilty gisi
broke into tssrs and sst out st once for Tie home
Of her childhood. -
An English jury has decided that when 9
man who Il snokips in railroad car, refuses d
remove his cigar At the request Of bis fellow pssssn
gsrs, they have the right to knock u OFT Of hi
mouth, snd the judge thossht that the blowing d
tobacco smoke in the face Of fellow passsngsl
might BE- considered an assault. .....
GEs. KnrArRIck, United States Minister
10 Chill, was married November 81, to 6lgnorits
Louisa valdivisso, cousin Of the Gillian Minister o
War, and nises Of the famous Gen. csrrsra, whose
memory Is highly rsvsrsd In that country. The
Secretaries Of War and Of State acted ~ his green's
men. The lady Is said to be very beautiful and ac
eomplishsd, and belongs 10 one Of ths best famiei
Of the Republic. Her sistsf Amelia was, on ths
18th Of December to bs married 70 Gen. vieksrs,
attachs Of the United States Legation. The last
named we're to leave for Philadslphis Immediately
sftsr. .-...r .-..
An ACCOUNT OF the disaster TO the Kate
Dyer says that just a. the Inflated ship was sink
ing, with her planks torn asandsr, and her masti
falling around her in confusion. . largs NsWfound
land dog was noticed lsaping from the main deck
after yths body Of boy who was bufsting the
waves. Bouyins the body upward, the noble ami.
nal swam for the Scotland, but such was the vio.
lsnes Of the sss that the dog lost his hold and the
body sank simultaneously with the ship. The dog
10 said to have been rescued BY the sailors Of the
Scotland.
CHICAGO can boast Of three skating parks
and two Kinks now. A year ago such . thing - .
rink was unknown here. On the 18th Of December
last, the Hrst one, the Wabash Avenue Rink, was
opened, and every one prophesied that It would be
Q failure-that It too small, that the Ice could
not be kept from melting, etc., but tho thaw a'
Christmas, which destroyed the ice on the parks,
din not at all affect that in the rink-snd hence.
forward .rinks'' wore favoritss in Chicago. So
we'll did the Wabash Avenue Rink succeed last
winter, that 1t encouraged others to follow the lead
Of Mr. Harvey, an Eastern man, the manager; and
this year . very large and elegant one has been
erected on the West Side" It has skating
surface Of 49, 900 square feet, seating capacity o.
5000 persons, and cost 5000. 1t is lighted uI
with two hundred gas Jets, has closk.room re
frsshmsnt tables, ladies' gallery, ste.-in short, Il
s6rst-elsss rink. The other parks-Ths Central
and the "osdsn"-ars also good-sissd ones, sn'
will, no doubt, be vsH pstronissd.