The national Republican., 1867-12-05
PEN, PENCIL, AND SCISSORS.

THE property in Montana foots up s5,3OS,lls.
PARIS Is soon to rejoice in an American news
paper, weekly.
HorsToN, Texas, on account of the yellow
fever, still warns people to keep away.
PREACHER in Mobile has been punished for
a liking for other peoples henroosts.
A BRIDGEPoRTER, Conn, lost finger the other
day in the intellectual game OF baseball.
New ORLEANS is cutting up its FIVE dollar bills
TO make change.
PENDLEToN's grandfather was the second Of
Hamilton in his duel with Burr.
THERE arc more than 100000 destitute people
in London.
A FRENCH writer calls dyspepsia the "lngratl-
tudc Of the stomach"
AT the Isle Of Dogs, in the Thames near Lon
don, hundreds OF persons are starving to death.
THE London Fenian paper has n department
Of news done into verse
ORANGE COUNTY, VA, has sold over 10000
pounds of sumac this fall.
A GERMAN sun has published a translation of
Byron, with description OF his life and dolngs
A PINE living walrus has been added to the
London Geological Gardens.
AN Australian hunt recently netted twenty
five thousand Kangaroos killed.
INDIANA Furnishes boys in the sum of 45 for
jumping on the railroad cars while in motion.
THE last nights of the Black Crook are an.
nounced In New York.
LocKPoRT, NY, is in sad need ofwater No rain
has fallen for weeks, and the cisterns are empty
CALIFORNIA is the place for fruit lovers
Strawberries in San Francisco the year round
CHEYENNE has two express companies, tele
graph company, three banks and nine hotels.
FRANCE, England, and Spain are receiving
large supplies of -four from Russia and Egypt.
NEw sailing carriage" for the route to New
Mexico Is on exhibition In Missouri.
One THIRD OF the sugar consumed by the civil.
lied world Ia made from the beet.
SOME predict an unusally mild winter from the
thinRess OF the corn shucks.
THE largest bell in Rhode Island hangs in The
new Univcrsalist church at Pawtucket II twcighs
800 pounds
Two Providence youths, who were walking on
Sunday, on n wager, a la Weston, were arrested
and held for trial for Sabbath breaklng.
The city gas of Boston costs 5000 week. Tn,
city Is going to petition the next legislature foI
leave to build new works.
ForR barns and the Second Advent church a
Hcrmon Hill, Maine, were set on fire last week
and three of them destroyed.
ALADY died in Albany lIst week at the yencr
able age Of one hundred and five years She wa
the " oldest inhabitant" of that city.
TUE Boston national banks have an aggrcgat
capital of ~ OOOO 900; s3S 302 i25 in deposits and
circulation of f2I, ,722, ,2lO.
THERE is n lively young woman in Scranton
Pa, who wantsto run u foot-race for 40 q side.
TnE Philadelphia papers are quarrelng abou
their circulation. The Public Ledgcr is conten
with Its business and says nothing.
Youth in San Francisco, desiring to make
present to pretty jewellers daughter, stole
ring from her father for that purpose.
VERY black man and white woman wrntc
to get married in Providence the other day, bu
couldn't hnd clergyman to do IT,
A YOUNG lady Of Saco, tired of living. tried +
drown herself, but found the water too cold, an
deslsted.
CENTURY plants are so plenty at Los Angelo,
Cal., that they are considered nulsanCes an
thrown into the streets.
PIRM In Monmouth, Maine, manufactur,
fifteen thousand coats n year, paying for IL
making an average Of eighty cents apiece.
A PHYSICIAN In Cincinnati Is speculating
"sublects," sending them to other places. II
result Is n strlngency In the market at that plao
THE son of London clergyman shot himse
In front Of the residence of his Obdurate swee
heart.
MILE JUDITH DAVID, a French Jewess {
inestimsble grace, is delighting the Berlinite
with her exquisite dancing.