The national Republican., 1867-02-11
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

OLD BoREAs was very blowrious yesterday
The west coast Of Africa is earthquakish.
APPLE orchards flourish not in Minnesota.
The "second Fenian sale is advertised.
Wonder II they will sell out to the RAIDS this time.
The Nation, q radical paper begins to
despair Of reconstructing the South upon tho
principles of holy wrath"
GEORGIA has disrespectful durkies, who
call the negroes who were free before Lincoln's
proclamation the old issue"
THAD STEVENS redistribution bill not only
stranglos the Constitution but murders the Civil
Rights bill.
A REBEL PAPER draws parallel between
Russia and the United States, saying that each Of
them keeps Poland.
The Auburn negro murderer, in his con.
fesson, duplicates Luther p. verrll, single man,
aged 80, who has beon arrested and denies every.
thing.
The Bostonians are delighted with Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Paul and are patronizing them
very literally. Mr.. Paul has been giving some
life.like limitations Of BrignOli.
IT Is STATED that new method of punish.
ment has been introduced into one of the public
schools of Holyoke, Mass. A disobedient scholar
is ordered up, its mouth forced open, and dose Of
cayenne pepper administered.
The Moffatt mansion on Union Square,
New York, late Fenian headquartsrs has been sold
at public auction for $l63, OOO Mr.. John R. Law.
renee, the well.known carriage manufacturer was
the purchaser.
Nor FAR from the Red river, in Dakota,
there are numerous salt lakes and ponds, which
will yet prove sources Of wealth to the entire coun
try. Hundreds of acres can be covered with svap
Grating vats and millions of bushels of salt can be
made for the merest tribe.
MINNESOTA contains multitude Of lakes
which, besides watering every portion Of it, are
supposed to exert q modifying influence on th,
climate. They certainly add great beauty to the
face Of the country. Nearly half the farm house,
can be built on the banks of beautiful sheets o.
water.
REV. GEORGE TRAsK, of Fitchburg, Massa
ohusets the veteran warrior against tobacco is IL
this city, distributing anti.tobacco tracts and de
livering lectures against the tweed" lie addresses
a four.page tract to General Grant, exhorting hin
to drop his cigar. We doubt whether the Genera
will surrender to Trask.
A MAN has been arrested in Hungary for
killing four children and eating their hearts raw
He acted on the belief that he would have the
power to become invisible when he had eaten seyen,
but was not permitted to carry his experiment to
conclusion. lie ought to have been made invisible
on eating the first one.
The Troy Times Of the 9th inst, says that
a lady who resides in Schenectady recently went to
her parents home, in Bennington, Vt, to have her
mothers care in childbirth. Owing to the i'll feel.
ing Of her father toward her husband she was driven
away almost with curses She was passing through
Troy on her way back, when, on the evening of the
4th, she gave birth to child in the street.
DURING the very brief time Molie Trussel
was confined in the Illinois penitentary the rules
of the prison violated by allowing her to wear
her own clothes, to occupy private room, to re
ceiye many visitors and to fare sumptuousIy.
How much better she Jared there than would a
virtuOus woman" says the Chicago Tri6mna.
"AristOcratic priestessss Of Venus can do what
they choose, adds the Stats Zatung.