The national Republican., 1867-12-10
pen. PENCIL. AND SCISSORS.

TEXAS paper says sweet potatoes arc SO
plentiful as to be hardly worth harvesting.
INDIANA papers report the hog crop as larger
than was anticipated.
BRooxLYs, N. Y, wants Dickens, and very
safely promises him ga paying house."
HENRY WARD BEEcHER and 4. II. Chaplin lee
ture in Boston on Wednesday night.
DICKENS hair, like vegetation on Cape Cod
is scattered in every direction, but very sparsely
PRIzE-YroHrERs arc called successful class;
they make so many hits.
JuDY knows a man hard up that he even
sleeps on tick.
WHAT game at cards do quadrupeds best un-
derstandi All Fours.-Judy.
WHAT eity's destruction is necessary to Ethio-
plan minstrelsyi Burnt cork.
A GOOD name will wear out bad name may
be turned; q nickname lasts forever
WESTON claims that his expenses on the late
trip exceeded his earnings by tl, 900.
THE tobacco supplied to the enlisted men Of
the army this year costs slsi,sss.
MIR. JAMES BENNETT, of Lexington, Kentucky,
has eloped with his twelfth bride.
JANE swissHELM is chief organizer of fair
in Pittsburg.
NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY MILLIONS of men
use tobacco.
TRADING profits are unprecedently low In Eng
land.
The English Government talk of buying and
running all the Irish railways.
ONO Ia reported to have more sheep than any
State In the Union.
IT is reported that the seasons corn crop in
England doesn't amount to shucks.
THE story OF the three black crows gained such
given II.
Youru in Havana, who wanted to marry a
girl but couldn't, slaughtered with crowbar his
rival, who wanted to and could.
NEWMAN HALL went on a moral and religious
lark, in disguise, with Theodore Cuylcr through
the "dens Of vice" in New York.
1T Is SAID that of the 100 convicts in the New
Hampshire State prison, nearly 90 served in the
recent war.
LAKE ERIE has an average depth of about 100
feet, while Huron and Michigan average nearly
100 feet.
DAVID KENNEDY, Toronto sportsman, killed
665 ducks in a shooting expedition from which
he has just returned. He killed 2O5 in two days.
Fun is good thing. We cultivate 1t too little.
1t should have place under every roof, even
the poorest.
PRIDE and opulence may kiss in the morning
as married couple but they are likely to be
divorced before sunset.
NATURE Is an infinite sphere, of which the
centre is everywhere, the circumference no.
where.
The bread OF life is lovej the salt OF life is
work; the sugar Of lfe poetry; the water of life,
faith.
ACKNOWLEDGING we have been In the wrong
is only showing that we are wiser to-day than
yesterday.
wArcHIso ladies at crossings may show in
dustrious eyes, but It also shows idle and per-
verted brains.
IN England this year the supply OF American
cotton has been Ave per cent. beyond that OF
last year, while the quantity from India has ex-
perienced reduction Of 2s per cent.
ON the visit of Gen. Lafayette to Montpelier,
Vermont, in 1925, the only carpet in town was
the one put down In his room at the State
| house.
WIDOW out West married man to whom
she refused her daughter, because she said her
first husband was an ugly "critter" and she had
learned to manage such cattle.
AN exchange says; ar our wife wanted to run
away with another man, we would wish her God
speed, for we think too much Of her to see her
want for anything"
YoUSG woman In Liverpool, whose name
ought to be Mrs. Toodies but isn't, has been sent
to Jail for stealing a marriage license from
another woman.
A SINGLE issue OF our Western exchanges con-
tains two additions to the English language
| They are full accounts how party "festivitied"
recently, and Of the trial Of "culpritess."
THE Massachusetts Bible Society has presented
splendid Bible to the Suffolk Conference, for
use at the Sunday evening meetings at the Bos-
| ton theatre.
IT Is reported that marriage alliance is con.
templated between the Archduke Louis Victor,
the youngest brother Of the Emperor of Austria,
and the eldest daughter Of the Queen Of Spain.
AREPoRT has been started that Virginia, owing
to her distracted political condition. will not pay
the interest on her State debt when II comes due.
This Is authoritatively denied. Ample provision
has been made for this payment.
"Do draw up the curtain, mother,n said a little
| child from her trundle bed "for want the eyes
| OF heaven to keep watching me all the night
| II wake up love to look at them II don't
wake up they still look at me-"
MARKET WOMAN in Maysville, Kentucky,
walks eight miles several times a week, carving
two basketsfull OF marketing, though 50 years
old. Her name is Mitchell, a descendant of
Daniel Boone, the pioneer Of kentucky.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN claims to be worth
$50 900 ,O00 Jay Cooke is worth $l6,500, ,00O Bar
ney Williams, the actor, is worth slOO, 200; st.
Louis beggar is worth $4,000, md quite num-
Der Of the same class in our city are WORTHLESS.
In Paris the people are buried by company
who take charge of all funerals. This company
includes eight hundred persons, and It employs
several hundred horses. All these horses are
either black or white.
AN OLD GENTLEMAN has been arrested In Hart
ford, Connecticut, for shop-ifting. A deed of
mortgage, and his own WILL bequeathing u, 900
to his relatives, were found on his person, SO
that he evidently had no need to steal. 1t is
supposed to be case of kleptomania, or an
itching for theft, or possibly insanity.
CAssIUs NJ. CLAY, our Minister to St. Peters
burg, has been In very poor health for some time
| past He has secured for himself a rural retreat
a few miles out Of the city, and is cndeavoring
to recuperate his physical energies in hunting,
fishing, and other outdoor pastimes. Owing to
the friendly relations existing between the two
countries there is but little work for the minis
| ter to perform.
| MARRIED,
| On the Sd instant, by the Rev Dr. Smith, JoHS r.
| CARPENTER, Of New York, to Miss KATE BALL, Of