The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-20

a boy baby to Che New Orleans fami-
ly.
THE N. Y. Gazette calls the Black
Crook, the "bent' Of the play-going
public.
ONE of the most disagreeable ways
of women-to weight two hundred.
CRUEL scandal, says that Jenny
Lind has a stewish temper.
LOLA MoNTEz's daughter is COM
ing out in Paris as an actress.
"THE pleasure of hase'--trying
jeff. Davis.
THERE are but three manufactures
of wire rope in the United States.
JOSH BILLINGS says first class vir-
tue is always anxious to avoid temp
tation.
WHY is woman who has lost her
lover like q whale? Because she is q
secreter Of sighs.
The distractions at Hell Gate seem
to negative Virgils assertion-Fdciis
descenS,tS dvcni.
BRIGHAM YoUNG's saints want
charter for Masonic Lodge, but they
can't get it. Good.
OVER 5000 different articles Of
common use are manufactured from
the basket willow.
A YOUNG woman threw herself
from the top of the column in the
Place Vendomo the other day.
A NEVADA man recently got tdmnk,
killed friend and was hung by Judge
Lynch, all within six hours.
ONE mandatory in Lynn. made
and sold thirty thousand pairs of base
ball shoes this year.
A WISCONSIN woman has beard
two inches long, while her husband
has not a hair on his head.
A MAN was arrested in Rome with
a pistol in his pocket, and Immediate
ly it was supposed he intended to as
sassinate the Pope.
WESTON says he is walking for
money to pay off his debts. He is not
the first man who has taken to his legs
to escape his creditors.
A New ORLEANS gentleman offers
a reward for physician who will ac-
knowledge that he has lost more than
half dozen patients during the cpl
dcmic.
THE oldest newspaper in the world
is published in Pekin, China. 1t is
printed on silk and has appeared every
week for al least one thousand years.
PRINCE HUMBERT has gone to
Munich to propose to Archduchess So
phia, who was the other day engaged
to the King of Bavaria. Rather a
poor show for the Prince to be too
late, is death sometimes.
CINCINNATI can no longer depend
upon the Ohio river for commercial
purposes. So q committee reports to
the Chamber of Commerce, and urges
a railroad. South to supply the def
cheney.
a CoRoNEE's jury, after investiga-
ting the death Of child in Buffalo,
brought in verdict of "death from
the injudicious administration of Win
slows Soothing Syrup, which caused
convulsions and congestion of the
BRAIN"
THE only way to form the habit of
early rising is to jump out Of bed the
moment you awake. The man who
hesitates when called, is lost. The
mind should be made up in minute,
for early rising is one of those subjects
that admit of''no t,aning orer.
A YOUNG lady went out with
rather timid beau sleighing one even-
ing, complacently remarkmg tohim
that she seldom went out sleiging but
she got chaps on the lips. The young
man took the hint and chappcd.
The word Kaleidoscope" is derived
from the Greek language, and signi-
fcs "the sight OF q beautiful FORM"
The Instrument was invented by DR..
Brewster, ofEdinburg, not many years
ago.
CAsrLISuM, a town OF Campania,
endured such extreme famine during
its siege by Hannibal, that mouse, it
is said, sold for two hundred denarii-
thirty dollars ofour money.
WHAT brought you to prison, my
colored friend ? asked asympathising
gentleman of an unfortunate darkey.
1.-TWO constables, sail," replied Sambo.
''Yes, but I mean, had intemperanco
to do with itF' "Ycs, sab,
ley was bofe of 'em drunk"
A PrrrsrErLD pastor astonished his
audience last Sunday by remarking
hat most of his people were asleep
part of them in the house of God, and
he rest at home.
Corn sells for % cents a bushcl in
Georgia.
H. B. CLAFLrN & Co., of New
York, during 1856 sold S73,0OO,OOO
If dry goods-the largest years busi-
ness Of any wholesale house in the