The national Republican., 1867-12-16
PEN, PENCIL, AND SCISSORS.

PEN, PENCIL, AND SCISSORS.
In New York on Saturday afternoon -four was
quoted duh and dropping.
yesterday.
TIE suspension bridge at Minneapolis sways
so In the wind that II makes people sea-sick.
ArARNER near Dcs Moincs, Iowa, recently
found 10000 buried on his land.
The Oil City Peiroiidn has followed the oil
speculation. II is dead.
The Yo Semitic region, In California, has
ehasn one yard wide and thousand feet deep.
A DUEL between doctor and druggist is on
the carpet at ST. Louis.
Coon farms In North Germany rent for 400 per
acre.
The prisoners In the Rochester jail tried to
saw their way out last Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO is troubled with counterfeit
gold pieces.
LADY in England claims to own ring given
| to Solomon by the Queen Of Sheba
There have been no essential improvements In
the hand-press since Its first use in liSo.
MORE than 800 kinds of hoop skirts are manu-
| factured In New York.
Isl LADY, resident OF Quincy, ILL.,, to be called
a Quincessi
OIL of bitter almonds is made by some chemists
from the benzoe Of coal-tar.
| A MAINE man has invented a boot-blacking
machine Of ten ragamufln power.
| OuR advices from all sections give accounts OF
| the coldness of the weather and the disarrange-
ment Of the mails.
By the way Of Havana we have adviees from
st. Thomas. They state that the city is crowded
| with shipwrecked sailors.
A LARGE force Of Egyptians, consisting of four
thousand fighting men, have Joined the English
/ expedition at Massowah.
FRoN Vienna we learn the new constitution,
after a long debate, has been adopted by the up
per house OF the Reiehsrath.
IT has been legally decided in England that a
stamped fac simiIe OF a signature bears the same
value as the written one.
The Saturday Rericir, the ablest OF the London
weeklies, has circulation Of only Il, ,0oo but Its
readers are the cream Of English literary culture.
The LETTER purporting to be written by Gen.
Dent in defence of General Grant Is a forgery.
We suspected as much.
MILK has been very scarce In New York on
account ofthe non-arrival Of the trains by the
snow blockade.
THE italian Government wished TO try Carl
baldi for revolt, but Gen. Menabrea was so op
posed to the trial, that II was abandoned.
A BEAR suddenly dismissed a school in Rich
mond, and attempted to breakfast on the schoo
mistress.
DANIEL WEBSTER used to say that the wor,
"would," in Rufus Choate's handwriting, resem
bled small gridiron struck by lightning.
1T Is supposed that the Illinois prairies wer,
once the bottom Of lake. Timber is fount
buried thirty and forty feet below the surface
; | l,.tn aal. lAal aat Nha.
Is the court of admiralty, Prioiean's plea Ii
the case Of the Alexandria was admitted. 4
) commission is to be issued for procuring eyi
! dence In the United States.
/ A LARGE reservoir in Douglass gave way las
, night, washing away one hundred feet or NOR
of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie railroad tract
: and the embankment.
/ A PREACHER in London, the other Sunday
. concluded the LORDS prayer In the following
style: For thine ais the kingdom, the powe
: hand the glory, for never and hever. Hamen."
CorroS socks next to the skin and woolei
socks outside Of them, are represented as a sur
to cure cold feet. At night the cotton socks viii
be quite dry and the outside ones damp.
/, THE low water in the Missouri river has en-
eouraged wreckers to look for valuables IL
sunken crafts. AT one point. canned fruit, oys
ters, and bottles Of wine, were included In larg
amounts, In the findings.
/, oUR European advices dated London, Dee. .l4th
!. state that twenty houses opposite the Clerken
well prison were demolished by an explosion
Forty men, women, and children were found /
be wounded.
g THE news from Kingston, Jamaica, to the Ct
Is instant, states that the American emigratio
3 scheme has been abandoned, in consequence
e the government refusing to grant subsidy to
1t line Of steamers.
" THE latest novelty in the earie-de-riIue way
C a photograph Of the Emperor Of China. II
N Celestial Majesty Is boy, twelve years old, ar
ie is the reverse OF handsome. His name is Kis
ie slang, which signifies High Prosperity" al
u, his fathers name was Perfect Bliss"