The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1867-03-27
ODDS AND ENDS.


I'm, Is the latest novelty. .'
Two thousand students at the Uni.
versity of Calcutta .. ~. t''l
-Thore are 6,26 schools in Ireland,
with S7O,40l scholars. .. ..
"A deserted maiden in st. LOUIS
resorted to poison. A stomach. pump
saved her. ... .r. :
Shaking hands is Questionable,
except OF course with ladies'. .....
England is armiug on great scale
Bully for Bull!
The population Of Berlin, accord.
ing to the last census, is 1850.
The leeeh business is tiourishng IN
Australia, and Boston intends to do
away with the usury laws
An Australian paper notices the
capture of the first white bear found in
that colony. Its eyes are light blue.
Fashionable. so. :" '''. f - ''
1t is prof o ed to take away the
privilege Of voting from every man who
has ever offered or taken brlbe at
elections.
-Wanted-respectable and cheap
lodging houses tor poor girls, under
proper supervision. They have ono 10
N. Y.
One of the most beautiful young
ladies of Paris has just eloped with an
elderly groom. Queer taste. o.. ..
People going to Europe should OBJ,
tain passports, Or they may be compell-
ed to passports without entering. Don't
go. ... ..I .HH.
There are lat grandees in Spain,
OF which 70 are first chop or dukes -
About one half the whole number wash
themselves I''..
They work the Parliament of Fin
land IN five different languages. Tho
Finnish comes in last, and it is only
used by the peasant members.
They are making terrible fuss
over ,vivisection in France. The litera-
ry reviewers cut fellows up all alive
every day and nothing is said OF it.
The Cleveland Herald saw stock
ing burst lately, and .exclaims; what
will that poor calf DO for mealF N. B.
The stocking was stuffed with 'In>
Gian.' ...... .... ..-.s - s.
"A student of the Louisville law
school recently made desperate and
determined attempt to murder another
for saying that he was behind IN his
studies. Chivalry. I..
The Pittsburg Dispatch says there
is "a perfect avalanch Of Office seekers at
Washington Our beloved President
must stand from UNDER ,. ' ""
George Peabody has received,
since he has been in this country. 1000
begging letters, which have been burns
ed. He has no time to read them. ''
j. Il Hays, the editor of the Radi-
cal Savannah Republican, is at present
kept in the prison of that city, precisely
as if the rebellion had succeeded. ''''
The funeral of Artemus Ward, in
LONDON, took place on Saturday, and
was attended by great number of ut.
erary gentlemen aud friends, including
many Americans, air .. f,.'.'-'
The young ladies of New Orean
are wearing ornaments in the shape of
crescents. When quadroon belle
sports one it is referred to as an illus.
tration OF the Crescent and the Cross. u
Henry A, Wise, of Virginia, says
the children of the South must be ed
ucated to emulate and initiate the deeds
Of their fathers We pity any one who
shall strive to emulate the deeds of
Wise. ....
"A poet speaks OF the waves rs idle
breakers at their play And a WASH
ington' correspondent, speaking of Rep.
resentative Ashley, says that he is IAN
ido!-bTeaker,' who always plays trumps
Long may he wave! '
Bankrupt comes from the Italian
banco rotto or broken bench. When
Venetian failed 1t was usual to break up
his bench or chair in the exchange to
signify that he had no longer scat at
the board, which made 1t good for the
cabinet>makers. ' '@ .''8
AT Salt Lake City, a gambler being
unluckY at cards, took off his coat, hat,
pants, and vest, and stood IN his draw
ers while he bet the rest of his clothes
away. Fortune smiled on him. Enter
prise. ........... .. 40.
Among the objects to be shown at
the Universal Exhibition is q magnif-
cent skeleton OF snake found in the
Pardo Mountains. II comprises no
fewer than one thousand and torty-fve
rings, perfectly arranged in a spiral
torm ..,, e. ..,.. ~ ..tIaU
The Chicago Tribune informs Doo-
little, Dixon, Cowan, and Norton that
they can save little remnant Of their
former regulations by following the ex-
all ple of poor Jim Lane who made
some repartion to his betrayed consti-
tuents by blowing out his brains OH.
oagonistio. lmaD v. ..f.,. .'ano'"r
In Kentucky lives a man, the
head Of very respectable and intelli,
gent family, who, during one week In
each month, about the first quarter of
the moon, irnagines himself a woman,
dons the hoops aud balmoral, and sits
IN his parlor waiting for his beau! This