The national Republican., 1867-12-07
PEN. PENCIL, AND SCISSORS.

MANY British officers are resigning.
WATER is selling in Moniteau county, Mis-
,ourl, at so cents barrel, and scarce at that.
Gry. Wool is mcditating an attempt on his
own "Lifc."
THERE il hardly circus now but what has Its
lion-tamer, or Its queen OF the lions
BETWEEN three and four million Lucifer
matches are consumed daily in the United States.
THE hog crop at the West is immense. The
high price of corn hastens the pigs to the butcher.
THE Office of censor of the Cuban cable has
been abolished.
UNCLE SAM is rich enough to give us all a
farm. He owns 400, 900 acres Of land.
CAROLINE RIcHISGs was married on Saturday
ulght to Mr.. p. Brainard, at Philadelphia.
DICKENS will lecture before the New York
Press Club on the Life of Reporter.
MOWER did much in New Orleans, but Han
cock is undoing Mower-Bosion Post.
ErCENrE pouts because Mrs. Austria wouldn't
come to sec her
CAGL SCHrRz is going to Europe. He prom
i,cs to come back in time to stump next fall.
A NoErH CAEoLISN editor has put up his
newspaper in raiile.
TICKETS to Dickens readings are up TO as In
New York.
No LONDON Insurance Company will insure
mans life who has boat racing on the brain.
THr city of Philadelphia has seven Presbyte-
rIan churches without pastors.
Mr. r. CoLrox Is matched to walk from New
York 70 Albany in two days for 1900.
TmE New Hampshire farmers are many OF
them. selling off their sheep bccau.e Of the low
rice Of wool.
SPOTTED TAILS eldest daughter died Of .
broken heart because she could not ind white
husband.
DrRrSa the TacNing war In China, over lOO,-
100000 men have perished by slaughter and star.
vation.
DETROIT man has made thouSAnd-lollAi
wager to walk scvcnty-two consecutive hour
with only five minutes rest for each hour.
Funerals occur every day at the Farndal
colliesy in Wales. A hundred bodies have bee
rem ved and still they come.
FEE COMPANIES" at Heidelberg corr
spond ,mong the ladies' to the cafe beer drnkir
among the gentlemen.
The English are getting to like our game
Euchre," but they add blank card to the pac
which takes either the ace or the bowers.
BASps of thieves and robbers are operating
some parts of Missouri, in organizations und
tnc state militia laws.
our Indian summer.
Two hundred and seventy-six volunteers VIC
to the war flom the Boston Latin school, a
N,ty-two never returned.
CELEBRATED English circus rider could tu
twenty consecutive somersaults. That fell
woaidz Jake a good politician.
-THg Prairie fires In MisEou.i have had @
good effect. They have cleared the atmosph'
Of malarious potSonE.
Two NEW LODGES OF the Knights OF Pyth
have been organized at Baltimore-called
spcctively the Golden and Monumental.
GErMAS University professors frequently
liver lecture after lecture to audiences OF six
seven studcnts-5ometimes to only one.
spiring, that!
FRENCH cotton wenvers get forty-hve and
cents day.
THrrg are sixty different entrances to the
aromhs at Paris.
TuE LADIES found the street crossings II
horrible condition yesterday.
CHICAGO RIVER Is so foul that its odors arc
iolcrablc. II is the great public sewer OF
rlty.
BpooKLyN has appropriated ", 500 for paint
,h" names of the streets on the street lamps,
the Common Council declines to act.
TnE tradcsmen who supply the British Lo
p tnccs have been informed that they must
,cpt - ID. per pound for the best mutton or
queens custom will be withdrawn.
THE Colorado Daily Tribune is giving wee
Il-t OF bachelors. The whole list must be a |,
one, as there are at least ten men to one won
In that Territory.
HERD OF thirty deer made n raid on
,ouri farmers coTnheld q few days ago 7
uod some dihculty in driving them of in tim
ave the corn.
A SAN FRANCISCO rAPER looks forward to
time when grapes from California, by the Pa'
railroad, will be retailcd in the Atlantic StI
Tor live cents pound.
The Empress Eugenle is to act as god-Rot
70 the expected addition to the Austrian In
iId family, in compliance with the wish
pressed by the Emperor Francis Joseph dun
bis visit to Paris
lrrFEU-oN DAVIS and his wife are still
Baltimore, receiving especial attention #
their sympathizing friends, with one of VIII
they have accepted an invitation to solOurn
several days.
FITZ GHEEN% HALLECK was lineal
scendant, the sixth In order, from the Rev,
Elliott, the iirst Indian missionary who labo
among The Indians Of New England In the I
ofthe Pilgrims, and translated the Bible into
indian language.
CHARLES DICKENS second readings at Bos
On Tuesday night, were equally attractive
.,ccesslul as the first. The selections read '
extracts from David Copperheld and "Mr'
>,wyers Party" from the Pickwick Pal
rnc audience was quite free In bestowins
ulHure.
iroHr comes lToa the moon In one second
quarter, from the sun In eight minutes, 1
Jupiter in hfty-two minutes, Uranus In
uy4r-, from star Of the FIRST magnitude thre
tArlNs ycars, from a star Of the 1fth masni
nSty.six years, from star OF the twelfth !
n,tIdc four thousand years. Light which lie
star Of the twelfth magnitude when the Israel
let Egypt has not yet reached the earth.
says ysasayan' ahI let US take 1t for granted
II isl so,