The national Republican., 1867-12-04
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Paris. Ns f H ~
TuR artesian baths, in Terre Hsute, Ind, are
TO be free TO the public.
A MAN in Rockford, Ill, made over u, 900 from
crops raised of four acres Of land.
WHISKY has been declared a necessary of life
by a court In Wisconsin.
ALL the seats have been bought for Ristorrs
entertainment at Havana.
MISSOURI cattle are again suffering from coming
In contact with diseased Texas cattle.
IT Is reported that the bed of Monongahela
river is sprinkled every day to lay the dust.
WHY are cheese mites like book Of Bulwer's I
Because they are the Pilgrims of the Rhine.
RATS ate man who died alone at Providence,
RI.
OMAHA boot-blaeks "shino en- up" for forty
Eve cents.
DprESBAcH has sent letter Of congratulstion
to Dateman on account Of the "Grand Duchess"
EDITORIAL leading is the term used for shoot.
ing Western editor.
The Hungarian Legislature thinks Of emanci-
pating the Jews.
woop was a very dear Mayor; we don't want
n Dariing.-Nev York Leader.
LITTLE boys sold out their places In the Dick
ems file In New York for Is.
WOODEN legs cost the Government last year
ssS, ,2oO.So.
ENGLAND is to have a special war tax OF q
penny on pound to defray the expenses Of the
Abyssinian war.
THE Board Of Fire Underwriters, New York,
has appropriated $50 900 to be used In paying re-
wards for the detection OF fincendiarism.
A DESCENDANT of Robespierre, said to be his
last, died lately in Vienna, in extreme destitu-
tion.
The frame work OF the Exposition building in
Paris weighs over twenty-seven millions OF
pounds, and is advertised for sale.
THE Boards OF Education in New Haven,
Connecticut, have voted to Introduce drawing
into the public schools.
TURKEY, or something that resembles the
noble bird, can be bought in Boston, Masssehu-
sets, at ten cents pound.
RICH farmers daughter recently, near Ro-
chester, New York, stole watch from a peddler
and secreted 1t in her waterfall.
Two WOMEN had duel in Kansas, the other
day, and one Of them was shot In the head. 1t
was all about man.
LAST SUNDAY was the first day OF the week,
OF the month"; OF winter, and OF the EcclesiastL
cal year.
THE price of rat skins for the purpose OF maxi
ing gloves is higher now In Paris than II has
ever been before.
THE Mechanics Institute, of Toronto, have
offered Mr.. Dickens tl 900 for single reading in
that city.
NEW ORLEANS paper speaks of an attrac-
| tive youth "whose ambrosial curls repose In
greaseful case"
The Countess OF Danner is alive, and enjoying
herself in spite of the obituary notices written
| of her.
| A l.. IA
husband on Thanksgiving day by presenting him
with two boys and a girl.
MIKE McCooLE and Joe Coburn are in Chi
cago. They went into one of the theatres there
lately, and had private box.-Erehange.
WHICH of the apostles was the best cricket
playeri Paul, who "stood before the eleven,
| and was bold.n
A CHICAGO divorce case rests on the complaint
Of the lady that her husband made her get up in
the middle of the night and make the bed over.
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE, Edmund Yates, and othe,
English novelists are following Dlekens's exam
pie in reading their own productions.
A SOUTHERN barber wants the champion
ship for shaving twelve men in twenty-hv,
minutes. whatd do the twelve men think about It
A FAMOUS German prima donna, who few
years ago was paid a thousand forms a song
died in rags in cellar In Berlin recently. Beauty
voice, and money went rapidly.
The negroes in the South are greatly oppose,
to the military, and they say that II the miitar
are withdrawn, they 1.-THE negroes) will max
: short work of reconstruction.
REBEL guerilla named Wells insists upon
2 that he was not hanged two years ago in Ker
lucky, in spite OF official record Of that even
0 in the Bureau Of Military Justice.
8 THE New York canal tolls for October wer
| su-E 4ha Ia.
u ceived-and those for November are expected t
reach tl, 100000.
THERE Is a very intelligent hen at wheelin,
Va, which belongs to the wife of an expires
, agent. The eggs laid by the hen are marked
), with rails ed letters, &c. o. D."
The Cairo egypt supply of water comes frol
/ "Joseph's Well" 1t is fifteen feet in diamete
and three hundred feet deep. Mules are at wor
A hauling up water day and night
n DR.. CoNsTANTISE SIMoSIDEs, the notoriou
: forger of antique manuscripts, In Greek, Syria
( Coptic, and other Eastern languages, died n
+ Gently at Alexandria, Egypt, of leprosy.
= An Iowa German pastor proposed 10 a lady
| Germany, after an exchange OF photograph
She accepted, crossed the ocean and thousan
miles of land, and they have just been marrie
:. IN Indiana a reaction in the matter of gran
ing divorces is noted Out OF fny-eight petition
!. for divorce recently before the courts in Ne
= Albany, only Ave were granted.
= THE contagion OF fashionable drunkenness
said to have broken out In Cincinnati anon
i women Of society. No doubt the story Ia
2 slander.
e THE skull OF Prof. Morlot is preserved with hi
c name engraved on 1t in the Museum at Berne,
accordance with a direction in the Professor
il will.
The railway capital invested in Great Britai
I Is over " 200 900. English roads average
o per cent. dividends, Scottish AZ, and Iris
:, nearly y3.
An Illinois editor, all OF whose memories al
n associated with the war, says he does not kno
! what Fitz Green Halleck could do as a poet, BIT
g that he was very bad general. Such is fame
= THE assurance OF DR.. Livingstone's safety
very slight. 1t is contained In letter from d
Kirk, of Zanzibar, who reports a conversatio
J. with native trader, who had seen a white ma
i travelling in remote region.
II sINoLE county in the mining districts
Q Pennsylvania had hfty-two murders within thrs
years. Since the passage OF an act increasir