The national Republican., 1867-12-13
PEN, PENCIL, AND scissors.

GLOVES must be removed before one can be
presented to the Pope.
The Louisville Academy OF Music Is occupied
by circus now.
MILWAUKEE is to have s,ecs,oeo worth Of
water works.
THEY hunt buffalo by railroad In Kansas.
what won't the Pacific railroad dol
CHICAGO has a new spectacular ballet over
which II is going wild.
A $4,000 hotel is being erected at yincennes,
Ind.
GENERAL KIT CARSON has gone to Santa Fe,
to be mustered out Of the United States service.
A BRASS BANp Is to be formed at Seymour,
Conn, by stock company Of 81 800 capital.
A BREACH Of promise case Is occupying the at
tention Of arbritrators in Oh City.
THE Brooklyn Uaton calls the skating season
"The Rosy Cheek Carnival"
On THE l4th uitimo a volcanic eruption took
place near Leon, in Nicaragua.
By the recent earthquake at st. Thomas a
canal was drained and kept dry for eight hours.
ABOUT three hundred Enaeds day arc now
renovated at the armory at Springfield, Mass.
RoNK has church service for every day in the
year.
WARDEN RICE, Of Thomaston Mel State
prison, owns chair 22o years old.
| ASsExArIos to Boston is now called "suf.
| folkation."
| HALr Of the dress circle At the Galveston
theatre, Texas, is reserved for freedmen.
| A CURIOSITY dealer In Brussels advertises for
sale "two teeth OF Napoleon ILL.,"
THE largest cotton mandatory In tho world
is building at Tuftsville, Conn.
A LONDON merchant has issued sseo 900 worth
Of forged bills OF exchange,
| NEGRO chicken thief In Montgomery shot a
young woman who discovered him.
Asst. LouIs bride wore a trail fifteen feet long
| So says the New York Moi.
The Illinois State University is to be sold to
pay its debts.
An Artemus Ward, ir., has put In feeese sp.
pesrance.
The Paris Conservatory has bought the flute
Of Frederick the Great for Its museum.
| yIcroR Hcoo considers Tennyson's " Locksley
Halp' the nnest poem English cotemporary
literature can boast.
BEARD has finished his picture Of the "Old
Woman who lived in Shoe" 1t is placed on
exhibition here in January.
WHEN the ladies Of the Court Of Sweden got
through hugging and kissing Admiral Farragut,
they each and all exclaimed: Parry gootp
ScorcH papers announce the temperance of
the cattle plague. Already numbers OF sheep
and other animals have died.
The thermometer was two degrees below zero
at Troy yesterday. The river is frozen over
there.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin thinks It
strange that the seen painter at the theatre is
never visible to the audience.
THERE were ave fires In Detroit on Saturday
night after midnight. None Of them were Of im-
portance.
BOXING master in Albany had his arm broken
on Friday while boxing with an unskilled but
strong pupil.
oBALDwIs, the Irish giant and pugilist, 10 ex-
pected in New York shortly. His height is feet
| az inches.
An auetioneer sold sixty-seven shares Of n
Portland manufacturing company under cloud
last week at six cents the share.
WHY are young ladies' kissing each other like
Christianityi Because they do as they would
like to have others do unto them.
JoHs s. APPLEaArE, a prominent citizen Of
Greencastle, Ind, died a few days since, after q
protracted illness, contracted in the Anderson
willie prison pen.
An oil well near Pleasantyille, Pa, owned by
Spirituslists, will be completed during the mex,
ten days. The medium who located the well sold
several sixteenths at 5000 each.
MARK TWAIN, lecturing on the Sandwich
Islands, offered to show how the cannibals eat
their food II some lady would hand him baby
The lecture was not illustrated.
The burglars, thieves, and robbers Of Indian
spolis and vicinity held a meeting in that cit,
last week, and formed a mutual protectiv,
society.
AN elaborate dinner service, inlaid with gold
and intended for presentation set, was finished
by New York jewelry house last week, at
I cost Of $4,000.
! THE operatives of the Littleton IN. II. woolleI
mills have refused to work for Is per cent. reduc
tion Of their wages, and the mills are stoppe,
until spring.
HORSE was tripped and thrown down b,
, stepping into lady's hoop skirt, the other da
at Lowell, Mass, but the wearer escaped un
, hurt.
@. b. Moore, of Goifstown, N. H., has sent t
Boston, this fall, one hundred and sixty bushel
Of chestnuts, for which he received nearly q
900.
= The Frcnehmen who arc tunnelIng under tn
t Convent OF st. Domingo, at Mexico, have foun
a several bodies which had apparently been burie
d alive. One OF them Is richly dressed, with gol
n embroidery.
Hon. CAssIus NJ. CLAY, our Minister at s.
Petersburg, continues 10 very poor health. II
has little farm few miles out OF the city, an
devotes his spare hours to hunting, fishing, an
other outdoor psstimes.
e LET any one who wants to know how his Al
Q cestors cooked HOLSTERS in A. D. 1881, read: "FO
. to cook Holsters He schal be rostyd In his scaly
d In ovyn, other by the Feer under panne, an
etyn wyth Venegar."
some Boston sports offered 500 to a Germa
Q to walk around the common In thirty minute
9 with an eight-galon keg Of lager on his shoulde
the other evening, and he won his money
twenty minutes, easily.
The Black Crook" will be "played outn
New York the first week In January. The ne
piece, now rehesrsing, is believed to be callt
the White Fawn," and to be a legitimate su
cessor TO the Black Crook.n
A In the settlement of an estate in Indiana II
|, son Of the deceased, who had, during his father
!. illness, managed the farm and appropriated II
d profits without paying rent, put In a claim
500 for shaving and nursing his parent duriI
that time.
e AN extraordinary hood has occurred at Ha
= kow. The Yang-tse-kiang having fallen feet
j. inches, suddenly rose In IS hours feet inche
e The Chinese say that in the province OF Shan