The national Republican., 1867-12-09
PEN, PENCIL, AVID SCISSORS.


and quantities this season,
DIscosrEsrED southerncrs are trying to find
comfort In British Guiana.
A TWENTY-FIVE acre skating park is to be
opened at Dayton, Ohio.
SASDusKY has a building association with
three hundred thousand dollars capital.
PENCIL directions will hereafter cause letters
| to be sent to the Dead Letter office.
SYRACUSE surgeons manage to advertise all
their operations through reporters, Sc.
OSE man In the London post Office does moth
ing but dccipher instructions.
THE base ball players at Peoria, ILL.,, are to
have a match game on the ice.
In Denver, Colorado, they have Young
American Christian Association.
THE Pullman sleeping car now runs from Buff
falo to the Rocky Mountains.
LAFAYETTE, Indiana, boasts horse over six
feet high and under four years old.
ATHLETIC butter sells at sixty cents per pound
in New Orleans, and is quoted strong.
CHICAGO has "Tonsorial Palace OF the
west"
HousroS, Texas, is afflicted with charivari
concerts.
A sIxrY-YooT whale has been seen in Hampton
Roads.
PooR butter sells for sixty cents per pound at
New Orleans.
Docs are vaccinated in France and England to
cure distemper.
The new reservoir at Cincinnati has an area
| Of over thirteen acres.
| A MINNESOTA PAPER calls the Norwcsians
| "short-waisted newcomers"
| A Sgw patent three-wheel dray is in use at
New Bedford. II is success.
The Andrew Female College at Cuthbert, Ca,
has been injured by fire.
THE average rate of working through the
cable, at present, is eleven words per minute.
A Yox squirrel four feet long was killed in
Augusta county, Virginia, a few days ago.
THEY talk OF making a second Baden Of 81.
Louis by licensing the gambling saloons.
ONE out of three Kentucky girls elope for the
sake Of romance.
STEAMERS and horses make the quickest
time on record" periodically, every six months.
CHICAGO papers speak of Cleveland, Detroit,
and ST. Paul as rural towns around Chicago"
The great.work of raising the grade of all the
business portion OF Chicago is nearly completed.
AN effort is being made to establish in Cleye-
land medical college and hospital for women.
We find pondcrous supplements among the
hles Of our exchanges just now.
The labor OF Russia is said to be admirably
organized for effectiveness.
TWELVE degrees below zero in Minnesota.
wheni
EIGHTEEN European cities have streets named
after the late President Lincoln.
EIoHTEES thousand persons arc employed on
the Ohio railroads.
The milk with which Paris is supplied is pro-
verbally excellent.
IsrELLIGENcE OFFICES are among the con-
stantly multiplying swindlIng affairs of St.
Louis.
ST. LOUIS has forty brcweries which have
turned out 27l,OOO barrels of beer in fourteen
months.
Or green wood for fuel hickory is the best
Oak and pine are the worst. Beech and maple
are good.
A PARTY OF Scotch gentlemen in the Grand
River District Of Missouri brought in thousand
pounds OF venison from six days hunt.
LETTER for Chatham -Four Corners directed
"Kstamvorkan," was dropped into Massaehu-
setts post office.
A PEpEsTRIAN at Providence is In training for
a hundred-mile walk He does thirty miles a
day.
BosToS must add million-dollar court house
to her list OF new expenses. The present one is
| too small.
FLAX is so profitable in Canada that -four mills
| have been turned into linen mills, and near
Preston twelve hundred acres OF fax were raised
The bell-rInger at Essex Market, New York,
who bore the appropriate name OF Tinker, was
found dead in his tower at midnight on Tuesday.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is thirty-six years old and
| a bachelor. The brave little warrior can face
everything but marriage.
In going and returning from church yesterday
the shady side OF the street was not sought after
with much affection we think.
GENERAL SHERMAN is in town, the guest Of
General Grant. He will hold council with the
Indian commissioners to-day. He will remain
with us until February, 1t is stated.
The loss Of life and property In Calcutta and
vicinity, by the cyclone, has been fearful. 1t is
| estimated that one thousand persons perished
| Thirty thousand tents and habitations were ut
| terly destroyed.
| GARIBALDIs confinement at Valignano seems
to be pretty rigid. He is not allowed to write or
receive letters his sons are not allowed to visit
him: and he Is not permitted to walk out unless
attended, and submits to close confinement rath-
er than to be watched thus.
THE late run OF the steamer City of Paris from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook was made In seven
days twenty-three hours, and four minutes, and
is four hours shorter than the quickest passage
ever made by the Cunard steamer Scotia, which
was in July, 1890.