The national Republican., 1867-12-05

| NO COWS out tncrc'
KrRny SMITH has decided to move to shelby
willie, KY, to take the presidency Of Shelby Col
lege.
TIM salmon" which now fills the Ohio Is
| hne fish, hut docs not belong to the Sainonfdr at
| all.
THB st. Lawrence restaurant in Cincinnati
| has the finest single room of any restaurant In
! the country.
! THE father, in Bernc, Switzerland, docs the
wooing for his son with the parents Of the girl
whom the boy loves.
THE English make sixty thousand tons OF
cheese year The production is larger than
usual this season.
MouAIR, and the hair of the lama goat, are
used extensively in the manufacture OF CHG
mons, waterfalls, etc.
SIDNEY, Australia, has an IHusirGied Ncirs,
which is a handsome sheet, modelled after Its
London namcsake.
A MAN was run over by the cars at Provi-
dcncc last week and killed, though his skin was
not broken.
REV. Mn. 5. BAKER, Wesleyan missionary to
the FIJI Islands, with ak Christian natives, has
been killed and eaten BY cannibals.
JOSH BILLINGs's lecture in Mcridcn, Ct, on
Thursday night was on milk" The manager
who hired him saw no cream in the matter, for
1t is said he is AS out of pocket
OBERLiS COLLEGE has gained n suit which
confirms Its title to nearly 10000 acres OF land in
Doddridge county, Va The suit has been pend
ing for six years.
The Minneapolis (Minn.) waterworks arc
failure, for the time being, the bulkhead wall,
four feet thick, having been burst out on the
letting In OF the water.
Miss AMANDA WAY, of Randolph county,
Ohio, is on a lecturing tour in behalf of pro-
| hibitory temperance law She is Grand Worthy
Chief OF the Good Templars.
CLERGYMgN in England are not required to pay
toll on the turnpikes. One is now going through
the courts to prove his right to take his wife
| with him.
An organization Of Southern ladies in reduced
circumstances has been formed at Houston, to do
sewing, and has undertaken several large con-
tracts.
The building of the Cincinnati type foundry is
six hundred feet long. Everything necessary to
a complete job or newspaper office is made there,
from type to printing presses.
WHEN Sitka belonged TO Russia 1t took six
months to Interchange communications with the
capital with our capital it only takes as many
days.
CHARLES l.. WILSON, the proprietor of the
, Chicago Evening Journal gives all the married
men in his employ turkey every year, for
Thanksgiving-a premium on matrimony.
GLYCERIsE is very extensively used In Russia
for the hands, face and ears, on account OF the
intense cold. twill not freeze at any temper
ature.
A NEW STYLE of ladys shoe for the Southern
market is made at Lynn, Mass, with the sole
thin wafer and the heels very high and ia
pering to the circumference of a three-cent piece
IS Chicago the newspapers report that the porl
season has opened with great deal more vigo
than in former years, and more prosperoul
v season than has been known for some years Il
anticipated.
MR.. DICKENS visited the Boston schoO-shll
the other day, and made a speech to the np
r prenticcs, winding up with, Boys, just do al
the good you can, and don't make any fus
IS | about it.n
AHEAvr GALE having blown open the draw il
4 the Fairhaven, Mass, bridge on Friday night
the workmcn fastened 1t temporarily by lNshin
q | planks across. Before o'clock next mOrnn
these planks had all been stolcn-for flre-wood
/. probably.
The inmates of the Massachusetts State priso
at Charlestown had their annual ThAnksgivin
treat on Thursday, and James Atherton, undo
sentence for life, was liberated for good bchavio
II according TO custom He had served out te
years previously.
" IN the old church yard at Little Compto
Rhode Island, is gravestonc with the followln
Of Inscription:
5. "Here lyeth the body OF Elizabeth the wife
,e William Pabodie, who dyed May ye 81, I'LL, an
In the ol year Of her age. This Is the first whit
female born in this country"
y THg following quaint epitaph on husband m
wife Is to be seen In one of the Partisan Gem
Dr tcries;
ia" ""T.TiTI;!y iI:lsy fSntctiRSs SsHR 6oqTA i. !" ''
!" So the good woman was forty years making u
her mind to follow her husband.
~ OS one branch Of the Madison river, in No
= tana, the hot springs may be counted by hu
10 drcds, and some OF them are gcyscTs, or spoutlI
wells, OF very high temperature. This stFCa
e- used to be called the Fire Hole river. II
Sinking Water river derives its name from
NJ large spring OF sulphurated hydrogen near
source.
W The editor of the MoHidhd Herald says he h
seen six fine sapphires, taken from Claim No.
H. on Eldorado Bar, which have just been elegant
cut In New York city. Experienced lapldarI
pronounce the stones to be of very fine quail
IT and second only to diamonds in value Tn
are in color light and dark blue, straw color Al
ne red.
rs PARIS almanac, just published, states til
along the BOulcvards, between the Madcle
IN and the Bastile, there are less than 1870 cai
ed and wine shops, and only seven bakers. It a
pears, moreover, that although there are no lc
he than thirteen theatres and other places of anu,
or mcnt along the same line Of route there are on
two post Offices and three rcnding-rooms.
at OXR of Westons old shoes, with proper attcs
*, tion Of It's genuinencss, was received BY mail
Portland, Me-, with the following inscription
=, the tag attached to the package 4" One of W,
aa toms shocs, procured at enormous expense
the citizens Of Cleveland, Ohio, and present
by them to the citizens of Portland, Me-, al
''e monument to the enterprise Of one of Its ci
zcnsn
~, Personal.
a Hon r. o. HOWE, the distinguished Senat
from Wisconsin, returned yesterday from his
ut cent trip to Europe, and resumed his seat in I
NV Senate.
Col. CApRON yesterday took the oath
0 a Commissioner of Agriculture.
We NOTICE the names Of the following Wa
ingtonians in New York yesterday MessTs.