The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1867-03-19
Pen, Pencil and Scissors.

President Harrison and General McPherson.
A YOUNG LADY must make hit II she dis
likes to be a Understandable Journal.
A CANADIAN practical joker has been an
noying Kingston people by painting the Fenian
cOat.of.Erms on their fences.
Why is Admiral Farragut like the Venus
Aphrodite7 Answer-Because he rose from the
sea-
A FIRM in Cincinnati advertised few days
since for porter and had 800 applications within
the noIt "a hours.
A BARREL Of Southern -four will make
twenty pounds more bread than barrel Of Illinois
-four.
WHEN Mr.. Peabody returns to England he
will report to his friends there that We have Tip.
ton slashsr in the United States Senate.
A YOUNG MAN named F. Whiting was
kicked in the breast by horse at circus in Ports
mouth, Va, on Monday night, and died from Its
effects.
A FREDERICKSBURG correspondent Of the
New York Herald mentions a meeting Of negroes
in that city, at which the radical doctrines Of Hun
nicutt were denounced BY cOlorsd orator.
A LETTER was received at our city post
Office yesterday with the following address " Corn
Knscl you us Smith, Richmond, virginney."
Richmond Di,pateh.
GEN. ScuoFrELD has suspended the munich
pal election at Fredericksburg. It's probable that
he will do the same all over the State, and the old
officers will hold over.
CONGRESS begins to exhibit signs Of coming
mi. II
a session Of thirty minutes. We shall part from
Congress with emotion
A GENUINE Now Yorker, recently married,
whose trousseau was exposed to the inspection Of
the newspaper reporters, had twenty -four pairs of
shoes TO match twenty -four different dresses.
A PARLIAMENTARY RETURN just issued
states that the duty on race horses In England last
year was Es, 424, being increase Of E67s on the
preceding year.
The Nova Scotia Parliament met on Sat
urday. The Governors speech congratulates the
House upon the prosperous and peaceable condition
Of the Province and the success Of the confcdera.
tiOn amendment. A lively session is anticipated.
IT is reported that the body Of Louis Fox,
the great billiard player, who has been missing for
several weeks, was found Few days since in the
rear of some empty barrels in the cellar Of the
court. house at Rochester, N. Y.
A HUNTER at Searcy Ark, had killed
deer recently, and was engaged in skinning 1t,
when pack Of wolves attacked and killed him,
and nearly dovoured his body before his condition
was discovered.
A WIDOW LADY, sitting by cheerful FIRE,
in a medhatiye mood shortly after her husbands
decease, sighed out: "Poor fellow, how no did like
good Ere I hope he has gone where they keep
good fires! "
IT WAS reported at the Capitol yesterday
that Senator Wilson would, in pursuance Of his
temperance plan introduce resolution to remove
Winnie Ream's studio from the Capitol to prevent
members from getting on bust" there.
Mr.. SENATOR WILSON wants the Govern
msnt to take charge of the bounty due the negro
soldiers, because they have not sense enough to
take care Of 1t themselves. He then wants the
negroes to take charge Of the Government -Er.
change
The bears have "cornered the weather
out in Minnesota. On Wednesday the mercury was
down to IS degrees below zero in st. Paul Winter
is lingering in the lap of spring up that way, with
q vengeance.
By foreign advices we learn that the EN-
peror of ustria has dissolved the Bohemian
Diet" The diet of bohemians in New York is
crackers and cheese and sausages, and are curl
Gus to know what solvent the Emperor uses
The italian journals announce that NJ.
GirOlamo Soda, proprietor of the celebrated Vile
del Galcotto, near Lecco, on the Lake Of Como,
| nd If linn L., l.,
blown out his brains. As he had much money he
had little brains.
In 1927 Capt. Perry placed at School
Point, in spitzbergen "a depot of meat) some beef
in tin boxes, and was taken to Stockholm and
eaten recently, having been found in a perfect
state Of preservation.
POINT and pith Of the prayers delivered in
Congress of late-"o Lord, Thou knowest that the
majority is always right and the minority wrong
bless the majority and curse the minority, and
Thou shalt have our good opinion and thanks
| BoHOH Post.
Two boxes Of specie containing $4,000
belonging to the Rothchilds were stolen from the
hold of a steamer in the Thames recently. 1t is
the mystery Of the river, and naturally, all the
people along Mapping and Radclif Highway feel
great sympathy with tho ROthsehilds.
A SAD accident occurred at the paper mill
in North Leominster, Mass, on the 18th. Mr.. John
Heath, young man % years Of age, fell into vat
of hot water, being completely immersed to his
chin. lie was SO badly scaldsd thar no died in
about twelve hours,
A MICROSCOPE hes been manufactured in
London which ''mAgnihcs three thousand dametres
with its lowest eye-piece, and fifteen thousand
diametreS with its highest, so that an object Is
made to appear billion FIVE hundred and seventy.
Eve million times larger than 1t really is"
A GENTLEMAN in Boston, who prefers that
his name should not be known, has given 800, 900
to found Theological School lEpiscopaD at Cam
bridge. L. S. Rand Esq, Hon II. G. Winthrop
and Judge J. P. Putnam are appointed trustees to
the fund.
The Missouri Democratic State Central
Committee publish a request that the Democracy Of
the several congressional districts Of this State will
appoint delegates to the National Democratic Con-
vention, to BIO held at Louisville, Ky, the eth
day of May
THE Bangor Wing says silver and copper
ores have been recently discovered in PiscAtaquis