The national Republican., 1867-08-27
Pen, Pencil, ana Scissors.

oceanic postage.
Ex-PREsIDENr BUCHANAN is in his 77th
year.
Miss ANNA E. DICKINSON is advertised |
to le,ture in Boston on December 9Th.
The yacht yesta, one Of the ocean |
racers, Is reported to have been sold IN Boston |
last week to the Government. Price $50, 900.
The British poet laureate is busy laying
out a new estate he has purchased, and no more
poetry may bo expected from him at present.
GEN. JOHN @. FREMONT, at last accounts,
was chief engineer and superintendent Of
southern railroad.
ANCIENT and modern Greece is now
known among classical students as whale oil and
petroleum.
The Chicago tiger" and St. Louis
lawyer fought for $4,000 side the other night.
The lawyer whipped.s
THERE are said to be thirteen thousand
cats in Louisville, which makes that city the
home of the news.
THERE was booksellers firm in London
some years since which had the encouraging title
Of "Sustenance and Stretch"
One hundred and thirty lodges of Good
Templars have been started in Ohio during the
past year.
The cotton crop in Louisiana has proved
an entire failure. Tennessee has a good corn
crop; also good cotton crop.
JOHN BEIERLy, the Oldest ship builder in
the United States. died at his residence in Phil.
adolphia on Friday evening last.
LOWELL, MASS, has theatre, and twice
during the past week, at the end of the play, the
audience had to bo told to go home.
PRIZE FIGHTS have one redeeming quail
ty, viz Some very bad characters get very
soundly whipped.
The Chicago Times says: "When q supe-
rior rascal graduates anywhere he naturally
comes to Chicago"
LET nobody say after this 'poor worm"
The poor worms, having possessed themselves of
nearly the entire cotton crop, ought to be in
comfortable circumstances, to say the least.
DR.. LAMBERT thinks tripe will make
smart boy. Solomon had very effective way
Of making q boy smart 1t was the external
application Of birch that the "wise man" used.
CnIcAGo has the sea serpent; Nahant
has flying hsh, and now Newport advertises the
arrival Of two "Gn" whales one twenty and the
other thirty.hvs feet long-a little Gshy this.
THERE is u grain of comfort for old
maids in the suggestion that while marriage
lengthcns the life of man. 1t shortens the life of
woman.
THEY have made o raid on the keno
blacklegs in the city of Chicago. They were
driven out of the city. They tried to suppress
the faro gamblers. but without success.
THERE are four thousand persons in
Geneva, Switzerland, employed in making
watches. They seem to bo very anxious about
American competition.
A MAS who had been "babbling" in his
sleep was arrested at Buffalo the other day on
suspicion of being a murderer, but the court |
promptly discharged him.
II is understood that the London mer-
chants do not intend this year to offer the usual
premium to the first ship from China with tho
seasons teas. Honce there will be no racing.
MoRRIssEY AND HEENAS are said to be
on the best of terms. Both are famous and have
the appsarance'o men with whom time and the
world have dealt gently.
A BARKEEPER in st. Louis had his bed
made up on the window-sill Of the fourth story,
and woke up TO find himself in an ash-barrel on
the pavement, with broken back.
SIX MONTHS ago Boston house sent out
cargo of 500 hosp skirts to Japan as venture
The Japs put a cover on them and used them for
umbrellas. To what base uses, DC.
Tue Cottas, the largest book publishers
of Munich, Stuttgart, and Augsburg, are said to
be worth $40, ,O0O, 900. They have made several
millions from Schiller and Goethe.
JEREMIAH DAY, D. D., L. L. D., ex-presi.
dent of Yale College, died at New Haven on
Thursday night at the age of o. years. He was
born at New Preston, Connecticut, August 3,
I773i,gradunted from Yale in 1875,
Az afflicted editor, who is troubled with
hand organs under the window longs for the
"evl days" mentioned in Ecclosiastes, when
the grinders shall cease because they are few
and "the sound Of the grinding shall be low"
W. Is. BorRN, formerly prompt and
faithful carrier boy of the Providence Journal,
has tho pleasure this year of paying a tax on an
income Of Sl25S76 in San Francisco-the second
in amount in tho city.
The steel of Il hoopskirt gaiter, fan,
and groaFo spot, wsre found on the sidewalk
Of ono of our streets yesterday, 1t is supposed
lady unfortunately mC!tod and that these were
her remains.
TIE following coloQuy was over heard
in the Centre Market on Saturday last Ma, II
you will give me peach will bO good boy"
mo, my child, you must not bo good for pay
that is not right" "You don't want me to be
good for nothing, do you"
some three thousand persons were
obliged to remain out oil night Friday last in
the rain at Hull, Mass. They were visitors from
Boston and were doomed to this Prigation in
consequence Of the refusal of the steamboat cap.
tain to make extra trips to take them home
The steamer City ofsParis, on Saturday
last, from New York, took out two American
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