The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1867-03-25
Pen. Pencil and Scissors.

rOuhIhkN lNChhS VI snOM lch III ouhoiO
last Friday.
TuE Maison Doree, New York, is to be
used as dry.soods store.
Way are chickens denied immortality 7
Ans. Because they have their necks twirlsd In this
The little ship "Red, White and Blue" has
been duplicated in New York.
THERE we're no deaths in the town Of Sears.
burg, Vt, last year, and there are no doctors in
the place.
IT takes fifty years to grow a crop Of lum'
Der in Maine. Boards twenty inches wide have
been raised in forty.thrss years
A SILVER and bronze medal has been given
to Mr. Frank Buckland, the English naturalist, for
his services in salmon and oyster culture.
The Great Confscator thinks the rebels
are yet unsubdued, and acknowledge they arc foe
men worthy his steal.
Why is a street railway conductor like
prize. ashter3 Because he aims for knock
down on every round.
A SWEET POTATO from the Azores, weigh
Ing thirteen and quarter pounds and thirty inches
in circumference, is on exhibition In Boston,
WARS the difference between pound Of
meat and a drummer.boy7 Ans.-one weighs
pound and the other pounds away.
AT Canandaigua, n. Y, SOLOMON n.
BEIRcE who was convicted Of bribery Of the jury
in recent trial against insurance companies, was
sentenced to pay nue Of $1,000.
Providence, r. l., is furnishing one thou.
sand garments for Crete. Now wouldn't some
thing for southern crsters DO equally acceptable -
BostoR Post.
THE Boston papers deny that MAGGIE
docs not intend to be caught in the moose very
soon.
SoxE London correspondent, animated by
fendish hatred for Disraeli, says that the perora
ton Of his speech on reform was lin Summers worst
vein"
Az ash tree was cut in Skowhegan, Maine,
few days since, the trunk Of which measured 40
feet in length, and scaled 1905 feet board meas
ure. II used as fuel, what heap Of ashes that
tree would have made.
The pot calling the kettle black-the
Blrnaels denouneiDg the Southern negroes who
fraterniro with any other whites except the radi-
cal missionaries from the North as "blsck copper.
beads
The corning.mill and clearinghouse be.
longing to the wapwOllOpen powder. mills at scran'
ton, Pa, blew up on Tuesday last. Tho cause Of
the explosion is entirely unknown. One man was
killed.
The will Of the late PAUL r. GEORGE, Of
Washington, n. II. has been sustained BY tho su.
| prems Judicial Court of New Hampshire. The
amount involved is $3.50, 900. The will was con,
tested on the ground that it was made on Sunday
The political canvass IN Connecticut is be
coming spirited. The usual indications of a sharI
and well. contested fight begin to appear. Th,
newspapers are accusing each other of faiSehood
forgery, and other peccadillOes Of similar kind.
THE Board of Trade at Buffalo have re
soinded their former action Of adopting the centa
system also, in declaring that a barrel Of -four
shall contain two hundred pounds, thus practically
returning to tho old system.
SPAIN is about authorizing the laying o.
another telegraph cable in Spanish dominions. Tn,
proposed line is to connect Cuba, Porto Rico, Mex
loo ard Panama. It Is also to make junction will
the Florida and Cuba telegraph, already author
| ized.
| CHICAGO is likely to rival Brooklyn rs Q
City Of Churches. In 1866 1t reports twenty.fou
new churches, costing 800, 0O0i two churches pro
| jected Sl35 900; ten churches repaired, $50 900
total $685., 900; and some Of the edifces are ADM
rable specimens Of church architecture.
Mr.. SoLoN SuINGLE has got stubb-tai
briudle COW case coming of into court " this week
| T.. 4. II. "A IL
never sec the Supreme Court upon appeal, but tn
Chief Justice and his associates will see the cas-
tried "if the court know herself and she think sh
do"
We regret to hear that in some portion
Of Russell county Va. the grsEsrS are losing larI
numbers Of cattle, owing to the scarcity Of foe
and the severity and duration Of the winter. Gree
fears are entertained that the losses of cattle
that section will DO very serious indeed
SIXTY buildings were destroyed by tn
great ere at Boutwell,, Canada, on Monday nigh
including seven hotels and two printing Office
The loss Is estimated At 500, 900 in gold. Mo
of the sufferers arc Americans, who were engage
in oil speculation. Their property was mostly il
sured
THE Intelligencer publishes an afectin
sequel 10 the Dean Boxer elopement. Mrs. Deal
1t states, had been rescued from a state of utt
misery. and worse than misery, in this city, NJ
furnished with home, from which, however, 81
has again disappeared.
A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds Of Il
press stating that "Mr. L, W. Jerome has failed
that he has disposed of bis interest In tho Tim
establishment, and on Saturday made an assig
msnt Of his banking effects " 1t originated we b
lieve, with the EVeRIng Ga=stte Of this city. Ea
statement which 1t contains is utterly and total
untruo.-N Y. Tins.
The St. Augustine (Florida) Erdmim
says tho orange crop has been underestimate
From one grove ninety thousand havo been sol
The prospect for next year is very fine. The L
amimer snys: The trees are perfectly loaded wi
blossoms. many Of them looking like an INNER
bouquet. Ono or two Of the largest groves in t
vicinity of the city will. If tho season coutinu
favorable, bear between 100, 900 and 300 900.
course 1t is as yet impossible to make appro
innate est innate, but the crop, provided we have
severe frost, will surpas' by far any that we h
for years"
Tab leaux at Jrrome's Priv to Theatre.
Zero me, the great New Yorker, has been giv'
tableau in lis private theatre. An account say