New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Cincinnati has 266 Brown families, $40 of
the Jones, 200 Williams, $50 Blillers, and $50
Schmidts.
Solomon advises the sluggard to go to the
ant, but the shifJless in our day generally go
to their uncle.
A gentleman who has been on the coast
of Africa, all over the extreme Southern
States, and in many other hot places, and
who once sat down upon a hot stove, says
he never suffered from the heat as he did in
Boston on the Fourth.
A woman in Paris, keeping a matrimonial
Office, has added to her establishment ste.
reoscopic panorama, where portraits of the
candidates for welded bliss may be seen by
all those who pay fee OF ten francs. Most
Of the portraits are believed to be bogus.
Mr.. Stevens predicts the day when we can
look down from the Rocky Mountains upon
3 hundred millions of happy people. Even
then we will be far behind the Emperor of
China, who can look down from any con-
venient mountain in his empire on four
hundred millions of inhabitants.
Prince Alfred remarks concerning his
visit to the colonies of the Southern hemi-
sphere: I. In Adelaide they robbed me, in
Melbourne they mobbed me, in Sidney they
shot me, but in Queensland they took me to
Jondayon.n Jondayon is huge uninter-
esting plain where Alfred got "a second.
rate feed" at an unreasonable hour, and
slept in the railway station.
At one Of the latest balls in Paris lady,
very beautiful but the wife of an exceed
ingly jealous husband, asked brave captain
to dance with her. The gallant officer
could not prevent an exclamation Of aston
ishment. "What is the matter, Captain ~
said the lady; s'you know my husband is
jealous, but so jealous that am Obliged TO
choose partner who would not excite his
favorite passion"
A strange lady in New Haven, walking
with an undergraduate of Yale, said: How
interesting and impressive are those memo.
rial buildings; / have seen two or three; no
Windows--so still ~ Siudent-"They are
where the secret societies of college meet,
believe why, | did not know that
science had any secrets, since the sun SO
cheerfully lends his brightest rays to the
photographer, and the ocean is not dis
turbed BY the CABLE" the lady said. Stu
dent-"Ahem Yes, ma-am."
An anchor dropped from the car Of the
balloon as It cut loose at New Bedford,
Massachusetts, and striking a Taunton boy
named Maltgan, fractured his skull. II
then caught In the clothing of two other
boys, and carried them up about forty feet,
when the aeronaut cut the line. They tell in
some trees and though taken up insensible
will probably recover.
A paper hanger Of Reubaix, France, fell
q victim to his imprudenee come short time
back BY going to his breakfast without drst
washing his hands after hadling some green
papering. The inquest proved that death
was caused BY the introduction into the
system Of salts Of copper. now so much
used in the mannlacture of green colOring
TOR paper.
Amirage was visible lately at Dover, En-
gland. The dome Of the cathedral and
Napoleon's Pillar at Boulogne were to be
seen from the Crescent Walk By the naked
eye, but with q telescope Of ordinary power
the entrance Of the port its lighthouse, lie
shlppiag, and the surrounding houses. the
valley gf the hill side Of Capecure end The
little hahing village Of Portel were dis
tinctiy visible; while on the eastern side
the principal features Of the country, she
lighthouse Of Cape Grinez, the adiaceat
windmill, numerous farms aud viilages
with their windows illuminated By the set
ting sun, stood out with extraordinarr
ciearness. While these were under observe
ticns o locomotive was aeen 70 leave Bou.
iqguc aud travel some miles IN the caisis
dlfarton 81 iis pnfis and Wreaths OF white
steam Shortly after sunset the HIsage SOB.
sided