New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-22
EDITORIAL AND NEWS ITEMS.


EDITORIAL AND NEWS ITEMS.
Gseat Britain paid from eight to ten
millioN dollars for imported eggs last year
Building cottages of blocks of coal are
suggested in Illinois, where lumber is
scarce
Hoopskirts cause the obstruction of the
Detroit city sewers. Petticoats are at the
bottom of all mischief
A pleasant mother in Ohio has whipped
two of her children to death and rendered
another idiotic by her violence.
OF alli the young women mentioned in
the Bible, Ruth seems to have treated her
sweetheart the worst. She pulled his ears
and trod on his corn.
1t is reported that manufacturer in New
York city has an order for 100000 thin.
bles, at Is cents a dozen, for gift enter
prise, tickets 80 cents, and no blanks.
A boy in school, when called to recite
his lesson in history, was asked:
''What is the German Diet ~
"Sourkrout, schnapps, andsausage."
The Boston Journal says that at a din
ner given by the directors of one of the
State street banks in Boston lately there
were present, among others, thirty gentle
men worth Sl,0O0,00O each
"Let no man deceive himself" says
Petrarch, by thinking that the contagious
of the soul are less than those of the body.
They are greater; they sink deeper, and
creep on more unexpectedly"
An Italian marquis has been condemned
to six months Imprisonment, and to be de.
graded from his rank and honors, for en-
bezzling ll53 francs intrusted to him to
buy books for a soldiers library.
The paper that has the honor of being
the smallest and most expensive in the
country is published in Brice city, Idaho
1t is not so large as an eating-house nap
kin. and sells for fifty cents copy.
The planters in Alabama who turned o q
the freedmen for voting the Republica n
ticket find themselves confronted with this
momentous question; Shall we emplo J
the freedmen, or shall we starve? A de
cision is hourly expected in favor of the
freedmen.
The largest organ in the world is said tc
be in the little city of Freyburg, in Swift
zerland. When in full play, it pours forth
tempest OF sounds through forest o.
pipes seven thousand eight hundred in
number, shaking the walls and foundations
of the old church in which it stands.
Rev. Mr.. Wright, pastor of the zior
church, Lansingburg, New York, says: ~
wish to say that never went to school one
day in my life. went to bed not knowing
how to read in the Bible, and the rex
morning could read any chapter in the
book"
An editor up West says he would as soon
try to get to sea on a shingle, make lad
der of fog, chase a streak of lightning
through crab-apple orchard, swim heels
first up Niagara river, or set Lake Erie OF
fire with a wet match, as to stop lovers get
ting married when they take it into thei
heads to do so.
There is scarcely profession or occupa
ton under the sun which is not liable to b.
rendered unremunerative by competition
A sad case comes from the Rio Grande. /
noted Mexican bandit who was recent,
shot expressed his perfect willingness t,
die, as the business was SO overerowdeC
that he could no longer make living O.
the road.
Al old lady once said that her idea of
great man was a man who was keerful {
his clothes, didn't drink sperits, kin read th
Bible without spellin' the words, and ki
eat q cold dinner on wash days to save tn
wimmin folks the trouble of cooking"
Horatio King, for a few days postmaste
general at the close of the Buchanan at
ministration, was before the impeachmer
managers the other day, who expected
elicit something from him in reference t
his dealings with Andrew johnson. Nj
King is accustomed to carrying water o
both shoulders, and of course had nothin
satisfactory or interesting to say.