New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The lightning of heaven has killed its
hundreds this summer, but the lightning of
the still Stays its thousands and tens Of
thousands summer and winter.
Miles O'Reillys paper, the New York
Citizen, is offered for sale for So, 900. Some
New York politicians propose to buy it.
and make it Republican paper.
A stranger visiting in Strattord SAYS that
if some Of the "muskeeter0" there were
only painted with the right colors he
should mistake them for canary birds, they
are so stable and so musical.
Stephen II. Phillips, formerly of Salem.
and once Attorney General OF Massachu-
setts, now holds the same Office in the
Sandwich Islands; gets $4,000 in gold q
yetr-equal to $4,000 here-and is a
member eX ohiclo Of the Legislature.
The largest rosebush in France is at
VoUlon. 1t covers wall seventy-fVe feet
long by eighteen in height, and near the
root measures two feet eight inches round,
In the months OF April and May it pro-
duces fifty thousand roses.
Vision is matter of the will, or it
may be the fancy. You see no beauty in
the girl who has just Tilted you. You
never see man who is hunting for you
to have bill paid. Tou never know
that you meet shabbily dressed acauain.
tlnc S You don't recognize the fellow
who saw you holding up a lamp post the
other night. In short, the vision is very
queer.
The fact is being commented upon in
various quarters that the use Of ether and
chloroiorm for exhilirating and stimulat.
ing effects is widespread, and doing much
iusidious damage. These things are very
dangerous. and are more deadly in their
future results than opium.
The following, which we cut from an
exchange, will probably prove Of much
use to farmers and agriculturists genef-
ally: " Somebody says that the best way
to get rid Of weeds, is to put your cigar
case and its contents at the service of your
friends. Jones says that the most effective
means he ever tried was by squeez
ing the hand Of plump young bereaved
in black. The next day she was in half
mourning and a second kindly pressure
resulted IN pink gown with q white bon
net
A Yankee lawyer, who was pleading the
cause Of little boy, took him up in hi:
arms, and held him up to the jury, suflused
in tears. This had great effect until the
opposite lawyer asked the boy, What
makes you cry ~ " He's pinohing me,'' said
the boy.
A young lady, in Richmond, recently
padded a would-be burglar so severely
with a press board, that Il is thought thai
he will be unable to sit down for some
time. She found the intruder under her
bed, and, seizing the press board, accelerated
his movements considerably.
Mark Twain says that the great obstacle
to female suffrage is that women would
have TO tell their ages at the polls. Thstis
not the real obstacle, Marx, for If they were
all put on oath none Of them would be old
enough to vote.
The train that conveyed the Rocky
Mountain excursionists from Cheyenne to
Omaha made the distance between the two
places-517 miles-in about fifteen hours,
which is an average of nearly thirty five
miles an hour At one point fifty-fye miles
was run in sixty minutes. This is very
nearly the fastest time on record in the his
tory of American railroads. Pretty good
travelling for road that was begun only
three years ago.
An Inventive genius has discovered @
plan for thoroughly Ventilating railroad
cars, and keeping them free from cinders
by means of ashingle placed at an angle
in the forward end Of the window. Travel.
ers says that the invention satisfactorily
supplies the want of years, and is bound to
be universally adopted.
A glass tube of about yard In length
closed at the lower end by cork, upon
which rests q white dish Of porcelain, is
recommended for determining the purity
Of water, as the slightest color is seen
against the white ground, and the different
shades indicate different ingredients. A
green tinge is produced by minute alga;
a white opacity often by fangOid. groWths;
iron salts by peculiar Ochry color. The
apparatus is termed the csromiometer.
You might look far and not find a better
tribute to Grant than the following:
] would rather have Grant, If he's silent and
Than an empty ieclainer of words;
would rather have Grant, with his good
honest will,
Than one from noisy political hordes.
His deeds are well written in the face Of the
world,
And he who desires can read them afar;
He stands forth to day with his banner un-
fufled
In the light OF his aets-our National
Star.
Jokes Of a practical character are among
the crimes which always 60 unpublished
One OF the most atrocious jokes o this class
occurred lately in Washington. It coz
sisted of placing torpedOes on the hoor o
q ballroom. The noise made when they
" re trodden on during dance Induced I
eAiet outside that o pistol fight was il
Progress. Luckily no one was hurt, al
though all were badly frightened,