The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-04-21
5latioual Rrpnblifau.
PEN, PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

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OSE Of Fanny Kemble's daughters Is tho
wife of d.. Wistar, Of Germantowu, and the
ether lives on the Butler plantation, In
GcOrgia
THE UsirED sEavIcr-solsmnitatiou Of
lnairimony.
AxAPPRoPRrArros cLAws--A pIckpoeket',
Gogers.
TuE working force Of the Philadelphia navy
gard has been reduced to about 600.
Tus time foG closing the German gambling
houses has been extended to the close Of 1877.
LOUISVILLE 10 to have an evening German
Newspaper.
BurrER is sixty cents a pound in New
Albany, Indiana.
COUNTERFEIT $40 notes on the Marine Ma.
,lonai Bank Of New York arc In circulation.
TAG New York reporters are hereafter to be
supplied with badge to be worn at fires.
ruE new bridge at Niagara Falls will be
ready for use about tho first Of January.
The Rev. Asa Thurston, missionary in the
Sandwich Islands, Is dead.
An American colony Is about to settle at
San Peno Sals, Honduras.
The London and Brussels bankers are
furnishing capital to develop tho resources Of
Honduras.
THIEVES are robbins money and valusbles
from bodies Of the Sea Bird victims being
washed ashore.
SOMEBODY has computed that ?, 762, 900 lives
have been lost In the various wars which
afflicted Europe from 1915 to 1864
A YEAR ago a man paid 81 900 for some
land in Omaha, He has just sold II to a rail
road company for $50, 900.
TuE title Of the New York female literary
association has been changed to tho Blue
Stocking Club"
ANNA DIcKNsoSs voice has failed, and she
has been compelled to abandon ieeturing for
time.
MUcu Of the Russian tea Is yellow and de-
lieious, being mado of the blossoms Of the
plant instead Of the leaf.
A MARRIED lady at Brooklyn, N. Y, Is ~
entirely helpless from paralysis, caused By
tight lacing
DoSSER says that he never asked man or
woman to write for the Ledger who didn't
ultimately do It.
JoHS q. GREEN, OF New York, has made
git Of Sl20 900 and tho deeds OF certain use
iuI property to the college of Now Jersey.
MANY Of the best hymns in the English Ian.
guage are the productions Of versifers who
are unknown In the world Of poetry.
A CINCINNATI COURT has decided that the
relationship between step daughter and step
father ceases on the death Of the wife and
mother.
TnE AsroR HOUSE, when rsopcn.d, is to
rent for SIS, 000i the St. Nichols i. rented
for SIS, OOOi the Metropolitan for SIS, 900,
and the Fifth Avenue somewhere near $50, 900.
PRor. AGAssIz says he has never made pre-.
dietions regarding tho weather, well know
ing that meteorology Is not yet sufficiently
advanced to justify such attempts"
TCnEEY owes the workmen In its mint NJ |
Constabtinoplo fifteen months pay, and has |
refused request for portion Of the amount
due.
THERE are In Chicago I, 900 drayman. who
each, in good times make from S. to slO per
day, aud 900 men gain a livelihood by driy.
log express wagons.
THIS sOnundrum comos from Australia
what th. difference between fiery iudi. |
viduai and slice II bacon? One Is rash ana |
the other Is rasher. 'A-
CHEERING reports Of crop Prospects continue |
to come to US from all parts Of the w,s, Tha
Indications arc said to show that the harveS,
Of 1865 will DO n large ono.
A. NoSrMoCS Is pr.iis. writer, bpt his |
extreme rnodesty prevents the possiUn,.v ~
hi5 comforting much benefit upon mankind |
His talents generally go to waste.
NEWPORT is beginning to set her house In |
order for the coming season. One hundred I
furnished houses, cottages and dwellings have |
already been hired for the approaching season. |
''LOLD schools Is the popular name In |
West Virginia for academies where tho ,cbol. |
ar' are required to Itudy their spelling in |
loud voice
TUE New Zealand gold returns for tho year
1861 show an export Of CSC, 1853 ounces, valued
at 80, 700, 275 sterling, against 1876, 1915 ounces
valued at E2,s4l ,'Gs Of the previous year.
Tue funniest incident that has lately tran.
Fpired Ia tho case Of dOting mother, who.
being satisGed that her child meritsd a fog-
gng, FIRST had him placed under the influence
Of chloroiorm.
o. the 18th instant ice was from eighteen
to twenty-fou inchss thick on Lake Wnni.
pisaukee, and travel on 1t good Last year
at the same date steamers were running on the
lake.
IL Phliadelphia the prospects for an abun.
dance OF labor during tho present season ars
said to be good, a much larger number of
buildings having been contracted for than at
the game time last year
AMoSUMESr TO LUTHER is to be erected in
Worms, on the Gath, 25th and 26th of June,
It is intended to make the occasion great
national festival in Germany, and TO invite
the Protestant world also to observe it.
Tue weather at Cannes, Franco, about the
middle of March, was delightful. No fire
windows open from morning till evening
with roses, passion, and other beautiful aoyors
in full bloom.
The English Admiralty have como to the
conclusion that heavily iron. clad shin, ara Of
little use, owing to the improvements In ord.
nance, and talk 0, building fast war vessels
with little or no Armor
FASHION has decTesd that ladies' boots
should be ornamental and fanciful, md be
Laced in font, not at the sides They are
stitched with white silk, and trimmed with lot
beads, cord and tassels, &c.
An old bachelor in New York offered a Young
lady pony for kiss she gave him the kiss;
no refused her the pony she sued him he
pleaded mo consideration the court decided
that kiss was legal confederation, and made
him pony over"
fuE will of the late Charles Koan has been
proved in the London Court of Probate The
personality was sworn under f35, 900 sterling.
lie bcqueaths to his wife life interest In the
sum OF E25, 900, and after her dsath tbs prin-
cipal goes to hi, daughter.
ESGLIsn DAIRrMES object to tho establish
ment OF cheese factories, on tho ground that
they VIII deprive their wives and daughters Of
an honorable and healthy employment, and by
relieving them from labor lead to idleness and
extravaganza.
THE last gossip from the Tuileries Ia that
the Empress Eugene, at the State eoneert