The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-02-12
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KEROSENE OIL will kill trichiria in pork or In
the human skin.
NEW York Is TO sink more money In q comic
newspaper called the Magpie. ...l.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, manu- sc:ured four and q
half millions OF cigars last yeas
PockET-rIcKiNo, petty thieving and drunken
ness, have increased alsrmingly In Porkop oils
since the cold weather began. . -. 4
The Kinndom of Italy, exclusive Of the PapAi
dominions, contains about tw o-thirds as many
people as do the United stat,,s " fH
Rev. On. CAswELL is mad Q president Of Brown
University, after being a professor from 1898 to
1904.
AUGUSTA. Ga, is organ iizing Board OF Trade
II the accounts speak trr ,ly there is scarcity OF
both board and trade in that State.
Tx the Royal Opera P .ouse In Hanover now
opera called Julius Caesar" has just been
brought out. .......
THERE 10 a great killer OF human beings in
this country at pres ent. His name Is Kero O.
Noyle. Dye mindi ~, t.r.
The three new ste ,m-tugs built by Virginia to
Insure more enc lent collection OF the oyster
tax arc at Norfolk. They are IS feet long, 10 feet
beam, and feet held. ... 80.
ONLY weld ressed persons are supplied with
napkins In oston restaurants, and the walters
arc the judg es of respectability who decide the
important Question.
The following are the railroad statistics OF
Minnesot Al Miles constructed In 1867, llo; pre-
yiously in operation, 315j total miles In opera
tion, 43l. .. ...
tbs 'soek-aghting match between New York
and New Jersey has terminated. Nine battles
were fought, New Jersey winning six OF them
and the "nain."
Doc STEALING is a profession in London. II
can hardly be ranked as one OF the learned pro-
, fessions, although great many have probably
learned it. ~
This Boston Advertiser says: "some people
think that Pittsburg, done up in January, is an
answer to Does it pay to smokei' propounded
4 In February"
Austria has had n paper currency for twenty
years, and almost all Of that time has been about
as near the verge OF bankruptcy as 1t could
stand without topping over. ....r.
| WOMAN giving her name as Minnie Grey,
| and protesting to be the daughter Of an English
noblemsn, was before the police court Of Gin.
cinnati for false prete noes. ...a.-
4 Mr.. CHARLEs 0. Rooms, Of tho Boston Jour.
| nal, has bought large building on Washington
street, Boston, for $3.50 900, and will tear II down
| and erect new building, In which will be the
Journal establishment.
| The Nevada Territorial Enterprise 10 informed
|
| OF the Humboldt, will run for fifteen miles
through peat bog, with several miles of peat on
| each side. ..a. -
BALTIMORE THIEVES are not as heightened IA
thieves in some other places. On Saturday
night one of the fraternity In that city stole the
| Grape and white ribbon which draped the door OF
n house in which dead child lay.
GIRL at one of the colorsd churches in
Nashville, whose religious zeal got the better
OF her durfn g services on Sunday, fell upon hot
stove, and before she could DO rescued, was
burned SO bs dly thsther life Is despaired Of
A WOMAN was arrested In Portsmouth, Va
on Monday, for going round among the citizens
collecting money for pretended charitable pur
poses, under a certificate to which she had forged
the name Of tb Q Catholic Priest.
A vALUAuLI' horse having been stolen from
O. W. Aiken, of Little Rock, Ark, that gentle
man pursued the thief, named Dunn, and over
took him as he was swimming the Ark ansas river
A Hash, report, and the.thiers vocation wal
done.
PARTY Of English toairists profess to hav,
found the Identical pillar of salt VIII ere Lot
wife so t'noughtlessly turned In, leaving her hus
band anil family to hunt up other lodgings. Thes,
English discoyerers wero ultilitarians and at
part Of the Lot with their hard-boiled eggs.
In Franklin county, Tenn, a company Of Ger
| $50" migrants haNc fecchtiy upon
ward of 5000 acres OF land, which had been pur
chased by an agent sent In advance of their ar
rival The new Corners represent a capital o
500 900, and It 10 anticipated that, within few
weeks, an additional tract OF 1000 acres will b,
brought for the same purpose.
| AMAMNoTu ridged sea-turtle, seven feet sevc,
Inches long, ninc feet four inches across, am
! weighing nearly eight hundred pounds, is on eS
bibition In Hartford, II was captured by gen
tleman of Long Island in September, and is tn
1 only one Of the kind ever seen in this country
1t is native Of the ANITA retie ocean, and 1t is
matter OF wonder how 1t came to this part Of tn
globe.
> The Chicago papers say that Mr.. Charles Dicl
ems has slster-in-law rest ding In that city, sh
; being the widow Of Augu Rtus Dickens, who wa
clerk In the Illinois Central Land Once 70
| some ten or twelve years, and who died two o
three years ago, Augu Atus was the favorit
brother OF Charles in the time Of his early litel
airy triumphs, and II wp q from him that he d,
rived his nomme d. plume Of "Boz." Mrs. Dicl
ems 10 keeping a boardin g-house on North Clar
street, and by this mea ns is barely able to sur
l I.aW all a.Ia all