New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-12

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OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of THE UNITED STAT
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW oRlEAs
NEW ORLEANS. OCTOBER u. IS,
The weather was cool, clear and bracir
yesterday.
A Detroit picture dealer says the harde
work he has to do is to frame excuses.
White lace wells, dotted with black. al
very much worn, and are very becoming
Five dollars and fifty cents on every hui
dred dollars is the tax rate of PHILADELPHIA
There is as much danger in a woman's b.
ing "tOO smart" as there is in her being ''tO
stupid"
Rev. A. l.. Stone. d. D., gathers audience
OF 1900 to 1900 in a "skating academy il
San Francisco.
Josh Billings says knowing how to 81
square on bile, without hurting, is on'
of the lost arts
English experience is said to show tina
out of every thirty colts from thoroughbred
stock but one proves fast.
A Providence man is informed by sui
fering ncishbor that h,s snore would answer
eXcellently as log horn.
Another poor girl has died in Virginia
from the use of tobacco, at the age Of one
hundred. She was an orphan.
A new style of fan has Just appeared,
made OF satin and lace, which, when open
cd is in the shape OF a butterfly.
DIR. Oldshue. OF Pittsburg, found a
maiden who liked his name; they mar
ried and got along as easy as pair Of old
shoes.
AL ili-tempered man is nuisance. He
may he fully relied on to raise the devil at
the shortest notice, in the neatest style,
with all the latest improvements.
At an auction of miscellaneous articles in
the open air it began to rain, when by
stander .advised the auctiOneer that he
had better put up" the umbrella the next
thing.
person being asked what was meant by
the realities of life. answered, "Real estate.
real money, and real good dinner, none of
which can be realized without real hard
work"
The New Orleans City Railroad Company
have declared dividend of four dollars
per share, free of internal revenue tax, pay
BILE to stockholders on and after the twenty
fifth instant.
Since the decentralization OF France be-
gan, glove making in England has largely |
increased, and there are seventy thousand |
persons now engaged in that industry over |
the kingdom
Mr.. William Ink. OF New Hampshire, is
now one hundred and three years old. Ii |
his parents ever dreamed that he was going
to he SO hard to rub cut they would doubt
less have named him In.lelible.
An enterprising Yankee is travelling
around among the negroes in Florida
selling them peculiar kind of oil, war
ranted to make their hair grow foot in
length, and as straight as white mans
The thermometer at seven o'clock yester-
day morning was 6So at Augusta, 65o at
Boston, TO- at Charleston, 49o at Cincinnati
49, at Galveston, So at Key West, So at
Memphis, 46' at Pittsburg CO at Shreve-
port, and a. at St. Louis.
Messrs. Moore and Pruden. two belliser-
ent North Carolinians. went last week to
Norfolk to measure out ten yards of mu.
tual satisfaction; but the sheriff appearing
on the ground, Pruden prudently decamped,
leaving Moore to be immured.
A Dover New Hampshire) paper saws
that one Of its citizens, a laborer, who re-
ceives only one dollar and twenty-five
cents per day. has just contributed five
hundred dollars toward fund for building s
a Roman Catholic cathedral.
polite invitation to be present at the
Levee press, on Dauphine street, on the &C. S
casion Of opening the Natchez cotton press a
and branch Of the Western Union tele- I
graph, has been received. A luncheon will y
be spread at twelve o'clock to-day. +
The Sheriff Of the parish of Orleans sells, o
at auction this day. at halfpast ten o'clock s.
in the morning, on the premises, all the C.
mOvabies contained in the Orleans Coffee i,
house, situated at the corner of St. Charles 4
and Common streets, First District. See o,
1t is estimated that during the last five d.
centuries more than f5O,OOO,O0O worth OF it
real estate has been washed away from the til
eastern coast Of England by the encroach- 10
ncnts OF the sea. number Of villages and NJ
owns which used to be set down on the old M
maps have entirely disappeared. a.
The Sal del Eey, the great salt lake of 6s
Texas. is an immense bed Of salt about five dc
niles in circumference, which is believed to A,
'e inexhaustible, as the process of produc- m
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