New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-11

| ana, as my company are all 2ritI With dt
light at the prospect, have concluded t
| turn them out as tribe of COmanche III
dams upon the great occasion.
| Renewing my assurances of loyalty t
| your majesty, so well attested already b.
life-times devotion, remain your ODE
dent servant, DAN RICE.
Why are young ladies bad grammarians
Because you seldom find one who can de
cline matrimony.
Call lady chicken" and ten to ON,
| she is angry with you. Tell her she is N,
chicken" and ten to one she is augrier.
Superior" is the fayOrite Boston femi
| nine word of commentator, and is applied
| equally to bonnet or sermon, painting
| or pie.
Ladies think that there ought to be a law
| against men smoking bad cigars on the pub
| lie promenade. There is Iaw-the la " OF
pcliteness-but it is seldom followed.
TIE use of cymbals in brass bands is tc
reach a climax through Gilmore, who pre-
tends he has induced ninety nine expert
Chinese cymbal men to play at his jubilee
The old tree near Vicksburg. under which
Pemberton surrendered to Grant, making
him President, in fact. is entirely gone the
locality being now marked by an inverted
cannon.
England has l5,537 miles of railway hav.
ing a capital of $2,564, 0O0.0 900. The gross
receipts per mile per annum is about
$4,000, and expense of operating per mile
$1,000.
The sums spent in the construction of the
new Opera House in Paris, up to the pres
ent time, including this years grant amount
49, &
still required to complete it.
A young widow in New York city, NOV
ing in good society, has lately caused a
ing her French cOachman, who is remarka-
bic only for his handsome tace and polite
manners.
When a lovely woman stoops to the folly
of breaking the fragile law OF Canada she is
not obliged to be cribbed. cabined and con-
fined with the male biped without feathers.
Toronto is to have a prison Exclusively for
ladies'"
The New York Evening Mail says that to
be thin is the latest fashionable feminine
ambition. Scrawny necks are all the rage,
and young ladies whom nature has not
blessed paint their rounded shoulders with
sepia wrinkles.
Tipsy customer: "a pint O. whisky, please,
shir.' Publican: Yell get nae MAR whisky
plain English! Dye want it in Latin or
Greek ?" Tipsy customer: ''No, thank ye,
shir; | want 1t in bozzle,
Devote everything to its proper use, or
the consequences may be unpleasant. A
young girl out in Illinois, who attempted to
use sealing wax as substitute for chewing
gum. was poisoned by the Venetian red
which it contained, and died from the effects
A young man who formerly drove a pie
cart in New Haven, but had latterlv risen
to the position of driver on a horse rail-
road, received letter the other day inform
ing him that his uncle in China had re-
Gently died and left him fortune amount
ing TO $450,000.
A Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, doctor visited
q smallpox patient, and remarked, as he
turned from the almost dying man. "Dig
the grave-the corpse will be ready" The
grave was dug. but the man recovered and
now the grave-diggers bring suit against
the physician for their pay.
The Leavenworth Commercial says
Kansas has had her share of Bills. There
were Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Apache Bill,
Comanche Bill, Buckskin Bill, Bill Mathews,
and now we have temperance bill before
he Legislature which threatens to raise
he deuce with all the politicians in the
State
A mad rebel in the North Carolina Legis-
allure. few days ago. said that he hated
md Gefed the federal government that
lie had taken tussle with her once, and |
he was ready to do so again if occasion re-
iuired'it, and he would like TO have a seat
n Congress for five minutes. Just to tell
hem so"
A farmer in San joaquin, California. re- |
emily scattered some wheat, soaked with |
whisky. over q field fre1uented by wild |
eese. The silly fowls gorged themselves |
With the seductive banquet, and got SO tight |
hat theJ could not fly, and the farmer !
topped in and dispatched SIX hundred of |
hem with a club. |
A plot Of land in London. opposite the |
ord Mayor. a locality well known to all |
Tho have visited England, is said to have
cen recently let at ground rent almost |
quail to one pound sterling per square foot |
er annum, which represents a capitalized |
alue of about million and half sterling
er acre, or 100000.
The excitement in Washington, lust now,
J in reference TO Mr.. Sickles' beautiful Span
81 bride, who has created quite a ftirore in
ociety at the capital. Mr.. and Mrs Sickles
ave bleakfasted with Senator Nye, dined
'ith the PRESIDENT taken tea with Senator
umner and attended. receptions without
lumber The General is very reticent with |
aspect to his mission in America.
AT gathering in Australia not long since,
our people met, three of whom were
hepherds on sheep farm. One of these
ad taken degree at Oxford, another at
the thin at German uniyer-
ty. The fourth was their EMPLOYER. a
luatter, rich IN fOcks and herds, but scarce |
: able to read and write, much Iess TO |
eep his own account.
One pound of California silk reeentIv
,eled at San Francisco contains three
rands to the thread, measuring $50, 900
ards. or equal to eighty-fve miles in
myth, making for the three strands, when |
,parated, 255 miles in length. Each of
lese three strands contain six other
rands, as reeled from cocoons, producing
80 miles to the pound of raw silk.
The courage and perseverance of GYM
asts and acrobats, even in infancy, is re-
arkable. While performing in the Black
rock" at NiblO's, one year ago, young
ebert Nelson. now with Dan Rce's circus,
Il and dislocated his shoulder. The pain
as intense. but the brave little fellow
ose and walked from the stage without a
urmur, leaving the vast audience in en-
70 ignorance as to what fearful cost the
at had been performed. |,
A certain Herr Hoffman has printed at
aisle his ''Wanderunger mach Californian,
evada and Mexico" He is a lively
aveler, but his occasional English quota
ms are open to criticism. Thus, the
vorite American restorative, sherry cob
er, becomes Jerry gobb,er," and the ,
stomary oath in court of justice is
ndered thus by Herr Hoffman,: "You
lst speak the truth and nothing else;
4 &c 1ro,, don't God haln ro., !