New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-30

A worthy deacon in a New Jersey church
had been very industrious in selling new
church book, costing seventy five cents. At
the next church service the minister, just
before dismissing the congregation, arose
and said: "All you who have children to
baptize will please to present them next
Sabbath" The deacon, who, by the way,
was little deaf, having an eye to selling
the books, and suppusing the pastor was re-
ferring TO them, Immediately jumped up
and shouted All you who haven't any,
can get as many as you want by calling on
me, at seventy-hve cents each"
A small and enviOus newspaper tells this
on q large journal: "A lady and gentle
man were recently robbed in Judea by
Arabs, who stripped them of all their
clothing They begged their captOrs to re-
turn them a copy of the London Times.
The Arabs yielded to the request, and the
Dair, the gentleman attired i'll the regular
issue, and the lady in the supplement, re-
turned to Jerusalem
There are at present in process of con
struction at various points along the north
ern lakes more than one hundred vessels of
different grades, the greater number OF
which it is presumed, will be brought into
commission before the close of navigation.
A majority will be of the larger class. pro
PEELED in whole or in part by steam. They
NAV be classified as steam barges, passen-
ger propellers tugs, barks, three masted
Bailers, or full sized canal schooners.
The people Of Michigan have become tired
Of reading about accidental murders caused
by the handling of supposed unloaded guns
and pistols, and have procured the passage
of a law which makes it a punishable ottense
for an individual to point any kind Of fire
arm, loaded or uulpaded, at another. This
Ia a sensible law, ard should be duplicated
in every State OF tho Union, and not only
duplicated, but thoroughly enforced.
A London correspondent says it is high
time that the PRINCESS Of Wales was back
in society to teach il how to dress decently.
In consequence of her example, bare bos0ms
and shoulders, during the past few seasons
grew less and less bare. This season she
has been absent, and whether from that or
some other "cause, i" shoulders and bosoms
have again come into somewhat unseemly
prominence.
The finest sponges are found in the Medi-
terranean, the chief market being Smyrna.
Coarse sponges are procured in great mum
bers in the waters of the Bahamas, and
form an important article of export from
those islands. A very good article of sponge
il found on the coast of Florida, where the
supply is so great that. if the fisheries were
actively prosecuted, it would suffice for the
consumption of the United States.
Eighty Michigander claims to have in
vented Geographic railway, by means of
which persons and parcels aggregating
fifteen hundred pounds in weight can be
transmitted in a car suspended from a tele-
graph wire at the rate of mile a minute.
1t is said that the cultivation of garden
vegetables and seeds in the Shenandoah
valley is fOrty-fOUr times as profitable as
the raising Of farm crops.
man in Chattanooga processes to have
a snuff box which was Eat one time the
tavorite pocket piece of Frederick the
Great"
"shOo Fly and Lost Nation" are the
classical names of two stations on West
ern railroad