New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
The cbildren's kingdom-Lapland.

Inc TelfeshLhSnJ an lule mdn WOuIu pre-
fer-loaf cake.
Ores yielding bnt two ounces to the ton
are being utilized in Quarry Hid district
Colorado.
Hematite iron and camel coal mines are
about being developed in Camden county,
Missouri.
Near Moundsville, Southwest Missouri, a
seven foot vein of coal is claimed to have
been discovered this month.
A Louisville, Kentucky, genius Of thirteen
years is rapidly acquiring flame and geer"
as portrait painter.
The Danbury Meas says that the reason
school boys delight to dig and explore
caves, is because of the recesses there.
Though soldiers profess to love the wives
they leave behind them, they somehow
generally 90 away in transports.
Frank Leslie is a nom de plume. The
man who wears it used to be Henry Carter,
and his name was changed by the Legisla-
ture.
The works of Dr. Claiming have been
translated into Hungarian, and are
gratuitously distributed among the libraries
by Unitarians.
A lady occupied the pulpit, and six young
ladies passed the contribution boxes in the
staid and sober old State Street Methodist
Church in Troy, on Sunday evening.
It has been estimated that Niagara Falls
will wear away the soft stock up to Buffalo
in 232, 800 years. Those who do not wish to
leave the cataract can wait
G. Washington is a French painter of
Paris, born at Bordeaux, and strange to
say. he writes his name very like his great
namesake, without strainiBg himself
A Boston woman claims to have read last
year fifty metaphysical and scientific works,
as many more Of history and belles-letters,
besides 500 novels, plays and poems.
The woman suffragists of the Pacific
slope have issued call for a convention to
meet in San Francisco on Tuesday, the |
eighteenth, and TO continue in session three |
days.
Some ungallant wag says that "when |
Tennie G. Claf1in was married TO James /
Bartla, faro banker, ten years ago, she !
was not more than twenty-five or thirty |
years Of age.
A lady in Milwaukee has just buried her
seventh husband. She is thirty four. years
old, and was fresh and charming widow
last week, but is probably married again by
this time
Having returned from visit to Lagrange,
the editor of the Colorado Citizen says:
confident that this section will produce
more corn and cotton than ever before"
Walter, five year old, was surprised at
breakfast by the presence of a diminutive
egg, served for his special delectatiUn. He
thus accounted for the eggs smallness:
Mamma, think the chicken was learning
to lay"
Madame Kibrisli Pasha, wife of the late
Grand Vizier Kibrisli Mehemet Pasha, is
IN the point Of bringing out an autobio-
graphical work Of interest, TO old and
young. 1t is entitled Thirty Years in the
1arem."
The indianapolis Jolg71al is not purring
lrOund Voorhees, as all the other Grant pa
,ers are. 1t calls him "a blatant dema-
rogue, who fills his belly with the east wind
and bowls on every possible
question and occasion"
A Massachusetts paper publishes this out
ageOus Islander: Thirteen old maids from
Vermont lately went to Wyoming Territory
0 get husbands. The men there said they
referred squaws, and the Vermont ladies
re mad"
A party in Pontiac, Michigan, out rowing
IN recent Sunday, was too heavy for the
,Oat, and one Of the number was drowned. |
local paper thereupon remarks: ere
member the Sabbath day and keep it holy,
nd don't overload your boats"
The following composition las been
urned out by an American scholar aged
line years: "A boy without a father is a
lOrpban, without mother double orphan, | {
,ut is Oftenest without a grandfather or
grandmother, and then he is a nOrphan-
The JoarHdl DIES DebatS says it has Just
'een discovered that solution of sulphate
f iron sprinkled upon fruits and plants has
III ell Daov,e l-r;,
ent in size and in quality, and pear trees {
lere wonderfully benefited by the new fer
ilizer.
The Rock Island lIllinOis Union unwit-
Ingly did a favor for Captain May 1t
harged him with telegraphing to the Chi
ago Times that he was opposed to Greeley. !
his gave Captain May a chance to come
ack in the Union with letter in favor of
ireeley, which he improved at once.
A few Sundays since a teacher in the
unday school Of an Episcopal church in
hicagO said to one of her pupils: james, :
hat good thing-what great sacrifice are
on willing to give up during the Lenten s
Jason p Jimmie meditated about ten sec S
lds, and responded: Il think III give IN
)ing to Sunday school" I
At an infant Sunday school, the teacher p
i've the Bible story Of the Prodigal Son. a
hen he came to The place where the poor, i
gged son reached his former home, and I
S father saw him great way off, he in j
aired what his father probably did. One T.
the smallest boys, with his fist clenched. t
i'd: Il dunno, but dessay he set the dog q
/ him" )
When a stranger treats me with want of 3
spect," said poor philosopher, Il com :
RI myself with the reflection that it is not !.
yself that he Sights, but my old and =
abby hat and cloak, which, to say the n
nth, have no particular claim to adOra- | -
N, So, if my hat and coat choose TO fret =,
out it, let them; but it is nothing to me-" =
A fashion reporter describes some of the il
lets at a recent party at Cheyenne; The
lie of the evening was Miss W. She D
essed faultlessly in a linsey-woOlsey of o
G palest shade of cafe au lait, cut en- m
lin, and trimmed with Chicago relics. Il
IS H wore pOlOnaise made of blue b.
IDs, postilioned in the back, cut vis-a-vis
th de trOp bias, and gOred in the most Ii
lguinary manner al
The latest sensation in Iowa City is the W
icide Of COW. The cause of the deed g
Is the killing of her cali. The Iowa City i
'eSS describes her actions: THE COW was :!
mite at this slaughter of her innocent, al
q after chasing the butchers wagon to u
Q slaughterhOuse door, and believing a tn
,od-bye to her infant she repaired to the OF
er, near Diilon's Island, and wadiDg in TT
yond her depth, proceeded to commit te
eide by drowning" 70
The marriage ceremony in Japan consists n
the man and woman drinking wine from -
same cup. Divorce is not much more o.
borate than marriage. The husband -
es the wife piece of paper with a few
es of characters on it. and the knot is IN -
d. A translation of the lines is given by -,
recent correspondent, as follows: Il no ~
ee You 1 thinkee you likee other man ~