New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16


and freight transportation may speedily be
placed upon the safe and sure basis that il
was previous to this misunderstanding.
Greeley, though Unitarian, believes in
the doctrine Of election.
A Burlington, Iowa, girl got show-struck
while circus was visiting there, and went
off with it.
A writer says " It is not the drinking,
but getting sober, that is so terrible IN a
! drunkard's life"
Mrs. Lenowens has had copies of Bryant.s
translation of Homer prepared and especial
| ly bound for the King Of Siam.
Be thou what thou singly art and per-
/ senate only myself Swim smoothly in
the stream of thy nature and live but one
man.
The MaripOsa man who lost his ear in
! fght, and afterward had it replaced wrong
| end up is obliged to stand on his head TO
hear straight
Reading makes full man; talking a
| ready man. The happy medium is reached
| when a man reads enough to give value 20
! what he has to say.
| A maiden lady being asked why she mad
never married, replied that she had never
| seen the man for whom she was willing TO-
get up three meals day for forty years
A writer on physiognOmy sagely says;
| "a human face without a nose does not
amount to much" 1t is also true that a
human nose without face doesn't amount
TO much either.
! A young lady in Philadelphia, of rare
personal beauty, but no fortune, having fol-
lowed the trade of milliner all her life, is
about to marry an English gentleman OF
great wealth.
Bishop McQuaid has issued to his flock,
from the cathedral at Rochester, a decree
that twelve hacks be henceforth the maxi
mum number for a funeral This is striking
the ak at the root of grave annoyance.
Tourists have expressed surprise that
Egyptian women are old at twenty, and
very old at thirty. In the United States OF
America women are so far advanced at if
teen that very frequently the priest has to
be called in.
The total number of messages forwarded
from postal telegraph stations in the United
Kingdom during the week ending May IS,
1872, was 279, $50, and during the cores
pOnding week of 1871, 2l6,626, showing an
increase of 90, 1888.
The waters of Lake Michigan, as tested
by the United States gauge, are steadily
| rising. They have reached the level Of the
lake in May of 1861. Reports from Lake
Superior indicate an increasing depth Of
water everywhere.
When the clouds broke away after the
recent rain storm, the tops of Mounts
Washington, Jefferson, Adams and other
peaks in that vicinity were white as in
mid winter. The snow line appeared about
1000 feet below the highest summit.
During the first week in May, 1872, six
railroad conductors were killed, and $1,000
were paid to their families by the Railroad
Conductors Insurance Company. This was
the most fatal week ever known to the pro-
fessiOn.
A Clevelander named Hogengobler has
petitiOned the Legislature to have il cut
down to plain Hogen. He complains that,
notwithstanding his efforts to lead an hon
est life, he can not secure the respect of his
neighbors with such a name.
4 general on the point of death, opening
his eyes and seeing consultation of three
physicians, who were standing close TO his
bedside, family exclaimed, "Gentlemen, if
you fire by platOOns it is all over with me-
and instantly expired.
A Bangor man, while earnestly urging
temperance in a discussion, a few days
since, emphasized his argument by fOrci-
BILE gesture with his umbrella, when out
few a black bottle, which, breaking in
pieces on the pavement, gave out the sweet
Udor of the best old Bourbon.
The administration newspapers having
full, it was published in pamphlet form by
the newsdealers. Forty thousand were
printed as a venture, but they were entirely
inadequate to the demand, and at last ac-
counts the'wOrk of printing was going on
steadily.
An old woman, on being examined before
a magistrate as to her place Of legal settle
nent, was asked what reason she had for
supposing her husband had a legal settle
ment in that town The old lady said He
was born and married there, and they
buried him there, and if that isn't settling
Linn there, l don't know what is"
A child, four months old, at Rensselaer,,
Indiana, was recently taken with spasms
and vomiting, in the course CT which it
threw up 10 pins of various sizes They
were much cOrrOded, and gave evidence OF
having lain in the stomach for long time.
How the pins got into the child is a mystery
no less than how they got out OF him.
A California editor thus eases himself
Dolly Vardenism, viewed from a philO-
sOphlcal standpoint, is the realization n
material form of all that is most loud,
glazing, odd, gaudy, glittering and OUT
landish. 1t is the expression Of a long coz
cealed yearning after barbarc display; q
spasmOdic exhibition of a hitherto unsus-
pected instinct of saveagery and anti-clv-
ilizatiOn."
Josh Billings saws: "When we cum 20
think that thaTe amt on the face Ov the
earth even one bat too much, and that thare
a amt been, since the daze Ov Adam, a single
surplus muskeeUer's egg, laid by ack5idenr,
we kan form sum kind Ov an idee how little
we know, and what a poor job we should
make Ov it runnin the mashineFy of krea-
shun. Man IL phoOl emmy how, and the
best ov the joke is, he don't seem tew know
It, Bats have destiny tew fill and viii
bet dollar they fill it better than we do
ours"
From San Francisco daily: "a lady cor
asks us if Dolly Warden can
be box-plalted, whipped and gathered in a
yoke, or Is it best to have insertion and
dounces with putting. We think that neither
way IS good. Two rows Of bobinette, hem
stitched, and inserted with double gathered
Tutt1es Of brOcade tape, with a gusset and
hem stitch or two at each end, and this
z ullled and made en- rGUers in the back with
bias cuttings, double pulled, of blue OF
candle, running tranversely across the
whole, lined with point applique ticking
and huted, would be far more stylish.
Stephen Chapman, aged eighty years,
ned IN bennington, Wyoming county, Iasy
week What was remarkable about this
person was not his longevity, which was
not very great but the fact that during his
whole life he was never once sick enough
% require a doctor. Fortunate man. He
lhyaa ked himself, no doubt, little az an
mateur, for every human being does that;
Tut then he never had to swallow the long
latin prescriptions; he never, probably,
vas bled, and it is even possible that no