New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-14


1t is said that the New Workers. green
with envy, propose TO illuminate the whole
| of Central Park for a ball, at which thew
| will have a drum so big that balloon ascen-
siOns will be required when it is beaten.
| The lakes will be filled with champagne
and all the avenues paved with frosted
cake. French boots, and twenty-five but
| ton kids, and diamond shirt studs will he
| furnished free out of the city treasury; and
Herr Dresser, the celebrated. German pro
| fessor of tOnsorial landscape gardening.
will be present for three days in advance to
arrange the parterres and terraces, which
| adorn, as the New York papers will be
bound to say, the brow of beauty.-Bostos,
| Transcript.
| Once on time, at the funeral of wife,
| the undertaken arranged for the husband
and mother-in-law to ride in the same car.
riage. Must l. F." said the brOken-hearted
man, Unjust l ride with that awful womanl'
/ ~ think You viii have to-" answered the
undertaken. "Oh, Mr.. Undertaken, how
can / ride with that dreadful woman ?" ut
will disturb every carriage of the process.
sion to make a change" said the man of
| business, and you must ride here "Well,
if / must. l must said the stricken man,
''but to ride with her destroys all my pleas
ure on this occasion"
A gentleman while bathing recently at
| the London public baths diyed in head first
at the end where the water is only three
feet six inches Deep and on rising to the
surface his head and shoulders were OBJ
served to remain under water. He was
taken out by friends, and it was found that
he was drowning He had struck his head
against the bottom of the bath and had
fractured one of the bones of the spine ia
such way as to cause death.
The other day, at Rome, a boy was
amusing himself by digging up earth
with q sharp stone on the site of the
Temple of Venus and Rome, looking to-
ward the Coliseum, when, at the depth Of
a few centimeters, he came upon large
piece of pOrphyry. He informed work
man at the near excavations Of the Palace
of the Caesars of his discovery; and, upon
further research, we're found three beauti-
full fragments OF porphyFy columns.
A little girl in New York orphan asylum
quarreled with another little girl, al q
scratched her face. For this she was pun
ished and was required to learn and repeat
verse from the Bible, being allowed to
make her own selection. She chose the first
verse of Psalm l44, which is as follows:
blessed be the Lord, my strength, which
teacheth my hands to war; and my fingers
to fight"
Eliza Frey, New York girl, was aroused
from sleep the other morning, and found
that man had his hand upon her throat,
and was trying to choke her. She screamed
so Justify, however, that he let go and in
eontinently jumped through the window,
But she jumped out of bed and caught his
coat-tail, and held it until the cloth parted,
when he dropped into the arms of police
man.
The luck of b. f. Puilen, mayor of Paris,
Kentucky, has changed, and after dishear-
tening succession of ten girls, number elev-
en- proves to be fine boy. An old sport
once said that when luck's ag'in you it's
no use to shuttle the keerds, and you'd bet
ter lay out for hand or two" But the re-
ward of perseverance in Mayor Pullen's
case does not cOrroborate the theory.
The biggest rejecting telescope in the
world is at this moment being constructed
at CambridgepOrt, Massachusetts,. The OBJ
ject glass, which, when finished, will weigh
nearly 200 pounds, is twenty-six inches in
diameter, and cost $1,000 before it was pol
ished. The instrument is for the National
Observatory, and Will cost $4,000. 1t will
take two years yet to finish it.
Did you visit Rome in your travels 2"
asked a gentleman, in the interval of a
waltz, of his partner, who had just returned
from doing the continent of Europe.
Rome Rome " replied the young
lady, in a hesitatiDg voice, let me see.
Did we 60 to Rome Oh, yes That is
where we saw a woman shaving dog on
eLD HtpPS Va q
Mr.. Sumner is still occupying his agreea-
Bile home on Lafayette square, Washing
ton, where he has some twenty regular cali
ers, who stop to pay their respects at least
once day, and every afternoon he takes
ride in a barOuche out to the Soldiers
Home, or along the banks of Rock creek, in-
haling-the air. His life is singular combi-
nation of passion and tranquility,
There is a gentleman residing at Mem
IL. l. Il.
to be lineal descendant of him of the
village of Falling Waters" He has, in
prominent positions in his house, two stat
uettes Of the lost hunter in his mountain
experiences, aud q handsome picture Of
Joe Jefferson in his famous part.
fCrazy Black Dick" fell dead at Harris.
burg, Pennsylvania, lately. All the pas
sengers that have travelled that way for the
past four years will remember him at the
depot, running ahead, doubtless thereby
saving many lives. He was pictured In
/ ScTfbner's Monthly few months ago in his
capacity. as a life saYer.
The well-known Lantern Of Demosthe-
mes, in the Park Of st. Cloud, near Paris,
destroyed by the Prussians during the war,
is about to be rebuilt as before. 1t is the
exact reproduction of a small marble edi-
flee at Athens, purchased by the Capuchin
monks, and casts of which had been brought
The New York and Brooklyn suspension
bridge has progressed so far as to have the
the Brooklyn pier up to height of one
hundred feet above high water, and the
New York pier has been sunk to its founda-
ton, eighty feet below high water. $2,905-
3S9 40 has already been expended.
Potatoes p cried a darkey peddler in
Richmond. Hush dat racket-yOu distracts
de whole neighborbOod," came from an
aged uncle in a doorway. "You can hear
me, kin you ~ HHear you / kin hear
you milen "Thank God for dat-rs
hOllowin' to be heard. 'Tatoes y Sage
Live as long as you may, the first twenty.
years form the greater part of your life.
They appear so when they are passing; they
seem to have been so when we look back TO
them, and they take up more room in our
memory than all the years that succeed
them.
Chicory raising promises to become quite
an item in the valleys of the San joaquin
and Calayeras rivers, California. The yield
is said to be thirty to fifty tons per acre,
in enormous quantities in adulterating
coffee.
Midsummer, it is said, has written. several
letters to prominent cOlored men, telling
sthem there can be no progress for them
while there is none for the whites and
warning them that the election of Grant
will be a common calamity.
General st. John b. L. Skinner, who was
formerly for seventeen years First Assistant
Postmaster General, was stricken with
paralysis on Saturday, and is now In very
critical condition. General Skinner is sew