New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-23

When the sun is far 70 the nerth, for the space
| OF few short minutes there falls ray
Through an amber pane on the angels face
It was wrought for the eye of God, and it seems
That he blesses the work OF the dead mans hand
With ray of the golden light that streams
On the lost that are found in the deathless land
| than ever comes near.
Mime. Anna Bishop has sailed to give
| concerts in Bermuda.
Mcclellan is again a resident at Orange,
New Jersey, where he owns magnificent
place.
Two hundred unstamped or misdirected
letters go to the dead letter Office from San
Francisco every week.
Jean Jacques ROusseau's house at Mont
morency, which all readers of his "COnfes-
siOns" will remember, is for sale.
A bachelor is politely described as a
man who has neglected his opportunity of
making some poor woman miserable.
A boy lately died in London in cOnvul-
sions from having a red hot rivet dropped
down his back by a playmate.
A Cremona violin, made in the fifteenth
century, was sold in New York, last week,
to Cincinnati banker, for $500.
A Chicago editor recently received a per-
fumed note asking why Mr.. Byron, who
used to write such sweet poetry, keeps so
quiet lately.
The English journals are amazed at the
nomination of Victoria G. Woodruff for
the Presidency, regarding it as serious
matter.
A young woman, being asked by a poll
tician which party she was most in favor
of, replied that she preferred a wedding
party.
A Fall River reporter, whose ear is at
tuned to all sweet sounds of nature, says
that vegetation screams with delight
since the late rains.
Some unscrupuious misanthrope has
started a report that Gerritt Smith opposes
Greeley because Greeley charged him $500
for printing one of Gerritt Smiths speeches.
81 will preach from dat portion of the
Scripture dis evening" said eolOred domi
ME, ''where de 'Postle Paul pints his 'Pistle
at the 'Phesians."
To be truly happy, part your hair in the
middle behind, and as you move along puff
your cigar smoke into the cOuntenance of
the inofensive passer-by. 1t works like
charm
Apathy is one of the worst moral dis
eases, as it not only ineapacitates us from
combating the encroachment of vice, but
GAOSbS every GFbuuo VI JUL nOu16 W tLLc DIP
prOach of virtue.
The great stone monuments of England,
like StOnehenge, are supposed by Mr.. James
Ferguson to be military trophies erected in
the time of King Arthur on the battle
fields by the victorious armies.
An Irishman went to Bangor and bought
horse for 50 So When he had dragged
him home, a neighbOr said: "Arrah now,
Pat why didn't you give another half dol
lar and git good OneF
A child three years old, received into the
Buffalo Orphan Asylum the ether day, was
found to be suffering from delirium tremens,
It's drunken mother having actually fed her
offspring from the whisky bottle.
A young girl, at an examination in gram
mar the other day, when asked why the
noun "bachelor" was singular, blushingly
answered: because it is very singular they
don't get married" She went up head.
Pere Hyacinthe, the dissenting Catholic !
priest, is engaged to be married to the only |
daughter of Count Won Edal, Bavarian |
nobleman Of considerable wealth. He |
made the acquaintance of the lady in Rome. |
The individual expenses of the course at |
Dartmouth have been variOusly summed |
by the students from $ll00 to $1,000, the |
average being Sl782. The largest amount |
earned by teaching during the intervals has |
been $l475.
If England knows not mercy, she can |
sometimes recognize expediency, and has |
lately removed one Indian officer from the |
service, and transferred another, for shoot |
ing dusky offenders out Of mOrtars, Ia |
SepOy.
Justin Mccarthy says that it is the habit |
Of GuizOt to ascribe the mistakes of Presi- |
dent Theirs to his youth and want of expe- |
rience. GuizOt is a mature man of nearly |
ninety years, while Theirs is a bOyish fell |
low of seventy-fve.
Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, was enthu- |
siastically received at Rio JaneirO on his re-
turn from his European tour, and one of his |
sayings is reported as follows: There are
1nly two countries in Europe, England and |
Germany; the rest are rubbish"
An ambitious youth in Dubuque lately |
set out on an adventurous voyage to Cuba |
n a skif, by way of the Mississippi and the |
gulf. He had got ten miles down stream |
when he had a severe attack of wanting to
20 home, and gave DER his high emprise.
A person recently visiting a village in
New Hampshire saw a notice cOnspicuOusly |
posted up, which read as follows: "Cum
INTO my inclOshure 200 lite Red yelling hef
ers l should be glad when the oner talks
hem away" yelling heffers" is good.
The trouble is, men are not satisfied with
4 harmonious, even-going prosperity, but
ire forever beating about after great shocks
If sudden good fortune, which, from their
very excess of nervous stimulation, only
weaken and enervate. Such violent good
uck has a fearful tendency to make fools of
)eOple-it superinduces softening of the
brain.
William Cullen Bryant proposes to give
BIZ, 500 to the town of CummingtOn, Massa-
,husetts, to be expended in establishing a
public library. The building is to be of
Jtone, and is to be located as near the
centre of travel through the town as posi-
lie. The work will be commenced as soon
Is the location is decided upon.
Enoch Breeding, night editor of the
Louisville CourieT-.J Journal, has suddenly
gained popularity as an elocutiOnist. The
Louisville papers speak in the highest
erms of his efforts, and the leading citizens
nave called upon him to give a public read
ng, which he has consented to do, offering
5he proceeds of the entertainment to a
worthy object of charity.
In New York there is a mill which makes
rom paper such articles as milkpans, cups,
Jreadpans, washbOwls, etc, which are said
20 be superior to wood or metal. The paper
being pulped, is pressed to shape, dried,
snameled, and subjected to a heat that
would destroy some utensils of the kind.
The material is light and easily handled,
md does not rust, shrink, leak, or easily
break.
Mrs. William F. Butts is said to be the
'nly woman employed on the regular staff
If the New York Herald. Her husband
vas formerly connected with the same
PAPER, and, after his death, she made APP
llleatlOn for piece work, which was cheer
n Of 4 ma h.sT1 I