Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-01-20

TIM CHICAGO Post wants 10 know II the
Governor has had the State arms vacclnated.
A New YORK LETTER CARRIER recently
found gold watch In lamp-post letter boz.
Sioux CITY Qowa) prisoners are allowed
TO go rabbit hunting at Intervals.
A room SICK MAN, with mustard-pksteI
on him. said "If should eat loaf of bread
I'd be a live sandwich"
A PIANO was badly injured In New York by
falling twelve feet upon colored man.
1T IS said 10 DO one OF the most difficult
things In the world 10 stuff butter into Wild
cat with q hot awl.
MRs. LovrNA, wife Of Levi Matthews, jr.,
Of Llncolnyille, Me-, hung herself on Sunday
last In the barn with a halter. She was AZ
years OF ago, and leaves two children.
An Edinburgh woman, whose case had
been thrown up by her counsel, conducted Il
herself with so much ability that although
on the great skill she had displayed.
A SNEAK thief recently stole coat at Mar
ahalltown, H., which had been hung across
the fence TO be dlslnfected Of the smallpox,
aud, as a consequence, has gone TO that
bourne" etc.
THERE IL a curious coincidence in the debts
OF New York, Pennsylvanla, aud Massachu-
sctts. That OF New York Is e2o, 49,, 702; that
OF Massachusetts IA $40 600, 36i; while that Of
Pennsylvania Is reported as NEARLY s2O,-
100000"
TuR nrst races at Long Branch will COM
mence on the Goth Of June, and be continued
on the I'd, Sd, 9Th and 5th Of July The sec
ond meeting will commence on the Sd Of
August, and be continued on the 9Th, 7th, 9Th
and 9th.
A RURAL EDITOR has lost all faith In the
luck OF horso-shocs, He nailed one over his
door recently, and that morning there came
hU mi ERn Inn and aNaN nd
man called with q reyolvep TO pix who
wrote that article 2"
A sKvENTY-IRAR OLD Minnesotian had an
extraordinary fight with wolf the other
day. He flrst fought the animal with club,
then with pitchfork, and finally got rope
around bis neck, and, like the fox and bear,
lnyelgled him Into a carpenters wise and
screwed bis head last. Then he got gun
and shot him.
Or THE THREE hundred and twenty build
lngs intended for public worship In New
York, seventy are Eplscopallan; hfty-hye
Presbyterian; forty Methodist; thlrty-two
Roman Catholic; Twenty-Five Baptist; twenty
six Jewish--.other lamentations having
each q smaller number OF the remaining
seventy.hye.
TuE river baaina Of France comprlse 202. al
SQUARE miles, and the total length Of the
IIyora Ia HI. Gl3 miles. An Invenlona French-
MANN. Thome dc acknowledgement BY a
comprehensive system Of reg ular planes In sue
ceaslye slopes, TO overcome the imperfections
In the natural profile Of the large water cour-
sea, aud thus 10 utilize the waters in spacious
reservoirs for retention aud distribution.
1uR eensns retnrna sbow that tho total
nnmher az neraona in the Halted atataa Who
can neither read nor write Ia gao OT3. of
whom D Taa Q,0i ara colorcd and m AL ~
foreI0n birth' The IliIterate Of the native
popnIaiion Of the Northern statea L only one
tenth that Of Inc sonthern states In pfopor.
lion 10 The whole number Of Inhabitants, mat
Of the white popniatIop Of the Northern
Statos only onelbalf tha, ~ ths sonthe,n
STATS and that al Tho rolored nonnlatIon
onIv one fortv-eiohth
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