National Republican., 1873-01-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.


BOT In Minnesota has died from the effects
Of skating too long.
DEATH Is stin the penalty for arson In vlr-
ginla and Maryland.
BROOKLYN papers say that city Is "honey-
combed with gambling houses"
$50 dark and yet so light" as the man said
when he looked at his ton Of coal.
The Governor OF Ohio was asked, the other
day, to pardon three hundred conyicts.
PITIADEiPHiA lost over two and quarter mil
lior dollars by fire during the year isI2.
A wAsHNaroN man has bought seven barrels
| Of Arizona diamonds to feed his chickens.
The schools OF England boast upwards OF q
thousand Yankee girls among their pupils.
OREGON boasts Of having raised q ''alx-pound
potato 5000 feet above the level OF the sea-
| THE Buffalo papers are debating the question
Of municipal aid to new hotel In that city.
The various building associations Of Cincin-
natl are taxed on property valued ut 8, ,S0s, $50.
OWING TO the snow drifts, croquet and base
ball have been given up for the season In Maine.
| An ingenious farmer brought a turkey to the
Boston market with eight pounds Of shot In Its
| crop.
"Goop-BYE, 1sIq-you've rulned our thermom.
eters," .pathetically remarks the Lewiston (Me.)
| Journal.
hundred aud fifty miles on skates on III e Missis-
sippi river.
WITHIN year the consumption Of opium In
this country has increased about l,OOO,OOo ounces
per month.
In the sulphur mines In Lower California II Is
reported that about i,ooo,ooo tons OF the mineral
are already uncovered.
MINNESOTA has Just sent to the penitentiary
for six months the nrst woman ever convicted In
that state Of keeping house OF ill-fame.
A CHICAGO paper says that Il Is wonderful how
quick the blind beggars Of that city can tell the
difference between ten cents and quarter.
Bosros has now n frst-class floating fire en-.
gine, capable Of doing great service In case OF
DIRE on the city wharyes or among the shipping.
! A NASHVILLE negro, applying for a marriage
license, and learning that II would cost him go,
left the room sally, rcinarking; "Dats mighty
squar price, boss"
MAysyIILE, KY, has a nitro-glycerne mann.
factory, and, owing to the fact that they are on
the verge OF eternity, the citizens are very back
ward about their taxes.
MORE progress In japan. Not long since the
government abolished the Yortomo or cOurte-
san market, and now II has oyerhaued the drama
and prohibited lewd farces.
AN English court has decided that people who
pin their faith on spiritual mediums, Instead Of
using the medium Of their own senses, are nt
subjects for lunAtlc asylum.
Tue number OF young men who have mystic
riously disappeared from Boston within the past
three months Is positively alarming, and grief ls
dencIed On the countenance OF many con1dlng
landlady.
Tue Boston T'rdnsrTiR says; Only one vote was
, needed In the Common Council to pass the order
, for opening the public library on Sunday, over
,, Mayor Gastons veto, by the requisite two thirds
The large majority reflects public sentiment on
the question.
A GRAND piano, an Indian shawl, two sets Of
gloves, roll o. velvet and box for the charity
ball, were among the presents received by d
: New York demolsele on Christmas from the
nabOb she Is about 10 marry.
MASSACHUSETTS, continues TO make her crlml.
, nails pay for their living. The expenditures OF
the State prison at ChArest0wn during the past
: year have amounted 70 tist 'oc02l while the re.
OF i4,J3o.23. This Ia the result Of good manage,
ment.
DR. HUGo MAGSUs, assistant physician to III,
hospital at Breslau, suggests, as the best mean
Of determining the presence OF lingering traces
OF life, that y tight llgature be tied round one o.
the fingers II life be not extinct, tho part beyond
; the llgature soon becomes red, the depth Of thu
, color Increasing to dark red and violet. Jus
: above the ligature the skin remains white.
The persecution Of RoumanLan Jews has taker
new and curious phase. The authorities o.
one Of the chief cities have forbidden the slauRh
4 terlng of cattle by Jews. The effect Of thli
, prescription Is to deprive them Of meat, as ac
cording TO their religious code they are not al
! any other way than that therein laid down
ilIS 1t. Louis last sunday gentleman sitting Ii
= q BARRIERS chair, while being lathered, observed
throw some Soapnsuds Sc @ SOU out Of lie mug mug upon The n,
' noor and set his foot In them. The barber ex
, planned TO him that there were lot Of LITTLE
: snakes In the mug, and that they kept crawlinl
up on the brush, But the gentleman thought h
would 60 out aud get a morning paper befor,
being Shaved.
A NEW HAVEN revlvallst the other nigh
painted the future state OF the wicked In gloom!
colors, and saying that his father died YER
, wicked man and had gone TO hell, was proceed
ing, when q young man rose 10 go out. tn,
preacher At once announced that there was
y young man going straight TO the same burning
! region, when the seceder stopped and coolll
4 asked; "wel, elder, don't you want TO send SOM
word to your fAther7"
The following Is the account Of little trOubl
In Louisville, as given by police Officer ga
as knows, your honor, they be VERY goot
young men. On Sunday morning they started Il
take their classes at Sunday school, wich think
be weTy good for them; but they fell In with
West Ender. That's what beat EN-, and they
didn't go 10 school. They raised row, may j
please the Court, and Mr.. Green he stuck his
thumb into Mr.. Nobbs mouth, and the thuml
hasn't never been seen since. That's all know
about It."
THE Chinese ladies' are as much the slaves Of
fashion ~ Western ladies'. They are Away
n studying attitudes and effects before their mir.
rors for hours at time, Just like ours, and they
bandage their feet for the same reason that oul
girls cramp theirs, and tighten their waists Ia
order TO produce elegance and gentity OF
fom.CH) In fact, small feet mean style AM
beauty In China, and II would be hard TO md thu
American girl who would not walk on her head
II that was necessary 10 "style" among us.