New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-23

for lawyers. There is always q scot going
on there.
Colored men own property valued at
over half q million dollars IN Petersburg
Virginia.
The female servants OF Ottawa, Ontario,
are forming a union to regulate the prices
of domestic labor.
Philadelphia is abusing The persons who
recently took a census of its school children.
They reported only $4,000.
Duluth is in ecstacies over ten miles OF
railway track, which it calls an lar line
between itself and Chicago.
In Indiana, if a wife can prove that her
husband has cold feet continually. she has
no difficulty in obtaining e divorce.
One of the numerous places known a.
'"WashingtOn's headquarters" Is announced
for sale near MorristowD, New Jersey.
The frs, child born in Dennison City,
Texas, q girl, received a present OF . town
lot from the railroad company.
The United States grows annually about
1870 900, 900 bushels of p~OtatOes-three bush
els for every man, woman and child.
4 man died in Seneca Falls, New York,
the other dav, and in his will left "that old
liar and ~tattier. the widow Jones. W
cents"
Young New York will think twice before
marrying. now that Judge DAILY has de-
cided that . man must support bis mother
in law
From 1900 to 1912 the winters were re-
markably cold. particularly In Russia,
which proved so disastrous to the Sreneh
army.
A diamond snuff-bo valued az $1,000,
was found in q railway car IN England
some time ago. 1t was advertised ID all oil
r%ectiOna. hut to no purpose.
| Dennison, Texas. Q town which wasn't
four months ago, now has a newspaper to
report the throng OF beauty and fashion at
the opening Of its new opera house.
| 4 photograph of the sword presented by
Engiishmen TO Raphael Semmes Is on ex-
hibition in Charleston, South Carolina.
Curio.ities must be scarce IN that city.
According to the Spanish proverbs, four
| persons are wanted to make a good salad
"a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar.
d counselor tor salt. and q mailman to STIR
all up.
A Minnesota washerwomau has q boiling
spring to cook her water aud by giving
longer time 10 her impecuni0us patrons,
has completely busted q steam laundry in
in
There is a little niger in louisville, Ken
lucky, called Tom Thumb. He is old
enough to be as big as a giant, and yet. 1t
is said, he cal scarcely look over "a par OF
army boots.
1t has been suggested that the handsome
young girls be employed to take up the
collections at the churches. If there is
anything that will deprive a man OF his
senses, it is a pretty girl.
Recipe for making a row-Walk along
the pavement of IA crowded thOrOughtare
with a ladder on your shoulder, and turn
ronu1 every two minutes TO see II ANYBODY
is making faces at you.
A uuack at Whitewater. Wisconsin, is
attempting to cure a c~onsumptlVe patient
by prescribing a diet of dog flesh. probably
having heard that many diseases yield to d
treatment of canine bark.
A sad story comes from Kilkcudbright.
shire Nine children went for q walk. One
went upon the ice and fell in, and no less
than five of the other children We're drown
cd in their attempt. 70 rescue.
Tobacconists and drink mixers lose So.
600 by swear-Ctfs on New Years day, but
make double that sum the third week in
| January, when the lambs come back TO the
flock thiTstier and hungrier than ever.
The toughest story humanity has yet
heen called upon to believe is this: after
thirteen years of angry separation, a Ierre
Haute couple now sleep upon the same
pillow" Pillows must be large in Terre
Iaute.
Ivory Whip has just been acquitted on a
charge of manslaughter in Il York county
court. The death OF ResOlute SOule was re-
Gently reported in the newspapers, and
President Theirs recently pardoned an
American named Consider Thinker.
Sarah Walker, seventy-three years of
age, reached Lowell the other day after Il
twenty-mile walk, in search OF work in the
mills. She stated that her object was to
Law up a little money against the day when
old age should render her unable to perform
hard labor.
A little apple-headed dry goods clerk in
New York, who had a fortune left him by
his parents, stands up before d world and
saws there is mo tact. talent or ambition in
the young men of to-day" and that is why
they are poor.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that the
Democratic nominee for Mayor in that city
is so bigOted a partisan that he would ire.
fuse to put a policeman on guard who could
not prove that he had worn mourning after
the surrender Of Lee
The Lawrence MASSACHUSETTS, im"ric0n
saws there is ii boarding marin i'll that
city whose economical tendencies lead her
to place her bOarders upon an allowance of
matches. Every evening at tea she goes
round and places a single match Ut the
plate OF each bOarder.
Mrs. johnson. after Thirteen years o,
happy married life, became a widow. She
did not remain so long. She appreciated
the blessings Of the married state. She
married again. A few days ago she said
TO her new husbands: 'Oh. how happy poor
Charles would be. if he were still alive. 10
see himself replaced by a man az amiable,
f kind and agreeable as you are.'
Next to New York car drivers. the stree,
car conductors Of Chicago are the most
!, gfntlemanly and polite individuals in the
United States. y woman was about 10
| aIight from the steps of q Chicago horse
car the other day. but paused an instant &c
avoid contact with o rapidly passing team,
{: when III" refined and gentltmaDlv c0nduc
: tor spoke up with. Get off. you In foo!
that team won't hurt ;0u."
The export Of apples has become ~ i'm
~'oltant branch .! the trade of Boston
over 10000 barrels Of green apples having
been sent to Europe by three steamers dur
!. ing the month Of February. In the larg,
, cities Of England there il a steady demand
for this fruit, which is SOLD at REASONABLE,
!, rates. It IL not uncommon for Michigan
fancy apples 20 be placed among olhc.
/. dainties on the table. of The nobility. an,
/ eVen GA that Of the Queen.
: Beaver Falls. Pennsylvania. doesn't pro
: Pose 70 lie ruined BY Chinese cheap ldooi
Ih- owners II til" cutlery work. ther,
offer to donate to the town tie net profit
Of the work Tor eight years for she purpoS
: 81 establishing charitable or h~.eic.di in
]-iitnIru- ;leE.. provjjin. u. people vii
."res :, ~to.eYa:: sne Chinese. even
: OF tie .!rciiIt'iUn t.; Ia. off r. The owner
. vii! wir'lar.. their ~i..'" capt.. :. .rgI. Il
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