National Republican., 1873-06-30
GENERAL NEWS.

MANY Of ohioagos now buIldlngs are tenant.
Tue girls at ElhhArt, Ind, are forming smoE.
ing club.
NEW ORLEANS markets are siobular with can.
teioupes.
MhwAUKsH contains 1900 beer brewers and
dlstlllera.
HARD times are making diamonds cheap IN
New York.
vDpEns Of cucumOora should paste cholera
remedy on each.
THiHrI people make up the population Of Iiar.
din county, Iowa.
SAN FRANCISCO ls building balloon $50 feet in
circumference.
VIRGINIA boasts this year In the prospects Of
an immense crop Of peanuts.
JAPAN ought henceforth 10 he considered a
Christian nation. she owes tioi, 100000.
THIS Ia fast age. The century plants bloom
once In twenty-five years down IN Florida.
DENVER has plague OF frogs, and the people
cannot harden their hearts to endure II with pa-
tlencc.
TuE wife OF a defaultlna county treasurer
In Iowa has been made insane by her husbands
crime.
EuoRASrs arrive In such numbers at Castle
Garden, New York, as TO make It difiicult 10 ac-
commOdate them.
ROCK SALT Is used 10 compel exuberant youth
to respect old age In Missouri. II is admnls-
tered with shot gun.
ECONOMY b the order Of the day In Csiorado,
and rogues are shot as soon as caught. to save
the expense Of keeping them.
"Iy roc don't throw away that cigar III rcu.
der you eligible for the grave" Is the way a
vickshurg street conductor talks.
CHICAGO talks OF introducing saturdiy after
noon bull-ngnt matlnecs, as nice, light summer
amusement for ladies and children. After the
recent Jubilee, anything will do.
"GRAsuorrxR pAyr is q special holiday OBJ
served by the Catholics Of 81. Cloud, Mlntesota,
and vicinity, on the anniversary OF the cessa-
ton In 1873 Of the grasshopper plague In Min
nesota.
A PoKrtAND man was caught fishing for trout
on another mans land tho other day; the owner
demonstrated, but retired In silence before the
majestic answer. "Who wants TO catch your
trout7 I'm only trying to drown this worm.F
DnSESo CLUES with tickets Of membership,
the punching Of which indicates the number OF
drinks taken, ls the way they doit. The punched
minble present for an axlous wife at O'Clock
lu the morning.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Cincinnati CONNER.
eiai, sent down to Grant parish, Louisiana, 70
ascertain the facts respecting the ColfaK mas.
saore, SAYS there were Just seventy mine negroes
KILLED. The loss OF the whites was four killed
and eight wounded.
LEwIsrows, Me-, has q doctor who drives
curious urohins from his once aud blue jayl
ne wires are laid on the fioor OF his once aud
along the ridgepole on the martin house. II i
amusing 10 witness an operation.
THERE are nine wlfe-whlppers In the Indlai
apolls county jail at present, and the Other
morning the other prisoners held dress parade
Of the class. When standing all In a row q
each as q distinguishing MARI. even the most
hardened Of the criminals desiring TO be sci
whlpper.
Wa have already reached the years ionse,
days. Now the sun rises at his earliest and sets
At his latest hour. Even In this latitude he
makes his morning appearance before the clock
marks t:o0 and he dOel not set TIL three or -four
minutes after 1870. This gives Us q good long
day o. more than fifteen hours OF sunshine. II
exactly rcvorsos the winter order, when al
Christmas we only have nine hours, or Just a.
long a. these brief nights arc nov, and then
come the long winter nights Of iftecn hours.
Ami We have been looking for II ever Slnrs
the warm weather began, and now 1t has come.
That shower OF lively frogs, without which No
| In Kansas city. II always comes In some OF
| those places where regard for truth has not yet
been Imported. The frogs which came down the
| other day IN h. q are said 10 have "yaried IN
size from that OF piece Of coal TO lump Of
chalk"
| IN one OF the latest divorce suits In New Yorl
the wife asks for separation on the ground oil
hanh treatment, her husband having come Ii
late when she was unwell. rung the bell NOR,
violently tam was necessary, denied her moneJ
/ which she wanted, and on one occasion shut the
I'D OF the piano on her hand and hurt Il. Til,
| husband denies the harsh treatment and the re-
/ fusal OF money for any necessary expense, ant
| complains that his wife was extravagant IN hei
love Of music, and In her expenditures In graft
| flying that love.