National Republican., 1873-01-30
NnTES OR TIKI DAY.

THE courts IN ONO granted l,O2d divorces last
year.
BRIrIsu engineers are at work on railway 10
China.
1nosE who have Hight in themselves will not
revOlvC a. satellites.
A CHICAGO German advertises basement to
let on the third story"
4 NEW Peoria paper starts under the burden Of
Injunction for name.
Iowa Is the nfth state In the Union In the num-
Der OF newspapers published.
MONOGRAM window curtains are the freshest
pustue Of New York society.
IT IL STATED that so divorces were applied for
In Allegheny county, Pa, last year.
THE Quaker village OF New Sharon, Iowa,
charges 81 100 for license TO sell liquor.
A MUSICAL CRITIC lately remarked Of an or
ganst that he not only could Handel Bach, but
actually beethoven.
A CHINESE hIgn priest In San Francisco has
been lined So for exercising the evil spirits with
squibs a1d nrc-CrlCkcrs.
A Hartford rAPEI says "the dull quality Of
the gas enables The gas company to declare bril-
liant dividend Of 2h per cent.
SAN DirdO, Cal, IA luSuriating on green peas
amt ripe iOnIatOC=, whlle santa BaTbATa pTides
itself on lis llnO strawberries.
An ALBA QOwa) girl who leans towards the
SOTOslStcrs, found q nice pair Of pants In her
stocking on Christmas morning.
A COMMITTEE OF the Kentucky Legislature have
reported In favor of removing the State capitol
from Frankfort to Louisville.
"SrREET GRABS" Ia what the Philadelphia Dis-
patch calls the bills presented In the Legislature
ohArtering new horse railway companies.
A CRY for eggs comes up from all parts Of
Pennsylvania, but the hens refuse to shell out
with the mercury below zero In q warm nest.
The nurse Of the baby hippop0tamus who was
recently horn In London, has been awarded a
medal by the Geological Society In recognition
OF his services.
DA vICKsBURG HICKMAs, who charged a blind
woman double fare aud then cheated her again
~ making change, has been invited to 20 TO
Niagara Falls ant take command there.
THERE Is a law In Rhode Island by which any
man may be incd 8 for calling another liar.
But It's dead-luicT on the book, for the falHify-
ing procllyltes OF the accused can always be
proved.
GREAr misfortune happened In Iowa re-
Gently. hnhy forced open an army button,
and found u g. hill inclOsed In the hollow space.
Every old army button In the country Is now In
danger OF similar dissection.
TnOsE newly y-arriyed Italians are beginning to
make their mark In the criminal records OF New
York. One OF them has got into the TOnlbs be-
cause he lndulged In the amusement OF stabbing
two little boys whom he met Oh the street.
TUG Salem wltGhCraft has revived In Sullivan,
Massachusetts, where father. mother and four
children have been frantic for some four weeks
over the suppOsitOn that their house Is infested
by witches, whom they declare to be some OF
their neghbOrs. To exercise the evil spirits they
have broken up nearly all the furniture and
dlshes, and vary the exercise by shooting at I'M
The gas companies Of London during 1871 re-
ceyed from their customers tii ,026,bo0 for gas,
and f2,l4l,lS5 for residual products, making
total Of ti3 l6I, ,ISh, The years bill paid for gas
for public lighting amounted TO t ,ib5 600. There
are ten companies supplying London with gas,
The two most important, the "Gaslght and
Coke Company" and the "Imperial 0asllght Com.
pany," together furnish supply Of one half Of
the Ras used In London.
A PoOR seamstress was arrested the other day
In brooklyn, New York, on a charge Of stealing
Upon her examination II appeared she was en-
ployed by a certain Miss PillsbuTy, Of New York
city, who paid her seventeen cents for making
four pairs Of pantalOOns, nifty cents for making
twelve pairs OF drawers, aud twenty-five cents
for making six shirts. She did not nnlsh the pan
falcons as soon vs. she agreed 10, aud the gentle
Plllsbury refused to pay her whereup0n she
pawned the articles To keep her family from
starving. As she could not have belonged to the
Tammany ring, II is probable she was sent to jail
for three months. A sad case Of womGns inhu-
manlty TO woman.