The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1874-04-04
FACTS AND FANcIRs.


s. An Indiana paper talks learned
|. about the "resr admirables" OF th
If psyy. v-T Old
D Wealthy northerners continue Il
J. astonish the natives by building mag
& niicent residences in Florida.
!, =" Wor-uk !" exclaimed a North Caro-
: linjan when offered job, do you s'pos
L | wor-uk, when coon-tracks are as thicl
= as grass.blades }"
Adam had some consolation wheI
> he fell. Fifteen or twenty acquaintan
ces did not stand on the opposite cor
! ner and laugh at his mishap.
I The manufacture of imitation butter
from suet has become a considerable
: mercantile interest. In Albany q com
{ pany has just begun operations with q
capital of $4,000.
/ Mr.. O'Shea says the reason nc
, Irish are mentioned in accounts of the
flood, is that there we're none in the
: ark, tue Irish being wealthy at that
J time and having boat of their own.
=" The day is not far distant" saws
a Raleigh paper, "when the world will
begin to look ON death as a journey TO
another country" Yes and the jour-
ney is one on which we can all OF us
4 go dead-head. .. .4-ra
-Amonument to the memory of French
soldiers who fell in the war with Pru ia
has been erected at Bourges. II bears
this inscription "The sword Of France,
| broken in valiant hands, will be forged
anew by their descendants"
When the Prince OF Wales was
married, Artcmus Ward gave him some
! practical hin's as 10 how to manage Al
eXandra, founded on his own experience
with Betsey Jane. "Now you're mar
ried, my boy" said he, lyon can est
onions"
"A little boy caught his foot in some
wors,ed with which his sister was work
ing, the sentence, "God is Love-" in
perforated card board, and got crack
on the ear that will lay him up for
fortnight--if it does not injure him for
life.
-Galvanism was discovered by man
named Swammerdamn. one hundred and
thirty years before Galvani called at
tention to it. The world, however, will
not willingly change the name in order
to give him the honor belonging to him.
Swammerdamnism would be awful.
"A western paper says that the way
TO kill off the poets who offer to write
pieces gratuitously is to accept their
efforts, hand them to the worst compost
tor and let the proof-reader correct
them according to his own ideas of
prosody. This is warranted to des roy
the strongest poetical fever in three
weeks.
The water supply of Paris is to be
increased by the construction of the
Montsouris Reservoir, which is to re-
ceive the water of the Vanne. 1t is to
occupy an area of thirteen and one.half
acres, and will contain 66,000 600 gal
Ions of water. The daily water supply
per head will be increased from "a to
"a gallons. ..H
The New York postal law brings
considerable revenue from the New
York advertising agencies. Geo. p.
Rowell & Co.'S quarterly bills upon
newspapers received, exceed $3.50 those
of S. NJ. Pettingill &c Co. are above
1850, while the agencies of W. J. Carl
ton, Bates and Locke, W. w. Sharp and
,thers most prominent, pay from one
'ourth to one-eighth of the above
This is the way Kentucky candi-
late for Office greets a voter: "Howdy,
lowdy, howdy." Howdy." "How
10 you do p" Tollable. -" How are
,ouP" "Tollable. "How's alp"
Tollable." "Your folks wellp"
Tollable." slows yourn ! 3" "Tol-
able" "Neighbors all well ?" "Tol-
able" " How's yourn ?" "Tollable.
{ All for me this timc?" "Sorter
ollable."
A razor left for half an hour in wa
or to which one.twentieth Of the lat
er's weight of sulphuric or muriatio
cid has been added, and then lightly
7iped and allowed to rest for O few
ours, acquires thereby minutely cor
oded surface, rendering its final sharp
ming upon the hone magically easy.
is temper is also greatly improved by
he process, which actually makes a
ood blade out of apoor one. But why
uch effects from such causes is yet to
u fClelltiuChlly tApldiutu.
Punch gives the following advice
D an Amphitryon At your banquets
ever allow the wives to sit opposite
heir husbands. Not only flirting ii. e.,
nn) is rendered utterly impracticable
nder such conditions, but there is
in each others eyes which
etrifies their tongues when they catch
ight of one another. Let every wife
o seated on the samo side as her hus-
and, and as far from him as possible;
len, although it may be carried on in
ndertones, you will never find the con-
ersation for single moment cease.
"A Chicago parson, who is also q
'hool teacher, handed problem TO his
ass in mathematics, the other day
he first boy took it, looked at it while,
I'd said :" pass" Second boy took
and 'said II turn il down" The
ird boy stared at it while, and
awled out =" / can't make it. Every
'od, boys" said the parson, 1" we will
oceed to cut for new deal ;" and,
tn this remark, the leather strap
need like Lightning over the shout
rs OF those depraved young mathema-
ians. E..f 800
Clean Teeth.
II you will'only keep your teeth clean
ey won't decay. Tho wonderful den