New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-22

OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS, OCTOBER -. 1875.
Oysters crowd out ice cream.
The territory of Africa is used principally
for exploring purposes.
Lager beer in Detroit is explosive. Casks
OF it there have bursted.
Old tobacco chewers do not care for the
sere and yellow leaf
Pittsburg iron manufacturers are looking
for "a puddlers' lockout
John Ruskin has published work on the
embroidery OF Florence, called "Aridne
Fiorentina."
Rossi will not come to America, and we
shall be obliged to listen to actors we can
understand
There is no need OF trying to weather a
storm. The storms Tice gets up will weather
themselves.
Chicago reporters give short biogr aphical
sketches of all men who write their names
in hotel registers.
When horse doctors and lawyers disa
gree. who can decide whether or not mules
have the epizootici
The Bank of England has no rag money. |
The paper for its notes is made of new linen
or cotton. and is very strong.
Many man has wished he was an au-
tumn leaf, that he might fall off and be
pressed by pretty maiden.
The Jefferson Borden mutneers, two OF
whom received death sentence at Boston, |
might be called the Ku-Klux of the high |
seas.
1t is said the London papers had the news |
OF measles in the Feejee Islands three |
months before it was telegraphed by the
cable.
Supplying the pulpit can now be regarded
rs among military supplies, for General o.
.. Howard has been doing such thing in
Oregon.
1t is hardly the fair thing to fight the
devil round stump. Clergymen should
give the devil his due, and fight him in
open field.
Washington has hack law, but the law
yers manage to hack it to pieces. One Of
the inalienable rights of hackmen is to get
all they can.
Guibord's coffin is to be made of stone,
end weigh nine tons. If any body snatcher
gets away with that profane sarcophagus
he will have heavy load-on his con-
science.
When q man has been counting q girl for
about fourteen years, and finds her sitting
at the piano singing, Darling, l am grow
ing DID," he should consider his opportuni-
ties and the shortness of life
The Prince of Wales has decided that all
presents made to him on his Indian tour
shall become private property. If his ad-
vance gift agents do their duty he will
make handsome thing of his travels.
When passenger stumbles and falls into
bob tail street car in st. Louis, the con-
ductor asks him if he has trip ticket.
Some of these fellows will get knocked
down for their impudence before the great
bridge falls.
The jackson (Mississippi) Times says: |
"The loss of cotton this year, for want OF
picking, is estimated at $4,000, 900 in gold"
The advantage gained by driving colored
laborers from the fields with shotguns will
handy rhal Ia uca aucb q 1nsa |
Our readers, we know, will be pleased to
learn that the Dickens Party, which was so
successful last summer is to be repeated on
Thursday, the eleventh of November, for
the benefit of St. Johns Episcopal Church.
The tickets will be out in a few days.
Speaking of j. L. Toole's American tour
the London Era says: SAT New Orleans he
was compelled, in consequence of prior en- /
gagements, to decline an offer of fl00 per
night" 1t is, perhaps, fortunate for our
managers that Mr.. Toole had other en-
gagements.
mother in Philadelphia brings suit {
against sho wman for the recovery of her ,
boy, known as Prince Leo. She pleads
that to bring her boy up on the trapeze is
bringing him up in a way he should not go,
or she reasons that the boy has become
valuable.
Wendell Phillips tells Of Horace Greeley
that when the old gentleman was offered
Western bank bills by lecture committee,
he said he would prefer to have we'll
executed counterfeit on some Eastern bank.