National Republican., 1876-12-27
CURIOSITY SHOP.

-Imperiallsts should engage barber.
The Brooklyn theatre is to be rebuilt
do not turn the poor away fr m your
door.
Sermons in stones-Llthogrsphed ser,
MONS
If dealer does not like keg butter he
should lump It.
-IDdians is celebrated for quick d.
vorces and Blue Jeans.
The value of insured property in Lon
don is placed at f54o, ,ooo, 900.
One Kentucky village, Flat Rock,
shipped 700 rabbits the other day.
There are seamps in London who sell
painted sparrows for goldhnches.
"A Detroit versifer rhymes 'sho vel"
with the Father Of Lies other name.
I'm Paris marriages are as plentiful as
ever, but births Of children are fewer.
Two Albany night school lsis are
| jailed for squirting ink on their teachers
Russia, by cutting away Its woods, has
made its winters colder and its summers dryer.
MIR. Carrylog. of Fulton, KY, has
more than doubled his burden BY taking wife.
"A retired prize fighter of London has
they say.
AT Versailles, KY, the B. W. 1. Club
Immediately.
Scoop the core out of baked apple.
fill the hole with milk and sugar, and set out
doors TO freeze.
When you're in quandsry what to
write about, an article on snow ought always to
cover the ground.
If Ruth had lived in modern times, at
what city in Illinois would she most likely have
settledf At G'lena.
The Chicago Times suggests that Mr..
"fallen preachers"
An interesting suit over the Goose.
berry estate" Is creating jam daily in the surrC
gates office at Albany.
Pray for the poor with all your might,
and now and then throw In Q loaf Of bread, basket
| Of potatoes, or barrow Of coal
Sixty thousand Phlladelphia families,
| IT is said, will soon break up housekeeping and
return their Centennial visits.
Two murderers, man and woman,
confined in separate cells of . Michigan prison
| correspond on an empty tour eack.
Hold the Tow Path" is the latest
| song in certain quarters. Yes, and It has the
| true ring to it; {. e., the canal ring.
-Arl Beatz, Swede, was locked up yes.
terday for being drunk. This supports Mr.. Nor
| rissey's decision that Arl Beats is of.
You may momentarily beat man with
q figure Of speech, but he goes away feelinx that
after all, you are bigger Tool than he is.
The New York commissioners of char.
tiles and correction gave the denizens or Black
wells IsIana fourteen thousand pounds Of pOul-
An Elgin. ILL.,, newspaper has this ad-
| yertisement: "Found-A buckskin- mitten. If the
owner will leave the other at TINS ONCE he will
| greatly oblige the finder"
| Cleveland young women write COM
| read. One emotional creature writes: .The pangs
| Of love are gratei have ben there my self"
Darwin says that the different phases
Of emotion express themselves naturally in
mans actions. This fact has frequently been no.
ticed in . man who sat down on new silk hat. :
"A premium certificate obtained by a
manufacturer at State fair is a parchment EVIL
dence that he has made one good thing without
seG,g.r seing guarantee that he viii ever make
The skating being now very good,
toothache and cholera morbus have appeared
among the boys, Just after school begins, in the
nature Of an epidemic, and threaten to sap the
foundation Of our educational system.
Some time ago pupil in deafand-
the book Of Job when asked to write out his un n.
lows: "The Lord boiled Job seven days"
Two young brothers may be as devot-
edly attached to each other as were Damon and
Pythias, but you will never hear Of one snatching
the scuttle from the hands Of the other and in
sstipg upon going down cellar to bring up the coal
Sixteen young ladies at church on
| Sunday were Watching the feet Of their beloved
pastor as II to retain their size in mind and by
NEW ear LAY Lnc pA6lOT VIII nave sixteen
pairs worked slippers to send away to his reia-
| tives.
The latest agony in mems caps is a
ghastly looking head-pieee with spectacle glasses
In the visor, whch pulls down over the whole face
page Illustration in the report Of the Ku-Kiux in
Vestigating committee.
"A gentleman who organized a night
| school In New York for dry goods store clerks
said Il wa. utterly I to mpart n:trac
tion 10 couple Of dozen young men who parted
canes.
-'Where did this baby come from ?'
asked little three -year-old girl OF the nurse,
who was washing the squealing little stranger.
"Why, from heaven, of courser replied the
don't wonder they sent it offr' was the stunning
rejoinder.
"A wealthy and aged citizen of Wheel
ing drew up his will lately and provided in the
document that after his death his body should be
details of the ceremonies have also been written
In the document and a sum set aside to defray the
expenses of the same.
"A clergyman who recently dissolved
his sermOn IN Shch he told his sds GISsS Of o.
church quarrel gave out hymn for the choir to
sing. The tune was played, when the choir and
congregation skipped the hymn and sang, "Praise
God from whom all blessings how."
"A tramp got exceedingly angry at
place where he called for something to eat the
other day, because they would not give him
% mincs pie and one at another place threw the
they would not give him hot coffee. Next these
nusances will insist on chicken salad and cham
pagne.
"A female justice of the peace of Wv
oming Territory was married last week. and pre-
yiously notified her friends to be present by
printed form as follows Il am about to marry
Mr ,9s.1 -. Of this county, and he he will be
attend"
1t was strange blending Of the ancient
and modern that presented itself recently to an
at the port Of ancient Antioch where the dis,
ciples were hrst called Christians, saw an In
voice Of Ayers cathartie pills hoisted on to the
backs of troop Of camels for transportation to
the interior.
I'm an E ,glish provincial. newspaper
Is the following notice: "whereas James Mclean
lately left his lodgings this is TO give notice that
same he will be advertised" A handbiii In York,
nOaDeed ia. S ladies' s' Without Ut distinosiCn Of
sex, are invited to attend"
In Texas all doctors are required un-
der the new law governing the practice Of medi-
cine to Eapply before the county Board of Ex-
aminers, appointed by the District Court, and
p6ysioiogy % and msteria medics m Before , they can
collect their bills Any one violating this law is
liable to be indicted, fned and imprisoned
John Deans, residing In Galveston,
Texas, gives an interesting account in a letter to
the Netes Of that city Of the burning Of the Rich
mond theatre In 1911. Deans was q mere lad, and
was in Richmond at the time with his mother
Fortunately, he says, he had expended his extra
change and was not inside the building, but was
among the first on the ground after the fire
alarm. ...
Chickens are Matched by steam at the
yennelyst poultry farm, Pentwater, Mich. The
Matching house has been built In the form of q
cross, giving ve rooms, each twelve feet square,
in each story. The first hoor is devoted TO hatch
ing and the Incubator stands in the room looking
toward the east 1t is not q very pretentious
looking piece Of mechanism, but 1t will hatch
three or four hundred chickens at a time. Spring
chickens all the year round-tis not bad Idea.
Tommy is just old enough to under
stand literally what he hears in church, place
he breads to go to, for Sunday is day Of misery
| to him. The other morning he came home in
gloomy state Of mind, and confdentially informed
his mother that he didn't want to 90 to Heaven.
Upon being asked why, he said there was too
much Sunday there, for he heard the minister
read out OF book that IL was a place 'congrega-
| tiops ne'er break up and Sabbaths never end"
| and he thought one Sunday in q week was all he
could stand.