National Republican., 1876-12-06
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CURIesIrr sHsP.
"A pesi7 nut dealer says buriness q at a
stand stiii. ---.--l
The unreturning boards-that's whaI
they are.
Poultry rsaie,,s are counting up their
! loose ehapNe.
-. The I rssois is ,iuisS / but no oSOk oan
| The solid North" Is what stops the
Arctic eSpeditioaS.
| "A free people can't ges up taanks-
giving dinner on efscr1on ROSTERS.
! The Boston TrareEer tells Of news.
boy whc.sa!d :."Thefs isiots q ssrs, but n0sAiA'
| to holler:''
Stree. cars have been established BY
american enterprise AZ Jamaiesr md are yscT
/ Why does the new moon remind one
ora l.g giddy gifsr Because Stsoyg;ns u show
Punch: Life is stormy and Danger
Gus voyage, TLstessei we ssastin--our cradle
The cask. il is here, y ssid redeyed
man sadly, looki1s Al an empty rhisky tasrsI,
"but the jewel is gsne.'l s--,si :.
| Joan of Arc had very luxuriant VEL
low hair, but the best Authorities agree THAI shs
| didn't run in debt fc-it.
And speaking of contested elections.
the Goode-Segar case from Virginia comes up
0efore the next Congress-
The London Jrss has the fsilowing
saDs an sdSsrfssRsDs; fSs tbs Want-e0naa.
That's the only -1sdding trip n shall
probably ever take" gal6 m old bachelor, IS he
stumbled over brides trxin. -
Pour Georgia sisters advertised that
tenhisi year we are al Sfosasrs. = '''-''
Don't lose the torches We may have
two or three more elections this year before ws
get President.-BurIington Hawksss.
"A young woman being ssked By Q
replied that she preferred /. wedding party. "
The New York Herald siys, 'the best
way to wash lamp chimneys is with Q dry cIoth
That That is the way Henry Clay DsanWashes him
A young lady said she guessed she
so, too.
Those who contemplate committing
suicide are requested to postpone CARRYING out
their resolve until the new coroners are installed
in ONCE.
1t is proposed to make two States of
california, Dividing the present State by tho
Santa Cruz county line. That will be rum cid
division.
"A liquor dealer has sign outside OF
his place of business upon which is the letter I
painted red. When asked its meaning, he re-
plies ''red-eye.r
"A weekly paper in Wisconsin saws:
MRS. Elkhorn, Of Sugar Creek, died last uesk
alter the publication Of thispaper." Great is the
power Of the press.
1t is stated that the British Treasury
has undertaken to continue the prosecution Of
DR.; Slsde, the medium. The case win probably
be tried In January. 81
Peter Opie, Of Madison, Wis, recent
have died under the Opie-rstion but for the al.
ministration of an Opie-ate.
"A Wisconsin newspaper says: THE
Board Of Education have resolved to erect build.
ing large enough to accommodate fvs hundrea
students three stories high"
A boy, writing a letter to his sister,
said: Sarah Jane Gibbs is dead, and her=
m0tnsFS ,, Is got twins: They are girls and this na
There comes an hour when even the
man who has pair of boots bet on the eiecttoa
must break down for want Of sleep and drag him.
self homeward to meet his loving wife.
1t 10 cheerful to know that wood fires
are coming into fashion again. Most any womaa
can brsndish hickory log with more effect thaa
she can hurl chunk Of anthracite coal.
Mo less than one hundred and twenty
seven Georgia gentlemen, says the Macon Tele-
graph are candidates for messenger TO carry the
electoral vote Of their State 10 Washington.
There lives near Oakland, CAL, a real
old fashioned witch, who lives In little hut,
and has three dogs for her only eompanions.-
What is Heavens best gift to manS''
sweetly on pIeasant-looking clerk. "a horse"
replied the young man, with great prudence.
-"I meant to have told you of that
hole, )" said gentleman to his friend, who, vaG-
ing in his garden, stumbled into a pit Of water,
'sNo matter" said the friend, 81 have found it."
A fashion-writer in New York says:
"The difference between q fashionable hat anf q
fsshionabIs bonnet is very simple. One is sors
Of the neck
An Iowa Judge has decided that man
Nar-n Ii
Thought il was his wife. That decision should be
denounced by all good men as an open encourage
ment Of perjury.
I'm Turkestan. Asia, the food of the
higher classes consists of stewed kidneys aud
mutton; chops, liver fried in the fat Of long
tailed sheep, peaches and plums, excellent grapea
of two kinds and delicious purple fgs.
Mary Eliza Perry began earlier than
Miss Martinez. She, aged eighteen, sued Ciar-
ence Eugene Reed, Of Brooklyn, aged twenty
one, for breach Of promise Of marriage, bat
Clarence eompromised-he married her.
The King of the Fiji Islands has been
presented with pair of suspenders. He wears
one around his neck and the other buekled
around his waist, and declares that they are .
ever got along without 'en.
A young New Yorker at a party asked
and received the consent OF a young lady TO Rc-
while the company slowly departed, and fin4IIy
limited that it was time for them to go. '-Oh,'
said she, demurely, 81 am boarding lsfs."
The pure blooded EogLshman writes
the most elegantly. T. Adolphus Trollope says:
'sThe irrepresslbiity Of the worse forms of bond
age and of crimes ofviolenee generally continues
to exhibit marked ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with the
disuse Of capital punishment Yet this is ia
Italy.
A horrible tragedy occurred in Re-
serve township, on the outskirts Of Allegheny
81, murdered his vile Barbara With an axe, cut
ting her terribly about the hes6 and face. He
then cut his own throat with a knife. Both died
almost instantly.
-Frienfs of dead person, who gath
cred at Lowell, Mass, several days ago, to re-
ceve the body, which was expected from Paris,
were somewhat surprised te- discover that on tire
plate OF the coffin there was engraved q strange
name. Further examination showed that the
wrong body had been fOESsarled. .00.-
They had been engaged for a long
and one syehg were S me
teen dollars for a snt of slothesr, 'Is 1T wed-
ding suit:r she asked, looking naively at her
suit" .'Well, meant business" she replied.
1t is always sad to hear that the rela-
tives of any Of OUT great statesmen are depend-
ent on the cold charities of the world. The
daughter-in-law af General Jackson, a devoted
woman who miBistered TO his wants, who was by
his side when he died, and whom the general
loved as his only child. is compelled by narrow
circumstances to part with her valuablerelics.
AT the wedding of the dauehter Of the
Duke of Sutherland the bridesmaids wore cream
eolered Sicilian polonaises, trimmed with skunk
of the Charles II period lined With brown velvet
and trimmed with fur. Each q pearl and
turquoise loeket, (the gift Of the bridegrocm,l
with mOnogram Of the brids and bridegroom m
pearls and turquoises on crystal centres.
The latest London industry is the COL
lection of oleaginous deposits In the mud Of the
Thames. 1t is quite profitable, the mud gather
efs ma king three shillings and sixpence q day.
Small globes made Of cork and lined with hair
are planted in the mud at low tide and the fatty
substances in the water adhere TO them. This
miscellaneous grease is manufactured into fresh
butter for the London market.
NTrs pI,la,barr,, lar for a ,,;,;t a.