National Republican., 1876-12-25
CURIOSITY SHOP.

-s, CURsOSITY SHOP.
San Francisco has apron fairs.
Expensive wives make pensiye hus-
bands.
Don't you wish:you were street-csr
drfverf
The weather is rather cold for men on
the fence.
"A Virginia wild pigeon Joined flock
Of tame ones.
I'm the coming feast of gladness re-
member the poor.
The poodle friz is to be retired from
service on the brow of beauty.
The easiest medicines to believe in are
those Of the antis(k)eptic character.
If man were to do as he should be
done by he might knock somebody down.
-OBly three months next year will
have five Sundays: July, September and De-
4 "A monkeys skull was found last week
Raleigh, N Q. = ; +
"A man who had scolding wife being
asked what he did for living, replied that he
kept hot-house. r-- -rf~r1a
Seven novices were given the black
York, on Tuesday.
In the legislation to prevent fires in
theatres 1t should be carefully provided that none
OF the company shall be sticks.
sinners stand on slippery places" !"
failed, and landed In the snow and Ice. " = ~
. "A walnut tree in the Crimea is thou
sand years old, and yields eighty thousand nuts
year. 1t is greatly cracked up BY the Russian
press. .aI -
Mrs. Henrietta Paine westbrook has
learned that the average New York farmer wears
out two and half wives, taking them separately
one at time.
Walker is the name of an Augusta
cotton buyer who had piece Of tobacco In his
pocket when pistol ball Travelled his way. The
plug saved his life. -.. r--. ---
-Tyndall writes long treatise to show
that heat is mcde Of motion. He might have
saved himself the trouble by looking at a man
take hold Of Q hot stove-ltfter.
Sweet are the uses of adversely. A
cross-eyed schoolma'm can keep twice the usual
number Of ofchildren in order at cnce.
Two of the most popular preachers in
the West are reformed convicts, who spent
greater portion Of their lives In Penitentiary
Mo man who has examined drop of
water under a microscope can ever clasp the
! hand of an officer of q temperance association
with as much cordiality as he did before.
"A penetrating whisper comes from the
old when the husband comes home from the lodge
and turns the clothes back from the foot Of the
1t is better to say one "Our Father"
slowly and reyerently than many long prayers,
uttered with the lips indeed, but not with the
heart, while the thoughts go straying about the
four corners Of the earth.
"A man who jumped overheard re-
Gently to save his wife from drowning has ex-,
He said she had q good deal Of jewelry on her
person, and gold was high.
"A man in Chicago started out, armed
with knife and club, with the avowed intention
Of initiating Cain by killing his brother. The
brother, however, did not make good Absi, but
used his revolver with almost fatal effect. g.
Nothing is so soothing as o sisters
love and sympathy Every young man ought to
have sisters smile to encourage him. II you
have not got q sister of your own, you may be
able to borrow one somewhere In the neighbor-
"A Chicago girl. while crossing Lake
Superior last September. lost one Of her shoes shoes
at Duluth are telling strange stories Of mystic
rious marine monster which they sighted during
their trips. s- o. e.. - B.. .-.a--..
An old gentleman writes to the Iri-
lady whose face is "a fac simile Of that of Mr..
Greeley" He adds: "Altho' o woman, she had
that sI Mr. .as Greeley eel used to wear Wesr An"
lit is rumored that the succession of
an iilustrious Italian n0bleman who died re-
gently, and was better known in Paris than In his
native country has been refused BY his son, on
the ground that large portion Of 1t came
through his fathers connection with an ill-famed
financial company.
--s'The Mad Mangler, or the Terror of
Murderer's Gulch, is the latest dime sensation.
rescues fourteen beautiful Mormon girls, all OF
whom he marries in the Endowment house at one
clip. Now let the Centennial youth Of America
take courage. -a=E
Some boiler makers In Dubuque put
boy in o boiler to hold a hammer. head to the
rivets as they were driven in, and when they
were all completed he was found too big to come
atrt nff ha hata In ctrfr nrNod and orr00 0oaAh
skin, but It was no use, and 1t took six men an
hour and half TO cut him cut. RI q
Two Cinnamon were arrested last
week in Hartford for assault on each other. They
as it was impossible to understand them or make
them understand English. One said, ave all
MAKE noSes
1t is not generally known that Dela-
ware had the largest trees on exhibition at the
Centennial. One Of the sections measured twenty
one feet in circumference and another nineteen
feet, and while California can produce taller trees,
there were none that drew so much in circumfer-
ence as the trees from diminutive Delaware.
In France, not long ago, man was
tried for murder In the usual course. In the
and in the usual course the jurors were applied
10 to sign the petition for Q Communication OF bis
:ss :sii postscript "on condition that A' hangs him
"A little boy, after hearing at his own
request the history Of the flood for perhaps the
twentieth time, suddenly inquired, what did
againP" "It was left on Mount Ararat," J." was the
reply. "Oh," rejoined Johnny, II should think
Noah would have wanted to make burnt sacri-
flee Of it."
"A convict in the Philadelphia House
of Correction was kept nineteen days in q dark
cell, and fed on bread and water. At the end Of
committee that made an unexpected visit to the
prison, The prisoner, when taken out was unable
TO speak aloud, and the bad air had seriously af-
fected him. ..........
Charles Lomb was once riding in q
stage coach in company with one Of those sympa-
thiling souls ever on the lookout for an opportu-
nifty to compassionate Affections. "What a bad
amer Lamb had recovered from a violent tt oi
the best can do" '.-- ........
Just as the operas over a magnificent
up sSor, % to avoid running 1MS over % dranRard M RRa
Hes stretched on the pavement snoring. A foot
man jumps down and shakes him by the arm.
shut don't trouble yourselves further; live here,
and I'll 20 In on foot"
Who says that the fires of patriotism
are smoldering2 A patriot in Rutland, VT, did
voted, but he traded horses nine times during the
day, and at nightfsll had the same horse with
which he started at dawn. He also had rs in
cash, watch worth S25, double-barreled Shot
gun and four bushels OF potatoes.
The palindrome is line that reads
alike backward and forward. One Of the best is
Adams first observation to Eve, MADAM, I'm
ADAM" Another is the story that Napoleon,
when at st. Helena, being asked by an English
man If he could have sacked London, replied,
sable was ere saw Elba"-the best palm
drome, probably, in the language.
"A Kentucky woman is mother of
eighteen children, nine having blue eyes and
light hair and nine having dark eyes and dark
hair. Seventeen of the children have married
and have families, and the mother visits them
yearly. While her visits continue some Of the
families have the blues, and when her visits
cease ssme Of them nurse black eyes.
The deliveries of quicksilver at San
Francisco for October were $500 TASKS, and for
the ten months of the year so 600 against 80 700
during the game time last year. The shipments
by sea this year were valued at 81 800 900. Esti-
mating the shipments overland on the same basis
they show q value of go, 900. Thus this trade
alone has produced ti,o2oI 900 In the past ten
months" -... e
Boston ranks among the highest in the
amount Of school material furnished free to
pupils. Last year Boston furnished books to the
cost of ISL sT9 while the bill for books stationery
&C., was tloi 252 for "A, 900 pupils. Philadelphla
fpeit tl0e os in the same way for e5 900 children
St. Louis spent so7 600 for 81 900 pupils. Chicago
$50 for 900 scholars. and Lowell sio6 for 300
pupils.
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