National Republican., 1876-12-08
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VERY unsatisfactory sort Of bread-shs
roll Of fame.
| The hand organ man has only one u.y
TO turn for living.
When mothers in law fall out. then
we got at the family facts.
Young ladies who play croqust are
known as ''msideus all for lawn"
-Hat-rack- tive furniture should always
be placed in tbs hail Of house. =
| Mrs Toodles was not q bidder a. the
sails Of the Csntsnnisl buildings.
"A groom Of II was married at South.
bridge Massachusetts, hast Escs- tSs bride Of a.
| "A teacher tainted the other morning
and little girl descrseing Il at home S2id: HShs
was so faiated they coaidn't come her to-,
-"He's filling his last cavity mourn
roFiy said young densssti as they lowered tbs
| co1f1 OF his deceased partaer into the grave.
--"Wbat is the worst side of naval war.
I fareG" asked school teacher. "The brosdside.S -
replied = toy In The back seat He went uPt0
| the head.
If you want 10 see and appreciate the
very acme OF innoceEs surprise turn reporter aud
cali on railroad agert to get the particulars oS
SSmash-uFOn his iines
| The large bell in the Cologne caihe
dral. made ot Of captured French cannon, Is
| DO Used, and issamed "Ths Silent BelL"
1t is getting almost time for holidaT
festivals with tksir -dust pin-eushions zcptY
tides cardboard match be xes silk hairrecefg-
| ers, fSnnei pen-etPers and little Worste6 els-
Pnsnts
The Nswsb Of Loharr' recently sent q
Nepaui peny, only sight ine9ss high, to Eks
young Mahsralah OF Patiala; Yhe pony Is per
very highly
"A ship sunk suddenly and withouI
warning at aer moOILsgs at Portland. Me-.
r.
mains matteo Of ignawrsnce.
--Enoch ArdeGs, who are turning up by
he legion, shocss take e.ample OF ne thrifty
fO6nd his wife married agsn, and sensibiy con.
promises with his successor for q so bilE
"A local de6ssing soc'e y is preparing
TO uressse with tn hssoIlowtng gzsstor: "Bssolved,
a ha-sing dog can't Be n Christian" Feut meas-
bers 70 oRe want TO fske the negative side.
The doctors and druggists must be in
clover down at Shreveport. We read in a local
''bIew maesy timbers shrough tie air. A oias
msssy atmosphere ocyat to suit the medsstns
-"Now." said = citizen of Rawlings.
Wyominss Territory, at recent dance, "you $50
that hete-: in . red dress-that's my wife; an ct
you dance WITH her moTs'n two times pard, IT
drInk?r
After an Arctic lover had sat up with
his girl thrssor four hundred hours it is no
sSmmSn thia for the yoTrn ladys "a to CONS
breakfast.
Two rural constituents were talking OF
district. One Of them % asked @ rs he talented =.
"Weil," said tEs other. ~ sholld say he might
set a house afreSy rubbing hiS nose againsttAs
doorpost.n r.
THE nation can hardly expect re-
taxation of the existing hard tim until its young
men and women srouse themselves and spend
men look in glasses. That is what's the matter
with them
"A countryman bargaiued with a Cali
fornia photographer for half length picture oS
cred nne view Of the subject from the waist:
band down, the victimized sitter indulged in
remarks more forcibls than polite.
--"Mamms, ," said little five-year old May
Smith, one day at disasr .I did not know people
ate stones for dinner9T ''Why, no, my DEAR what
Put that idea in your head, y answered Mamma.
.Well," little May retorted, "You Just asked
Uncle Gus to give you piece of boiled rock"
The narrow gauge railway on the
Centennial grounds was we'll patronized durtnS
the whole time of the Exhibition. The number
4.5Co.T3I. The largest number carried on any ono
day was 6s,aI1, on September Is, 'PsnnsyTAnia
81 don't care much for liet baby,
but 1 dote on a squalling one, said an old bach-
mothers in the room. '.NOt at ALL" responded;
room"
The Russian Medical Gazstte states.
that on the 1st of last January the Russian army
assistant surgeons and 1I3 veterinary surgeons.
This gives one surgeon for every aO7 men. 1ns
apothecary for every 5,44 men and one assistant
surgeon for every iol men.
The success OF the Itslisn 100 gun at
Spozia will, it is believed, shortly lead TO order
for the manufacture at WoolWieh Of gun of con
la rntl Al Ions nF knna
All the details for the construction OF such gun
have been fully worked out and submitted TO ths
British War Once for approval.
The recorder of the ID alias having the
other day expressed the opinion that China
woman who, with others, had been arraigned and
brought before him, was somewhat to blame. her
would permit he (the CeIestiaD would take his
wife into the adjoining room and kill her.
The time has again arrived when the
man on the street suddenIyetops on a patch Of
snow and ice, waves his umbrella two or three
times over his head as if celebrating an election
return, hurls the Implement through shop via
lmplOringly toward every flagstaff in town.
AN eminent EDglishman affirms that
the worst case of smallpox can be cured in three
days, simply by the use Of cream of tartar. Ono
ounce Of cream of tartar dissolved in pint 0f
water, drank at intervals, when cold, he says, -
q certain remedy. 1t has cured thousands, never
leaves mark. never causes blindness and avoids
tedious lingering.
The plea of ''poetic license" should
not excuse the man who keeps girl out on ter
race until her fingers are numb and her lips
coated with ice. Such an indiscreet act was
enough to give the young lady cold which would
should have been kicked oh the terrace with
yigor and dispatch.
--Diogenes has a rival in Shreveport,
Of u,ron "a0 sSort time 'as aSO tWo-story hoass
containing all his worldly goods was burned 70
the ground. Behind the house there was large
afzF rufth hrf0 ndaff Nifrfan
drew of the water cut an opening for a door, and
fitt ed up the eistern as his future home. putting
now com comfortabiy housed for the winter. and Ia As
contented in his cistern az was the old philosopher
In his tub.
- For some time past there has been
woman whose only profession was bartering fOsd
for hnery. She pounced upon children whose
and opened the conversation by adnl1ing tue
beauty of the coveted trinkets, The next step
was TO offer fine assortment Of cakes. oonbons
and sweetmeats in exchange, by which device
she, in an incredibly large numbe of cases, sue
ceeded in suindling her victims OF their valu-
ables. The police have at last secured her.
The Board of Grand Officers of the Grand
Division Of Sons Of Temperanee in this Juriscte-
tion paid its annual vista .ion.tO Howard Di-
vision last night. The occasion was one Of great
| interest 10 the Order. Representatives fronA
nearly all the other divisions were present, and
interesting remarks by the Grand 0aicers were
made, giving account of the progress of the
temperance cause in this jurisdiction and show
| ing renewed interest and increasing. member
ship in nearly all the subordinate divisions. Ths
| remarks were interspersed with songs By Prot
Bulasd, Misses Agge Simpson, Graes Berlin,
Bell Merrick and others
--Of all who have ever received silver
medal for saving human life, Eudoxie CharTa-
| ton, aged seven, is probably; the youngest On
October 81 she was pasturinS some sheep near
Tramolie, in France, when her little hye-year ord
| companion, who was washing her apron trem q
board over deep tank, tipped over and fell head
| foremost into the water. Instead Of rnnnlnE
away for help crying, the brave little, gsri
| quickly righted the board, caught her drowning
! companion by the heel, and succeeded IN reSeGing
her. She then stripped, wrapped her beuumbed
ard almost lifeless protege in her own warm
| clothes and then ran of 10 get help.
In April, 1873, the Legislature passed
an act authorizing the Board Of Education OF
the city of New York to provide and maintain
nautical school for the education and training OF
pupils in the service and practice Of navigation
year later the Secretary Of the Navy was
authorized TO extend the of certain vessels to
nautical schools and the st. Mary's was lent for
/ the use of the New York school In January
1875. Since that time the average number OF
\ PUPILS has been about l25 Not long ago there