National Republican., 1876-12-16
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h are dying In Liverpool
-Whalebone has advanced to IS pei
Ieund. "0f correct has"
Fur manufacturers are having tn,
| worst season ever known.
An old castle In Japan has recently
been turned into q shoe factory.
The street cars in Minneapolis are
heated with large base-bHrner stoves
Some graceless creature has composed
what he calls Moody ard-S -Ssnkey waltz.
in London there is fashionable form,
Of charity which dsspenses spsctscles to the poor
1t takes good deal of reserve piety
to make man smilswhile he is estlng church
| fair stew. r~ai
! People keep right on marrying, lust as
though there had never been political excite
Sitting Bull ssye-- that he had no
trouble with the Units States until TIE soldiers
attempsss TO bulI-doze him.
"A Roman candle can be used to shoot
dog oue srom under q barn, sat the barn should
| be located near an engine houoe.
1t is 30 cold on the Red river at lake
Wirnepeg tzst hens reox't in thssmookestacks Of
the saw-milir 10 keep frva1 freezing TO death.
| when die" REQ sntly exclaimed Dr..
MAJ MARY WaissFr n BURT Of hs.eic sloqueGce.
on.'"
/ We said yesterday that all the pool
holders were followfng in Morn nssey's wake. "Be
jabers ~ ezefsimsa correspondent, 'ls-Nforrssey
Thermometers are made in Nevada by
nling stove pipe With whisky: When the vhis-
y. * freezes solid change Of w.sathes'i is pre-
"A sign in New York tore reads:
taught" A sign like that is q public nuisance
1t taught to eosuppressea.
Eighteen converts were baptized In the
intense cold Of iass sunSss, hOie having bee9 see
cut IN the Ice for the purpose.
A young lady in Bangor, Maine, burst
az 3l3Sd-Tsssei & waiis working hsalth-lift. AEsr
and 50 on, may not be dangerous.
The Leavenworth Times thus sums up
Me, t1e aase & breach q promise ssts; "An Injured
Runs Sas, $50 Behind the Ticiet-r m
British butchers are as mad as hornets
over the arrival of American beef but still their
customers continue to remark: "Hfll take
hanother steak hoff chat Hamerican hox"
The law Office of Thaddeus Stevens, in
Lancaster; is now used as barber shop. Men
are lathered and shaved within the walls conse-
Grated by the genius Of the gress eolamoner
"A New Bedford tea party few even
ages asgrssased ss7 years ~ and MONTHS ' nsS snsSs
Russell. 'I-T
There is one thing certain, when shs
feel offended when her husband refuses her any
thing because she will have wonzanly fondness
for polo nays: =
there say that the deposits in the savings institu
tions are largely on the increase; and that the
working classes'and pessantry are doing well and
saving money rs
The winter of 1927, in Missouri. was
perhaps the eoldest-eTer known'fn that section,
In fact it wasse cold that paper oat there says:
wsrs sstsae q and turkeys rOOstias in trees
According to Herr Scheckelheimer.
the celebrated entomologist and German philoso-
pher hea takes Just 654 bites before he Is salts
dation. Every one of those bites mast be thrown
out.
New Hampshire has long been the
only State In the Union in which the religious
viTe much lon ger even there The eonstftutonai II
convention Of the State has jast voted to aboI-
ish it.
The question which interests boy
Just now is not 50 much whether he is receiving
orthodox religious instructions as whether his
Sunday school is going to have . Christmas tree
with something besides book-msrks and PEN
-'tWhat a strain that isr' said Mrs.
Partingten, as she heard . strain from "Lueia'
sung in the highest style By young lady whose
IS as the
she. Il shoald think It was high enough to be
on the top of the house."
-"Ps," asked the youthful Miltiades of
brave mani" ANot especially, my son, replied
the paternal Leander. 'swhy so?" because"
the land Of the free and the Homer the braSs
You know Spilkins said such jokes were ali
Greek to him, and sent the boy out to buy i've
cents worth OF peanuts for Christmas.
Paris is to have a new society, to be
called the "Societe de Autopsie Mutuelle," the
members of which are by mutual agreement and
their bodies after death at the disposal Of the So
eiety, for dissection, with the view of promoting
pathological and PhysiolOgical science; The SO
deemed proper, but the skull, with its contents,
will be turned over to the Anthropologcal 80,
lar quality, talent or propensity for which the
testator may have been noted during life.
The little daughter of a very wealthy
New Yorker happened not long ago to hear her
small schoolmates congratulating themselves and
one another upon the regularity with which their
fathers said grace at the table. Her father aid
rioriIy, the little one wept that evening and be-
sought him to do it. He said he thought it was
proper feeling at breakfast next morning. A
younger sister Of the little homilst, young Ia y
still in the nursery, who had not heard the prev
face cleared. al know what You dces lat for.
papa" said she; sits 'tause you'se gettsg poor"
-Apropos of the last expedition to the
Pole 1t is reported that while the arsoss borealis
gave out, the moon, like an old topper, was always
full. If this be true, here is an astronomical nut
for some one to crack. Perhaps It might be made
earth's rotundity. Two or three years since
paper called the Zetitrs was pablished in London
IS Of mgndane NAMES tns saf d
voted all his time, energies and money to this
end. Should he and the paper be still alive the
persevering fulness ofthe moon at the North Pole
Is recommended to him Is q possible aid in estab-
fishing his doctrine.
"A veteran, familiar to manys barraek
square, has been uipsd Of the roll Of the nth
Arab has died In quarters at Cork. The deceased
was perhaps the most travelled horsein the world
ty.seyen years Of age. After Sewing In the Cri-
mea, he went round the Capa to Australia, and
had been sRSs S th to lnSs AID through almost
on parade was at tie b.spection Of the regiment
on the 18th Of July Il, when he carried hisowner
svostts = vim did 10 his life He was gseas
incurred ~ hem.
~ e rich discoveries of gold and silver
" " .ycene may possibly call out some of the
respecting spirit which now looks to the Black
fornia forty miner, sluicing out the limbs Of Aga
i memnon or turning the Alpheus in order to bring
| OF buried Troy, would be startling yet profta-
BILE innoyation:" he may yet pan out the ere
mated remains Of Crssgs ,s and run Homer himself
ticn may yet be rocked In the latter-dsy Hcradls
| of the Western miner" and the energy Of the Oc-
cident turn to profit the treasures Of the Orient.
John Staub was engaged to Mary
Emma UaEls, IN new Orleans. HIS business re-
quired his absence from the city for three months
and he delegated to his intimate friend, william
whitley, the duty Of attending on Miss Davis
during that time. The understanding was that
the substitute should take the girl to entertain
ments and to church, and to have general super
vision of her, but he went further than that by
falling in love with her. And she tell In love
with him. .Staub returned, learned what had
come to pass and killed whitley with 3 pistol
| shot.
Among the young wonel at the high
school in Portland Me, was q poor lass who
worked In boarding house. She rose at 3oclock
every morning, get breakfast, put the kitchen in
order, and then went to school; returning in the
afternoon, she cleared the lunch table, cooked
supper and did other housework. Last week she
feel sick Of fever and was taken to q hospital,
where the matron sscertained that she wore only
one petticoat under her thin calico gown. She
has been sent to Auburn, N. Y, where she has
relatives. She still shows pluck; she says she
will go back to the boarding house and high
--.s
rvnvvs
AT recent seance in London, after
an overture with banjo, bell and tambourine three
spirits appeared upon the scene and announced
themselves as the Apostle Paul, Tom Paine and
little Indian girl. Therewere detectives in the