National Republican., 1876-12-04
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CURIOSITY SHOP.
Pulling Is New York dentist.


Pulling Is New York dentist.
-Blushes and tears make hue and
cry.-Esv 0rsGns Repu6liesH.
"A Quincy architect wants to know if
that South Carolina Returning Bolrd, Of which
he has heard so much, Is palmetto or pine.
-New York Commercial AdcsrsiIer:
"Did you catch q weasel asleep" says tbs
adsge Hoi but We have heard Of kidnapping
AN arithmetical pescemsker fgura-
tivesg suggest: % the polfiicians: This Is .
I peoplsat l0y-rate." r--..
"A Nevada man died few days ago
from thssdects of snn- n-shot sound received in
1851 the bullet rema ising imbesaed in his lungs
| fOrtwentStour years.
| The colossal equestrian statue of Ma
| poleon III, by BarzagEA which tho italian Gov
ernment is to set up in one Of the pablo squares
| OF Milan, ha> just been cast. -..E,.- .''s
| "A live-oak cannon-wheel, supposed to
| vessel chased Es the British feet, was found IN
the PenObscOt, a win.erpO-a, last week.
The Philadelphia girls are anxious for
a, SsIp a1S,os Of the editor, wicksdIy
to Inquire whethe-she Count was honest.
Can this he true3 '.As general
thing says the Rev York CosnereiG1 A6Ser-,
the ones who didn't nsTe anything to do wIth the
| last"
Il Brooklyn married lady c,nfassas
that she does not expe5s to enjoy ageOd nights
| Her h-ss5and is the "czithmetic man" Of New
| York'newspaper.
| George Eliot says that the peculiar
are not ind,sative Of dersOn or contempt, but are
the expressions Of an earnest soul vainly striving
| to grasp vanishing ideal
"A blind beggsr, with his toes sticking
through his shoes and his elbows seeking tho
sunshine, may be happier than the Presidential
candidate who wrestles in his dream with black
board and piece Of chalk.
Mrs. Bsmboozle thinks that the
ROSTERS which have been trying to find some
thing to crow over ever sinc5sthe election will
make very poor Thanksgiving dinners. They
would be tough as crow pie.
"A new industry has started in Hancock
county: Mafae-extractng tannin from sweet
fern. From atom OF sweet fern barrel Of extract
oftannin is made worth 81, and also barrel Of
second quality, worth $3.50 per barrel
We don't want to discourage Chicago,
but the grfsiy fact that the English police are
busy chasing backslidden Moody and Sankey con-
yerts stands out as unhandsome as knot on q
dead pine tree.-T. Louis Republican.
Two rural constituents were, talking of
the new member Of the Legislature from their
district One Of them asked as he'talentedH''
bouss ssia fhs me GtaeI S1 hi shSud S say ne might
dOor-post. '-RrookIyB ATgTs.
-Four hundred head of cattle, newly
Slaughtered, were sent to England yesterday
COMMERCIAL. Entirely wrong They wers hung
IN the rigging Entered, .Bsefo'ef the mast,S
you know.-PhfladelphiG Bulletin.
Joseph and Louisa Kspp, of Hartford,
were divorced few days ago by the Superior
Court, and on. Thursday noon Joseph married
again, and on the evening of the same day Louisa
married brother OF her former husband.
Says the Boston Post: 'tPhiladelphia
has over 900 Inhabitants, and yet her citizens
only return II ,sl7 watches when the tar assessor
comes around. If any Philadslphian ever has
portunity the New York Times will have ="
An obituary notice of young man
was handed In last night for insertion in our COL
unns, concluding with the following touching
Gone before the Returning Board above;
May he be counted in.
L-Nsv York Herald.
"A San Francisco girl took strychuiue
death, Of spiting her lover. He had shown signs
of preferring anothery and when the idea struck
field clear to her rival, she desired to live but her
life could not be saved.
On the 9Th of October, two sisters liv-
Ing at Wahring, near Vienna, celebrated ts gethec
four, was surrounded by six children and thirty
SIX grandchildren; the younger aged seventy.
$50 far been" childlsss.
While all England was agog with the
Turco- Russian difficulty London clergyman
wrote to an evening paper thus: "This morning
L u
ing the names OF Thomas Turk and Jane Russ
Very likely the match will end sooner or later in
trouble, and make the coincidence more perfect"
Picture in the Graphic ofan unfortunate
maiden who has slipped on the sidewalk. Cau-
tious old party surveys her quietly, and remarks:
mo, thanked, miss. I've no money to invest in
You up il you sit there tili Long Island sound
frsezes over" Wherefore the academic posture
is all in vain.
Java is an enchanting place to live in if
people are eaten by carnivora two hundred BY the
crocodiles, one hundred by the rhiaoCeTOS, five
hin 6Hndred Ire Hlea h py Mnie one hunared
earthquakes and volcanic action.
The New England log house at the
Centennial Exhibition has been offered as q gift
wick, Of Boston, in behalf of the young ladies Of
that city, who, In costume of century ago, kept
bition after the manner of the olden times.
Miss Fannie Waters, governess. from
Maine, whJ was married to Chu All Wah, pro-
pretor of a wash house in San Francisco, on No
Vember 10, said that she loved him, and that was
the only reason The Nevada editors are scepti-
cal. They explain that she owed him an enOr-
nous bill for washing, and resOrted to this new
way to pay old debts.
The Fairbanks family in Vermont has
furnished scales for the world, supplied Vermont
with two Governors and raised st. Johnsbury
from hamlet to the most prosperoGs village Of
northern New Eng and giving it library,
academy and athenaum. Their success Is
shining illustration of the value Of skill and in
tegrity in business affairs.
"A Trappist monastery is to be estab-
lshed at Buffalo, New York, the monks who are
to inhabit it being now on theirway to the Unitei
States from Turkey, Ireland and France. rne
Trsppsts are the most ascetic of all the mOnastic
orders. They sleep on the floor, rise to pray at
midnight, go through the form Of digging their
own graves as a reminder of death, preserve un-
broken silence from year to year, and eat only
vegetables, bread and water.
A graceless scamp in Kansas City fell
in love with a fair creature in his boarding house,
purchase of handsome brick house. ordered car
pets and furniture for the same, selected a white
ORDER oF tTO suits of Clothes made Ia large in
vestments in jewelry. talked about buying block
Of stores and q bank, and finally left town very
suddenly ten days ago without paying his land
lady's bill.
-Norristown (Pa) Herald: The voice
OF the editor Of the Bucyrus (O:) Eorum Is forum
%a ae eaj Of tne s red0
bolts of lightning through the heart Of tyranny"
And he might have appropriately added: Terms,
slayesF Wood and potatoes taken in payment for
subscriptions. He Is a coward that talters when
duty calls. Pay up, pay upl Strike the tyrantS
from power! JOB printing neatly executed"
Some months ago clerk in drug
shop at Barnen, in Germany, was reported In the
newspapers to have fallen heir to . large prop
made up his mind to stick to his employment,
notwithstanding his good fortune, for the time
being. This item was OF practical dement, TO tae
clerk, who was enabled thereby to marry the
girl to whom he had been devoted. All went
well for some time, and the bride lived in daily
hope of seeing remittances arrive for her hus-
band from his Holland property, until 1t became
known, the other day, that the whole story of the
inheritance was sham. Indignant, and almost
frenzied by the deception practieed upon her, the
wife procured o revolver and shot her husband,
twice in the arm and In the neck She was ar
rested, and stated that 1t had been her intention
to drown herself, after having killed her husband.
One of the most gallant English Off
GERS in India, Capt. Boydell, was recently killed
by tiger, near Simla, summer retreat OF tho
Viceroy The tiger, after killing several animals,
crept away to a neighboring wood, whittier the
Captain, accompanied by one native, followed him.
They overlook him by brook, Just at nightfall,
as he was about deyouring dead horse. Both
fred at once and the tiger fell, though lifsless
In the brook. The Captain, who thought he was
dead approached and touched him with his gun.
suddenly the tiger rose up on his hind feet.
growing and opening his jaws, and, seizing the
Captain BY the throat and shoulders tore great
pieces of hesh from his body. The native, who