National Republican., 1876-12-20
CuRIosIrY SHOP,

Eighty five Cinnamon from Nevada
intend to colonize In Chicago.
--Atlanta's cotton factory will soon be
started, and the city Will celebrate the event. ]
Pistols supposed to be unloaded are
s,ill made use OF to kill unsuspecting citizens.
--yirpiniaas are not Oppressive Ona of
them waited thirty-four years before foreclosing
a mortgage.
-Tbiugs done by halves are never done
well. Why blame a man then for finding fault
with his wife7
"A brilliant geological student, boily
asked the composition of limestone, answered,
The name of the philadelphia Main
Building is to be changed to the Remain Build
ing If 1t stays where 1t is. ------..---- b.,
New York is to have a new secret de
tectivs force the harbor police, to be known rs
the special service squad. s7sJaa,r
"A Denver paper records case where
world into the rosy future" $1,000
There is an eastward tide in silver
again on the Pacific coast, and trade dollars are
held at par for shipment TO Asia.
"A Kansas railroad brakeman let go his
hold to pick his teeth and nd he Lived just long
p "A New Bedford puss cat ches fishes,
says the Boston Post. Deesshe do It on purr-puss
or only for a-mews-ment, we wonder?
The best Temperance lecturer is good
salt mackerel. II the man that eats one don't
take water then he's q hopeless case.
too numerous, The perpetrators, as we'll as the
flames. should be promptly extinguished. .,
The gold production of Montana since
the discovery of the mines in 1888 Is calculated by
an authority in that Territory s1lO, 100000.
The season for going to csndy-pulls
and getting into fight over freckled-face girl
with a blue bow on has struck this locality.
1T would be interesting to know just
what thoughts rush through the mind Of man
who sits down coil Of hot steam pipes to rest.
The London papers are Dragging
about an Englishmar named Waters who rode
800 miles and only drank three glasses of brandy.
When an inquisitiye person runs away
from hornets nest, 1t Is safe to suppose that he
has been stung to the quiek-to the double quick
in fact. - -.- Oh. . ...-
PARIS has ten thousand dressmakers.
Just who Is the Sss who sets the fsshon
to speak? .l."A
If any one sees Belgian bank presi-
dent with bag Of securities under each arm and
his pockets stuffed out with thalers, nab him. He
"A fast youth asked city restaurant,
sswhat have you get3" ALMOST everything"
swell, give me q plate of that" "Hash!''
screamed the waiter ... .s.t ..r
Every man should have an intelligent
understanding of himselfin in order to succeed we
in life. A man with tape-worm should not live
on the European plan. s.. ..-..- .sr
1t is hard thing. TO fiud an old maid
who doesn't look under the bed for robbers, but
SIN harder e ind man who can run skating
1t is very affecting to fod a little child's
shoe where 1t lost It in the ,dim long ago, but
no father can suffer his little children 10 so on
losing shoes and prosper.
One British poet opinion of another:
wa re IN YES there was fS re snSl sns
plenty oft, but It was hell ,nre.'r n ID
The most important event in mans
llfeis commonly supposed to be his marriage. but
Ransas R9s his Oss tsepns c6a5Te of
shirt. .N4ip H"laaiH'ti-f y - -.
"A painful sueury of the coming Con.
grees of Women at Washington d noticeable In
the announcement that . firm at Port Jeryts has
Just received an erder for nfty thousand proom
The Journal of ClAmistry advises all
people to eat celery when they can get 1t, and
onions between times. says Il Sniets your nerves.
SSs BSss Sns eS9p sssr can the nerves Of
Late San Francisco journals mention
the sale of IS 900 tons Of wheat equal to about
S6ooeo eentals, which Is probably the largest
single transaction ever made In California The
price was $1.so per Genital. .H1F . - ...' 6 o
| Most people use their minister as
Moliere did his physician. "of what use is your
| DOCTOR" said the king to him one day. Well
nsTer Ihs eRR {iemihss !.
1T really begins to look as If the para
| graphers' crusade against donation parties had
about ruined tho business. Country pastors de-
| will please send In their subscriptions. ! r u.
The Greek population of Turkey has
presented an address to the Porte expressing de-
votion to the Government Of Turkey, but at the
same time protesting against its granting conces-
sions exclusively to the Sclaye population, r
L Nina no ohipao ,rd f;ffry la d;ar
were IN simultan sous operation at NJ. Upton
IN. W sewing party the other day. They used
up forty. eight skens OF thread, ninety yards Of
calico, and every reputation in the village.
An Indianapolis woman named Anna
Long was tried the other day for stealing some
male apparel. The Judge said that female had
no excuse for such habits, so he gave her a SEN
tence Of imprisonment, Anna Long one, too.
An enterprisiug young man in large
ulster vainly endeayored to make dent in q sew.
enth street coalhole last evening by sitting
down on 1t suddenly. His academic Postqres, as
qualified admiration of the bystanders.
Presently some American humorist"
will say in the matter of the disposition Of dead
body cremation takes the Palm. Thea another
VIII say that 1t Is Baron triumph. Then viii
| come another and say the proprietor of the fur
mace urned what he got. Then another and an
other.
The coed old days are dead and gone;
\ the rich colorng has faded ont OF the warp and
woof Of the past and yet we rejoice that 1t is still
| true that pretty woman cannot ride by her
lovers side through tunnel without emerging
| in hat that looks as IL it had been struck by
| lightning.
"A Toronto paper hiss just disguised
the fashionable world of that city by inserting
mysterious paragraph announcing stylish we'd
| ding for given morning. The church was fairly
| jammcd with aristocracy that crowded to assist
at the nuptials of Pullman car conductor and
laundress-both colored. .. .
"A London paper publishes the follow
i IaA
person who is experienced In the art OF whip.
ping, and well qualified to administer severe
hogging with a new birch rod to two young chill.
| annum. The children are very willful and trou-
/ blesome.r
| On the 300th anniversary of the
| ghastly event known in history under the name
Antwerp has had fixed into the wall of its Guild
| hall tablet Of commemoration containing o
short record of the cruel deeds, as well as the
| names Of the civic MAGISTRATES who were mur.
dered in November, 1916.
| "A new moulder of the public opinion
has appeared in Chicago It's, called the Chi.
cdgsky Vestnfck, andthe editor is Josef Lang
mayer; An editor who spells & Joseph h., in @ sach q
And then glance at his thrilling style Of spelling
Chicago-C-h-Lc-a-g-sk-y. he treats the alpha
bet economically in his own name and squanders
1t in the title Of his peper.
The female friend who comes to speud
| three or four months at q time with your wife,
| and actually spends them, inseusibly iapses into
| the character of her disinterested- adviser; and
then IL is that sitting around the slowly .kindling
| fire In the dim twilight of the winters morning
4 you realize what a miserable failure st. Paurs
family maxims are in q ninteenth century house.
| hold. r. '.l ~
He took q Sudden seat, he did,
In all his gorgeous foppery;
| Such mournful spectacles we see,
| When sidewalks are so sloppery.
And She poor girl, went down with him,
| In all her pull-back fiippery;
| Such tragic Incidents take place rr
When sidewalks are so slippery.
"A new device to prevent coal miners
strikes and Iockouts has been adopted by the
| Miners Association and the coal owners in Dur
ham, England. They have jointly appointed a
| barrister with salary OF three hundred pounds