National Republican., 1877-11-27

liglous people take part In II, the opposing
armies will have to adyCrtisc for each other n
long time before they can find anybody to
fight with.-HdwtCyc.
THE newest thing In the matrimonial way
Is the publication of marriage intentions" by
engaged couples in Boston. Tho names and
ages only are given.
A LITTLE daughter of DR.. J. II. Kaufman
of Pincgrove, Schuylkill County, Pa, ate a
small quantity of chloride of potash and died
lcw hours aitcrward.
THREE children of John Grimes, near Glen.
wood. Howard County, Nd, died recently of
diphtheria. One of his brothers children has
also died from tho same disease.
Mr.. PORTER was among the heaviest win
ners In recent California horse-raoe, and ever
since then, his friends invariably meet him
with the remark, Porter, how's stakesY'
SIR, do you mean to say that l speak
falscly?" said person to French gentleman.
No, sare, l say not dat but, sare, l say you
walk around about the truth very much"
GEN. GRANT Is having his portrait painted
IN Paris by Mr.. Healy, who Is certainly one
of the few exceedingly successful American
artists. He appears never 10 lack orders.
MANY white Kentuekians arc emigrating
to Kansas, and II is about time to revive the
old song:
De massa run, he, hal
De darkey stay, no. hol
LOWELL lover used what he supposed to
he invisible ink in writing his plans for elope-
mont but II had turned to clear black when
It passed into the hands Of his prospective
father-in-law.
AT A recent marriage In San Francisco the
officiating clergyman and the contracting par
ties were all named Williams, and yet bore no
blood relationship to each other. That beats
the Smiths all hollow.
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barbarity. A race Is announced to take place
at London, for f5O0, between n Mexican and
an English horse, in which the two animals
are to run for fifty hours.
1T Is suggested that IL Henry Bergh had
spent as much money In behalf Of the poor
people of New York as ho has in behalf Of It's
dumb animals there never would have boon
an occasion for the cigar makers strike.
THE Little Sisters of the Poor have repre-
sentatives in all parts Of the world. In Paris
they have FIVE large houses, where they care
The order commenced at Saint-Servian In 1si0
THE Pope has accumulated fund of SO, ,OOO,-
900, which Is held by Tortonia and some
French and Brussels bankers. for the pay of
ex-Pontifcal soldiers and officials and divers
other purposes incidental to the Papal inter
est.
II. r. TYLER, master In the United States
navy. who was reported in our last issue as
among the lost on the ill-fated Huron, Is, we
are informed, attached to the Swatara, having
been ordered from the HURON several months
since.
'WE learn" says the editor Of the Rochester
Democrat, from the Jersey City Journal, that
the wicked are sure to be punished sooner or
later" adding thoughtfully to himself, 81
wonder If there Is any written authority for
thisF"
SRFErELDER, the inventor of lithography,
has just had monument unveiled to his
msxory in Munich. He died in 1884. Too
poor to get tho means Of printing his own
works, he sought some cheaper mode of multi
plying copies, and by u happy accident in
vented lithography.
Col. N. G. ORDwAY, x-Sergcant-at-Arms of
the House of Representatives at Washington,
has received a commission from the Governor
of New Hampshire appointing him at tho
head Of joint commission to overhaul and
equalize the whole system of taxation In that
State.
BY THE bequest of Wright A. Bringhurst, of
Montgomery County, Pa, Norristown has re-
ceived S65, ,413.33 Pottstown, S25, ,0935l, and
Upper Providence, Sl9,475.70. The money
will be invested in dwelling houses, to be rent
ed at low rates. The deceased bequeathed
only small amounts to his relatives, who un-
successfully contested the legality of the will.
STEPHEN A. HAvILASD, who is supposed
to have been the most correct type-setter In
New York, died on Friday, aged sixty-six
years. Ho has been known TO set twelve book
pages of type, in mixed Greek, Latin and En-
glsh, without an error; and the remarkable
feat of setting concordance to the Bible In
diamond type without an error is attributed
to him,