National Republican., 1877-10-05
NOTES AND FAyCIES.
THE Servian Is coward.

THE Servian Is q coward.
ACE Is woman's chief secret.
J. c. BucKLTS was tho first mayor Of Louis
The first hogshead Of tobacco of this season
has reached Nashville.
MAcMAHoN is thinking more about election
than the Paris Exposition.
RETIRED clergyman makes u good tailor.
People must respect his cloth.
THE Buenos Ayres floods drowned 10000 900
sheep. What a chance for wool gathering.
"YoU remind me of chromo," Is said to be
the proper thing in place of"Hou are as pretty as
picture"
PApUcAH, Ky, has a horse which eats
onlbns. Like the war horse Of Job he smelleth
aidr off,
THEIRS used to take off his spectaclcs aud
first comedy old man.
The best thing to fall over now is q fall
overcoat.-Boaon Commercial Bulletin. It may fall
this way, were not afraid.
EIGHTY-FoUR jokes about Brigham Young's
widows thus far. Keep 1t up, boys-thats only two
and a half piece for them.
THE gross productions Of this country are
S,0Oo .1Oo0oo annually. To handle this we have
only s7O0OO,OOO In currency
WACO, Texas, Is proud Of o watermelon
weighing 10 pounds, upon which Any people re-
galed themselves watamolonliel
A PIrTsBuRa journal spitefully says: "Mor.
ton, OF Philadelphia, has managed to get away with
uDpHl US iHutH hS our HlOD utstrbNcu.
TURK-"My ally, Allah" Rus.-"All q
| lie." Turk-'1 observe that you need to be More.
hammer'd" Rus-"Criscrossovitch Yust you
| waits for Todlebenw
| WHERE shall l send my daughter9' p asks
female seminary advertisement lfthe young lady
under sixteen years of age, she had better be sent
| to bed about o'clock y, IN.
| OBSERVE young father trying to appease a
bawllng baby and you will witness ingenuity
| enough In ten minutes to make you think that the
| man ought to be an inventor.
THE game law allows men to hunt birds
now, and number of young men have been hunt.
| ing industriouSy without finding many birds
| They were out on lark, probably.
THERE are four inches Of snow at the foot
ofthc Balkans and the passes must be blocked.
| So the Russians cannot cross into Roumcla this
year. no matter how many victories they win.
Miss MATTE DAVIS, twenty -one of years age,
| OH Monday last while temporarily insane shot
| and instantly killed herself in Wynnton, Ca, at
the residence OF her brothcr-innw, g. l.. Thomas.
| suicide In a police cell by swallowing her rings.
| II Is evidently cel-this story Of woman com
mitting suicide by swallowing herrings.-Chicdgo
| Times They were diamonds
"I WANT five cents worth of starch" said q
| little girl to grocer's clerk. The clerk asked,
What do you want five cents worth ofstarch for?''
the clerk concluded to attend to his own business.
ONE hundred and thirty-two lawyers assist
| In the administration Of Justice In Des Moines.
Their incomes y"py from sla9oo per wear 70 an oc.
th-iibHhi vi slzb sccuTinV rtpleN1n OF u
stolen dog or the discharge OF police-court In.
ebrate.
EpIToR-"Do you say YOU are going to write
something about the dcvilfsh 2" Sub.-"Ycs
there hasn't been anything about Il lately" Ed
| "Wcll. go ahead-bnt here. hold on" Sub
"WcllT Ed.-"If you write It, please don't say
anything about Victor Hugo"
THE following rhyme, which contains more
truth than poetry, Is supposed 10 have been written
by watterson-H. wat,erson Of Kentucky
Twas ever thus-from childhoods hour
Va saan fnN Eanfl hnfn
| Inevor took brandy sour
: But what-my nose was rcd next day.
"EYEs have they, but they see not"-pota.
toes-EnchdR1S. Ears have they, but they hear
Ot"-cOrnsalks.-S. LOHis Journal Arms have
they but they hug not''-windmiils.-iOn iOnkcrs Ga
ssnf Tongues have they, but they talk not
wagons-IDughkespsis Pres. Legs have they but
they walk t'-tableS-Ibuqhteeps Ntrs. Head.
have they, but they think t'-cabbages-HHdsor
Register. Noses htvc they. but they smell not
pltrhcrs.-Nac lori TrpreSs Teeth have they, but
they bite not-combs.
THE Japanese Imperial Princess Seikan, IL
Namya, died September 2. She was sister of tn,
late Emperor and aunt of the present one and fol
| reasons Of State was married, some years befor,
the overthrow Of the great TOkugawa family O
SiOgnnsto, to the fourteenth Tycoon of Yeddo Tn,
last OF the Tycoons since deposed, and now liyinI
In secluson In the Interior was made her son b,
adoption. Her remains were laid with those Of hei
husband, In the famous temple OF Shba Toxic on,
Of the two chosen burial places Of the Tokugawi
hnusa