National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-01-18
CURIOSITY SHOP.

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CURIOSITY SHOP.
The funniest editorial Job around Q
newspaper once bpun;iob.
Tie %ne people of Maine anticipate having
good, steady slsighing until tho middle Of March
One of the most important and profit
able industries Of wisconsin is the raising Of crar
All bass singers claim to be high toned,
notwithstanding the tenor Of their ways may be
little irregular.
The Hawaiian islands are fast being
Americanised, and ere many years but slight
trace Of their original Inhabitants will remain.
The lovers of curacao have stopped
drin king 1t In great m easufe.-Graphic. Never
heard Of its being drunk in any but small meas
ures
They think Rev. Mr.. See, of Newark,
did wrong to let . woman preach in his pulpit,
Of man.
"A Boston girl is never in full dress I'M
less she has pair Of Intellectual eyeglasses
sprung scientifically across the angular bridge of
her aquilins nose.
The people of Virginia are 80 very
ceneiderats to dumb animals that they "carry
their horses to water" instead Of letting their
horses carry them.
"A Western paper says that there Is in
ns"eH oTned sSS, 1sToSer sd or bag of
marbles, or shot fre-cracker.
-"Newspapers are q very cheap and
convenient protection to plants liable to the ex-
particularly beneficial to them.
"A man drove into Litchfield. MIMI.
ths other day in eutt9r with four horses hitchsd
.S hind sns or SIDE Tho
After passing through the wine press
of experience the essence Of practical virtue /.
pressed BY the formula: Honesty is the best policy,
provided you're rich enough to stand it.
!! Missionary work among the Nevada
harvest. The missionary can usually be reeog-
mixed BY green shade over his left eye.
An agricultural exchange has an
article on "How to Raise Cane Indoors"
home . drum and an ACCORDION at Christmas
time.
"A negro was put on the stand as a wit
ness, and the Judge asked him If he understood
the citizen, "ifi swear to a lie must stick to
himr'
Now shovel off your roofs; if people
don't get out Of the way 1t is their fault"
want to expose your room-attics to a cold hearted
world.
"A drove of 2, 300 hogs were driven out
Of Llano and Mason counties, Texas, several days
johnson county, where corn is only nifty cents q
bushel.
Golden Gate City, in the Black Hills.
is sixty days DID, has hotel, two restaurants six
houses. An opera-hOuse and cathedral will be
next in order.
Judge Graham, at the Old Bailey, on
one occasion forgot to pass sentence Of death upon
sion he srs|eiy exclaimed: aDear me, beg his
pardon, am sure"
Atood deal is to be said In favor of the
man who sits down in the slush with o new over
snces Of the thought that his sponsors in Baptism
have not yet been released from their pledges.
The legal authorities hung man In
Ohio some time ago, supposing that the law per-
Upon UPON investiSatiSn it has been found that no
such law exists, and tho court is considerably set
back.
Much of the gin now sold in England
to h not
water is thought by many to be better than the
gin, prosecution for such authorizations are not
favored.
An Easton paper offered sixty dollars
for the man who would raise the finest old rooster
in the county. The next day farmer came in
his boot about six feet. and then demanded the
sixty dollars.
"A Pittsburg editor says: 1--WE are en-
abled to put all our Christmas presents present. in one
SOCK" We suspect the poor fellow didn't receive
anything but bushel Of potatoes, q snow shovel,
. new paste pot, and . dozen mackerel.
Look" said she. as they stood in the
greenhouse together, "look at this half unfolded
rose N petals swell with the unfinished prom,
smelt like the most delicious hair oil.
Mrs. Charlotte Field. wife of promi-
nent merchant at Rock Island, Ill, died in a
Three drAchms were administered. The tooth
was pulled, and then it was discovered that the
lady was dead
-"Farmers' clubs," says an exchange.
practical sense In the rural districts" That's
what the boy thought as he got over the orchard
by the proprietor.
Mr.. Volume was recently married in
Michigan. He's Just the kind of a husband to
stay tome at pights.-N Y. Com. ADJ. II his
wife i. not an entertaining Volume, he's bound"
new leaf once year.
"A certain community resort to what
they call ''cure by criticism" when any Of their
@ tel III .a as
ration, usually resulting in a speedy recovery"
The prisoners at Sing Sing got up
variety performance for New Years. The follow
grsmmes: IN. B.-Photographs of the artists
who will appear at the next performance in '7s
York"
A brakesman on the Toledo, Peoria
senger why they didn't make the tender With
snS Il
ambiguous; can't have no double-end tenders in
railroading." (Ifthis isn't the way to pronounce
it, that is the way 1t looks all the same.)
1t is probable that Hamlet had for the
first time put on shirt that buttoned behind,
and didn't know the hang Of 1t, and had got It on
hndside foremost and was hunting up and down
marked to his mother Green: "Seaus, madam?
Nay, know not seams. There's more seams
than know what to do with, its bosom plait' I'm
The Norwich Bulletin tell of an Oh
noxious man, who having been greatly annoyed
by having bundles of hay, baskets Of rags and
other night and found a basket standing on the
piazza. He kicked 1t from one end Of the piazza
to the other and finally knocked 1t into the next
next day he found that it was q present q fruit
friend had len for him.
And now. contemporaneously with
the decreased yield Of the Spanish cork Forest
mentally in California some years ago grew as
vigorously as their Spanish progenitors, and
that their Dafk VII ~ soon DC ehe 0 m 1 ah;
continent and much OF its whisky, besides
flling out the RATS and padding the jackets
Of fresh and salt water naviEators.
"A mhu anu DIS WIG WcIc lOuuu III
their dwelling in San Francisco, both with bullet
wounds. from which they have probably since
died. The husband said, as his dying testimony,
that his wife shot him and then accidentally shot
herself The wife said, as her dying testimony,
that her husband shet her, and then accidentally
shot himself Each gave jealousy as the netting
shoot ng, and the police had means Of reaching
the truth.
One csnnot read many of the para
graphs in the st. Louis Republican without weep
ing bitterly. "She was an intellectual woman"
says Q recent effort, "but dressed fashionably.
The strong winter wind met her, and the scant
pattern Of her dress In the mode prevented the
long steps necessary to face it SUCCESSFULLY. She
rather lost ground. And such is life she muir
INJURED to herself 80 we poor mortals face
Of troubles. but go drifting with the tied-baok
evermore.'"
He was only an inquis,tive boy. and
he said: ma, will all the heatheus turn up
when IL comes resurrection times?" eyes, my
son." "And them missionaries; those will turn
up!" Certainly, my son." We'll, when them