National Republican., 1877-07-02
MISCELLANY.

the bottom OF his heart.
Chinese women set very high value on
The ma culine gender and their evening prayer to
encc into men They believe In metempsychoSs.
Among the letters found on the recently
slain brgnnd Leone, IN Sicily were some from a
great lady who, overwhelmed by romantic pas.
sion. has been keeping upa correspondence with
him.
when the average compositor comes to
Turkish name he shuts hi eyes and graSps lctC RS
ut random from opposite corners Of his case and
not one reader In ten thousand ever knows the
difference" And cares less.
Young ladies In the first stage of love are
unable 10 quite finish the first saucer Of ice cream.
,,lt griS g who have been engaged two or three
Gid some Of them can cat two quarts. BY ice
| cream you may know them.
"A detective reports that the Molly Ma
guircs OF Pennsylvania are 50 fearful Of spies that
they have arranged To change their signs and pass
words every three months. The report says that
the A. o; u have no intention Of letting the oppo-
with their fellowship with the murdcrouS Mollies.
The Popc's popularity, measured by the
statistics Of the late pilgrimage to Rome, did not
equal expectation. Fifty thousand pilgrims were
appearance appear nc Def before red ihc Oldest Pope in history Thc
age T. growing irreyerent 10 antiquities and ancient
establishments.
A Connecticut dentist has got hold of a
| less than half dollar set This will enable a fe.
male wcurcr Of false teeth to have set to match
every suit she owns both In color and design With
pink goods pink teeth with striped goods striped
| teeth, nnd so on The man who discovered Con.
| nectiout was no slouch
| The Queen Of Holland on her death bed
wrote to klnswcman In Paris THE Revolution
are said 70 hayc prophetic Vision. wish I did
not feel that they have, foresce disastrous calam
have bcS"me Ap :" attached s You Viii never Nc sisS sce
another Queen Of Holland and Republic Will not
take my place"
"A prospective father-in-law makes in
Gqiries concerning ono % his Prospective soninaw Of
| character, till the friend says frankly: still 1
must admit that he has one grave defect" What
not know anything about gambling" "why. that
Is not defect; i is virtue" Yes but you SET
he gambcs all the same"
The Supreme Court of Indiana has dc.
cided that divorce granted In Utah between
ritory is imperative and void The decision is in
should the courts hold otherwise, a man might
obtain divorce from the mother OF his children
without her knowing anything about the proceed.
| ings. This would be monstrous.
/ 1t Is bright idea-this idea of tying a
knot In the corner Of napkin and tucking II Into
the collar at tho throat to protect ones shirt bosom
Sea eSsy saen, AZ hooS II Rasers
tenor singer In Paris Il the fellow who frst struck
upon this arrangement, which Is bound to spring
suggestions from Paris, Is knotty but nice
Some fifty years or more ago q poor old
woman in ireland had hor cottage pulled down
M hGsa S a, dSd Of e P IA
urc. Thefeupon her son and soYe heishbor lads
formed !henlselyes into secret band, and vowed
thetuselys Molly Asgulrcs" and Irish coal miners
brought the namo to America.
Mile Dodu, directrOss of tho telegraph at
n 6OR3 a h
medal foI an act q couraSe during ne !nyasIoI;
seized on her oice she carried her apparatus into
her private room. on the 6rst floor. As The wire
another wire, apd being thus able to read the
rS9SIvSd By ,hs SSnemy she c; s%rSS French
10 the Fronoh authorties
Tho following remarkable announ cement
has apPsared in several Of the italian Journals IA
the earliest favorable. opportunity Plus TX will
seilles and lyons In French corvette which will
be sent % cohsoy him. His departure will be the
In connection with this rumor Il will be interesting
TO recall discourse which the Pope delivered to a
body OF pilgrims from Lyons, and In which he al.
iuded to the probability ofhs having to seek refuge
In that city.
B-Marshal MacMahons birthday was cele-
DRAFTED on the 18th OF June. His age Is &C. He was
H Hs fthsr cry Maurice DE- @ MaSSnSan ns W"s faithful II ITO To-
the Bourbon cause, and, during the reign Of Louis
, XVIII, was created a lieutenant general and a
father, Jean Baptiste do MacMahon. born in Linn
cr'ck, Ireland. was naturallze1 and ennoblcd by
the French Government in l7s0. His ancestor irst
visited France I'm the suite of the exiled James IL.
Of England.
"A frivolous grasshopper, having spout the
! summer ~ mirth and revclry, went, on the ap'
proach Of the Indictment winter to the ant and i'm
Plored II Of It's charity 20 stake hun: You had
better 60 to your uncle replied thG p;udSnt ant;
your funds in the savings bank you would not now
an ulster" Thus saying, the vlrtuous ant retired
aud read In the papers next morning that the
D savings bank. where he had deposited his funds
n had suspended.
1t Is said of the Stewart cathedral "The
ss TS sooR alone Il
q 10000. statue Of Mr.. Stewart will occupy a
= niche OH one side Of the chancel and another oi
in the basement Ism yet finished II Is intended
for the body of Mr. stewart which will lie in a
sarcophags on the floor In tho centre. Mrs, Stew
art viii also eventually lilo there, side by side with
= her husband"
I Two gamblers were In Leavenworth Kan.
}, several years ago, with about so In their pockets
Thcy desired 10 yet money enough to go to talfor
nia They went to separate hotels one registered
}. as physician. and advertised remedy for cholera
i into sample raciages with little crot6n oil IL
each; and hired boy to distribute them Soon
> what thry believed were symptoms of cholera. The
,, sale of the cholera remedy was cnormous and tn,
Y gamblers were enabled to go to California They
Is now tell the story through The Virginia City Enter
l. priss.
It Pigeon English, a language peeping abou
c on the Pacific coast was invented In Canton Hons
Kong and Shanghai, where II Is to-day used as III,
medium OF business transactions between the ma
tivcs and foreign merchants The name d.
rived from the fact that the natives pronounce busl
e ness pigeon! and neither of the two cpnractn.
At parties could spare the time to acquire thoroughly
p either Chinese or English happy adaptation o
the to the other by practical intermingllng wa
Ic hit upon. At the present day some very larry
j trausactions take place In Pigeon English In th'
e cities named, as well as At other rolnts.
u There was curious scene at the gambling
tables at Monaco the other day. A number OF pill
grms, most OF them from England and Ireland
had arrived there en- route for Rome, and n goo,
m many Of them stroed into the Kupsaal TO watcf
q the gamblers One enthusiastic pilgrim took upoi
~ himself to improve the occasion, and commenced
I, u homily on the sin of gambling. waxing some
~ what ofonsively personal in his remarks he wa
a. requested TO withdraw but declined To do so, dc
70 clarng that he had mission from heaven to purg
" Monaco Of lts vice The attendants then proceeded
H. to eject him. when the h0milist suddenly drew
revolver and fired full AT the manager Of the room
but fortunately missed him. NJ, Blanc. the pro
prictor of the gambling tables, himself devote'
Ian hat pnfs