National Republican., 1877-01-25
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IN oru' e TO lesalise IN France the mar
NeNr O' ssr,holdi. the sculptor. Mayor Bedlow, OF
A. -ort, X. L., had to 20 to Providence on Thurs
- and sign the marriage certificate In the sight of
4 Governor Lippitt.
| --latest theatrical rumor-that Bennett
sss been engaged for "a Tour of the World in
| Eighty Daye,n and the kilograms locate him in
Florida, starting out upon Astors yacht to fuiai
| his engagement.
| Surprise Is the essence Of wit, but some
how when a man Is climbing down a ladder in an
| awful hurry and never nnds out that one OF the
rounds Is gone until he tries to step II with both
| feet, II never seems very funny to him.
-"My son." said Mr.. x, kindly TO his
youthful heir, "accustom yourself TO be polite to
the porter the servant girl, the coschmAn, TO all
the servants; thus you will In tlms to be cour-
teous to all people, even to your parents"
While he was sitting on the wood box and
chewing the bitter cud OF reflection, aman with .
brass watch chain and three-doliar set OF glass
diamonds entered the car, and six OF the women
lifted their satches down and moved mp close 10 the
side ofthc car. Such things will always be done.
-Chlorate OF potassium and iodide Of potas-
stun are, separately, harmless medic al doses, but
the Journal Of Pharmacy warns physicians not to
administer them together, because In the stomach
they combine to make iodide potassium, q poison.
Mi1ed in any other way they do not thus act.
Here is the latest style Of novel dress, ad-
dress, &C.:
A lady with cardinal hair.
AsSs.es sa psir S,S q sasslsh, S1:e;
Each side ofA cardinal nose.
The complete restoration Of the magnin-
cent cathedral at Rheims, which has been recently
authorized, will involve an outlay OF 1. .oOo, 900
francs. The cornerstone OF the cathedral was laid
in 1912. Hwas damaged by nre in it2I, and has
been falling into decay during the laAt two sen-
turtles.
Miles Smith, of London, has q system
which will bring perfect health. The programme Is
to rise at i;so O'Clock In the morning, walk mile
and eat breakfast at $40 O'Clock. There Is much
more OF the programme but this 1. sufficient to dis
courage the reader. There are worse things than
death.
"A good st ory is told OF q Nashau physi-
clan, who recently vaecinatcd a family of twelve
persons and charged si2. A few days thereafter he
took dozen cabbage plants In part pay, a. he sup
posed but upon Anal setti ement learned 70 his sur
prise. that Mr.. Farmer charged doctors prices-sI
ahead. {.
"A Berlin dispatch In the Cologne GaEstte
OF january Says ''The excavations at Olympia
continue successful. Professor Curtius received .
demonstration OF welcome from the workmen and
made q speech, whereupJn the Greek comml lssioner
crowned him with an olive wreath the last OF the
Olympian victors.
The people Of the nice little city OF Niles,
Mich, have been terribly exercised over the mys-
terious marking of gatc-posts OF the residences.
excited imagnings, until at last relief was OBJ
tained by the discovery that the marks were made
by patent medicine vendcr to indicate where he
had left samples.
"A Statistical gentleman Boston min
lister, speaking At one OF the Moody aud sankey
meetings at Chicago, pictured the neld 10 which
the revivalists now going by stating that one
third Of all the inndeity In the United States b In
New England, one third Of all that is In New Eng
land in Massachusetts,, and third Of that In
Massachusetts, Is in Boston"
The fastest time across the Pacific has
been made by the Occidental and Oriental steam
ship Oceanic. The ship arrived unexpectedly at
San Francisco on the 26th ult., fourteen days aud
fourteen hours from Yokohama, beating by twenty
one hours the time Of the City OF Peking OF the Pa
cinc Mail line, on q recent trip, which up 70 that
time had been the best across the Pacific.
The whirligig Of time brings In his re-
venges. BY the revocation OF the Edict OF Nantes
France lost great proportion OF her Huegenot
population, but eighty-nine OF the descendants Of
those Huegenots returned in 1870 officers OF tho
German army, among them being the following
generals De Coimier, dc Berger, de Papa, de Gros,
de Bories, de Montbary. de Malaise. Muizer. de Ia
Roche, de Colomb, Girard dc Gaudy, de Ruvills,
de Jarrys.
While hewing yews Hugh lost his eve,
And put It in the HE aud Cry,
To name Its faces dusky hues
Was all the effort he could use.
You brought the eve back By and by,
And only begged the hewer's ever,
Hour hands 70 wash in water pure,
Lest nice-nosed ladies, not Q few,
Should cry en- coming near you, "Ugh!',