National Republican., 1877-01-20
CURIOSITY SHOP.

-Bierstadt is sketchlng again in the ROCKY
mountains accompanied By Lord Dunraven.
The chrome has broken ont in England.
Popular publications are the first to be affected.
"A Roman Catholic priest was fined i've dol
lars In Butler, Iowa, for eJ-cting . parishioaer
from his church.
The arrival of q short man in q Western town
i, mentioned In the papers under the head OF per
s"r.! trevities."
From some of the positions that fat men now
take in the icy streets one wouli think that they
never learned 10 swim. "..tFfs
"A clergyman in New York insists that nobody
shall cough in church. Hereafter you wilt please
leave your coughs at home.
The devil finds some mischief still, &C. Chi
cago has thirty thousand unemployed persons and
that accounts for some of II. 1-Fr
The Sioux have undoubtedly been whipped,
but IL you wish to fight Indians next summer you
can get all the business you want.
Baltimore dealers say that entire oyster beds
are destroyed by drum fsh-voracious creatures,
strong enough to break the shells with their teeth
What may be called coffee tea has been in
troduced into England and France. 1t Is an infu-
sion of the leaves instead of the berries OF the
coffee plant.
The English Blue Book on lighthouses es-
tablishes exclusively the fact that no sea birds,
such as gulls, terms, &C., ever kill themselves
against the lanterns.
Some people become monomaniacs on certain
subjects. An ardent advocate of mustard drafts
submitted all night to powerfully-d drawing one on
each foot because Of a ciuder in her eye
Two Danbury clergymen have asked for Q
decrea ,e in salary because OF the prev afling de-
preston in business" We await with great anx-
iety the decision OF their congregations.
The people of England have known what 1t
was to have a board for street cleaning. "During
the civil war in Lincolnshire eight hundred horses
were taken prisoners while sticking in the mire."
"A Chicago actors rendition Of Iago is thus
spoken Of by a critic: 'Be does not seem to think
that Iogo was the blooded bilious villain that
Mr.. Booth makes him, but rather SARCASTIC, roll
licking, cynical cuss.
There are $40 monasteries and converts in
Russia with an annual income Of nearly q, 600 0OO
the average cost OF maintaining a nun or monk
being about s1O. The revenue OF the ecclesiastical
corporations of Quebec is probably larger than this
sum.
"A Toledo steamboat captain, on hearing of
the death of Vanderbilt decorated his vessel gavly
with nags and streamers, and blew the whistle all
day long. He said that the Commodore had once
wronged him, and consequently he felt like cele-
brating.
Jones, whose hair now and then Is greatly
tangled by his wife's fingers, confdentially in
formed friend the other evening that the husband
OF the Venus OF Milo must have been happy fel-
pulled his hair.
Whats in . manner McGinnis is satisfied
there is nothing. The Christian OF the couple
with whom he boards are Phillip and Phillis, and
yet McGinuis says, 1--WE never have an opportunity
to fill up, because they don't put enough on the
table to al us.''
Professor Max Muller assures us that the
word India" is corruption of the Persian word
''Sbindu.'' Our Indians, therefore, ought really
SIT.
shindies In which they engage we have dark sus-
picion that they know it.
Sydney, Australia, has its hoodlums who 20
about in gangs of twenty or thirty, break street.
lamps, maltreat policemen, tear down fences and
signboards assault and hustle quiet folks at high
noon. and practise theft and robbery. They are
locally known as 'larrikins.n
Scarlet fever is so prevalent in Boston that
the Board of Health has issued circular to citizens
The recommendations that the patient be iso-
lated; that all articles that cannot be afterward
cleansed be removed from the room; that after re-
covsry the ceiling and walls be rubbed clean, and
that clothing be boiled thoroughly or burned.
New Brunswick has 1O7 ships, 1853 barks, IA
barkentines, Is briggs brigantines, 562 schooners,
ls3 woodboats, sloops and 81 steamers, in all l54
vessels of 572 tons. St. John, most people do
not know, is the fourth port Of the British Empire
as regards registered tonnage, being exceeded by
Liverpool, London and Glasgow.
Rev. R. F. Parshall, of Vallejo, CAL, tried to
kiss sister in his church. She Indignantly repulsed
him, whereupon he wrote to her, my dear sister,
wish you could see this matter as do, and be-
lieve God will yet bring you to see it,. As he and
she were both married, his logic did not convince
her. and when he again tried kiss her she exposed
him.
The practice of advertising the Centennial
Exhibition awards in garbled forms has led to 3
law suit in Baltimore. One piano agent issued cir
sh.t IA k.l haa,,
lied better than any other make the truth being
that comparisons were made in any Of the Judges
reports. rival agent sues for an injunction re-
straining the other from lying.
Tho athletes who exhibit themselves in
Graco-Roman wrestling have met with wonderful
success throughout the country. The winner of Two
falls ont of three is the winner Of the match, and in
vAriably each wrestler gains fall, leaving the
third to be the deciding one, and thus sustaining
the interest. Yet the spectators generally regard
the struggles ss genuine, and the performers are
fast getting rich.
"A young banK clerk at Toronto. Mr.. Barber,
gets 81, 900 year for five years. This s how. 1t
was found that he had been taking the securities of
the bank (of which he was custodan) and using
them himself colaterals to obtain loans on fJr
stock specuatuns. or to lend to other people for
consideration. public trial would have exposed
a great number of his accompices, men of high posi-
ton, he elected to be tried summarily, pleaded
guilty and sent to the penitentiary for i've
The men OF high position just alluded to paid
him sf0O, 600 to take this course.
-Marshneld Island. in Lake Erie, has been
bought by . who intends 10 stock 1t with black
cats, and Kill their progeny for their fur. He will
feed them At first fish caught on the shore by men
who will live the island; but after the enterprise
is well started he will utilize the meat Of the
slaughtered cats IS food for the living cats. We
also read that q Georgian is making an extensive
business Of raising dogs, tanning their hides and
alnath thnr dnfh
poses.
"A woman with a bees nest In her hair would
probably be q lively spectacle, but joaquin Miller
tries, in the Independent to make such thing re-
mantle, as follows:
Ifall the world a garden were,
Ifmen were bees that busted there
Through all the summer hours;
OIL would hum the garden through.
Then should hive within your hair,
And fsn sRGu$ ah$ Side SGie 1 Sory there
Through all the chsngeful weather.
The other day. in the studio of Nine. Sarah
Bernhardt, in Paris, half dozen visitors were dis
cussIng the origin and position of certain Russian
who has recently attracted good deal Of attention
in Paris. Opinions divided as to whether he Is
q prince. . brandy dealer . baron or q cheudlfer
d'industrie. One of the speakers declared posi-
lively that he 10 q man Of birth, and supported the
assertion by saying Yesterday, in the Bois saw
armorial bearings" Thereupon Mime. Sarah Bern
hardt looked up from her sculpture, and observed,
'.You have found an ancestor for hin. He edeseends
from his carriage
Miss Linney, of Sacramento, was inclined to
marry Mr. Roberts, but she said that she could not
become the wife of poor man. She would wait q
reasonable time for him TO make . fortune, and
whenever he was in . condition to support her in
elegance he mighI claim her. He went to San Fran
cisco, embarked In mining speculations, and made
money rapidly. A few months ago he told her that
he possessed . hundred thousand dollars. She said
that the sum satisfactory, and mentioned adate
that would suit her for the wedding. Then he
cody told her that he had changed his mind, and
had no idea of marrying her. She has sued him Tor
q breach OF promise.
Captain John B. Eads, who is about to re-
We an installment of $500 900 for his work of open
ing the mouth of the Mississippi, IL in his fftysev
enth year, and . native OF fLawrenceburg, Ind. At
q very early age he evineed . strong taste for ma
chinery, and at eleven constructed, without any
instruction. a miniature engine that worked per-
fectly with steam. He has struggled upward to the
possession OF . large private fortune, excellent
health and thoroughly American taste, passing such
grades apple peddler, clerk, Mississippi wrecker
proprietor OF the hrst glass blowing establishment
in the West, and builder Of twenty iron-clad
gun and mortar boats.
American colonels in the service Of the
Khedive of Egypt receive as pay $50 per month,
with allowances for quarters and duty In the prov