National Republican., 1877-01-27
CURIOSITY SHOP.

toEo.
Let us have fair count, If we have to
guess Ait.
There were $50 suicides In the United
States In 1876.
Can the news transmitted through the
ocean be frcshH
"A Chinese baby never cries cAcept when
| irs tea thing.
"A Cbinaman never keeps in debt long.
He prefers to commit suicide.
Over three million cigars are daily burned
| In th,s country. Noinsurance.
Charles Kingsley advised workingmen to
| study-not history, but science.
Sentiment for minIster--"Eithcr this
preaching or this coughing has got to STOP"
The mercury has been as low as two de-
grees below zero in South Caroliha this winter.
I'm Harold" Tennyson says:
whats upis faith; what's down Is here,y."
Fifteen thousand and eighty. eight prison.
ers were liberated the day vctoha became Empress.
A recent advertisement reads "a re-
| spectacle young person wants cleaning. Apply"
&C.
--Fifty thousand elephants are killed every
year to furnish the ivory worked up in England
alone.
The number OF "the very worst cold I
ever had in my life" 1, reported upon the In
crease.
The bonanza companies are beginning 10
pass their div idends and the future looks very dark
indeed.
DIR. Hall says q duel is public calamity.
The Lower Courier says: $50 1t Is when neither
side hits"
-"Died of hard drink" was the verdict of
an intelligent jury upon the body OF man killed by
a falling icicle.
"A young man In San Francisco put out
one ofhis eyes while taking of a shirt, . spiral
stud doing the mischief.
Mr.. Moody said, 'If Noah had waited for
secmmittee to build the ark. the keel wouldn't
have been laid to tins day.
All the employees OF the Midland railway,
England, have to sus ait to an examination to make
sure that they are not color blind.
There is no position In this life more I'M
healthy than that OF being the ''oldest Frcemason."
lie is dying pretty much all the time, OF late.
Wellington, It is said, was always fond of
bestowing military names on various articles. He
called hrs night-gown, we believe, nap-sack.
--Bayard Taylor wrote the Centennial ode
for nothing, and when II had been nicely bound
they wanted him to subscribe for copy at $3.50.
Secretary of War Cameron 10 going to
rarry Jere Blacks daughter. "Now." remarks
the Springfield Republican, 'let us have peace"
The happiest moment In the life of girl
is when she Is IN possession OF a lover. a chair that
holds twice at once and ia VINO trusts to her ex-
pCriercc.
"A grave digger, who buried q Mr.. Button,
put the following item In the bill which he sent to
MIS-, Button; ITO making one Button. hole, FIVE
dollars"
When watterson's one hundred thousand
unarmed Democratic kentuck.ans get into Wash
ington, the business of the free souphouses will he
unprecedented.
Paris receives $40, 900 yearly from con-
tractors for the privilege ofkecpng the streets clean
The sweepngs yield f6co, ,oto Those figures ART re-
versed in New York.
-"Wilful waste makes woeful want" and
yet the water meter says that every New Yorker
sumes 100 gallons OF water daily. No wonder SO
many OF them are tight.
-"He's sneak, he is. He failed and then
paid ninety cents the dollar when he could have
settled for twenty" The remark was meant for a
Leaycnworth merchant.
"A citizen In Philadelphia sued horse rail-
road company on Tuesday for piling up the snow
along the track In front OF his house, and the court
awarded him so damages.
Virginia proposes to keep her highways
In repair by sentencing her criminals to use the
shovel and pick 1t would be good Joke on the high
ways there were no criminals.
"A wonderful temperance revival In Pitts
hurg and that neigbborhood has made 10 900 con
vcrt', and the excitement is growing Ten churches
srecrowded nightly by enthusiastic meetings.
1t was q Texas gentleman who loaded his
shotgun heavily and went out to interview an op-
noxlous ncghbor. and 1t a Texas coroner who
decided; 'suicidal stead OF murder, COS the gun
busted"
The two largest checks ever Issued are
the one for fi,OOo,OCO which Sir Arthur Guinness
received on retiring from the firm Of which he was
n member, and the other check on the Bank OF Me-
yada for q, 0oo, ,0o0, drawn by Flood 4 o. Drien.
-Tha axttamant In Eurona bos prnvap
very material stimuiant OF the nsgging Industries
of this country. The orders for material will,
It is said, yield 600 OF exchange the cities
OF Hartford, New Haven, Springfield and Proyl-
dence.
1t was not until 1907 that the aldermen
of New York were charged TO enforce the duty
'that every seventh householder, In the dark time
of the moor, cause lantern and candle 10 be hung
out of his window on pole, the expense TO be d.
vldcd among the seven mmilles.'
james Gordon Bennett has sent $500
check to La Crosse, Wis, as personal contrlbu-
ZION 10 the two little girls Of the late Mark kel-
logR, the spscial correspondent OF the New York
Hsrdid, who killed by tho Indians At Clusters
Little Big Horn slaughter last year.
Young woman, there is death In the bay
rum bottle. A young lady of Omaha, with an eyeto
| securing beautiful complex ion, was bathing her
face and neck In bay rum. 1t ignted from an ada-
cent candle, and in less than two minutes, all the
tan, freckles, pimples and botchcs were efectuay
removed from her skin, and the skin eradlcated
al the same time. The young lady is now getting
| along without any complexion.
Real cannibals have been discovered by
missionaries on the Islands of New Britain and New
Ireland on the northeastern coast Of New Guinea.
| These natives are nude savsges OF the Oriental
negro type, who live more like beasts than human
| beings. The Rev, George Brown, Wesleyan mis-
| slonary, reports that he saw woman roasting the
| leg AID thigh OF man who had been killed In .
| nght. In smother hut smoke-drled human flesh was
| hanging. In another he counted thirty-nve jaw
| bones of men and women. CAnnibAllsm seemed TO
| he common throughout the islands, not as a re-
ligous rite, but ordinary means ofsubsstence.
The enatives assured the missionary that tue
heretofore published ofa Of tailed human beings
true, and certain that these strange crca-
| lures were not monkeys.
| LOCAL MISCELLANY.
| Catarrh cured-Sce DR.. Hartley.
Stoves for rent, at Buffers, corner Fifh and X
| streets northwest.