National Republican., 1877-01-24
CURIOSITY SHOP.

Ghosts should speak dead language
The man who loses his head cannot COM
plain.
The gorilla is forewarned by being fore
armed.
"A sexton has grave charges against the
community.
THE man who does not enjoy good health
ls ungratcful.
Peacock feathers were never made to
point moral.
platforms now.
the Russian army,
ALI Paris plays from the Amblgu- Comique
are rather ambiguous.
A market report quotes "whisky strong,
aud In good demand.n
Progress again. A Jersey City goat has
learned to chew tobacco.
Much snow has prevented the frost
striking through the roof.
The truth Of the duel-that 1t ought
never to have been fought,
The Omaha Bee tries to sting It's neighbor
as amcans to distinguish itself.
The man on the inside of boiler does not
care to strike while the iron Is hot,
u
some men are not so bad as they look.
When car driver receives two counter
felt nickels lie thinks the dimes are hard.
National banks desiring to retire their cir
salstIrr might apply to nrst-cass burglar.
IT is not fashionable in Chicago now to sue
for divorce until six months after the ceremony.
"A gentleman said, when pretty girl
Eod on his toes, that he had received the stamp Of
beauty.
The poaching laws of England are de-
fectlve SO long as eggs can be poaehed with i'm
punity.
The house In which Sam Houston resided
As President OF the Republie OF Texas still stands
In Houston.
"A Kentucky girl who would like to change
her name is struggling under the paradoIical cog
nOmen Of Helen Heyyin.
Some one has said that "Smiles are only
smiles when some one pulls the wires,' Social
drinkers should remsmber that.
Tho FIVE cent BARRIERS Of New York adver-
tise 'silent shave" and people who love to hear
them converse arc almost crazy,
The Mississippi is certainly the Father of
Waters, and when the foods come the tributary
streams arise and go to their father.
Tho present is the youngest Legislature
ever assembled In Georgia, there being six mem-
| bers under twenty-six years age.
--soldene in tights is objected to by the
| Louisyilie Courier-JOWrRdi. II is evident that
nothing will satisfy that editor but a state OF
| ture.
1t Is affecting beyond measure to hear the
newly elected Congressman, us they come In sight
ofthe Capitol, break out and sing 'Sweet sweet
dome.'
There are two rival blind men asking aims
in mont OF one OF our churches every Sunday
Ing, and 1t Is sight 10 see them eye each other
| Jealously. a
1t appears there Is no law 10 compel rail-
road companies to build bridges perfectly safei but
after passenger has been killed he can recover
damages.
"A country paper, In q Louisiana parish
where there are shotRuns than school hooks,
says; 'Game Of all Kind Is the great go and arc
plentiful"
-" Pears like you don't recognize mel"
said an humble individual TO gentleman passing.
"No, sir,n replied the other; vi recognize nobody
until the committee reports"
Tucker Blake wishes to know If the new
delegate from Mexico to Congress has three chill
dren. lie plains that the delegate In the paperi
10 called Mr.. Trinidad Romero.
"A Frenchman says he hates girl when
she ls trying to be woman, and woman when she
Is trying to be girl. From which II will be seen
that the proper ase Is anywhere from eighteen "a
thirty-hve.
The Fenian movement has broken oul
again. A Philadelphia performer has Just put upon
the market new kind of pomade, which Is said h
4 be tho strongest boSd-Hesatsr tnAt las yet bO<I
brought cut,