National Republican., 1877-10-03
NOTES AND FANCIES.

GEORGE ELIOT has slender and frail fingers.
LyScuBURG, former noted race horse, Is
dead
GENERAL HOWARD sings "The Sweet By
and-By"
THE Prince Imperial of France is Napoleon
the four spot
A BrLaARIAS considers woman as being in
fcrlOr to man.
Mrcu ado about nothing-thc search for the
GRAIN of encouragemcnt-1OOOOO OOO, 900
bushels surplus wheat.
The youngest convict In the Kentucky
penitcntiary is there for murder.
A KENTuCKIAS has lain in Jail three weeks
under refusal to pay his dog tax.
IT Is estimated that the apple crop of Chau-
tauqua lake this year will be worth sijS,ooo.
PRor PRIMs says that the fossil remains"
dug up at Hazlcton, Ponn., ars nothing but iron
ore.
THE Paris Exposition of 1878 is to cost
sS,OO00o The original calculation was about 81.
I1OOO.
THE Lchigh county fair at Attention, Pa,
was attended by 1900 people one day. II closed
last week.
WHERE Eastern statesmen are ahead of the
Western statesmen Ia In their being judges of clam
chowdcr.
lures ''medcGtcd boots" Their peculiar virtue Is
III the heal
THE proposition to put iron fences across
the bows of ferryboat cxcltes the indignation Of
the undertaken.
BANKRUPT and corrupt arc becoming more
syHSnym9I. sg yn.s Syss r"o day-No'''0'" Herald SIN
THE papers report that bailiff In Washing
ton county, Ga, can read manuscript and write
but cannot read print.
The Mayor Of Burlington, Iowa, has alb
sconded with lot Of public money VIII the
UrtrErls make lOkn OIL
BELFAST boasts Of twenty seven lawyers
Lirision Ga,efie. Not exactly II has twenty.seyeu
but don't boast Of thcm.-Besfua Journal.
"OCroBER's holocaust
Burns, gold and crimson, over all the hills
The sacramental mystery OF the woods"
IT CANNOT be too steadily insisted upon
that for person to make thoroughly certain OF
never being attacked with brain fever he should
play croquet.
An unsuccessful attempt was lately made
to kidnap Commodore Mutt on Pacific railroad
train. Prabably the dcsperadoes fanced that Mutt
would shell out.
QuoTH TWEED:
Twas one incessant dribbls
The way the press did nibble
My funds To pay for scr!bble."
SENATOR BoGYs successor is a member OF
the police board Of 81, Louis, His appointment Il
with police education will be wanted in the next
Congress.
THE Wheeling Register says: 'rhe Balti.
more and Ohio railroad Is negotiating for an air.
line route between Chicago junction and Pittsburg.
seas to run it, Chicago business via Pittsburg and
the COnnelsville bnnch"
SERGEANT JoHS A. Donaldson, in charge
| OF Fort Carroll. Md has been there for thirteen
years. Is sXyouo years old yet perfectly erect as
soldier should be; has been thirty six years in the
service, and manned the flrst gun at Sumter In
lS6i.
JOE BRADLEY may be said to be the fastest
man In America. lie lived nine years in one night
| for when he went 10 bed he was seven t eight;
when he woke up the next morning he was eight L
| seven-N o. Democrat His 1T" was too large for
| the Democracy,
BURLINGTON Hawkeye: Tho Baron Roths.
child. Of Paris has Just paid sSDOGO for picture
when he might subscribe for the Christian At Work
only s., and get two chromOs that would make him
think Of eternity and future state and scare the
hair of his head every time he woke up In the
| night
ELECTRIC CANDLES are the sensation In
| Paris. They emit no heat or smoke whatever while
In brliancy they hold the same ratio IN gas and oil
lamps as sun to moonlight and they cost only one
ilncenth as much A. gas Ii !shRilci as one Of tle
greatest discoveries Of tho century. Bring us a
| candle