National Republican., 1880-12-25
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.


THE Italian government has reduced herpostagc
from four TO two cents,
The New York Seventh Regiment Is spoken Of
as " that admirable collection of weldressed male
beauty"
SAYS DR.. Taylor of New York "The shrewdcst
Jewish extraction with Yankee education"
PROGRESSION Is the law of the nineteenth cen
tury. Roman Catholic Brazil has passed bill
making Protcslants eligible to seats IN her Parla
ment.
Mrs. VALENTINE, a white woman of Columbus
Ohio, not only married negro, but deserted u
white husband to do 1t, and has been arrested for
bigamy.
THE news from South Africa seems 10 indicate
Il descent ON some editorial sanctum. The dis
patch says =" the Bocis are assembling III lurge
numbers"
SEVERAL of the JcsrlitscXpelled from France have
reached Montreal, and In the spring will go to
farming nj Okla on Il tract Of eight hundred ncrcs
provided for them by the seminary of st. Sulpicc.
IIremained for q wise paper in Brooklyn to tell
us that I" the principal ofa young ladies seminary
in syracuse has SO cXhallStiugly inflicted her
pupils with 'deportmcnt that when left alone
her girls of sixteen net like siNty!"
THE nightingale is the most human bird IN cx.
istence. lie leaves oifsingingund goes to cro0klng
As soon as he has family but II he loses his mate
he will go right to singing checruy till lie finds
another mate BiHghdmpt0a hPubtcu.
FISCHER, who shot Commissioner Dcerstcchcr in
san Francisco the other day, said uiler he was ar
rested that he hud also intended 10 kill Mayor
knlloch and some oner city officers. The SnCra.
mcntO RtcJri LHiDR remarks thereon that Il was Il
pity he was arrested,
THERE Is II man In Galveston named Joseph w,
Mcclellan, who II eVerlustingly talking without
saying anything, The other day GihOOly met him !:
" | say, Mae, do you know why you remind me OF
a river" Mac thought there was Il compliment
in store for him, aud guessed that 1t was because
something sparkling came out of his mouth all
the time. Not quite" responded GilhOoly; "yOu
remind me oiu nver because your mouth is bigger
than your head
TINS Is from the Springfield ReplJlcaa: When
the celebrated General Wolfe died premium WAS
offered for the best written eptaph OH that brave
officer number OF poets OI all descriptions eli,
tered the competition, aud among the rest was one
who addressed his communication TO the editor of
the PaLIic Leiger rs follows:
" lie marched without dread or fears
Al the head Of his bold grcnadiers;
And what was more reinarkable-n0y very par.
tiCulnr,
lie climbed up rocks that were quite pcrpendc.
ular."
IIENRY WlSAST, of Richmond Valley, Statcn
Island one night recently heard strange noise In
the cellar Of his house, and, procuring a lamp
started To learn the cause, on reaching the bot.
tom of the cellar stairs he saw large cat glnring
at him. The animal attacked Mr. Wnant with H.
teeth aud claws, and IN the light the luuQ chimney
was broken ana the light eNting,lished, Finally
Mr. Winant got hold OF u bur of iron, with which
he killed the cat In the struggle he received 81.
we're scratches and had his clothing torn. The ami
NAL weighed tweuty.three pounds. For months Il
had been running about the woods near Mr. Wi.
nGnts house, and II neverfailed TO attack human
being when anopporlunity offered.