National Republican., 1880-12-13
FUN AND FACT.

A tug.boat at Wilmington, Del, has fer its name
Dec Vocntc.
The Delaware Beet Sugar Company will use
10000 tons of roots next year.
The New York girls are initiating Bernhardt in
Post
Kccly is apparently making quite as much prog
light. T''" ''' iV'O' '' N''''" WIN "'' ''''''''
a IIawkinsville lGcorga) hen laid an eggwegh
ing four ounces. The South Georgia Conference
was about TO meet
The windows Of most ofthc dealers In Christmas
goods are something like the "windows Of the
soul good to look Into.
dealer in cheap clothing asks If one Of his
oycrcoats can be sent through the pOst.olicc as
EetOnd.ClaSs male matter
The Pacific Mills In Lawrence, Massachusetts,
have more spndes than are in the sixty-sevcn
cotton factories of South Carolina.
Forty-nine Guernsey cows were sold in philndcl-
phia, ON Thursday for s20lt5, an average Of Si11.
They were imported last summer from the Channel
The first number of Hdrpors Magazine for En-
Rlish readers was issued with the imprint of samp
son, Low Co, London, December /. Fifteen
Thousand copies were sold retail price one
shilling.
81 hate to be baldhcaded" said he "when n
burlesque troupe comes to town my wife watches
me as cat would mouse and every man meet
asks me how, liked the performance. 1t didn't
use TO be so."
:. The question now agitotlng.a colored congrcga-
ages to keep his flock by the ears most Of the time
with difficult evangelical problems.
At the Madison Avenue Congregational Church
fnir in New York, there Is solid silver fruit stand
worth $3.50, which is to be presented TO Mrs. Gar
field, Mrs. Hancock Mrs. Grant, or Mrs. Hayes, ac-
corning 10 the votes given in the contest.
Snooks went home the other night afflicted with
double vision. He sat for some time with his
sleepy gaze riveted on Mrs, snooks. and then com.
placenty remarked: well, declare 4 you two
gals don't look 'nough alike to be twins"-Ec
The C@sarian operation was performed last week
npon young woman in Tippecanoc County, In
both living, and the operation was so completely
successful that no doubt of the recovery Of the
mother exists.
Beaconsfelds hero, Endymion FerraH, receives
recalls the fact that to William Pitt the younger,
came one .a day & from an unknown benoiaet6r pres
lament So that the fiction is no stranger than
the truth.
Lord Bcaconsficld has in hand besides his own
lmemOir, n collection of essays under the title OF
"Sovereigns and Statesmen" embracing personal
"reminiscences of remarkable men in European
history for half q century, and these late leaves
from stately tree" will be received with un-
bounded avidlty whenever they may appear
:, Colonel Richard Richards; familiarly known ns
."Rick Richards" was found dead in bed in ben.
NOUS in Western history. 4 lawyer of bright AT.
tainmcnts, he made his mark but habits Of dssi.
family in St. Louis had allowed him pension for
many years. ..I
Betsy Bobbitt, when she was elected a member
of the Shakespeare Club made a sensation. Thc
part of yRiei being allotted TO her, she got along
very well till she came 10 the balcony scene when
she paused moment thoughtfuliy before the
words, " Hist! Romeo, hist" and then to the con.
stornaiion Of the audience pronounced the "i ~
broad shouting Histel RomfO, histel !"
In these nights ofbiter cold 1t will not he nmiss
TO remind the poor that two or three newspapers
pasted together will afford as much warmth as an
additional blanket. The paper should be placed
between two thickncsses of other covering Paper
coverlcts are now manufactured in England seven
feet by five and sold at thirty cents each. They
have been in uscin China and Japan for thousand:
of years.