The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05

"A gentleman in Paris lost 100000
at gambling in single day. We have
our faults, of course, but can proudly
point to the fact that no one ever yet &C
cused us of gambling away 100000 in a
day.-Bridgeport Standard.
-What.mOre sublime sight can be i'm
agined than very tall man who takes
long steps, with an up-and down, double
hack-action motion, walking with little,
short, Notwithstanding fellow whose
legs fly back and forth like the knife of
a sausage-cutter?
Some people who, of course, know
all about it, predict that yellow as a
fashionable color will have short reign
More than the merest suggestion of this
glazing shade is vulgar, and ladies of re-
fined taste refuse to give it prominence
in the toilet.
Chicago has a news-girl, about four
teen years old, who has made money
enough selling papers to furnish COM
Portable home and buy piano. Her
name is Nettie, and she can yell louder
and fight longer than any newsboy in
town.
=" Mrs. Parr, of this village" says a
Wisconsin exchange, has had no less
than seventy attacks of illness during
her lifetime, and still lives" She must
be one of the "Brave Women of Seventy
Sticks. IN. 2. Commercial Ad0ertiser.
The new Jury law of Florida pro-
vides that when in any case, civil or
criminal, knowledge of reading, writ
ing and arithmetic is necessary to enable
a juror to understand the evidence to be
offered, he may be challenged if he does
not possess such qualifications.
Mr.. Louis Montant, Miss Edith Mays
ttance, and one Of the best-liked young
men in New York, recently died at the
age of twenty seven years. Mr. Montant
saved Miss Mays life at the time of the
Mohawk disaster, risking his own life
for the young lady, to whom he subse-
quently became engaged.
You can utilize your cake of maple
sugar, if you find there is too much sand
in it to make molasses of, by putting it
in a neat frame of card board, or some
kind of fancy work, in bright colors, and
hanging it up against the wall to light
matches on. 1t never wears out.-Hauk-
Eye.
-"She may be very good woman, :"
gasped Tomson his breath almost choked
OFT by the tightness of his new shirt,
while the wrists were so loose that they
seemed not to button at all" she may
be very good woman, but she don't un-
derstand the practical application of
Typographical engineering to fine shirt"
The graduating class at West Point
Military Academy this year Numbers sew
enty-seven, the largest class ever gradu-
ated. There are but forty vacancies in
the army to be filled, consequently thirty
seven of the graduates will be appointed
brevet second lieutenants under the law
and promoted to the grade of second
lieutenant as vacancies occur.
"A scaly coot, who is well known to
Danbury merchants as a shirker of debt,
was sorely pressed by grocer to whom
he was indebted, when he turned on his
prosecutor with the indignant remark
What are you bearing down on me like
this for, when only owe you sixty cents?
And there's the Prince of Wales nearly
a million dollars in debt Why don't
you talk to himE" The grocer retired
NeacS.
An elderly gentleman, say about
seventy winters, was taking his noon cup
of coffee at Mrs. Harringtons few days
since when much younger friend sug-
gested that coffee drinking was very in
furious. /" Is that so?" inquired the vet
eran; well, now, you sit down and tell
me all about it; not that that am much
interested on my own account, but
should like to tell my father, who is
about ninety years of age, and who per-
sistsi in drinking coffee "-BoSt0n Journal
"A woman writes to find out what
evil genius it is that always leads man
into the parlor to black his boots on the
best ottoman, rather than on the more
convenient wood-b in the kitchen?
And why a man always starts to walk
away from the washstand when he be-
gins to wipe his face. and drops the
towel halfway down the stairs, or out in
the front yard, or wherever he may be
when his face is dried? Good land!
woman, do we know the unfathomable?
We suppose it is the same impulse that
always makes woman stand before the
glass to comb her back hair or button
the back of her polonaise.-HawkE Eye
The Brunswick (Me) Telegraph tells
of lady in that town who thus ex-
pressed herself: " | determined to get
new cloak. While / was considering
how much money to take out of the
bank for the purpose l happened to
think how wicked it was for me to 60
Haunting around in a new cloak when
there were so many poor, starving
creatures in the world So concluded
one of Johns old coats, altered over,
would do, and could keep ny money
in the bank. Mrs. F. called in one day
and said: What a stylish cloak you
have Yes, said l, and it cost almost
nothing; felt it would be sin to buy
new clothes when poor people need
money so much, and so fixed over the
old one What good soul you are
for thinking of the poor she said"
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