The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-28
VARIETIES.
Nuns are of Egyptian origin

WOrkhouse.
"A green-grocer" is described as
Zone who trusts"
-Bonnets are smaller than at the be-
ginning of the season.
The best present for basel ball club
An ice pitcher.
The way to wear linen buster is to
wear it all over.
What everyone is doing at the same
time-Growing older.
Rev. John S. C.. Abbott wrote Just
about sixty books.
1t cost S25, 900 to revictual the Bos-
ton city fathers last year.
Shreveport gives the poor folks lime
with which to whitewash their houses.
-Soda-water vendors in New York
offer ladies free lunches Of fancy biscuit
Richter says: No man can either
live piously or die righteously without a
wife"
"A clever imitation of FREELY is used
to decorate costumes intended for garden
parties.
Harvard boys brains measure six
teen inches round the upper arm. N. Y
Herald.
Richmond, Va, has over 800 fac
tories, that give employment to II 900
persons.
1t is calculated that every billiard
player loses one weeks time out of a year
in chalking his cue.
The Governor of Kentucky would
not accept a specimen of handicraft sent
to him by a convict.
Ella Allen, of Vernon, Conn, q
schoolgirl, recently moved an acre of
grass, and did it well.
"A new ST. Louis ordinance forbids
the sale of Intoxicating liquor to persons
under eighteen years of age.
Give the dog his due During last
winter the dogs on Mt. St. Bernard saved
the lives of forty persons.
"A Boston man has listened to fifty
one annual Fourth of July orations in
that city and is still hale and hearty.
The latest invention is paper trunks
And now we suppose we may call the
ruthless baggagemau the papier macher.
The newest linen collars for ladies
have square piece turned over in the
back, while the front has standing points,
"A Detroit optician advertises eye
glasses that " curl carelessly and cutely
around the crookedest nose in creation"
The worst spectacle of rage, aston
ishment and disappointment we ever saw
was that of couple of dogs trying to
fight with their muzzles on.-R0cheSter
Democrat.
Bob Ingersoll, in speech in San
Francisco, offered $1,000 reward for
proof that the death of Voltalre was not
peaceful, and the same as to Thomas
Paine.
The liquor dealers in Virginia are
making a desperate fight against the in
PRODUCTION of the whisky bell-punch, and
the effort to raise revenue for the State
by its use may be failure after all.
"A boy baby, healthy and otherwise
perfectly formed, was born in Michigan
recently with only one eye. The place
where the other eye should be is entire
ly smooth, with neither eyellds nor
socket.
Deaf and dumb people enjoy prac-
ticing on the cOrnet. They get all the
advantage of blowing, and the pleasure
of a distorted face under full pressure,
without being obliged to hear the music
-Neco Orleans, Picayune.
"A London paper prints the follow
ing notice: 1.-The attendance at the
wedding of Mr.. Smart and Miss Jones
yesterday being so large, for the benefit
of the many friends unable to gain ad-
mission the ceremony will be repeated"
-Haberdasher to assistanD -" WHY
has that lady gone without buying?"
Assistant" We haven't got what she
wants" Haberdasher-"T soon let YOU
know, miss, that keep you to sell what
I've got, and not what people want
Punch.
One of the melancholy sights of
these hard times is to see two handsome
young ladies walk up to a soda fountain
and each pay for glass of soda, while
their fellows hang around outside rub.
bling their lips with their handkerchiefs.
Erie Dispatch.
Some women have incorporated at
Baltimore a society called the g Bohemian
Ladies Relief Association" Both the
NilSS'OlS anu lnCol JOlulOIS VI luC society
are women, and its object is, by payment
of benefits, to relieve its members in case
of sickness, death or accident
Sellers of liquor in Oregon are not
required, under new law, to be licensed;
but every drinker must pay five dollars
year for license, and whoever sells
to an unlicensed person may be impris-
Oned. The names of procurers of Ii.
censes are to be published every six
months.
1t makes one sad and pensive, after
all, to see ayoung man of twenty springs,
who three days before has electrified a
commencement audience with an Grafton
on "The Ethical Development of the
Pentateuch," going around trying to
borrow a quarter to buy lunch WITH
Ha1k- Eye.
There is wonder in Blair County,
Pa At the formal occupation of new
courthouse there, citizen-one whose
word is usually taken for truth alluded
to the structure as built without even a
complaint of malversation IN office, or
other dereliction of duty upon the part
of those connected with it
-" Don't put too much confidence in