The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
VARIETIES.

The pOlonalse, very long ana very
tight, is once more with US.
In Germany the bagpipe is called
Constantinoplitanischedudelsackpfeife.
The horrors of political excite
ment are gradually yielding to the tor
ture of baseball.
AT the Florida State Fair was stem
fourteen inches long, holding fourteen
oranges.
The sleepiest town in America is in
Iowa, out on the B. & NJ. Railway
Nodaway.
-Boosey & Co. are the names of a
Western clothing firm. They ought to be
able to give tight tit.-PhttddelphiG
Bulletin.
-Murlatic acid poured on the wound
made by the bite of dog may prevent
hydrophobia, but the best way is toshoot
the dog before he bites.
The healthful profession has been
found. A man died in New York, the
other day, aged 105, after a long and
successful career as beggar.
One of the conductors on a Boston
street railway is divinity student who
took the position for a few months N or
der to study human nature.
There is time for all things. The
time for an ink-bottle to tip over on y.,..al
writing paper (says the Oil City Derrick
is just when you have finished a letter.
During 1876 the deaths of sixteen
persons who had attained the age of 100
years and over were recorded, of whom
| fifteen were females and one male.
| You can get shirt washed and
ironed in Philadelphia for three cents,
and yet you would be surprised to know
how little this fact is appreciated at
! home. .
-" Astonishing cure for consump-
tion" as the old lodging-house keeper
said when she sprinkled her pumpkin
pies with cayenne pepper before putting
them before her boarders.
Worried mothers may be interested
in learning that the shingle cure is the
best remedy for a boy whose tooth be-
gins to ache about fifteen minutes be-
fore school time.
The Montana Legislature has
changed the name of the Little Big Horn
River to Custer River, in memory of the
brave cavalry leader who met his death
on its banks.
-"Vesuve" is the newest shade of
red. 1t is a brilliant flame color, and
will be extensively used on spring bon
nets, and if you've got several VS. you
can get that bonnet-not otherwise.
| Tho n ooc,y1r
seats in the United States Senate: Clay
ton, Harvey, Boutwell,, Stevenson, An
thony, Alcorn, Booth, Oglesby, Morton,
Whyte, Hamlin, Randolph and Burnside
Those who affect eyeglasses will be
pleased to learn that soft rubber nose
clamp has been invented to take the
place of the present nasal wise. The new
clamp works with hinge and cannot bt
shaken off
The old mode of detecting wood
pile thief by charging sticks with gun
powder was recently tried by a Mime
sofa farmer, and it worked as well as
ever. A neighbours stove was blown into
pieces.
-Five-years- old and six-years-old
can play the piano better, too" Ain
neither, and mine can sing the pneumatic
scale, and yours can't. There now
Boston Ad0ertaSer.
"A kind gentleman prevented some
boys from stoning a pigeon fastened b,
the leg. Extricating it with mucl
trouble, he put it tenderly into hi
bosom. The next day he remarked
that it made a much nicer pie than h,
expected.
"A very poor man with large famil,
to support recently presented an orde
at a store in Groveton, N. H., for on
dollars worth of goods, which he tool
up as follows. One plug tobacco, ACC
matches, 10c; pack of playing cards, 25c
tea, to balance, 25c. a..
The new family at the White Hous
consists of Gov. Hayes, his wife anC
three children-Webb c., nineteen year
old; Fannie, eight, and Scott Russell, six
OF the two older sons one is at the Cam
bridge Law School and the other is
junior in Cornell University.
A hired girl in New York threw hel
self into the river because her mistres
wanted her to sweep the front hall twic
/, a week and shake out the door-mat ever
morning Such is the tyrannous hand o
iron which the rich lay on the bendin
necks of the poor.
Lovers are interested in decision 0
the London physicians. The big wig
say that contagious diseases are sprea
very rapidly by the foolish practice O
kissing good night" by spooney youn
people.
Doctors say that out Of twenty me
shampooed by BARRIERS at any season c
the year fifteen will catch cold and a
least two will die of pneumonia. Rea
this to the barber who says you have lot
of dandruff.-Detr06t Free Press.
"A Troy On. " man, when dyins
wanted to make a will leaving $4,000 {
: the property to a young woman. Bu
his wife barricaded the door an
wouldn't let the lawyer enter, so tn
sick man died intestate. The courts al
, now trying to decide who shall have thu
: $4,000. ...
: A young man who popped the ques
ton to witty young lady the othe
, evening was answered by a conundrun
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