The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-24
VARIETIES.
Nice weather.

-Tramps are now known as profess
sional diners out.
The Government should be chary of
what it does for Sitting Bull.
The frost on the milkman's mus
tache chills the hired girl to the core.
Widow Van Colt says it is harder to
save one soul in Athol, Mass, than 100
in any other place.
Gloves are about to be enlarged, to
make room for the buttons on them.-
Rochester Democrat.
"A laboring man named Giles Collins
has been fined five shillings in England
for making pet of a Colorado beetle.
There isn't much difference between
a grasshopper and grass widow, after
all. Either will jump at the first chance.
/ MA new andgexcenent literary weekly
is the Sunday Breakfast Table, started
in Cincinnati by E. P. Brown & Co.
An exchange asks: "Of what use
are the legs of pair of trousers below
the knee?" To roll up on muddy day.
-Thirty-two Nez Perces Indians have
been indicted in Idaho as principals and
accessories in the recent murder of white
people.
The receipts of the Patent Office for
October, from all sources, amount to
$55, 1874, against $50, lat for the CORE
spending month last year.
Mr.. Sturgeon, in the course of
characteristic address, said it was one of
the hardest things in the world TO do to
make nobleman into Baptist.
If you were DR.. Mary's husband,
You would find it hard to learn,
When looking for your trousers,
To distinguish yourn from hern.
Some folks only use butter-knife
only when they have company, thus pro-
claiming the indefensibility of their con-
duct on all other occasions.
Hannibal Hamlin and Herschel "
johnson are the only ones of the Presi-
dental and Vice Presidential candidates
nominated in 1860 still living.
The Stevens Battery, which has cost
between $1,S00,000 and $1,900,OO0, is
now the property of the State of New
Jersey, having been willed to it by the
heirs.
GA man of Calais" says the Detroit
Free Press, "has lived sixty seven days
on bran and water" This seems lncred-
ible. 1t must have been brandy and
water.
The new Minister of England is
fnelooking man. Though over seventy
years of age, he is straight as an arrow.
six feet high, spare and trim and full of
life and activity.
When Gen. Butler asks a Rhode
Island girl to marry him she replies:
General, l respect your compliment,
but l do not want to be grandmother
by proxy"
Judge Spoford will cut a great fig
ure in Washington society if he gets a
seat in Congress. His wife is wealthy
and disposed to do the handsome thing
by the world.
The New York Post thinks it was
odd of the World to print biographical
sketch of President Elliott in connection
with notice of his marriage. 1t read
like an obituary.
The Pittsburgh Telegraph mentions
case where girl nine years old was
thrown across the room by her hair.
False hair is the only safe kind. ltnever
throws anybody.
Blonde hair is coming to the front
again as the most fashionable color.
Ladies who gave their blonde switches
to the grasshopper sufferers will soon re-
greet their generosity.
The Indians have man whom they
designate Young Man. Afraid-o His
Hoss." Civilization duplicates him a
myriad of times in the Young man
afraid-of his boss"
When a new girl enters the Welles-
ley (Mass) Seminary the other girls kiss
her and give her a bouquet Brchange.
One girl kissing another is a good deal
like eating maple sirup on ice cream.
Two little boys were quarreling on
the street this morning, when one COM
pletely blighted the other by vociferat-
ing: "Our folks eat with forks two years
afore your folks knowed anything about
it."
"A custom of the students of the
Washington and Lee University, of Lex
ington, Va, of keeping a daily watch
over the grave of Gen. Robert E. Lee, as
tribute of respect to the dead General,
has recently been abandoned
-" Yes" she whispered to her friend
in church, lit is too sad. There they
are sitting away apart to-day, where a
few weeks ago they were sitting side by
side in one pew and worshipping leach
other over the same prayer-book."
Recently newly married couple
were in store looking for suitable orna-
ments to adorn their rooms. The young
wife was quite pleased with the picture
entitled: "Suffer little children to come
unto me, which they bought.-Neso6ury-
port Herald.
Henry W. Paine, of Boston, recently,
in the Supreme Court, was interrupted
from the Bench with the somewhat
abrupt comment: Mr. Paine. that isn't
the law" Mr.. Paine instantly replied:
az think, your Honor, it was the law
until this Moment"
"A Simsbury lad of about eight years,
whose "little brother" made his first
appearance" tt G previous day, was asked
if his little brother helped him do the
chores that day. To which he inno-
Gently replied: Eyes; he MIXED. y
Springfield MasS.) Republican.
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