The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22
VARIETIES.

VARIETIES.
The sun is in the feminine gender in
German.
Mrs. Brigham Young will contest
the will.
"A woman in Leslie, Mich, weighs
BAT pounds.
There are 1850 languages spoken
on the globe.
The pay of field labor has gone up
in the South.
"A hint to the Russians" Don't give
up the Schip-ka."
The Sultan's wives pass their lonely
hours in gambling.
All fruits are sold by the pound in
San Francisco.
"A big demand for our apples is ex
pected from London this year.
Birds of Paradise are the favorite
plumage for fashionable bonnets.
"A standing gagement-Popping
the question over the front gate.
In San Francisco all the groceries
and millineries keep open on Sundays
According to old fishermen, this is
the best year for blue fishing since 1910.
Niagara Falls may have been much
vilified, but its suspension bridge is
without pier.
An elegant toilet is of white tulle
and silk, arranged with dark crimson
roses and spangled tulle.
1, There are over 800 Chinese laun-
dries in New York city, giving employ
ment to about 1000 persons.
-Slashed shoes will continue in vogue
and are intended to display hose with
deliberately embroidered insteps.
Two things in nature are detestable-
A girl who is trying to be woman, and
woman who is trying to be girl.
They are called Indian supply con-
tracts, because the supplies always con-
tract before they reach the Indians.
Young housekeepers should always
label their fruit-cans. 1t is such salts
faction to know what one is eating.
That tire-escape man who lost his
life in New York ought to have a monu-
ment. He didn't ask a fireman to try it
first.
Never borro ennythlng that WI are
able to buy. Borrowing will demoralize
man almost az fast az stealing Josh
Billings.
Farmers are not in very great dan
ger from fires, for every farm has we'll
organized hoes companies, spade by the
farmer.
-" Enter the car at the rear and leave
at the front door" is the excellent rule
recently adopted by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company.
"A French paper observes that phi
losophers pass their lives in not believing
what they see, and in trying to guess
what they don't see.
The failure of savings banks through
out the country wildly recalls to many
persons the. familiar poem Betsy and l
Are Out"-of money.
The European war has increased the
circulation of the London papers from
20,0OO to $4,000 each. Again we repeat,
on to Mexico!-Kentucky Nea0 Era.
An Indiana man without money, but
solid" with his grocer, went and bought
$3.50 worth of sugar and sold it for
dollar to get money to go to the circus.
"A new convenience for ladies who
knit is silver chatelaine, with a half
hoop attached, through which runs sill
yer bar that is intended to hold the ball
of yarn.
First New Yorker-"I consider him
man of tirst-class business talent"
Second New Yorker" All, indeed!
What was the amount of his defalca-
tion?"
Once again the happy time has come
when the law allows the restaurateur to
set before you pint of milk with little
oyster taking bath in it, and he calls it
stew
The most recent case of absence of
mind is that of an editor who copied
from hostile journal one of his own ar
ticles and headed it: GA Wretched At
tempt at Wit"
The latest novelty in children's toys
is an air-top, which consists of a flying
Wheel made to spin through the air to
the height of fifty feet by rapidly I'M
winding string.
AT Landau, N. H is the grave of a
Mrs. Bronson, who lived in three centu-
ries. She was born in 1899 and died in
1901. 1t is said that there are but three
similar cases on record.
johnnie lost his knife. After search
ing in one pocket and another until he
had been through all without success, he
exclaimed: go dear! l wish had an
other pocket, it might be in that"
Brigham Young was driving along
one OF the streets of Salt Lake City one
day, and, on seeing a beautiful girl,
eagerly inquired who she was He was
told she was one of his daughters.
"A reporter for a Wisconsin paper
writes: Those who personally know
our esteemed fellow-citizen, Col. -,
will regret to hear that he was brutally
assaulted last evening, but not killed"
An old hat, so banged and rusted as
to have entirely lost its individuality,
was found near a stream in New Hamp-
shire, and led to the story that Secretary
Evarts had been foully made away with.
"A Frenchman engaged in studying
the English language declares that, mas.