The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-28

tain young man to marry her. She
praised the young lady so much in his
presence that he sought her hand in mar
riage, and wedding followed The
woman sued for her pay, but the court
would not allow 1t. so much for Ken
lucky justice.
A Rome man has been questioning
his son, who has just returned from an
expensive school, and says the boy an
swers four questions out of five correct
ly in every branch of his studies. To
four questions out of five the boy says:
~ don't know" and this answer is al
ways true one When he hazards any
other it is apt to be wrong Rome Sen
tiReJ.
Graham County, Kan, boasts the
largest negro colony in America. A
postoffice called Nicodemus has been
beautifully located on the south fork of
the Solomon River, near the line of Ora
ham and Rocks Counties, and by the
list of September the managers of the
colony expect to have houses erected
representing every branch of mercantile
business, together with public buildings.
AT the dedication of drinking
fountain in Pittsfeld, Mass, the other
day, Senator Dawes made an address,
accepting it, saying that he had found
it easier not to drink liquor at all than to
drink moderately, however innocent and
harmless that might be to Others" He
| thought the women ought to keep on
erecting fountains till at every turn they
would take the place of corner-g groceries.
Gov. Carroll, of Maryland, was mar
ried two months ago to Miss Thompson,
two of whose sisters were already mar
ried to two brothers of the Governor, and
now his only single brother Is engaged to
his wife's only single sister. The way
the Carroll boys have of gobbling up all
the Thompson girls, or the Thompson
girls have of gobbling up ali the Carroll
boys or both have of gobbling up one
another, is a species of matrimonial mo-
nopoly that the rest of the young folks
of the State ought to frown down.
WERE YOU WITH Me.
Were YOU with me, or | with you,
| There's naught methinks, | might not do !;
| Could venture here and venture there,
And never fear, nor ever care.
| To things before, and things behind,
Could turn my thoughts and turn my mind
On this and that, day after day,
Could dare to throw myself away
Secure, when all was DER, to find
My proper thought, my perfect mind;
And, unimpaired, receive anew
! Ny own and better self in you.
Arthur Hugh CloWgh.
-" My dear" said an atfectionate wife
to her husband, who had been sick for
several days, "when you were well, you
were in the habit of eating twelve apple
dumplings you are sick, how many
shall make your" We'll, " replied the
husband, g reckon you may make
eleven to-day; but be particular and
make them a little larger than usualr'
The wife obeyed. When the husband had
eaten eleven, with the exception of a
half a one, his little son, lad of some
six summers, came up to him and said:
Daddy, give me a little piece" GO
away, sonny" replied the father, your
poor dads sick"
In the I. S. Court at Springfield,
H., the other day, Harry Belmont
pleaded guilty to an indictment for rob.
bing the postottice at Pennington, and
was sentenced to the Penitentiary for
one year. This man is a graduate Of the
Louisville Medical College, but was una
bic to obtain practice, and sent his wife
to her friends in Michigan. He tried to
lecture, but got no encouragement, and
robbed the postotfice of five dollars worth
of nickles, which he expended in pur-
chasing a postal order for his wife's ben
eft.
One of the royal family has sent US
paper with this item marked: THE
Princess Beatrice is twenty, and has not
had an offer of marriage" We under
stand the matter perfectly, and readily
perceive the deep intent of the item, but
1t won't move us-not hair. We are
poor and without station, but we shall
never forget the teachings of a fond
mother. She never told US to marry a
Princess, and while we have health and
strength it shall be our proud boast that
we never went averse to those early train
ings. No, Beatrice, we shall never,
never, wed Princess .-R0ckJdnd Con-.
| rier.
"A young American who bad been in
Paris for u year studying medicine was
visited by his father. Like dutiful son,
he parades the author of his being con
scientiously through the city, and points
out to him its social and architectural
lions. Finally they halt before a huge
and many pillared building, surrounded
by massive grating "What palace or
thingummy is that lordly piIe?" asked
the old man. Hangedfno, replies the
youth, " but there is Sergent- de-ville;
I'll ask him." and, accompanied by his
sire, he crosses over to the Office and puts
the question. That, gentlemen" says
the municipal guardian, calmly and in a
clear, official tone, is the medical
school"
The Same POmade.