The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-06

-Mabel-''Do take me out, mammam
Mamma" can't, darling, to-day; am
going to shop, and make so many calls"
Mabel " Well, it's very hard; you
shouldn't keep child if you cannot take
it out"
"A negro woman at Waynesboro, Ga,
over-exerted herself recently castigating
her child, and died from the rupture of a
blood-vessel. If she had spoiled the rod
and spared the child it might have been
better for her.
In one of our Sunday-schools yester-
day one of the teachers entertained her
pupils with some of the incidents in the
life of Joseph, and precocious youth
asked if it was the Joseph who was max
ing all the fuss out West.-Omahd Bee.
The latest addition to the English Ian
guage is the word suiciding" The San
Francisco NeaoS Letter, writing the biog-
raphy of a citizen, says: t" Mr..
Jones felodesed this morning. successfully.
He hymeneated three years ago, and he
will be sepulchred tomorrow.
-Henceforth no man need labor
through life under the burden of an ILL
shaped nose. A London philanthropist
advertises "nose machine" which,
applied to the nose for an hour daily,
so directs the soft cartilage of which the
member consists that an Informed nose
is quickly shaped to perfection"
"A party were enjoying the evening
breeze on board a yacht. The wind
has made my mustache taste quite salt"
remarked young man who had been for
some time occupied in biting the hair
that fell over his upper lip. :" know it,"
innocently said pretty girl. And she
wondered why all her friends laughed.
Talking through a mans body is the
latest achievement of the telephone. The
wires were cut and the man held the
ends in his hands. The current was pro-
duced by the magnets of the telephone
and conversation was carried on. The
experiment was continued until five men
were put in the gap to complete the cir
cult, the resistance then being equal to
twenty-five times the length of the
Atlantic cable.
The Roumanians inquired repeated
free fight" The Russians did not
think for time that it was, but after the
Russian defeat at Plevna, July 81, the
Gar telegraphed the beloved Prince of
Roumania that the fight was free, and
his impatient troops could cross the Dan
ube. About 5000 of them have been
killed and wounded since. The Prince
has not been hurt. He can take his
champagne regularly. Cincinnati CON-
mercidl.
An insurance adjuster went to see
man whose house had been destroyed by
fire. Said adjuster: How did this
thing happen?" House-owner-" Don't
know; it's a mystery" Adjuster-" Well,
l know" House-owner-" Let's have it;
that's just what I'd like to find out"
Adjuster-" It's friction" HORSEPOWER
-" Friction? Friction? What's that?"
Adjuster-" Why, friction is the result
of rubbing thousand-dollar policy on
six-hundred- dollar housew-Northamp
ton Gazette.
DAY BY DAY.
Wayside roses bloom and fade
Bloom and die their own sweet way;
And know not where their fragrance goes,
Floating, floating day by day.
Pass the foot-sore travellers;
Breathing in the dusty air,
They catch the odor of the flowers,
And bless the grateful perfume there.
Such our lives. Sweet words of kindness
Fall-we know not where or when
Like the fragrance of the roses,
Reaching far beyond our ken.
Judge Myrick, of San Francisco, has
refused to admit to probate the will of
Hepsabeth Harrigan, an old and intem-
perate woman. She left all her proper
ty, estimated to be worth $40, 900, to her
husband, whom she married short time
before her death, and when she was I'M
der the influence of liquor. She was
sixty three years old, he forty-six; she
wealthy, he impecunious; she weak in
mind and failing in health, he strong and
vigorous. He knew she could live only
short time, and that she was drinking
herself to death. Thoughts of love or
associations were absurd; he took her for
her money.