The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
VARIETIES.

The best salesman-Mr. GOodsell.
-Bustles are now made with hinges.
Now is the time to transplant winter
hats.
kid gloves have never been so cheap
as now.
The pastor of the chief colored
church in Charleston is an eX-siave.
-Milestones are too far apart when a
man walks. .
There are eighty three lawyers in the
Illinois Legislature.
-Coldwater is the anomalous title Of
New York VINE merchant.
His name is connected with great
deeds-The large real-estate holder.
"A Florida factory is turning out
marbleized" pine mantels.
"A Portland (Me.) lady owns china
set once belonging to Marie Antoinette.
Boston has begun to car and ship
baked beans.
-Unp pleasant flowers of spring trade
The croakers.
The petroleum product of the United
States last year was worth about $780,
100000.
-Three-fourths of the applications for
Postmasterships come from unsettled
clergymen.
-Quinine is now adulterated by many
druggists with a bitter drug called " sail
cine"
-Unfeline-It is proposed to tax cats.
For the benefit of the public purrs, of
course.
Paul Morphy, the noted chess-player,
is in New Orleans asylum, hopelessly
insane.
1t is time to tumble in the cup.
boards for spilled packages of flower
seed.
The Receiver of the Erie Railroad
gets $50, 900 a year-more than all the
stockholders together ever got.
The latest thing in bonnet strings is
making them of cordons of flowers; they
are coquettish, but inconvenient.
The London Times has advocated
cheaper funerals until the reform is being
acted on. Three carriages are now con-
sidered enough.
hS SloldOulO VI 4plhhCSOGd
passed a bill authorizing women tt
practice law in all the courts of tn,
State.
The Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives has voted, 1879 to SO, not K
permit women to vote in municipal cleo
lions in that State.
1t sounds like romance to read tina
oven 100 handsome American girls brok,
through the ice last winter, were res
cued, and have married their rescuers.
Mrs Storer, the L. S. Treasury EN-
ploye who was shot by Diltz, was saveC
by her corset steel. She found the lead
en- ball flattened against her corset.
urooE-trout in the depleted streams o
the State during the present year.
TO prevent her lover from "goine
back" ON his promise Detroit GIRL nj
ways introduces him to her friends AZ
my intended husband"
"A man who can't ride in car witt
the ventilators open will stand on a cor
ner for an hour in a cold northwest vino
to see a circus procession 60 past.
-Husband-"I say, Lizzie, what or
earth did you make this mint sauce OFF,
Young wife (who has been "helping'
cook" Parsley to be surer
-" Take notice that when this post is
out of sight it is not safe to pass this
road, was the intelligent warning placed
on spot in a road in Cambridgeshire,
England, very liable to be flooded.
-" Gobang" is the name of new
English parlor game for children. In
this country it is played on the piano,
and has been in vogue ever since we can
remember.
"A gentleman who went from Center
County, Pa, to Kansas some time ago
has written home: "Men who can get a
living in Pennsylvania had better stav
there"
Mamma to Edith, her youngest,
aged six" What was the rame of the
first man, dear?" Edith" Adam "
Mamma" Good! Now tell me the
name of the first woman?" Edith (after
a pause)-" Madam."-N Y. Mail.
"A country girl wrote to her lover:
Now, George, don't you fale to be at
the singing-school tonight" George
wrote back that {" in the bright lexicon
otyouth-Webster's Unabridged-there's
no such word as fale."
Cats without tails, or Manx cats:
educated oysters that know their friends;
the mammoth frog, weighing 200 pounds
these are some of the interesting and
animated novelties which we now have
in this country.
"A French prophet tells us that the
whole world is to be shaken to pieces by
an earthquake within the next two
months. Well, there is one consolation;
the spring bonnets have been exhibited.
-Recentinvestigations warrant the as
sertion that one baby with "A cracker bis
cult will make the couch of wearied in
dustry more uncomfortable than fifteen
prize mosquitoes.
A girl worked the motto: al Need
Thee Every Hour" and presented it to
her chap He says he can't help it; it
takes him two hours to milk and feed the
pigs, morning and night, and business
has got to be attended to.