The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03


to cheat lawyer" Whenever, chat
is settled atfirmatively the other ques-
ton can be easily disposed of.
"A little four-year-old boy, who had
been taught his letters at home, and felt
his Importance, on going to school was
called up by the teacher, who asked:
"Can you read, my boy?" The little
fellow stood amazed for moment at the
Ito HIM impertinence of the question,
and then exclaimed: "Haint you got
cheekm
Michigan has gone into the subject
of fish culture with an enthusiasm and
discretion that must produce a marked
effect in the cost OF living to the masses
in that State. Last year there were de-
posted in the waters of the State nearly
100000 spawn, embracing salmon,
white fish, bass, pickerel, and other
valuable food fish.
"A correspondent of the Washington
Critic describes belle Of that city as
having brilliant dark eyes, ripping
black hair, the clear magnolia leaf
complexion that is supposed to belong to
the South, and the merry, infectious
laugh that evidently springs from a
heart into which eighteen years have
poured pleasure, and pleasure alone"
A superannuated coquette, who was
suspected of giving rein TO her loquacity
for the purpose of displaying a very fine
set of teeth, once asked very taciturn
old lady what, in her estimation, con-
stituted a good conversationalist, and
the old lady snappishly answered that,
in her opinion, a good conversationalist
was person who could talk without be-
traying her dentist.
Lady Ito shopman, after making
him turn over all the stock" There,
that's exactly the quality want, but it
is green, and | want plum color" In
sinuating shopman-" You can't do bet
ter than take this. Besides, ma'am, it is
plum color" Lady What? Plum
COLOR" Shopmanl'' Certainly. Only
the plums are not ripe"
BIRD VERSUS WORM.
Poor foolish worm! if he had lain
Snug i'll his earthly bed,
That early fowl had never made
breakfast of his head.
AT noon, no doubt, the bird had sought
Some distant forest bough;
And if the worm had slept till then
He might have lived till now.
The use of chloroform in dentistry is
said by the Medical Record to be always
dangerous. "No surgeon" says the
writer, "cares to assume the RESPONSE
bility of giving chloroform unless he
knows that the stomach of the patient is
empty, that the circulatory apparatus is
in good condition, and the lungs free
from disease. A previous inquiry into
these conditions is as much part of the
administration of any an1sthetic as is
the placing of the napkin to the nose"
Here is dog story from Paris;
Gone day, on the Boulevard Pereire,
mad dog started in pursuit of a veloci-
pede, mounted by boy of fourteen,
named Dupraty, living in the Boulevard,
No. 16. The chase was terrible one,
and ended in the fall of the boy. Happi-
ly it was in the iron of the velocipede
wheel that the teeth of the bulldog
closed. There ended the first act of the
drama. The second follows. In an i'm
pulse of passionate joy on seeing her son
saved from so great danger, Nine. Du-
praty pressed her lips to the wheel of
the velocipede. Some hydrophobic virus
had remained on the iron, and after an
agony of a fortnight the poor mother
died, raging mad"
AS was passing a group of labor
ing men on Washington street, at Boston,
few days ago, writes correspondent,
one of them said; 'I paid $3.50 for
these pants" at Il well-known clothing
store, which he named. They looked
like good warm garments and cheap
enough. Soon after | went into bust
ness office on one of the principal streets,
and while there a young woman came in
to see one of the visitors of the organ
lied charities. She was plainly clad,
and looked thin and careworn. She
made her wants known and obtained
tickets for aid. After she passed out l
was told her history Her father was
without work, the mother was sick, she
made pantaloons, and had been receiving
for all the sewing, putting on buttons,
etc, seventy.fve cents dozen, but had
been recently cut down to sixty cents a
dozen. BY constant work on her machine
until late in the evening, she could make
three dozen pair in a week. Cheap cloth
ing may be blessing to the poor, but
what will become of the poor sewing
woman? There is wrong somewhere.
To CURE FIDGETs-Take subject in
the act-frOm behind and unaWares if