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


The season for judicious charity APP
proaches.
The season for mailing campaign lies
has opened.
just the place for cribbage- players
Winnipeg.
Mrs. Young is recovering from her
bereavement.
The revival of moderate hoop-skirt
is predicted.
Acknowledgements the odd
name of a trailing plant.
Louisiana counts on enough rice this
year to fill 1900 barrels.
The latest paper-collar box resembles
a jar of preserves.
"A black Cashmere dress is in taste
for almost any event.
Moonlight jet is one of the new trim
mings for winter cloaks.
Mourning silks, improved in finish,
are cheaper than last year.
TO rid yourself of your wife's female
friends-Make love to them.
Mulberry and seal-bronze are new
tints in imported costumes.
"A business that couldn't succeed with
out strikers-The match trade.
In walking costumes, for ladies, the
tendency is elegant simplicity.
The idea of mailing shoe on the hind
foot of a mule for luck is absurd.
-Monograms are now embroidered on
the backs of gloves and mittens.
Georgia buys $1s,00o,OO0 worth of
meat from other States annually
The triumph of woman is to be loved
deliberately by an impulsive man.
Wade Hampton can call over 5000
citizens of South Carolina by name.
The question as to who is the Sickest
Man of the East is now in much doubt.
1t is truism not to be gainsaid that
truth is more of stranger than fiction.
Little expenses, like mice in barn,
when they are many, make great waste.
Several newspaper men have been
swindled by the new counterfeit $4,000
bill.
One of the greatest wonders of this
world is what becomes of all the smart
children.
"A single county in Michigan has
standing pine equal to 2,311, 100, 600 feet
of lumber.
1t is not impolite to eat corn on the
cob, but it is impolite to watch anyone
else doing it.
Almost every young lady is public
spirited enough to have her fathers house
used as court house.
1t doesn't look well when men spend
more money in burying their wives than
they do in keeping them.
Men are born with too eyes, but with
one tongue, in order that they should see
twice as much as they say.
The hop yield this year in the State
of New York is the largest on record
and is of excellent quality.
The Albany Argus says that mar
ried people love each other better where
they have fight about once year.
This years peach crop aggregates in
value So, 420,00 of which the Maryland
and Delaware growers net 81, 100000
"A special dispatch to the Paris pa
pers reports that the Czaris ill. Indiges-
ton probably; little too much Turkey
Brigham Young's name didn't rhyme
well, anyhow, while Taylor is all right.
1t will rhyme with pail-or most anything
else.
The electric telegraph is wonder
full invention. More wonderful inven-
tions are many of the kilograms from the
seat of war.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague paid $4,000
a yard for some lace, few years ago,
and now her husbands business paper
sells for % cents on the dollar.
Sharks won't bite swimmer who
keeps his legs in motion. If you can
keep kicking longer than shark can
keep waiting, you'll be all right.
The reign of the saw is approach
ing and the woodpi is smiling with
joy, while the fatherless husband is
signing for a muscular, tractable boy.
"A Philadelphia paper of recent
date says: The lonesome aspect of our
streets yesterday was owing to the re-
union of the Smith family in New Jersey"
The saddest duty woman ever has
to do is that of examining her husband s
pockets, but from the way she performs
the duty one would suppose she gloried
in it.
Since woman must die it is perhaps
well enough to wind up obituary notices
in Oregon style, viz: "S She was forty,
very good looking and always did her
own work"
-" Why do you use paints" asked a
violinist of his daughter. For the
same reason that you use rosin, papa"
Glow is that?" Why, to help me draw
my beau"
in Barren County, KY, few days
ago, William Shannon, youth of eighty
two years, led to the altar widow over
whose head eighty-one winters had
sprinkled their SHOWS.
"A colossal statue of the late Andrew
johnson is to be set up as a monument
to his memory near his old Tennessee
home. 1t is of white marble, and is be-
ing carved in Philadelphia.
-" We find," said a Coroner's jury out
West, "Bill Thompson came to his death
by holding five aces when Jack Smith
held four. And we find nine aces too
many in any pack"
When you are tired Of twirling your
thumbs sit down and see how fast you
can COW 90 Shoas and socks shock Susan