The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-23
VARIETIES.


fashion.
Florida people are gnawing green
corn off the cob.
"A Paterson On. j. sign announces
" Inner beeRs."
A bouquet at Georgia fair con-
tanned $50 varieties of flowers.
When is ayoung lady like a whale?
When she's pOuting. . ~ ... .
The Russian for "Constantinople" is
Tesargrad. .H ". Iu
"A tune that young ladies try to catch
"a million-air.
Tits estimated that million persons
have signed Murphy's pledge.
The melodious mosquito cometh
with his teeth filed and ready for work
One Manchester On. H factory
makes 100000 seamless cotton bags a
year. rs.... t....
The difficulty in Smelling peas is how
not to throw the peas among the pods
and the pods among the peas. p.
"A lonely Keokuk bachelor wants to
adopt girl baby, not less than eighteen
years old. t-r ...
-"The kurds," says an Asiatic dis
patch, " are threatening the khan" The
milk-khan, probably.
"A little girl, deep in the mysteries of
natural history, asked: els frog an
anonymous animal?"
Over 1000 applications for commits.
sions in the Turkish army have been
made by eX-Union and Confederate Off
GERS.
"A recent visitor mot from Chicago
says that Denver {" is doubtless the larg-
est city of its size in the world"
"A book question of the day Wheth-
er Southern Europe will be bound in Rus
STA or in Turkey? / ...
An old bachelor explains the cour-
age of the Turks by saying that man
with more than one wife ought to be
willing to face death at any time.
"A sewing woman has been discov-
cred at Raleigh, N. c., who works hard at
making heavy pants at five and two thirds
cents day,
The small, nely-favored American
herrings, which have been very rare for
some thirty years, are now caught along
the New England coast.
"A Burlington doctor knocked man
down for refusing to pay for his vaccina-
ton. The man thinks he is as thor
oughly inknuckleated as he wants to be-
"A merchant in Easthampton asked
his Sabbath-school class the other Sun
day: What is solitude?" and was an
swered by boy that reads the papers:
1.-The store that don't advertise"
The Chicago Tribune can't compre-
bend why the boys at the baby show in
that city were SO much prettier than the
girls, Boys are said to take after their
mothers when very young.
Men used to be married; now, &C
cording to Eastern phraseology, "mar-
riage is accomplished" Soon, at this
rate of progress, both marriages and
funerals will be perpetrated.
"A man out on West Hill died last
week, leaving considerable property, one
half of which he left 10 three needy and
deserving young lawyers to enable them
to get the other half.-BurEingt0 Hack
Eye. '...
-"Decoration Day, eh?" sighed Jones,
YEARLY; why my wife celebrated dec
GRAFTON day four weeks ago, and had to
foot the bill One bonnet, eighteen dol
lars; one dolman, thirty-five dollars. No,
l won't celebrate to-day. Erie Dis
patch.
No girl should marry till she is TWEEN
ty-tive years of age. Until then she is
unfit to be a wife or a mother. The eff.
fects of early and ill-assorted marriages
may be seen in our prisons and poor
houses.-MrS. Stanton.
"A woman who has tried the expert
ment says: When a man finds place
that is pleasanter to him than his own
home, his wife should put two Jumps of
sugar in his coffee, and double the guam
tity of sunshine in the front ROOM"
A sleeve button has been invented
the top of which unscrews and permits
the name and address of the owner to be
placed inside. The Superintendent of
Police of New York recommends it,
especially for children liable to get lost.
The Mexican name for kiss is teLe-
nGmequizel;: and when pair of Mexican
lovers are caught telenamequizeling over
the front gate at night they appear not
a bit more confused than if a kiss was
spelled with only one syllable.-Norris-
tOaon Herald. .4.a .nUrn.i
"A youth refused to take pill His
crafty mother thereupon secretly placed.
the pill in preserved pear, and gave it
to him. Presently she asked: "Tom,
have you eaten the pearl" He replied;
Yes mother; all but the seed"
Mrs. Mercy Studley, of Brewer, Me-,
is 1903 years old. A Bangor paper says
that she can read the finest print without
glasses, walks mile before breakfast,
milks two cows morning and evening,
and often does the family washing on
Monday.
AT Pascagoula, La, there are ex-
tensive works for creosoting timber,
which is done by first expelliug the sap
by steam, and then giving the wood
bath in " dead oil, " strongly impregnated
with creosote. Besides doubling the
durability of the timber, it protects it
from ship-worms. ...
A passionate temper renders man
unfit for advice, deprives him of his
reason, robs him of all that is great and
noble in his nature, makes him unfit
for conversation, destroys friendship,