The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
VARIETIES.

Shetland seal is the finest.
Alaska seal is the strongest.
Eve was the first woman to gather
leaves.
There is no law against opening a
postal-card.
"A narrow band of black enamel is
novelty in bracelets.
One ungrateful man does an injury
to all who are wretched.
Stock should be regularly and jul
diciously fed and watered.
If night air is unwholesome, how
about the longevity of owls?
California has nearly one-third of
the nations whole grape area.
Pretty and cheap lambrequins can
be made of green paper muslin.
"A standing engagement-Popping
the question over the front gate.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but
to expect others to keep it is folly.
Cards proclaiming the birth of a
son or daughter are nov FASHIONABLE.
in Memphis the maEnage fee has
been reduced from 1926 to fifty cents.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
apostle, is opposed to woman suffrage.
Why is discontinued man like q
Watchdog? Because he is q growler.
-''No Chinese-made cigars sold
here" is a frequent sign in San Fran
cisco.
An exclamation that does not APP
ply to the girl of the period: A lass
too true!
Mexico and Brazil were the best
foreign buyers of American cutlery in
1876. .....
j. Willoughby is raising the best
green tea, nine miles from Edenton,
North Carolina.
Boston has 800 women who speak
upon the rostrum, besides those who do
not lecture in public.
It's a painful sight to see the aver
age father dressing his small boy. The
boy generally gets the worst of it.
When a woman starts out to navi-
gate an umbrella she shouldn't look one
way and row another. - Worcester Press.
Almost every newspaper can be
made interesting to feminine readers by
cutting out three-line item and de-
stroying it,
.-"Call me pet names-something
typical of sweet sounds" he murmured;
and she said he was a gay lute.-Snith'S
Monthly.
"A short time before dying Senator
Morton said of his wife: ''In all these
years of sickness she has never failed
me once"
"A Kentucky inn-keeper offers to en-
terrain clipping couples at half-price.
He can afford to, provided the two have
been made one.
- Insects are worshiped in the inte-
rior of Africa" says an exchange.
That's nothing. Here in America peo-
pie worship in sects, too.-N Y. COM
mercidl.
The difference between thepreacher,
the builder and the architect of the
church is simply this: One is the rector,
the other the erector and the third the
director.
Grapes are healthy. Taken in
wardly they quicken the digestive or
gans; stepped on with the bare foot in
the early dawn they quicken the mental
powers. -DGnbary Ne1CS.
An exchange wants to know how
the Turks happened to learn to fight so
well, Why, man, most of the Turkish
officers have over half a dozen wives
Turner's Falls Reporter.
An American tourist says that a
San Domingo revolution consists of 50 a
few yells, three or four boots, some one
accidentally wounded, and come home,
darling-all is forgiven"
The law makes witness swear
that he will tell the whole truth, so help
him, and then it imposes rules of evil
dence by which he is not permitted to
tell tn Y. Herald
Hon. Lafayette Foster, who was
recently elected to the Connecticut Leg
islature, was United States Senator
for twelve years, and Acting Vice-Pres-
ident under President j ohnsonS Admin
istration.
A young lady of Clinton, Iowa,
sent twenty-five cents and postage
stamp in reply to an advertisement of
elbow to make an impression" and re-
ceived for an answer: "Sit down on a
pan of dough"
quilted satin petticoats will be very
much worn, as the present style of dress
is particularly adapted to their use.
They impart to the close-ftting drapery
soft, graceful outline, which nothing
else can give.
The paramount question in the
great minds of the day is, whether the
ladies will attempt to skate this winter
in the small pillow-cases that encom-
pass them; and, if so, what will be the
result of a fallp
They were at dinner party, and
he remarked that he supposed she was
fond of ethnology. She said she was,
but she was not very well, and the doc
tor had told her not to eat anything for
dessert except oranges.
Science, with all its accuracy and
precision in many directions, has never
been able to make out to the satisfac-
ton of thinking minds why servant
girl always has more cousins than any
other living creature.
An old bachelor was counting a
widow, and both sought the aid of art