The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
VARIETIES.

The White Mountain landlords have
had lucrative summer.
Both young and married ladies are
again to wear dress caps.
Two dollars and a half will buy
raw buffalo robe on the plains.
Detroit has the largest buffalo hide
dressing factory in America.
The leaves of eucalyptus yield a
new liquor, eucalypsinthe.
"A lady's shoe that resembles boot,
if worn with dark stockings, is out.
Borrowing will demoralize man
almost az fast az steeling.-J. Billings
Only reckless and extravagant Chi
cagoans put money in savings banks now.
Dead potato bugs are sold as curiosi-
ties in London for dollar and a quarter
each.
The good are never successful in
catching fish We have tired it our
selves.
Hedgehog raising is encouraged in
England because they are formidable en-
emies to all vermin.
"A. e. W. Spragues notes to the face
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recently at 219 cents on the dollar
Gay young clerks are now counting
their dimes, and wondering "what shall
be, an ulster or a swallow tailed coat?"
Science is discussing the question:
What will become of the last MANI"
We know. He'll get left.-BurI5ngt0n
Hawk- Eye.
Tho Eo1uorf
convicts of the Texas Penitentiary Or
ganized into a military corps and turned
loose on Mexico.
They have an Onderi Hulpvereenig-
ing Society at Grand Rapids. An Onderi.
Hulpvereeniging Society is nice thing
to have around.
The people are asked to believe that
l. G. Gage, of JonesVille, Mich, raised
800 bushels of onions on one acre of land.
1t is strong statement.
Charles Young, son of the late
prophet, has graduated from the Law
Department of Michigan University, and
will practice in Pinckney, Mich.
"A cottage by the sea can now be
rented cheap by persons DESTROYS of
spending the Christmas holidays away
rom the noise and hustle of the city.
The difference between the preacher,
the builder and the architect of a church
is simply this: One is the rector, the
other the erector, and the third the d.
rector!-Judy.
-"Will the boy who threw that pep
per on the stove please come up here and
get the present of a nice book?" said the
school-teacher; but the boy never moved.
He was far-seeing boy.
-" Homes the place for boys" said
stern parent to his son, who was fond of
going out at nights. "That's just what
1 think when you drive me off to school
every morning." said the son.
Advice to Parents Train up a
child in the way he should CO." says the
proverb; but it is as well, if you want to
do the thing properly, to travel, in the
first instance, by that train yourself.
"A postal card was received at the
Fitchburg postoffice recently, addressed
to 6 Mr.. K, the man that works in
the factory and got the car load of pota-
toes at Whitefield, N. H., last year"
The health journals now say that we
must sleep with our heads toward the
north, in order to be healthy By and
by a man will need the services of a civil
engineer when he sleeps in a strange bed.
Weak men can never understand how
it is that it takes nineteen and half
yards of Swiss to make dress for baby,
but then there are great many things
about the wardrobe of even the smallest
baby that are too finite to comprehend.
AN exchange ask: "Who was Cas-
abianca?" If an outraged public al
lows this impudence TO go unrebuked,
the next thing we know some one will in
stitute an inquiry as to the identity of the
Mary who had the little lamb.
The crop of fall poems begins to
show above the surface, flecked with the
crimson and gold of changing naples,
the haze of autumn skies, the purple of
ripe grapes, and with the whistle of the
quail as an accompaniment. 1t is a pretty
subject Cincinnati Times.
The ladies of the west end of St.
Louis are organizing a social club, to be
composed entirely of ladies between the
ages of eighteen and thirty years, who
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of surprise visits, when all the members
will be disguised with false noses.
Here is conundrum which we do
not remember to have seen in print: Why
Is a pig looking out of second-story
window like the moon? Because he looks
round. If anybody triumphantly retorts
that the moon does not always look round,
you can reply that the pig doesn't, either.
-L0WeU Courier.
"A young lady in Philadelphia died
one day recently while friends were await
ing the sounding of her marriage bell.
Her bridal dress became her funeral
shroud, and the ring which was to bind
two hearts in one was visible on her hand
when the last tribute of the living was
paid
" The average annual increase in the
issue of postage stamps has been for sew
eral years about 6 per cent, but last
years issue fell off half million dollars
in value below the previous year, mainly
on account of the sales of stamps by
country Postmasters, who retain large
commissions.
"A Scranton business house, which