The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-19
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tfty-seven young lady clerks. Of course
all vacancies are promptly filled and
salary is no object.
Only ignorant and vulgar minded
persons confound violins with fiddles, as
if they were just the same. The fiddle is
a coarse instrument costing only few
shillings, whereas no violin worthy OF
the name can be obtained for less than
from twenty-five to fifty dollars.
| When Cleveland young lady parts
from her beau, who is too bashful to UNI
derstand the nicer usages of his position
she will say: William, if you were to
kiss me you might be afraid ma would
hear it. But if l creak the gate she
won't know the difference" DID,. ..
A paper down in Maine prints this
item; An Auburn lady few days
since settled it that it is very difficult
thing for one woman to get calf into a
wagon. The unsympathetic people who
looked on enjoyed the sport better than
the calf did, and apparently better than
the woman" ....
The State of Oregon is going to
license liquor consumers. Every man
who intends to drink intoxicating liquors
will have to pay five dollars for a license,
and then he can get drunk as often as he
likes. Saloon-keepers who sell liquor to
those who have neglected to take out
licenses will be subjected to heavy penal
ties.
"A Greeley Coli man thinks he out
wits the grasshoppers. His first crop is
peas, which grasshoppers detest. He
next grows Australian corn, squashes and
pumpkins He then raises pigs to eat
these, which grasshoppers won't eat, and
he next brings up a crop of turkeys to
fatten on the 'hoppers.
Another tradition of our childhood
is gone-ostriches have no longer an ir-
reproachable digestion. A paper relates
that one of these birds, who had eaten
wire nails and sundry other hardware
articles with impunity, recently died
from the effects of the cooks Sunday
cap, three lace collars and two baked pota-
toes.
1t seems hardly possible that the
Lebanon (Pa.) Times refers to American
girls when it says: GA large number of
young ladies from town have secured
situations in Philadelphia families, they
being preferred to those residing in the
city, being much more willing to do the
work assigned to them, and better ac-
quainted with household duties"
"A liberal Philadelphia says the diff
ference between his burg and New York
is that while Philadelphia ties string
to every dollar that she makes, and never
lets it go, New York will throw a million
into the Atlantic at the risk of winning
or losing; and that this is precisely why
the center of trade doesn't oscillate a
hairs breadth between the two cities.
A correspondent of an agricultural
paper says that after long experience he
finds that the best way to sow grain is on
horseback. The science of agriculture
progresses. A young farmer will soon
be able to take his girl out carriage rid
ing and SOW several acres of grain or
pick five acres of potatoes at the same
time-thus combining business with
pleasure. -.... .....
The cat-teaser is recent invention
Its object is to prevent the feline vocal
lists from prowling on the tops of fences,
and making night hideous by their cater
wauling under ones very ears 1t con
sists of strip of sheet metal in which
V-shaped cuts are made. The pointed
pieces of the metal are then bent up
ward so as to stand perpendicularly; and
the strips are tackled on the top of the
fence. ..H.
-" The Associated Independent Chi
namen" is something new and puzzlng
to the Californians. These original Chi
namen announce their complete segrega-
ton from all the six societies that hith-
erto kept up clanship and opposed affili-
alton with Americans They acknowl-
edge that this clanship is Just cause of
ofense. Hereafter they promise to fall
into the American ways and to adopt our
dress and our customs.
In a suburb of St. Louis is Young
women's seminary, and the pupils have
a debating society. Recently they dis
cussed the question: {" Is it proper for a
girl to permit male cousin to kiss herr"
Newspaper reporters were not admitted,
but an account of the debate was secured
at secondhand. The weight of argu.
ment was that girls cheeks may be kissed
with propriety by young men who are
really cousins, but that their mouths, if
kissed at all by male relatives so distant
ly moved, must be touched daintily, or
love-making may result. The authori-
ties of the seminary, on learning what
had happened, ordered that all questions
to be discussed must first be sanctioned
by them, and that a member of the facul-
ty must attend every meeting.
AS a young man was looking over a
barrel of eggs received at grocery on
Newark avenue, Jersey City, about a
month ago, he found the following in.
scription on one of the eggs: ,....
If this you see, young man,
81 Write just as soon as you can, A'
And let me hear from my f4vorite egg;
This great boon humbly beg.
.Ir.. JULIA BRIERsoN, Westfield, O.
The young man Immediately wrote to
the address, inclOsing his photograph,
and received reply and picture from the
writer of the lines. The correspondence
was continued to the satisfaction of both
persons, who are to be married next
month. 1t is said the young lady is a
daughter of wealthy farmer, and wrote
the lines in jest, never expecting to hear
from them.