The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-21

Hobbs meets Snobbs and Nobbs; Hobbs
hobs to Snobbs and hobbs. Hobbs nobs
with Snobbs, and rubs Nobbs' fobs.
g This is" says hobbs, "the worse for
Hobbs fobs," and Snobbs sobs.
Mary Stratton, a Bridgeport Conn. J
school-teacher, became very much at
tached to little girl under her charge.
The child died, and its parents limited
that its death was owing to the teachers
neglect and carelessness, which so
preyed upon her mind that she went in>
sane, and will be sent to the asylum.
This was about the time of year that
Eve used to examine the foliage of fig
leaves, and pick out the prettiest for her
new summer dress. She never relied
upon the fashion magazines for her
styles, but just cut the dress bias or
gored as her simple fancy dictated.
A handsome lady entered dry
goods house and inquired for bow"
The polite clerk threw himself back, and
remarked that he was at her service.
" Yes, but | want a buff, not a green
one" was the reply. The young man
went on measuring goods Immediately.
The two richest ladies in America
are said to be Miss Catharine Wolfe, who
resides in one of the most spacious man.
| sions fronting Madison Square in New
! York, and Mrs William Gammall, wife
of Prof. Gammall late professor in
Brown University, and only child of the
late Hobert H. Ives, of Providence.
-" That's my butcher, said an actor to
friend, at the same time pointing to a
lean, cadaverous-lo looking man Just pass
ing. Looks pretty bad, doesn't he?"
Does look bad, twas the reply. "Looks
as if you had dealt with him long time,
doesn't hey" The subject was immedi-
ately changed.
An exchange says: Now doth the
small boy explain to his mother that the
| dampness of his hair is only the result of
perspiration, and that his neither garment
got turned wrong side out by climbing
over fence. He denieth stoutly that
he hath bathed in forbidden waters, even
when the parental rod causeth his wall
ings to be heard in the neighborhood.
HOW THEY DoIT.
-" Knew you e'er," said crafty Philip,
THAT when maidens kissed would be,
Then with accents soft they sweetly
Lisp their words in accents frey"
Back the answer came, a golden
Mine of wealthin every word;
"Yeth," the damsel gently murmured-
"Yeth, dear Philip, tho I've heard"
John Stone Pullen, formerly a New
Orleans sugar merchant, member of the
Louisiana Legislature and Colonel in the
Confederate army, who loaned 5000, 600
to the Confederate Government and was
beggared by the result of the war, died
recently in wretched tenement in Brook
Ign, N. Y, and was saved from burial at
public expense by the charity of his poor
fellow-tenants.
In the old churchyard of Worth,
DOrsetshirc, England, is a tomb with the
following inscription: benjamin Jesty,
of Downshay, died April Is, 1916, aged
seventynine. He was born at Yetmin-
ster, in this county, and was an upright,
honest man, particularly noted for hav-
ing been the first person known that in
troduced the cow-pOX by incubation, and
who, for his great strength of mind,
made the experiment from the COW On
his wife and two sons in the year 1774"
Thomas F. Campbell, who is to be
hung at Wilkesbarre, Pa, for the murder
of Michael McNulty at Carbondale, is a
Scotchman, and his victim was an Irish
man. Last 4th of July they spent the
day by getting drunk together and were
the best of friends. The quarrel rose
from a heated discussion about the ma
tivity of George Washington, Thomas
asserting that he was Scotch, while Mi
chael held that he was Irish Campbell
settled the question by shooting McNulty
dead.
THE UNFINISHED PRAYER.
-" Now lay" repeat it, darling,''-
Lay me, lisped the tiny lips
OF my daughter, kneeling, bending
Der her folded finger tips.
"Down to sleep''-"T To sleep" she MUIR
INJURED,
And the curly head bent low;
81 pray the Lord" gently added,
you can say it all, know"
Pray the Lord"-the sound came family,
Fainter still-"my soul to keep"
Then the tired head fairly nodded,
And the child was fast asleep.
But the dewy eyes half opened
When | clasped her to my breast
And the dear voice softly whispered:
Mamma, God knows all the rest"
-EA-SeHalOr roster, Oh connecticut,
at one time Vice-President of the United
States, when just beginning to get on in
life became enamored with fashionable
young lady, whose worth consisted in
her dress. He took his betrothed to see
his parents, who were living in an hum
BILE and modest way The young miss
repressed her pride and feeling until
they had left the house, when she in
dignantly exclaimed "Don't you ever
take me to see such common people
again" Mr., Foster quietly escorted her
home, and left her, never to return
Two years afterward Mr.. Foster had
risen to the height of his profession and
married an estimable young lady, the
belle of Boston
Funeral HOnOrs Of Canary Bird.