The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-09
VARIETIES.

Are the dogs to be dressed in muz-
Zlin?
-Spec-u lation-When will the flies
return?
War maps are getting as common as
medical almanacs.
An expensive wife makes pensive
husband.
Very few Russians can read or write.
The war reports conflict, and it is
hard to get at the Batoum facts.
Sticking at nothing-Fighting shad-
ows.
Muslin delaines, once so popular,
not called for now.
Cinnamon canes are the latest style
in walking sticks.
In Great Britain there are 100000
maids who tend bar.
-" Lady Washington, colored," is a
prisoner in the county Jail at Burlington,
Iowa.
To be thrown on ones own re-
sources is to be cast into the lap of fort
une.
The Grand Duke Michael hopes to
convert it into smoking Kars in few
days.
After all, Turkish war map doesn't
look as well cooked as beefsteak and
onions.
Not to be beaten-INy doll can open
her eyes. Ny doll never shuts hers!-
Punch.
You can often tell how much of a
fool man is by the number of law suits
he has on hand.
The Independence Beige speaks of
William Tweed, pex-Boss du Ring de
Tammany Hall"
Fire escape-The oldest sort of fire.
escape on record is the fond husband who
lies abed mornings.
If you want to set your watch wrong,
ask a railroad man what time it is.
in Maryland the peach and pear
trees are literally loaded down with
fruit.
The price of opium has suddenly
risen from five dollars to eight dollars a
pound in consequence of the war.
One of the attractions at the Thou
sand Islands during the summer will be
An hotel is advertised as except by
the widow of Mr. Brown, who died last
summer on new and improved plan"
Thursday, June IA, will be the tooth
anniversary of the adoption of the Stars
and Stripes as a national ensign.
"A Milwaukee man who had been I'M
able to get work for a long time was so
overcome with joy when he got situa-
ton that he died.
The citizens of Arcadia in the par
ish of Bienville, La, elected a few days
age fifteen town officials, and the whole
number of votes cast was thirteen.
Vermont papers chronicle the death
of the only unmarried centenarian in
New England" Miss Betsy Jones, of
Royalton.
-" Are these soaps all one scent?" in
quired lady of juvenile salesman.
"No, maam, they're all ten cents" re-
piled the innocent youngster.
g Sweet-faced peace at home and
white-robed hostility abroad" is what an
Illinois editor is signing for to make
lively times once more.
In Russia a priest cannot marry a
second time, and reverend widowers have
in consequence to buy their own slippers
the same as other ople.-ROcheSter
Democrat.
A lady in Covington, Ky, held a
rabid black and tan dog down by the
throat for more than two hours, until her
husband came home and dispatched him
Whenever the foreign correspond
ents are in doubt, remarks the Philadel
phia Times, they send US word that Mic
sic has been revictualed.
The last rose of summer has charm
all its own, but it does not compare with
the rosy flush which creeps into the
cheek of the girl who has got beau
from out of town.
The foolish man will ask a woman if
her baby is not trifle crosse eyed, but
the wise man will take the cars to SYRIA
cuse and make his inquiries by postal
card.-R0n1e Sentinel.
The sewing machine agent, since
the patent run out, has to talk just as
much and just as fast, and tell Just as
many lies, for $2S as he used to tell for
$135.
There is something indescribably
grand in the indomitable perseverance
with which our Courthouse architects,
year after year. attempt to perch 170,0 900
pounds of dome on about 256 pounds of
foundation.
The Centennial man who poked
paintings with his umbrella has been to
the dog show. The doctor told him,
after cauterizing his elbow, not to give
up to his Imagination.
NO." she replied, and she bushed
prettily as she slipped her number skies
back beneath her dress" no, do not
wear so small shoe as ones. My size
is quite large-I wear twos."
"A man out on Webb street dropped
dead the other day while beating sitting
room carpet. His wife has been held to
appear at the next term of the District
Court. Dreadful warning Burlington
Haaok-Eye.
1t is about time for the regular an
nual scientific paper on the presence of
deadly poisons in all the prevailing colors
of wall .paper-followed as usual, by the