The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-14
VARIETIES,

y drIhels get nealthy VINO wear blue
glass plows.
Dinner a la Rush--A meal in CITY
restaurant.
Strawberries eight cents apiece in
the New York market.
-" Moonlight blue" is the latest tint
adopted by the bluenatics of fashion.
London bellies who ride horseback are
wearing very short habits.
When are bracelets like soldiers?
When they ground arms.
-Clergymen, like brakemen, do good
deal of coupling.
"A brand-new whipping-post has
been set up in Virginia City, New.
The mail-room at the Patent Office
is managed by females. Nothing singu-
lar about that.
You will be in fashion this year if
you have hair to match your carrot-col-
ored dress.
"A Skyeterrier in New York recent
ly killed 100 rats in less than sixteen
minutes.
-" Rutherford B. Hayes Jacoby" was
entered as infant No. IS in the Cincin-
natl baby,show
"A Texas paper wants to trade off
lawyers at the rate of forty for one North
ern farmer
AS young lady remarked about the
infant: " How sweet, but how bald for
one so young"
The ladies will soon be "fiinging the
bunting to the breeze" as it is the fash
ionable material for parasols,
A funeral procession at Ripon, Wis,
arrived at the cemetery the other day to
find the corpse had been forgotten.
1t is one of the curiosities of natural
history that horse enjoys his food when
he hasn't a bit in his mouth.
The New York Herald informs us
that an author of that city is writing a
book " On Paper" On what in the mis-
chief could he write it on but paper?
Don't believe there's any use in vac
cination. said Il Yankee Had q child
vaccinated, and he fell out of a window
next day and got killed.
Blue glass watch crystals have
proved Il failure. The watch gains time
so under the treatment that there's no
reliability about it.
The new postal cards to be issued on
the list of May will be tinted-a light
buff on one side and pale a-grcen on
the other.
Young lady (who is tired of his com
pany): " You amt a bit nervous, are
you, Mr.. Post? Allmy gentlemen friends
start when it strikes twelve"
-" He provoked me into loving him!"
was the pretty girls excuse for engaging
herself to man whom she had always
professed to hate.
-" Which is the bottom of a batter
cake?" is the question that impedes the
progress of the Lagrange (Ky.) debating
club.
Talk about your blue-glass curel
One of our subscribers writes: II have
| just looked over a file of the Bulletin for
{, weak back - hi2adelphia Bulletin.
BY using economy in the material, a
very good imitation of the present style
of mems collars can be made from an
ordinary sized band box.
1t takes 16, 900, 900 trees to furnish
lumber for this country, and 1904
acres of land are annually cleared for
railroad ties. Let US plant tree.
The following advertisement is taken
! from a Boston paper: Wanted, u
young man in the dry-goods trade; to be
partly outdoors and partly behind the
| counter"
The friends of good government in
China will be pleased to learn that dur
ing the absence of Ting Jill Chang in
FOrmosa the Fan-t'al will act as Fu-t'al
at Foochow.
= They talk of fitting up the Great
Eastern for transporting cattle from this
country to England. That is beef-eat-
| ing service for her, certainly. The cat
tie will doubtless be carried in the steer
age.
Tommy is fond of sugar, and asks
his mother for some to eat. She re-
fuses. He appears resigned, but adds,
gravely: " You know, mamma, what
happened round the corner? There was
a little boy, and his mother would not
give him any sugar, and-and and the
next day he fell into a we'll"
"A St, Louis Sunday school boy gave
his teacher this illustrative definition of
responsibility" Boys has two but
tons on their s'penders SOS to keep
their pants up. When one button comes
off why, there's a good deal of RESPONSE
bility on the other button"
An Albany damsel asked one of her
fellow boarders, stylish dry goods
clerk, at the breakfast table: d" why is
your mustache like my back hair" He
blushingly gave it up, when the answer
caused him to blush still more /" Be-
cause it's all down"
A Pittsburgh belle puts it thus
Now isn't it shame to write letter
to beau on Saturday morning, telling
him to come on Sunday night, and the
letter never reaches him until Monday
morning? l think they ought to look
after such things at the Postotfice, so !
dol"
"A Western Missouri paper says:
1.-TWO weeks ago we stated that DR..
Downing was thrown from his buggy
and boI1u h,,rf Wa houo c;noa oJ