The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-30
VARIETIES.

1t isn't so much fish as patience that
makes a fisherman.
The day is not remote when ladies
will be wearing curls.
-" Perfectly mag" is the Boston girls
synonym for awfully sweet
Feminine coiffures are less volumi-
nous than for some summers.
Most of the Southern papers take
the side of the Turks in the war.
-" The Saratoga wave" now ripples
in fashionable feminine tresses.
Ice cream kills its thousands every
year, but it's an ice thing to take.
There were 1882 deaths in Phila-
delphia last year, and 49, 800 in 1875.
A poet who makes Strawberries"
rhyme with " rObberies" exists in Ohio.
Portland, Me-, claims the largest
vegetable packing concerns in the world.
Brigham Young, it is suggested,
should write book on How to Pop the
Question"
The best time to take the census of
Sunday-school is the week before the
annual picnic.
1t is a teaching of the Koran that
all those who are Constant in hope II be
rich in fruiLion,
-" Be content with what you have"
as the rat said to the trap when he saw
that he had left part of his tail in it.
1t is now indisputably settled that in
every battle of the present war, thus far,
both Russians and Turks have been vic
torious.
Nowadays fresh coat of whitewash
and half dozen new towels at seaside
hotels are called extensive improve.
mentS.
The Koran forbids the Turks to lie.
This accounts for the truthful war news
we are getting from Constantinople and
Kars.
1t is seldom that sick man leaves
a will that somebody doesn't attempt to
break, but has anybody recently heard
of an attempt to break woman's will?
The Harvard nine who were beaten
by Yale last week attribute their defeat
to the fact that they wasted considerable
time on Latin and Greek. -NorUich BRL.
LetiR.
"A Vermont farmer, Mr.. A. B. Bish.
op, of Jericho, has set out 700 elm trees
along the highway bordering his land
Future generations will rise up and call
him blessed.
One Boston gentleman has a cook
who has been in the family fifty-four
years and still thrives. His next-door
neighbor has changed cooks fourteen
times in three months.
-Virginians claim that since the whip
ping post was re-established most of the
jails have been emptied, petty crimes
have almost ceased, and Migrants are
seen no more in the streets.
The second part of Luther's Old Test
ament translation in the Reformers own
handwriting, dating as far back as 1923,
has been discovered by the director of
the Ducal Archives at Zerlest (Anhalt).
Dishes with mirror bottoms and
sides are getting to be the thing with
church-festival managers. They make
one strawberry look like four or eight,
and three make heaping dishful.
There is lady living in Emanuel
County, Ga, who has silk dress of her
own make throughout. She raised the
silk, dyed it, wove it, and made the
dress.
"A New Hampshire man grated some
horse-radish for his wife, and then
sneezed, broke blood vessel, and died.
Husbands will by and by learn to sit on
the veranda and let domestic drudgery
alone.
Send us, from every town and county
IN America, poems sad, sweet, dreamy
poems on Summer" Write only on
one side of the paper, please. We want
the other side of the sheet to write edi-
torials on.
A dreamy writer says it would be
curious to follow a pound of silk from
It's spinning until it became a lady's
D. dress. No doubt But most men would
prefer to follow it after it became dress,
and while the lady was in it.
The little town of Salem, n. c., with
2,OO0 inhabitants, has gathered and
and sent to market during the past three
years more than 100000 pounds of
olackberries, for which the gatherers re-
celved nearly half million dollars.
-" All, love!" she murmured as they
wandered through the moonlight" ali,
dearest, why do the summer roses fade?"
lie happened to be young chemist of a
practical turn of mind, and he replied
that 1t was owing to the insufficiency of
oxygen in the atmosphere.
"A little girl visiting neighbor was
asked if she would have some bread and
butter. NO" she replied, rather sor-
rowtully; my ma said mustn't ask you
for bread and butter; then suddenly
frightening up she said "Have you
got any cookies?"
"A little heroine was the n.year-old
daughter of W. r. Waters, of Westtield,
N. b., who. seeing the railroad sleepers
in front of the house on fire, bravely
went out with bucket to quench the
flames. Her clothes caught fire, and the
poor child was fatally burned before her
absent parents returned.
MARY Clemmer says: "Senator Ham
lin's wife is the mother of two bright lit
tie boys, and is just the sweetest, sun
NEST little woman in Washington" We
know a woman in Burlington who has
nine boys, from fair to middling, and she
is, therefore, Il much sonnler woman
than Mrs. Hamlin. -Hdob-Eye.