The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-13
VARIETIES.

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busters.
They have begun to say that it will
be 4 hard winter.
Lace bonnet strings and lace scarfs
are out of date.
Walnut hulls are very thick, what
ever it indicates.
Much of the licorice imported is
used in tobacco making.
They have just established dead
line" at Sing Sing Prison.
California wants 100 agricultural
colonies from the East.
Crimson, in all shades, is the stylish
parlor wall paper in New York.
There's an oak in Jackson, Iowa, on
which the vigilants have hung seven
men.
For travelling you may use an ulster
like princesse of light cloth, with big
buttons.
The Rochester Democrat thinks
Charley Ross was deposited in Chicago
saviRgs.bank. -s.... .s,ss.-.. IA. -, .
The latest fancy in ladies' metallic
belts is an Interviewing of the letters of
a name of the links.
"A man fooled into buying a pinch
beck watch called it Faith, because it
was without works, and therefore dead.
Max Maretzek told Baltimore jour
nalist that shoddyism and opera bouffe
had killed legitimate opera in this coun-
try.
White lies roll themselves up into
cocoons, and next year they come out
handsome, full-fedged, wingy old whop-
pers.
Women are not born politicians, and
they can pack trunk better than they
could a convention. -PhtIddelphiG BuL-
letin.
The Black Hills papers say if 1000
women would emigrate there they would
at once find remunerative work and hus-
bands.
-" Another old citizen gone" SAYS a
Chicago paper. Yes, he got into Canada
at this point What bank did he carry
of?-Free Press.
-" Lawyers are not apt to be compass
sionate," says an exchange. No; but
they always have sort of sue-thing way
about them.
A female at eighteen wants five
trunks when she travels. At fifty she
can get along with bottle of cold tea.
Detroit Free Press.
Some young men in Wheeling, w.
Va, have a club with the single name:
ave are Tired of the Girls; and it's an
atrocious falsehood, too.
After trying all kinds-the cobble,
wood ocpba1t Nou, Vorlx ba, COD
tied down to the fixed belief that the
granite block pavement is the best known
Elijah A. Morse, of Morse Bros, the
Rising Sun Stove Polish" man, has
been nominated for Lieutenant Governor
OF Massachusetts by the Temperance
party.
Mr.. Montgomery Sears, the wealthy
young Bostonian who was married the
other day to Miss Choate, gave his bride
wedding present of a residence costing
$4,000.
Remarks the philosopher of the ST.
Louis Journal: " A woman is never too
old to be petted. The older she is the
better she likes it and the more she wants
of it." OF course.
People have greater respect for the
sun than they have for the moon. 1t
pleases girl to tell her that she has a
sunny disposition, but tell her she has
luny one and see!
Goodwin Smith says: at is the fash
ion to accuse the Americans of unlimited
voracity, but they seem really to be about
the only people that look at thing be-
fore they swallow it."
-" Who will love my baby now? ?" were
the last words of Mrs. Sien Chin, wife of
Kwang Hi Chin, Chinese interpreter for
the Harvard students. Here is golden
opportunity for new song.
No endearing tones, no help of low
ing hands, no ministration however gen
tie, no aid however kindly intentioned,
is of the slightest benefit to man when
he is engaged in getting into tight-fit-
ting shirt.
Another awful warning: A litigious
soul in Lebanon, Pa, sued an editor for
libel; the verdict was in favor of the ed
itor, and now the libeled man is in iail
because he couldn't raise the money to
pay the costs.
There is hint of unspoken pathos-
a hint of patient suffering and resigna,
CAoh1 III ghlo DlI III uOGlCC iIOLu b0O MdTVS-
vile Appeal: "In this city, Aug. 8, to
the wife of William Lee, son. Not twins
this time"
-" want five cents worth of starch, :"
said a little girl to q grocer's clerk. The
clerk asked: What do you want five
cents worth of starch for?" "Why, for
five cents, of course" she answered, and
the clerk concluded to attend to his own
business.
-" How much are those fearful bulbs
by thequart?" asked maiden of a trades
man the other morning. He stared at her
moment, as if bewildered, but soon re-
covered himself, and bluffly said: "Ol
them inyuns? Ten pence"
The New York Commercial saws
walking costumes for ladies, made in
length six inches from the ground, will
be fashionable the coming winter. La
dies are tired bearing trains, repairing
skirt bottoms and cleaning dust and mud
that their dress has swept from side.
walks.
Mamma" Well, Tommy, what did
Uncle Dick give you when you went to