The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-14
VARIETIES.

Europe takes briskly to United States
dried apples.
The center of gravity-An under
takers nose.
Ducks can fly at the rate of ninety
miles an hour.
Russians, Poles, Servians and Rouma-
mans have little eyes.
Motley received 100000 from the
Harpers in copyrights.
The different species of fishes will
probably reach 10000.
How to make corner loaing unpopu-
lar-Call it work, and pay young men
wages for doing it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gorton D. OK, of
Newport, r. l., have just been blessed
with their twentieth child.
Mr.. Nathaniel Emerson has lived on
the same farm in Chelsea, Vt, ever since
he was born-seventy-one years.
"A man in West Troy, n Y, died a
few nights since while kneeling by the
side of his bed saying his prayers.
George Francis Train received one
vote for Governor in New Hampshire.
His popular minority under all the others
was n, $50.
"A produce dealer reports that beets
are unusually large this season. Hotel
keepers declare that they were large
enough last year.
Mrs. Cox, of Holderness, n. H., 101
years old on the 25th ult., is now enjoy
ing for the first time in her life the de-
light of whooping cough.
Boys are engaged by farmers in the
northern and western portions of the
State of New York to pick potato bugs
at five cents hundred
"A little boy in Washington played
doctor and administered fatal dose of
benzine to his sister, the other day. 1t
takes practice TO stand benzine.
1t is probably some satisfaction to a
mule to know that while he cannot soar
as high as the lark, he can sing just as
loud, and kick very much sorer.
The New Hampshire newspapers are
engaged in trying to discover the person
who has the largest hand in the State.
A woman thus far has the honor
The right kind of boy with pea
shooter can take a mans mind off his
business troubles and politics quicker
than anything else in this bleak, cold
world.
-Dodsey remarks that all the philoso
ply in the world cannot explain why it
is that when young lady looks at a
young man in a hOrsecar the latter i'm
1pp1iofnlu li,tctc biC
William NJ. Black, who stood at the
head of the graduating class at West
Point, is u son of James Black, of Penn
sylvania, who headed the Prohibition
Presidential ticket in 1872.
The wife of DR.. George E. Wood
bury, of Methuen, Mass, gave birth to
four children the other night, three of
them dying within a few hours. St.
Louis is still ahead and all eyes are now
turned on Chicago.
-" If there is anybody under the can
lister of the heaven that have in utter
excrescence," says Mrs. Darlington, "it
is the slanderer going about like boa
constructor, circulating mis- calomel on
honest folks"
Mrs. Daniel Byerly, wife of the first
proprietor of the New Orleans Bulletin,
died in an insane asylum recently. EX-
Gov. Warmoth killed her husband in
street atfray a year or two ago, and she
has been insane ever since.
The man who complains about this
climate would complain about the wealth
er in the West Indies. To be happy one
has simply to have two pegs on the bed
room door, one for heavy overcoat, the
other for linen suit.-Detr0U Free
Press.
Here is bit of fashionable inteli-
gence from the Kansas City Times.
"The daughter of Mr. Proddy, of Twelfth
street, has returned to her fathers house
from visit East; and o! how many fond
and foolish boys rejoice over that Prod
dy gals return"
"A barn near Columbus, Ohio, was
burned the other night, and the charred
remains of a tramp were found in the
ruins the next day. 1t is rather expen-
sive to burn barn to kill tramp, but,
after all, even that is cheaper than keep
ing them. -HdWk- Eye
uO OtucI udy sOCldl philosopher
was asked by an acquaintance if he was
not surprised at the fact that local
belle had no fewer than six hopeless ad-
mirers. NO." replied the sage calmly,
tits only a case of sex of one and half
dozen of the other"
This is the season when newly mar.
lied couples make their appearance at
the watering place hotels, languish on a
four dollar aday diet for one week pre-.
cisely, and then go home to the realities
of corn beef and cabbage for the remain
der of their natural lives.
The tombstone which has been
placed in the cemetery at Norwich, Conn,
to mark the grave of Mrs David A.
Wells, consists of a bowlder four feet in
diameter, one side of which is faced and
bears the inscription: "And they rolled
a stone to the door of the sepulcher."
Among the members of this years
graduating class at the Annapolis (Md.)
Naval Academy are Karaka Katz and j .
G. Karitomo, two Japanese youths, who
have been educated at the academy un.
der law allowing certain Japanese
youths to be placed at the academy at
the expense of the Japanese Govern
ment.