The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-17
VARIETIES.

oIC OOt SNN-A SllO"o 1ONSSo
in Iowa.
An article you can always borrow
Trouble.
This has been remarkable good
year for hops.
Lightning calculators-Match max
ing mammas.
The Peoria Red Ribbon society num-
bers 4, 600 members.
TO what trade do the negro minstrels
belong? To the calkers.
The November dividends payable in
Boston aggregate $2,70S,6 GAO.
Charles Reade says that women are
the medical and unmusical sex.
The cause of woman suffrage re-
ceived "pull-back" in Colorado.
1t is thought aesthetic to have old
cracked china stuck on your mantel.
We say it again emphatically, that
this stove-pipe business is put-up job
And now the English war correspond
ents are discovering female officers in
both armies.
"A lady complains of the present
SINlC, CAtO GllSIO 10 lOO lluSh SOAlol
and too little gentleman.
-Sponges sown with timothy seed are
very ornamental when the tender grass
shoots from each pore.
"A man at Mount Vernon, Ind, is
feeding $500 geese, $500 turkeys, and
1,400 ducks for the market.
We don't care much for ballads, but
we are ready to print ball ads-at the
regular advertising rates.
Why is Hymen represented with
torch? To throw light on those little
imperfections to which Love is blind.
-"Love is an eternal transport" ex-
claimed an enthusiastic poet. $50 is a
canal-boat," said an old forwarding mer-
chant.
"A young Providence lawyer solemn.
ly asked witness: What has been
the reputation of your son since his
BIRTH"
-"My Lord" said the foreman of a
Welsh jury, when giving in the verdict,
1--WE find the man who stole the mare not
guilty"
The Kalamazoo doctors have banded
together to make out blacklist" of
those who don't pay up their doctors
bills.
A Michigan Justice of the Peace re-
ceived fifty cents and revolver for mar
rying acouple, the bride making the pres
entation.
The truth is coming out at last, and
Gen. Howard, after all, is the hero of the
Nez Perces campaign. So says Gen.
Sherman.
When a young lady offers to hem a
I0I, "vpofae. - 'o.---hinf for rich bache-
order that she may reap.
"A young lady being asked by rich
bachelor, eff not yourself, who would
you rather be?" replied, sweetly and
modestly, "Yours truly"
French dame to the family physician
-" Doctor, want my husband to take
me to Nice for the winter. Now, what
is the matter with me?"
The man who owns a $2O,O COW
can drink milk costing him eighty-four
cents quart. That's all the advantage
he has over the rest of US.
DIR. Goodell said at the Detroit Coun-
Gil that we are not to put an iron kettle
on the head of woman because the
Apostle Paul put veil on it.
The sea serpent is off the Maine
coast and is seventy-five feet long, with
a head like whales, and two tlippers
which strike the water with loud noise.
English young ladies are wearing
deer-stalker hats" and to hear the
Hoarc. FOL lyincr ho he, 70 4
lightful.-N. 7. Commercial AdoertiSer
Opal is regarded with superstitious
dread by many ladies, as denoting tickle
ness, but the Sultana believes there is
something Constantinople. Graphic.
Rancid butter is liked in Iceland,
and commission of Icelanders are in
this country to establish an agency for
forwarding the article in large quaint
ties.
There are lady physicians in Phila-
delphla who have an annual income of
from $15, 900 to $4,000 from their own
practice. They are especially liked by
women and children.
The literary man of the Philadelphia
Press speaks of a poemlet," meaning a
short poem. We get that kind-there's
many a poem-let go into our waste bas-
ket.-PittSburgh Commercial. ..
The Colorado image which was
claimed to be petrifaction of O pre- his
toric gentleman with tail-Darwin's
missing link''-has been examined by
a scientist and pronounced fraud
"A Duchess County IN. " man re-
Gently married woman at whose first
wedding he was groomsman fifty years
ago. This is his third venture and her
second. He is eighty-two years old and
she sixty-eight.
"A watch found in the ruins of the
Brooklyn Theater proves to be the prop
erty of Prof. Panorma, the music-teacher
who was murdered four years ago by
some young rutfians. No clew to the
murderers was ever found.
Alexander McAllister left his home
at St. Stephens, N. B., fourteen years
ago, and his friends at last gave him up
as dead, but he returned the other day
to say that he was New Zealand farm
er, and worth $4,000.
"A young gentleman remarked to his
female companion the other evening:
All! the most beautiful evening in my
recollection Tuno 1ooIye l,ao,,