The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-16
VARIETIES.

Texas taxes crcuses $500 for each
performance. ,.,..., ....r
English imports are largely increas-
ing.
Cool but not always collected-An
ice bill. .. .........
Old blue and white china is in great
demand. ..
The social language of the Bulgari-
ans is Greek.
TO keep the feet dry-Stand on your
head.
Blood relations news of the
next few months.
If Russia had a few more roubles
she would have fewer troubles.
Whatever the appropriateness of the
name may be, Kalafat is not in Greece.
Saratoga famed for its trunks and
water anticipates brilliant season.
Boston has had only two deaths from
hydrophobia in twenty-five years.
The wives of England regard mas
culine latchkeys as personal grievance.
The potato bug is looking leisurely,
and wondering what delays vegetation.
The latest dental novelty is sandal
wood tooth brushes.
Frogs always shut their eyes when
they swallow insects.
"A boy has been expelled from Yer
mont school merely because he habitual-
ly carried pistol.
When is a dog most like human
being? When he is between man and
a boy
The Warden of Sing Sing Prison
says that 1 800 men are easier to manage
than 1870 women.
Jenny Lind is fifty one years old, and
her youngest child is three months of
age.
When a locomotive engineer falls in
love, he may be said to be on the "sighed
track
A young lady from an upper town
ship recently applied for the position of
solferino in one of the Burlington choirs.
Did it ever occur to you that they
are called parasols because they are used
to parry Soils rays?
-Fichus will be worn by ladies this
season at the seashore. This style of
shoe is highly fnnyished, and will be sold
at low scale of prices.
-Demosthenes Aristophanes Plutarch
Mathematics Jones, of Doddrdge Coun-
ty, Md, talks of seeking relief from the
next Legislature.
Whatever may be said of women's
right to vote and legislate, their right to
bare arms is pronounced to be unqu es-
tionable.
Ladies' boots and shoes will have
straps across the front, with small but
tons in the center. Between these straps
the fancy stockings will show.
There is a Philadelphia who re-
Joices in the name of Dreydopple. He
feels quite cut when he is addressed as
Driedapple.
A Mississippi landowner sells land
to colored men on condition that they
shall plant one acre of corn to two acres
of cotton.
Madam makes stylish country hat
this season out of her husbands " Pana-
ma" of last season, whitened and trimmed
with lace scarf.
-Shoemakers are an industrious class,
but they lack genius. Here it is the wear
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vented that doesn't get kicked off thirty
five times day.
Girls have their sorrows and their
troubles, but nothing is more humiliat-
ing to the average young lady than to be
beaten at game of croquet by a girl
who still wears her last years dress.
-" l wanted to get my wife some
stylish Clothes" is the excuse of Vir-
ginia Postmaster for opening registered
letters. He will get stylish suit him
self.
An editor who speaks of a man who
has discovered new fact by experience
says that the new way to prevent bleed
ing at the nose is to keep your nose out
Of other peoples business.
The Houston Age offers years sub
scription to any member of the late Legis-
lature who will answer this conun drum
correctly: How many counties are there
in TeXas?"
"A Texas paper reports that the Post
master in Denton, that State, threw out
of the mail in one day lately three cent?
pedes, two tarantulas and one horned
frog.
An INSCRIPTIONS New Yorker is
publishing an enlarged imitation of ex-
Treasurer Spinner's signature as the line
of march of the Russian soldiers to the
Danube. The large, blotty dashes are
supposed to be the mountain ranges.
George Francis Train says he finds
Boston "corroded with the midnight
livery of an unutterable gloom" a CON
dition we have ourselves noted, but
omitted to mention, having relatives
there.-DGnbury Meas.
"A San Francisco court has recently
decided the value of kiss to be 800,
gold. At that figure it wouldn't take a
fellow over half an hour or so to run
through with pretty considerable of a
fortune, and he'd have nothing left to
show for it, either.
"A farmer at Morris, Mimi, was
startled the other day by the sudden fall
ing near him of stone some four inches
long and two thick, and evidently chip
from a meteor. He stopped to pick it up,
but found it SO hot that he could not