The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-03
VARIETIES.

S-ln-ArmS-IWlns.
Mrs. Eve inaugurated fall fashions
The best throw of dice-Throw them
away.
The Easter prayer of the hen-"Now
/ lay me-"
"A wedding trip-Stumbling over the
brides train.
Apples are two cents a bushel in
North Carolina.
"A short story-The tale of the Colo
RADIO stone man.
"A bare assertion is not necessarily
the naked truth.
The Supreme Court of Texas is be-
hind only 800 cases.
There are in Preside County, Tex,
4,500,0 600 acres of land.
-" Darling, kiss my eyelids down.
tf."-SaR Francisco Mail.
The weight of the world-elevep
ounces to the pound. Chicago Journal.
Immense is the word generally APP
piled to the chestnut crop by the coun-
So. try newspapers. go.
It is not true that the ladies intend
using the fashionable collars this winter
instead of cloaks.
The artesian well the Place Herbert,
Paris, has already reached depth Of
2,040 feet and no water.
1t is said that some of the new style
kid gloves are to have twenty buttons,
and reach almost to the shoulder.
"A good many theatrical ventures
wa-days begin with bill board and
end with board bill.-N Y Herald
-Keely wants to find some romantic
young woman who would be willing to
kiss him for his motor. "-BOSt0n Globe.
Gen. Miles, the Indian fighter, is
married to neice of Gen. Sherman. He
is man of striking and imposing pres
ence.
Notwithstanding the heavy rain of
yesterday, there was a short supply of
milk in the city this morning. - Boston
Journal.
-Augustin Daily makes his actresses
practice laughing, so as to produce sill
very, ripping laugh to order at the right
moment.
i never mad man cum to me for
advise, but before he got thru he had
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Josh Billings.
When " the boys" want to express
their extreme impecuniosity, they say
"pm a Chicago savings bank. st.
Louis Republican.
-Napkin-ring of Russian leather are
the latest novelty on dining tables. Beef
steaks of American leather are not new.
-L0lceI Courier.
Sitting Bull can never be civilized
One of his prayers has the words: &" May
he who lies to-day die first" No civil
lied man would pray like that.
The distemper which has been rag
ing among the horses in the neighbor-
"A woman died in Fulton COUNTY
Ind, few days ago, who had never
walked step in her life, having been
crippled in her infancy by scarlet fever
The young man who would take the
most girls to the Grand Rapids Fair was
to be awarded suit of clothes. Edward
Cox took sixty-fve girls, and won the
suit.
Mrs. O'Mara, of York street, St.
Catharines, Ont, yawned her jaw out
of joint one day last week, and at latest
advices two doctors had been unable to
restore it to its normal condition. Her
husband seems to have grown young in
a day.
The time approaches when the pre-
Valling young woman shall discover that
she is suffering for autumn leaves and a
young man to pilot her through the path
less forest.
-Itdoesn't create much piety in mans
heart to sit up in bed and listen to a
rat behind the wainscoting singing Mr..
Sankey's hymn: ooh, to be gnaw thing,
gnaw thing"
All! but when you come down to
statistics, please take notice that over
1000, 900 sheep-skins have been used up
in binding Webster's Dictionary. Where
should that book have been but for
sheep?-Free Press.
From rural parts he came,
And he registered his name
As "Jedediah Smith, of Smthville, Mass"
Took his supper, went to bed,
And at daylight woke up dead,
And the verdict? Twas: "He blew out the
gas"
"A young man named Williams, who
had attained the age of nineteen years
and the height of six feet nine inches,
died recently at Waterford, Elkhart
County, Ind.
-Xingo Parks has written letter to
the miners of Western Pennsylvania ad-
vising them to break the strike and 90
to work in order to save their families
from suffering.
"A tramp arrived at Moberly, Mo-,
perforated with pistol bullets, but refused
TO tell where he got the lead. The balls
were extracted and the wounded man
confused his journey.
Red Cloud has sent supplement to
his petition, marked Exhibit A." in
which he demands, in addition to other
civilized toggery, high collar and a