The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-21
VARIETIES.
A draw game-The dentists.

Putting "P. s." to letter,
Wells for ladies who love to kiss are
now made pickering. ........
Among ladies' summer hats, the old
style sailors hats crop out again.
-Low-necked shoes are to be fashiona-
BILE for swells this season. .'.
Sixty thousand spindles are soon to
be in operation at Columbus, Ga.
The leading color in kids for the
promenade is gray.
Home made cashmere for mems
wear is elbowing out the foreign fabric.
White lace mitts extending to the
elbow are in the recent importations
The New York Senate has passed a
bill enabling married women to make
contracts. ...
Why is chloroform like Mendelssohn?
Because it is one of the great composers
of modern times.
All the Goals of California are lig-
mites, so there's no danger but they lig-
mite easily.
-" Are They Dreaming of Me?" is the
title of the latest ballad. 1t is probably
dedicated to the authors creditors.
Under the modified Marriage law of
Indiana, licenses may be issued to youths
of eighteen and girls of sixteen.
-Celluloid jewelry is made from whey.
Curious it never oc-curd to any one be-
fore.
Awarding to married men-A broom
handle factory in Wisconsin turns out
5000 broom handles day.
TO persons about to be married
Take care (says PuncD to choose lady
help and not lady incumbranCe.
The other day they elected Town
Clerk in SALISBURY, VT, for the fifty
fourth time.
=" No woman is pleased" asserts
Octave Feuillet, cat being told by a man
that he loves her like sister"
There are said to be 175 applicants
for the first vacancy that may occur in
the police force of Richmond, Va.
The spring circus will now begin to
spill its wild and ferocious animals by
the wayside. Democrat
A State of health Md A State of
sufferng-Ill. A fatherly State-Pa.
A girlish state-Miss. A floating State
Ark. ...
Rubber aprons for ladies doing
housework are among the novelties.
These are intended to make elastic to her
business.
Over $4,000, 900 yearly is spent for
cigars and cigarettes in this country.
There are 100000 smokers in the
United States.
Mr.. George Dawson has retired from
the editorial management of the Albany
E0ening Journal, after fifty-two years of
journalistic labor.
Judge Peleg Sprague, of Boston, is
the Oldest ex- United States Senator now
living. He was a member of the Maine
Legislature fifty-six years ago.
"A bill before the New York Senate
makes it crime for anybody to deface
natural scenery by painting advertise
ments upon it.
-" Thomas, of what fruit is cider
made?" Don't know, sir" Why,
what a stupid boy! What did you get
when yourobbed Farmer Jones orchard?"
l got a thrashing, sir"
1t is said that glance from blue
glass eye will cure love-sickness of long
standing. To be sure, the curative eye
must be winked over by the object of the
patients affection.
-Four-yearold to his mother, holding
the baby: Say, mamma, say! Eat
squawling little baby seems to sink 'ee's
re only chile you got! I'd give him back
again"
Chicago has 700 hackmen, and if
you ever go there you will wonder how
the whole 700 can get hold of your car
pet-bag and halloo into your left ear at
once.
The nearest living relative of the
Revolutionary soldier, John Stark, is a
handsome and intelligent granddaughter,
now living in the old family mansion at
Dunbarton, Vt.
Jimmy Blanchard, the boy who
created such sensation at st. Adams,
VT, some time ago in the character of
Charley Ross, has been arrested at Mil
ford, N. H., for burglary. ......
Charles Langheimer, the inmate of
the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsyl-
vania whom Dickens described in his
American Notes." is again in trouble,
having been arrested in Philadelphia for
stealing watch. ...
An artificial angle-worm has been
patented in st. Louis. The worm is
made of india-rubber, and is said to be
good imitation. 1t has the great advan-
tage over the ordinary earth worm of not
being taken off the hook by nibbles.
Fascinating female music teacher to
admiring young gentleman pupil: TRY
again, Mr.. C" Pupil: "Do, Re,
Mi" Teacher: "That won't do. You
DO not hold on to Mi long enough"
Pupil, wistfully; wish l had chance
to-"
Persons carrying firearms in San
Francisco are required to take out per-
mits. One of the applicants the other
day exhibited, in support of his plea,
four gun-shot wounds, half dozen scars
from knife'cuts, and evidence that his
skull had been trepanned for fracture.
He was bo0k-agent.
The earliest book printed in Amer
lea, says the Too Republics, of which
any copy is now known to be extant is
the Manual de AdattOs, printed at Mex
leo in 1910. This book bears the i'm