The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

In what place are two heads better
than one? In barrel.
VANDERBILT was noted for his strong
"will"
GLACIERS in New York now cry "Blue
glass put inn
PALE-BLUE gauze is the fashionable
material for wells.
"NoHELP needed" is the principal sign
in San Francisco windows.
SAY "shoes and socks shock Susan"
five times, as fast as you can.
ONE of the links that bind spring to
winter-the bobo-link.
liza man needs exercise let him try to
collect a bill.
DEEP PINK for kids is the dominant
tint among New York bellies.
A DUBLIN doctor says "fatal cases of
sunstroke cannot be cured"
TUIIP'eoLoR is the sweetest new tint
in Paris dresses.
NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs has made the
ex-President happy grandfather again.
DIR. KNOX says: "a Turks word is as
good as his oath"
ONIONS raised under blue glass have a
soft radiance like the perfume of violets.
THE London Lancet says ladies' high
heeled boots produce hysteria in the
wearers.
No FASHIONABLE lady's head will be
complete this spring without yellow
bonnet
JONES calls the chapter in new novel
over which his wife wept profusely, a
watering place.
MAILS are now carried from New York
to New Orleans in sixty-four hours and
thirty-tive minutes.
THERE are few vacancies left in the
New Polar expedition; they should be
given to extremists.
By new law the legal rate of interest
in Tennessee has been reduced from 10
to per cent.
IT is a chap down in Indiana who is
now trying to make flying machine.
He is sanguine, of course.
A PERSON always meets with warm
reception at a hotel. The minute he ar
rives he is placed on the register.
THE lady who wears gloves reaching
to her elbow can tlatter herself that she
is as stylish as anybody in the world.
GA PRUDENT man." says a witty
Frenchman, is like pin; his head pre-
vents him from going too far"
A WOMAN eighty eight years old is
doing the household work for a family of
five persons at Taunton, Mass.
Two YOUNG men in Wayne County,
Ga, want to marry, Each offers 500
acres of land for wife.
A MODEST editor says: "Our editorials
have been crowded out this week by a
pressure of interesting reading matter
THE architect who can come within
$500 of 81, 900 house should enter the
lecture field and explain how he does it.
A New YORK halter exhibits high
silk hat with blue glass crown, and adj
vertises it to cure any sort of head but
" dead-head."
TWELVE prominent lawyers were in
volved in the catastrophe of the with
drawal of the contest over the Vanderbilt
will.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS and John c. Cal
houn are the first two names on the list
of the members of the Unitarian Church
of Washington.
THAT was a queer boy in Wayland,
H., who went into the house, got into
bed and fell asleep after seeing his
mother fall into well.
THE latest law in regard to gambling
passed by the Nevada Legislature makes
it a misdemeanor for parties owing
money to gamble it away
A KENTUCKY widow had so much pity
on a poor tramp that she married him
and gave him home. The routes to
Kentucky are now almost blockaded.
A TENNEssEEAN took his first and last
ride on a'railroad train recently. He
stepped off when it was going forty miles
an hour, supposing such was the custom,
and was fatally injured,
THESE Northern skies delight the eyes,
But blue glass does the biz;
We've got winder full at home
To cure our rheumatic.
SECRETARY KEY is said to be a de-
scendant of the man who wrote the
e Star Spangled Banner" We dare say
many of our readers will remember the
piece.-ROcheSter Democrat
BUSINESS seems to be reviving in
Gloucester, Mass. A gentleman stepped
into store in that city several days ago
and paid a bill of seventeen cents which
had been due two years.
THIS is for the girls; When you see
little girl getting out her handkerchief,
after wrestling half an hour with an
eight-column sum in addition, you may
be sure cry sis is at HANDY. Y. Com
mereiaI Adoertiser.
SECRETARY FISH, on a salary of SIS, 900
a year, lived in a house the rent of
which was IS 600. His total expenses
were about $4,000 a year, which his
large fortune made it easy for him to
sustain.
Nor bad that. Miss Root, at the
Cooper Union temperance meeting at
New York, warned her young lady hear
ers against the wild young men who
promise to settle down by and by, and
who generally settle down so far that
they are never able TO settle up.
THE sweetest thing in the way of