The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-19
VARIETIES,


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The girl of the period-The Europe
an crisis.
Dogs are henccforth banished from
the street-cars in Boston.
-Whenis counting like a battle? When
it comes to an engagement. tUe .
The most popular man with the la
dies at present-The spriLg dol-man.
"A delicate feat of surgery-Cutting
off ones heir with a shilling.
The Turk has got through dreaming
of the hour. 1862 1860
Great men are scarce, but there are
many great grandchildren. .sts.. ...t
If flour keeps rising we must fall
back on buckwheat cakes. ..... ....
Salem, N. c., ships 100000 pounds
of dried blackberries annually.
Owing to the stringency, an Indiana
merchant " took dog on bet"
kingston, Canada, bases her claim
to renown on fifteen baseball clubs.
An Augusta (Ga.) groom walked
twenty miles to his nuptials, one day
lately.
The apportionment of 1880 will in
crease the political power of the West
and the Northwest. s 's.t
Stick ginger-snap on the end of a
knitting needle, and you will have the
latest style of parasol, ne. .-,.
The Belfast (Me) Age says that peo-
of moderate means down that way now.
take their roast beef without potatoes.
A Tennessee girl, pretty and in her
teens, has patented combined harrow
and stalk-cutter.- .-.r .. ..,.
TO Persons About to Marry: Take
care to choose a lady help and not lady
incumbrance.
Admiral Porter says the Turkish
navy is like a Chinese fort-they only use
it to fire salutes. u. .t '.
Why cannot. two slender persons be-
come great friends? Because they will
always be slight acquaintance. s
A young lady says: /" If cart-wheel
has nine fellows attached to it, it's pity
that a girl like me can't have one"
The bashful man who asked his
girl if her favorite beverage wasn't pop"
was referred to her popper.-Noreoich
Bulletin. -......,. ....-s.. .... .u4i
Flat, broad heels are made by the
best shoemakers in New York in prefer
ence to the high and uncomfortable
Men, till matter is done, wonder
that it can be done; and as soon as it is
done, wonder again that it was no sooner
done.
The editor of the Aroostook (AIe.)
Sunrise says: awe are happy to an
nounce to our friends that our late tenn
porary illness was not fatal!p tI
-Alittle boy, disputing with his sister
on some subject, exclaimed: It's true,
for ma says so; and if ma says SO, it is
50, if it amt So" ..t..
There are 800 newspapers in Lon
don, and when it is good day for
geography 81 of them can locate New
York city in the State of Missouri or
Texas and not half try. .s.
"A bullet-proof passenger car, weigh
ing $500 pounds, has been built at York,
Pa, for the Spanish Government, for
use in Cuba.
The inventor of the self buttoning
glove is missing. 1t is thought he has
been assassinated by enraged young
men. .,...
"A Philadelphia Judge decides that a
railroad company is not responsible for
baggage further than to check it, pound
it to pieces, and preserve an ordinary
watch over the trunk handles.
-" That parrot of mines wonderful
Bird" said Smithers; che cries Stop,
thief so naturally that every time l hear
it l always stop. What are you all
laughing at, anyway" .A -I
"A New York man grated some horse
radish for his wife and then sneezed,
broke a blood-vessel and died. Hus-
bands will by and by learn to sit on the
veranda and let domestic drudgery alone.
-Bonner, of the New York Ledger,
owns 100 horses, and if you were to ask
him for the loan of one to ride sixty
miles of an evening to see your girl, Just
as likely as not he would say no..
"A spider web with a fly in it is the
latest device for wedding rings. This is
only appropriate where the gentleman
was disposed to fly to her side the first
time he spider. I........ ...r ...
Joseph Cunningham, of Fayette
County, Pa, aged seventy-seven years,
died recently on the farm on which he
was born and from which he had never
removed szfw af#T.s gsi.r '.tH ~
THE Bliss FUND.- now amounts to
$11, 1907. Of this $4,000 has been
invested in A per cent. United States
bonds, registered in the name of the
Bliss children. ~ t
-" The little darling; he didn't strike
Mrs. Smiths baby purpose, did he? 1t
was mere accident, wasn't it, dear?"
Eyes, ma, to be sure it was; and if he
don't behave himself I'll do it again."
The past winter was bad season
for bees in Wisconsin,; Richard Darl, of
Ripon, the most extensive apiarist in the
State, lost forty-three out of 104 swarms,
and other bee men lost in about the same
proportion. ... adj ..v, -.5r.sw. .at
George Francis Train complained to
a Philadelphis audience, recently, that
ne gave Susan B. Anthony and Mrs.
Cady Stanton $4,000 to start them in
the lecture and newspaper business, and
they went right of to buying silk