The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-12
VARIETIES.

White cuffs are to be worn outside
the sleeve. - r..:., ..i .,.,.... .....,.
Straw trimmings will be. very FASH
ionable. S-2 ~
The best notes for the Bank
notes. 4 h9i a i.a AL
.i-Boston has S150,OO0, 900 loaned on
mortgages nrf. ..-s. i-.' u.
An infant who murdered sleep"
has been named Macbeth.
Inflow to take life easy-Be careless
with coal OIL #-' 81 10 .I..-
9--Lansing, Mich, has mum socials
whoever speaks is fined. @ Boz biz ,,a
In Arkansas taxes are paid on 91,-
796 dogs.
IA patent angle-worm, for fishing, is
one of the newest wriggles. ..'h
1.-The latest palacecar has bath
room in it. .e3.E.a -ia W
Black gloves are only admissible
with black costumes. .f..
A baby is little thing, but Con-
stable was once baby.-JosA Billings
Jennie June says it's inelegant to
wear dress of latest style for the street.
There's an eXhilarating new spring
game called carpet-beating. rl
The Presidents mail is so bulky it
now has to be carried in wagon.
i-Shawls are now folded so that when
worn the points fall in the back !#.
The difference between lady's hat
and bonnet now is-well, what is it?
.-7Not one man in 10000 failed in his
youth to cut his initials on tree.
Last year 10000 tons of coal were
shipped to Cuba from Pennsylvania.
old maps of the rebellion, turned
upside down, will just fit for Turkey
-Learning makes man fit company
for himself as well as for others
Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is the
richest widow of her age in America.
A lady, inclined to fiirt, says men
are like cold, easily caught, but very
hard to get rid of. ..I sa5 ,l4n1s
The merchants of Washington have
ordered 1000 extra fans. Congress
meets during hot weather. ...
An oldstyle carpet-bagger: The
man who takes your carpet away to clean
and doesn't come back with it.
A new glove shop is attracting at
tention in New York by making gloves
TO order while the customer waits.
Shoes are going to be broader soled
this summer. That is, the idea is on
foot.
AN agricultural exchange has an ar.
ticle on How to Make Hot Bed" It's
simple enough. Pile on the blankets in
July. srt,.f ,t ~ .5.'.r. e.,
We cannot conquer fate and neces-
sity, yet we can yield to them in such a
way as to be greater than if we could.
What is that which lives in winter,
diesin summer, and always grows with
its root upward? An icicle.
ALFRED Smith threw himself under a
locomotive in Lexington, KY, rather
than face his wife, whom he had de-
serted
Salt is now imported in large quaint
ties from Europe at low rates. Ship
owners prefer it to ballast for the west
ern passage. yia. l.1r
The season of the year when girl
can fool fellow by making him hold
yarn on his hands while she winds it off
on "a ball is past, sys6 yre.lt "a. e.,
.f7-Thc anti-bilious pill for early sum-
mer use will be of mandrake, cut round,
with licorice trimming, and without
sugar coating. ,'"..'. 80. ,...",. -'
e--Four-button kid gloves are the regu-
latlon glove for street costume, six for
reception, and twelve buttons for evening
dress.
THE gilt-edged handkerchief is the
latest agony of swelldom. The edge
must just peep from the dear boys over
coat pocket on the port side. .-e.
She asked him if her new dress
wasn't as sweet as a spring rose, and he
said it was, even to the minor attraction
of still having little due on 1t. 81
We've seen man with ten-cent
cigar in his mouth talk of hard times,
but, a woman never complains until she
has turned the old dress twice, and can't
find another side to it.
prof Swing said in a recent sermon
that the great problem of this Materials
tic age appeared to be, "How to obtain
loans and avoid the payment Of princi-
pal and interest. us ur hi. .i'2'i''- "'it
When a young mans salary will not
permit him to wear a thirty-cent cameo
head at the focus of his full-front-save-
washing bill neckties, then the times
may be characterized as impenetrably
dense. '' ''.'
IL" am afraid it's mixed goods" said
thealady to the clerk. 80 no, madam,
impossible" replied the polite gentle
man; " our cancels hair shawls are made
of,pure silk direct from the worm" ..'..
20 Ny brethren" said Swift, in SER
mon, ''there are three sorts of pride-of
birth, of riches and of talents. l shall
not now speak of the latter, none of you
being liable to that abominable vice..
"A country dealer sent to Indianapo-
lis for a copy of a little book called
Happy Husbands, The work not be.
ing procurable, the country dealer re-
ceived note stating that there were no
Happy Husbands" in indianapolis. p
The first barrel of Kerosene oil
which reached Zanzibar was supposed to
beta new kind of brandy, and some of
the natives nearly killed themselves
drinking it. The last gallon was given