The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-20

dered the expenditure of the whole of
it on his funeral and tomb.
The Germans are the healthiest
class of New Workers. Vital statistics
show that the rate of mortality among
them is nearly SO per cent less than
that of other citizens, while their in
crease by births is larger.
-" Belinda" said Clarissa, "why is
kiss like that sewing-machine OF
yours?'' "Oh, | don't know. Don't
bother me-" I'm tell you why: It's
because 1t seems so good" Clarissa is
going to be married next week.
"A shooting-match took place in
Bridgeport last week between five sin
gle and five married men. The Farm
er says the single men won. OF course
they did. Married men are better at
lodging than aiming. -Dambury Ne,CS.
Henry Ward Beecher will net on
his present lecturing tour about S55,-
600. His weekly sermons in Brooklyn
bring him in $4,000 a year, and he
makes $4,000 year by his writings.
bringing his yearly income up to near
$4,000.
The Kaffirs are in the habit of kill
ing all their old people with religious
ceremonies. When an old lady is to be
sacrificed she walks TO the grave, arm
in arm with her two oldest sons, who
chant in heart broken voice: "Who
will Kaifir mother nowg"
The costume of the Persian women
is the handsomest upon the face of the
earth. 1t consists of loose waist,
short skirt, and trousers not too loose
| have made this costume beautifully
and hung it up in Paris, but the women
will not wear it. l can do nothing
more. They will suffer until they are
willing to adopt it.-Worth.
The young ladies of Vassar College
feel quite at home in studying chemis-
try. They are at once on friendly terms
with Sal Ammoniac, Sal Soda, Sal
Prunelle, Mag Nesium, Moll Yodenum,
Ann Timony, Cad Mum, Ruth Enium,
Pete Roleum, Al minimum, Doll o. Mite,
Bessie Mer's Process, Mary Cites Law,
Emma Tight and Ann Alysis.
1t always pays to be polite. AS the
steamboat Magenta was descending the
Hudson River, the other day, being
crowded with passengers, an old gen
tleman was unable to find a seat. A
young man noticing this gave the old
gentleman his chair and went forward.
Two minutes afterward the boiler blew
up and the old gentleman was killed,
while the man who had given up his
seat escaped unhurt.
jay Gould is thus described by a
correspondent of the Springfield Repub-
ltcdn: "There sat the gular-looking
Jay Gould as impossible as a statue.
The only expression one ever sees on
his face is sheer. insignificant and
yet striking-with jet-black hair, eye
brows and beard, and skin white as
snow-there is something in his reti-
cence and self-possession which gives to
spectators sense of power. And there
can be no doubt ON that point; he is a
man of immense resources, and if his
moral nature were as well developed as
his mental he would be great man. ~
THE PHONOGRAPH REPEATS.
| lSHE, pe',Sigely turning the phomograph. He,
scouting Oyer the Ueehly bills.
| (PhOnOgrdph IN his gOice)
:" In some far cot away from life's distresses
There shall our days in bliss supreme be
| spent,
Poor, yet most rich, if wealth be fond caress
| esq
(HE.) "Are you dware it's overdue-tha
| TehtY'
PhOnograph.
"We'n live on honey gathered from rare
flowers
BY dainty bees-ft food for you, my sweet
Our drink the dewdrop of the midnight
| hours
From rosebuds drained" HE.) "h,tamd
bill for meat"
monograph.
And, darling, then for me no purer pleas
| ure,
With gems I'll deck that fairy form OF
thine,
With fabrics rich and precious beyond meas
! ure.n
(HE.) "OutrageouS paSte' Spring things
two, mi,tety-a.ine'"
Phonograph.
Only as twain-our love shall have nc
You to command and |, your slave, that's
| all.
For you but joy; of cares myself the bearer.
QE.) " DO go u'-stairs-the brat'S deg'"a t.
6dUl.n
Park benjamin, IN ". Y. EOenjag Post.