The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-26
VARIETIES.


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needle.
North Carolina has POI turpentine
distilleries.
Parents, school your issues!-
Rochester Chronicle.
Serpent skin boots for ladies are the
Latest novelty in Paris.
The beavers are migrating from
Wisconsin to Minnesota.
Bears are plenty in Northern Maine.
These are only bare facts.
Leading query of tramps: "What
Poor-house filings on the most style?"
There are stylish peak hats for la
dies who want to heighteu themselves.
Ladies who don't want to look
tall may wear close-brimmed bonnets.
The estate of the late VIM. S.
O'Brien has been appraised at $780,
900.
"A Vermont man, who used benzine
to light the kitchen fire, has not benzine
alive since.
The Brookville Democrat argues
that the best business stand is a stand
ing advertisement.
A gentleman in the West declares
that his true love has eyes as black as
the driven charcoal.
The man who married an incorri-
gible shrew, declared to friend that he
had contracted a dangerous scold.
-Tramps in the South are burning
tcotton-gins where the proprietors will
not paw them one dollar a hundred for
picking cotton.
As the Paris Exposition draws to a
close the number of daily visitors in
creases. The average is now above
100000 per day.
"A Montana infant used 500 of her
fathers greenbacks to make head
dress for doll, clipping off the corners
TO make good fit.
Be careful not to let fall a note re-
ilecting on friends character. BY
simply dropping a letter, you know, a
friend is changed into tiend.
There is a man living in Cook
County, Texas, who boasts of set of
furniture made from tree on which
his father was hung ten years ago.
Denis Kearney was rudely received
by meeting in a suburb Of Boston.
He was constantly interrupted, and
finally pelted with onions and potatoes,
The woman who can dress better
than her neighbors will always be will
ing to defend them from aspersions and
forgive what they may say about her.
There are 10000 commercial tray
elers, or drummers," in the United
States. What other country can beat
this long roll?-BOSt0n Commercial Bull
leLin.
Nothing can exceed the intense af-
lection which a girl deals out to her IA
ther for day or two before the time
when she's going to ask for a new
dress.
The paragraphists have discovered
the best method of heating a street car.
Garry woman half block further
than she wants to 90. 1t will be hot
enough"
~'You can keep bee away from you
by the use of tobacco smoke, but bee
is always in such COMPOUNDED hurry
that he gets in his work before you can
light your cigar.
The sisters Loud and Miss Whit
comb run farm of one hundred acres
at Warner, New Hampshire, and are
not afraid to swing scythe, WELD q
hoe, OF follow the pillow.
-Jeanette-''M Ma, are you going TO
give me another piece of pie?' Ma
What do you want to know for?"
Jeanette" Because if you amt want
to eat this piece slowly"
"A naturalist claims to have discov-
cred that crows, when in tiocks, have
regularly organized courts, in which
they sit around and try offenders-a
sort of crow bar, so to speak.
There are three houses at Peckham,
London, which have not been opened
since the Princess Alice disaster. All
their occupants were on board the i'll
fated steamer, and not one returned.
The Massachusetts, papers are dis,
cussing the question May cousins
marryP" We should hope so. We
don't see why a cousin hasn't as good
a right to marry as a brother, or an
uncle, or a son, or sister.
An American traveller in Galway
saw pig in peasants house and he
said: ''Why do you have a pig in
there?" "Shure," said he of Galway
''the house has all the convanyances
that REASONABLE pig requoires."
With few notable exceptions, the
advertisers of four years ago are large
advertisers to-day. Amid the business
wrecks of the past four years only those
who understood the value of printers
ink have safely withstood the storm. -
Philadelphia Press.
-"Ink can be preserved from mold
by putting a Glove in the bottle" When
Mrs. Spriggins, wife of Spriggins, OF
the Morning A1Oakener, read the above,
she cried excitedly: There! now
know what Mr.. S. always carries cloves
in his vest pocket for"
The alfred bonnets which have
made their appearance are constructed
of several different shades, from Gar.
net to ruby red. The lighter shades
are, of course, put in very sparingly,
and the distribution is so perfect the eff,
feet is really admirable.
The Post Office Department has
ruled that a husband has no control
over the correspondence of his wife
But this decision will not prevent q
man from carrying his wife's letter
around in hiS inSido noat ,DOoLat +brao