The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-07
VARIETIES.

John Hancock's grave in the old
Creamery burying-ground, Boston, has
no stone to mark it.
-Chrystal, of the Hackensack Repub-
LiCGn, has the ague. Shake, Chrystal.
-Keok'Vb Constitution.
Sarah Ann Good, of Woodbridge.
Suffolk, died at the age of 1O3. The
Good did not die young in this instance.
Three feet of narrow child, and
seven feet of wide ribbon. That's the
prevailing fashion for the mites of arts
tocratic humanity.
Who'd have looked for tornado
in such quiet old State as Connecti-
cutP Nature is a great hand to cut
cross-lots. Press.
Emily Faithful is lecturing in En-
gland on the Extravaganza of Mod
ern Life" There is a good field for
that lecture in this country.
We have just been thinking how
language came into the world. 1t was
during Adam and Ewes first quarrel,
when one word followed another.
-Escobedo, the Mexican rebel, gets
off on suspended sentence, though he
himself admits that a good thrashing
would make better citizen of him.
Railroads carry 100000 passen-
gers safely where they kill one, but the
trouble is to know when the 100000
have been counted up 3nd the killing
is &c, begin.
When an Arkansas man was charged
in court with stealing twenty. eight
horses he replied: Judge, this is the
first kind word addressed to me since |
was child"
The awards of the International
Jury at Paris, are not published, but it
is said that American exhibitors have
more than proportionate share of
medals and awards.
Mrs. Fletcher Webster, of Marsh
field, is so reduced financially that she
wants to dispose of the celebrated por-
traits Of Lord Ashburton and Daniel
Webster by the artist Healy.
-Napoleon's old veterans are yet
being heard of on every hand. SO
many of these old veterans got away
unframed that it is difficult to realize
that Napoleon ever won battle.
S1In ILdll l. III, Iut SulHcSe AluDdS-
sador to the United States, traces his
ancestry back to remote age, and be-
longs to the second rank in the empire,
the next in order to the imperial family.
-Roebling, the engineer who devised
the Brooklyn bridge, estimated the out
side cost at S3,000,000. Over S10,00O,-
900 have been spent upon it already,
and much more will be necessary to
finish it.
"A number of farmers were arrested
in Clinton County, Iowa, short time
ago for harvesting grain on Sunday.
The trial resulted in their discharge, on
the ground that the work performed
was one of necessity.
Here's the way New Hampshire
exchange tells it: EX-Gov. Miller, of
Minnesota, is delivering lecture in
that State which is entitled "All Men
Are Liars" His tickets read: "All
Men Are Liars-admit one.'
Upon the green sward with my most adored
/ sat and We whispered our love,
While the dear little bird repeated our words
In the great dropping willow above,
4 modest surprise beamed out of her eyes
As pressed her dear formto nv breast
Down her neck! just imagine the rest
Puck.
At Pittsfeld, Mass, railroad man,
having paid his fine and costs for drunk
'enness, pleaded with the Court to have
his name kept out of the papers, and
that so earnestly that when the Justice
asked him his name. he had forgotten
the name he had given and was COM
PEELED to ask the clerk who he was.
The English population of Egypt
seem to look on Cyprus somewhat in
the same manner that Americans re-
garded California when the gold fever
broke out. There is regular exodus
from Alexandria to that island, as if
the English occupation of Cyprus had
suddenly changed it to a paradise. The
run from Alexandria to Cyprus is made
in twenty-four hours and the fare is
three dollars.
The persons who g struck oil' near
the shores of the Caspian Sea, in Rus
STA, are making money. From one
well there flows stream of oil, free
from gas and froth, forced into the air
to q height of seventy-five feet, and
yielding at the rate of 10000 barrels a
day. With improved methods of drill
ing and pumping the wells, and of
transporting the oil, Russia might be-
come dangerous rival OF our own oil
regions.
There was a little fellow who knew
Mother Goose better than he knew his
Bible. One Sunday he was asked in
his class: "Who were thrown into the
fiery furnace?' That was too much
for him. The question was passed; the
answer came promptly: "Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego." This was
modification to the little fellow, and
when the next question came: "Who
put them imp he answered with a
jump; Little Johnny Green"
The Chinese Embassy which has re-
Gently arrived in this country exhibits an
acquaintance with the conditions of all
questions here affecting their interest
that has not generally been expected.
They understand the language and the
customs of the country, appreciate at
their full worth all their own rights,
and evidently are prepared to diplomat
ically enforce them; and, from words
that some of them have dropped, it is
quite evident that they are competent
to make this enforcement