The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-12
VARIETIES.

"A ndUter Oh COuTSe-A morse race.
Senator Sharon mines his own bust
ness.
"A coal combinations public coal
amity.
Army ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
reviews.
How to find girl out-Call when
she ism in.
San Francisco boys are getting to
smoke opium.
JEFF. Davis daughters are at school
in Germany.
When is mother father? When
she's sigher.
The man who would like to see you
The blind man.
Boston contains tie only cymbal
factory in the land.
Never leave off brass chain till
you get a gold one.
"A prepossessing new toy is a pig
squealing under a fence-rail.
In shower of rain an old hat
looks as good as new one.
Dolls are sight more foppish and
bedizzened than ten years ago.
The frost on the milkman's mus
tache chills the hired girl to the core.
"A Michigan belle was sadly burned
while benzining six-button kids on her
hands
Ten deaf mutes have married at
Colorado Springs. No family brawls
there.
The surrender of Plevna is the first
Post.
"A down-East clergyman has been
given cake-basket filled with silver
coins.
1t is the mother who molds the
character and fixes the destiny of the
child.
There are four Millions in the
House-some inglorious but none mute.
Boston Post
"A sixty-ive-years-o father in Iowa
has just kissed his latest girl baby. 1t
is his twenty-first.
A Hartford Conn. newspaper pro-
poses q bachelor show, the prizes to be
awarded by ladies.
Texas editors clamor for the re-es-
Enlistment of the whipping-post-for
delinquent subscribers.
All great men have their traducers.
1t was even once said Columbus left
for parts unknown"
Gov. Conner, of Maine, who is
about to enter on his third term, is not
yet thirty-nine years of age.
The champion time-waster is now
Rebecca Moore, who has just finished a
quilt containing 20,173 pieces.
New song by lady" Be it ever
so humble there's no place like the
neighbor S. "-ROcbester Democrat.
When girl begins to take an in
terest in young mans cravat it is a
sign she does not love him as a sister.
can sit down properly" The wonder
is how some of them can sit down at all.
See the effects of too much "cult-
ure." A Boston boy when asked what
was the capital of China said Dresden.
Puck.
"A recent poem has the following
line: "a tear danced in her eye.H
That tear must have been at the eye
ball.
Mortgage is Latin word, and
means " death-grip." This is worth
thinking of when one wants to get hold
of your house.
Teacher" What is the meaning of
'hypocrite' ?'' Little Girl" Please, I'm,
l don't know; but the neighbors say my
mothers one"
Women have hitherto worn more
clothing about their waists than any
other part of their bodies. Hereafter
it will not be so.
Quail, euchre, deer, poker, rabbits,
antelope, Sancho-Pedro, bear and other
game are plentiful in this market
Cheyenne Leader.
-So-lacing-.'r come to stay,n
was the corset-maker's very popular
announcement when she settled in
country village.
When our pastor takes part in the
standard amusement at donation par
ties it is proper to speak of "our min
lister at Copenhagen.
1t is a singular coincidence that all
of the national ships lost in the last de-
cade were named after Indian tribes,
viz: the Saranac, Saginaw, Idaho and
Huron.
-" Liquor started it, liquor kept it
up, and liquor ends it," said Thorp,
who was hung at Auburn on Friday.
Here's whole temperance sermon in
eleven words.-NewS.
When man observes to his loqua-
cious wife: with all thy faults l love
thee STILL" the probabilities are that
that is just the time she won't keep
still. -NorriStOUn Herald.
The Boston Globe says that the fun
niest thing at the Whittier dinner was
to see the way in which Emerson
'poised his cigar gently between his
thumb and forefinger and slipped it fas-
tidiously."
The proper way for lady to direct
letter this winter is to run the direc-
ton from corner to corner, scatter
three-cent stamps over the envelope,
and write important on any vacant
space left.
1t is reported by a fashion journal
that dress sleeves are made so close
that the wearer can with difficulty crook |
the elbow. Wouldn't it be good idea |