The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17
VARIETIES.
-Sulphur-color is stylish.


had wings.
White blackberries are a tasty Hi
nOiS paradox.
Striped goods are always fashiona-
BILE for misses.
-Spell-bound-Girls on their way to
spelling-school.
jay Gould has bought the Rocky
Mountain NeaOS.
-American-made foulard silks make
serviceable house-sacks.
The man who has vertigo under
the hot sun must suffer
Stockings for travelling are gray or
light brown, or bourette.
An Oswego clerk has died sudden
iy from boil on the arm.
-Unbleached stockings are decidedly
fashionable in New York.
Isn't it odd that the sons of toll
have on them tons of soil?
The Mormons are discovered to be
selling arms to the Indians.
The man who pays promptly is en-
titled to great deal of credit
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Rhode Island comes off Aug 30.
-Phonograph is feminine gender
because it talks back-BoSton Post.
Speaking of rude remarks, any re-
mark is rued that gets you into trouble.
ANY American now in Paris may
well say; 81 was a stranger, and they
took me in"
-" Has sound color?" asks philos-
Opher. o yes, have you never heard
your roam voice.
Il can never bring down cat,
said lawyer, land yet | am always
able to drop fee-line."
Among the disagreeable things in
this life is borrowing an umbrella and
finding the owners name on the han
die.
We have mustered courage to say
that salt may be good on bird s tail,
but the man with Il gun prefers to pep
per it.
Miss Herring, of Hackensack, has
married her fathers coachman, but the
old gentleman forgave his Herring
daughter.
The Harpers announce that they
have in press "A Beautiful Woman"
That shows what the literary world is
coming to.
The boy who has turned grind
stone or a fanning-mill all day doesn't
go much on the adage that "One good
turn deserves another
Trying to kiss a girl when her pa
rents are in the next room, without
them hearing the report, is an art that
can't be brought to perfection.
The old lady whose boy, on reach
ing his majority, ran away from home,
didn't need to consult her mirror to be
reminded that her youth had fled
Flies, flies, bothersome flies, they
crawl around your nose and the brows
OF your eyes, you may mash one to
death, but he never dies-BOSt0n Post.
In some countries a broken-down
front gate produced in court is all the
evidence a girl needs to insure favora-
BILE verdict in a breach OF promise case.
An English Judge says that Eng
lands downfall was assured from the
hour she permitted steel pens to re-
place goosequills.-DetroU Free Press.
Wasn't the boy who spied the
mince-meat that his mother had hidden
Il mince-spy? When she turned him
over her knee he was a little turnover,
any way.
Tell a fat man, during a summer
drought, that its dry time, and he will
maintain, while hopping the perspira-
ton from his brow, that it's sweat
weather
Society in republican Paris seems
to be as brilliant as it could be under
Il monarchy, and MacMahon costs only
100000 a year against Louis Napo-
Icons S6,000,000.
"A pretty schoolmistress in Maiden,
Mass, kept a boy fifteen minutes after
school as punishment, and when the
time was up he asked her if he couldn't |
make it half an hour.
"A German farmer disputed his tax
bill. He said: Il pays the State tax,
the county tax, and the school tax; but
1 pays no total tax. Use got no total,
and | never had any"
The Boston Post warns the public
about this time to be on the lookout |
for bogus poetry purporting to be from
a hitherto undiscovered manuscript of
the late William Cullen Bryant
When Vanderbilt visited medium
and was informed that his former wife
wanted to communicate with him, he
said that was not what he came for.
Yet some folks profess to have doubts
of his sanity.
He dove twelve feet below the sur
face. World. We call Mr. Bergh's at
tention to this. Has man any more
right to torture he dove for mere
than to abuse horses.
Deacon Jones, just deceased, had
4 very red nose. His widow thought it
rather personal in. the minister to begin
his funeral DISCOURSE: Another shin
ing light has been taken from our con-
gregation."
"A reduction has been made by
landlords in Paris; two wooden tooth
picks are now sold for three francs,
and the price of board is now only adj
vanced on newcomers once in twenty
four hours.
Punch puts these words into the
mouth of an American lady when view
ing Swiss scenery: go my! amt it