The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-02
VARIETIES.

California exports soap largely.
No man can lounge into success.
A cue-rous affair-A game of bill
iards.
Large hoop earrings are again
worn.
The old western settler-The even
ing sun.
The President has no Cabinet with
drawers.
CAS- leave as not'-Chicago bank
officials.
Preferred creditors-Those who
don't dun.
Stowe, VT, has :" three-score-and-
ten society"
-Pleated blouse waists are revived in
dressy circles.
The hymn of the Crispins-" Arise,
my sole, arise"
The Pope may yet outlive the Sick
Man of the East
Matthew Hale Smith recommends
long courtships.
San Francisco now figures up a
population of 100000.
A shrewd Yankee has brought out
ceramic shaving-mugs.
Pale blue brocaded silks are used
for full-dreSs bonnets.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord's step-daughters
yearn to caress her just once.
1t isn't the tone any more to rig up
infants in elaborate toggery.
Long circulars are unbecoming on
dumpy dames.-Fashtom letter.
An end that very few banks come
to-Divid-end.-N Y. Commercial.
Victor Emmanuel was six feet high,
broad-shouldered and full-chested.
-Shad is now served at the Florida
hotels; also green peas and tomatoes.
-Covington, KY, has a new doll
factory, with forty-five female hands.
A Cambridge (Mass.) girl, aged
four, has died of swallowing an orange
seed.
A woman inRush City, Mimi, aged
fifty-four years, has just given birth to
her first child.
Il do not ask thee for thy hand"
as the child said when gazing earth
ward O er its parents knee.
"A candid child-Landlady's little
girl" All, mother looks nicer in that
bonnet than you don'-Pu1ach.
Kansas farmers estimate corn at
fifteen cents bushel, at which price it
is cheaper fuel than coal OF wood.
reply: "Out Of schooEo"idn't trouble
Did you ever reckon up the num-
Der of people you would like to kick if
they were not rich?-Danbary News.
"A San Francisco paper prints a re-
view of the years marriages and di-
vorces under the title: "Murmurs of
the Tied"
Elaborate pocket-books for ladies
have watch set in one of the sides.
This is to show the dear creatures how
fast the money goes.
The study of ceramics is moder-
ate intellectual struggle to find out what
sort of pictures ancient Egyptians had
on their shaving mugs.
The widows whom the death of
Brigham Young threw suddenly on the
market are being rapidly taken up by
matrimonial spectators.
whats the matter with your eve.
Tommy?' "Oh! it's only been going
through an operation at the hands of a
knockulist, that's all. Yonkers Co.
zette.
"A Nashville man answered a Chi
cago advertisement: "How to win at
poker!' and received for his two dol
lars the following: Hold four aces,
Or don't poke"
"A pretty widow in Missouri acct
dentally gouged out the eye of young
man who tried to kiss her. The girls
should never forget the proverb about
too much haste.
Fourteen bushels of chestnuts were
sent last autumn through the mails, in
small packages, from Merrimac Coun-
ty, N. H., to Helena, Mont. The post
age amounted to S102.37.
Variety may be the spice of life,
but advertising is the pepper and salt
of newspaper, and the bread and but
ter of the advertiser. The customer
gets the cream Breakfast Table.
He bought material for new dress
for his wife, and was surprised to see
the dealer slip the cloth into an envel-
ope and say he would have the buttons
sent right up in dray.-W Worcester
Press.
Fair damsel putting on new gloves
=" Too tight? Ono, auntie, not at all;
besides, like them a little tight!'
Troublesome brother" Feels as if
somebody was squeezing her hand;
don't you see, auntieP'
Rev. o. A. Brown is lecturing down
the Mohawk on Misplaced Men,"
When the father of pretty girl goes to
sleep by the parlor fire at nine o'clock
Sunday evening he is about as misplaced
as man can be.-ROme Sentinel.
Wise people who love to dive into
apparently unfathomable mysteries are
requested to explain why pencil lead
always breaks just when you have fin
ished laboriously constructing point
with dull knife. -ROckLand Courier.
The Christian at Work says: 1.-THE
father or mother who tolerates the or
binary fashionable waltzes of fashiona-
BILE parties is guilty of a crime against
nature, and serves the purpose of a