The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27

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The Georgians say that their fences
cost them S54, 200 per year.
There are now thirty-two postmis-
tresses in the United States.
"A new cotton stuff, resembling
French cambria, is 90 emano.'
DO you want to make sound in
vestmentP Then buy a telephone.
In Minnesota women are allowed
to vote on all educational questions.
The divorced wife of Brick Pome-
roy, now an actress, has married again.
If | were in the sun and YOU were
out of it, what would the sun become?
Sim
brigham Young's watch was sold
by auction the other day and brought
5000.
There is pint of tears to every
pleasure and sixteen ounces to the
pound.
-Tight-lacing, we think, is not nee
essarily the result of desire to be
Rugged.
"A motto for the man with tender
feet "Cornucopia'-A copious amount
of corns.
Ben Wade refused to wear night
shirts. Yet he rose to positions of en-
inence.
Pulaski. Mich, has an elopement
sensation. The girl was but thirteen
years old.
The higher education of women
Learning how to walk in French boots
with six-inch heels.
Flies toll not, neither do they spin,
yet they have the first taste of all the
best gravies in the land.
Maine had 500 divorces last year,
an increase of 100 since 1874, and about
one to every twelve marriages.
1t is estimated that over 100, 900
persons in New England have signed
the total abstinence pledge since Dec. l.
=" How can the tramp be brought to
a standstill?'' is a conundrum waited
from the West. Saw off some of his
legs.-BredktdSt Table.
The Lexington (Ky.) Dollar Demo-
crdt says that that town "now rejoices
in colored house of refuge for chill
dren." Black, perhaps.
Every age of the world has en-
joyed its own peculiar boons and beni-
sons. The prehistoric boy couldn't
whistle. Breakfast Table.
No living wife knows her own
value. 1t is only when a railroad COM
pany comes to be sued that a a husband
begins to learn what treasure he has
lost.
Silk buttons are now but little used;
the preference is for small buttons of
satin for silk dresses, gilt for cloth and
eXquisitely shaded pearl for fine wooden
costumes.
-Bayard Taylor's front name is
James, but he never writes it, and if
you should step up and call him Jim"
he wouldn't know you were talking to
him. -HaUk-EVe.
The Jonesboro (Ga) NewS wants
the whipping post re-established for the
punishment of the idle. The negroes,
it says, won't work, and the white
folks are worse than the negroes.
mo, we can't do it in our bust
ness said the veteran Snowman, re-
tlectively examining the inscription on
an American coin. owe are COM
PEELED to take the money at the door,"
"A boy in Baltimore is about to die
OF pinch on the arm by woman
We insist once more that the men and
boys of our suffering country shall go
armed and equipped.-Bufalo E1preSs
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle ar
CUES that the life of Alexander H.
Stephens is being providentially spared,
fhnt bn H. IL d
of the United States during the next
term.
-" Politeness costs nothing" but it
is not expected that you will wake a
man at midnight to ask permission to
go through his hen-house. 1t is more
courteous to let him enjoy his needed
repose.
Edison has got his monograph SO
far along that whenever it yells out
"There nowr' every married man in
the room throws up both hands to
shield his head, and lodges under the
table.
Junior Clerk-Would you kindly
permit me to absent myself tomorrow
to attend my fathers funeral. Head
of firm deep in tigures) You may 90,
Hawkins, but pray-do not let this hap
pen again!
AT twenty you know everything, at
thirty you have your doubts, at forty
there are some things you don't know,
at fifty you are sure of your ignorance,
and after that you read Mr. Beecher's
sermon on everlasting punishment and |
hope he is right.-BOStOn Courier.
American danes will have another
opportunity to go daft over a royal
Prince, this time the heir to crown,
and that an Imperial one. Prince Ru-
dolph, the Prince Imperial of Austria,
is, after sojourn in Prague, to make
voyage to the New World.