The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28
VARIETIES.
A desirable end-Dividend.

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carts.
This country has big heart when
appealed to.
Sunlight and pure air are the best
of all medicines.
The trade dollars that go to China
now are melted down.
Lots of snow and sleighing is
prophesied for next winter.
Why is a rosebud like a promissory
note? 1t matured by falling dew.
Only one inventor out of 1900
ever gets any money for his patent
"A Michigan petitioner dazzled the
bankruptcy court with $1,000 dia-
mond pin.
"A New York hotel baggage man
died lately worth $4,000 and he had
no salary to save it from.
1t may not be as exciting to walk
for your health as it is to run for your
life, but it is more popular.
Cotton is so abundant in Gonzales
County, Texas, that farmers are giving
one-half the crop to pickers.
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danger, and says "stop." 1t is the
same displayed on mans nose.
The mans an ignoramus,
Or, lower yet, scamp,
Who writes for information
And sends no postage stamp.
-SiXty-four Pennsylvania school
teachers took advantage of vacation to
find husbands and send in their resig-
nations.
Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba,
in Canada, which in 1870 had about 250
inhabitants, now has q thrifty popula-
ton of 5000.
"A man in western Iowa, who is a
candidate for three offices, has invented
method of shaking hands by postal
card.-Hawb-Eye.
See here, how is this? Can't 90
into bankruptcy without paying your
debts. What's this wretched country
coming to, anyhow?
"A Connecticut woman was APP
pointed constable the other day, and
the first thing she said was, Nov l
shall catch a man.
"A coroner's verdict reads thus:
1.-The deceased came to his death by
excessive drinking, producing apo
plexy in the minds of the jury"
"A contract is to be made by viii CHI
200 miles of the Northern Pacific, from
Bismarck to Yellowstone, are to be con-
structed within year from next spring.
"A Macon, Ga, passenger train ran
into COW and was totally wrecked.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. The
cows side of the story has not yet been
heard. Graphic.
To stain wood black, drop a little
sulphuric acid into small quantity of
water; brush over the wood, and hold
it to the fire. 1t will be a good black
and take a fine polish.
"A good waterproof for rough and
common fabrics like tent canvas is
made by saturating the material with
strong hot aqueous solution of alum
or aluminium sulphate.
Three counterfeiters were well
executed in Mexico the other day-on
the Bank of the Santiago. They were
admirably calculated to deceive. The
die was perfect. Graphic.
When the proprietor goes out and
tells the clerk he is going down on
| Change, the clerk doesn't tell him that
he is going down on change, too, but
he is, nevertheless Cincinnati Post.
Look out! Don't give it away, but
the new style of stoves this coming
winter will bear the following in large
raised letters all around the top: This
is not spittoon. - Wheeling Leader.
John w. Mackay, the Western
millionaire, has counted up and found
that he is worth fifty millions, but is
forever having aches and pains and sad
hours, the same as the rest of us.-Free
Press.
-Anciently, great contempt was ex-
pressed for female cooks. Louis XVI.
would not eat of a dish prepared by
woman. Louis XIV. held the same
opinions until Nine. Du Barry taught
him better.
Fond mother-who is looking over
her sons room previous to the long re-
cess" Why Charles, where did you
get all these bottles?' go! ahi let me
see. They were sent to me by some
ladies to decorate, after joined the art
club"
Two men hunting a squirrel near
Altoona, Pa, chased it into tree
trunk, and found inside the tree several
thousand dollars in gold coin, which
had probably been hid there many
years ago by leading robber of the
vicinity.
So perfect were the Egyptians in
the manufacture of perfumes, that some
of their ancient ointment, preserved in
an alabaster vase in the Museum at
Alnwick, still retains very powerful
odor, though it must be between 1000
and 5000 years old.
AT the wharves of st. Johns, New.
foundland, women do the work of
'longshoremen. They carry hand
barrows of fish to and fro, performing
the same labor as men, but getting less
pay. They also hire out for the fishing
voyages to Labrador.
The Giffard balloon is proving a
profitable speculation in Paris. 1t in
wolves large outlay, but on some days
as many as seventeen ascents are made.
The receipts have reached total of
$4,000. A charge of twenty francs is
made to each person for the ascent.
Don't tell a man you sweat. 1t is