The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-18

accustomed at the close of each week
to ask her scholars to recall its impor-
tant events. When the usual question
was put, the other day, youngsters
hand went up with surprising rapidity
and he triumphantly exclaimed: I" Mrs.
Tilton has confessed"
THE prettiest girl in Paris this
year." says the New York Herald, sis
an American girl" What nonsense is
this? The prettiest girl anywhere, and
at all times, and under all circumstances,
is an American girl. This too ingenu-
Gus newspaper will be telling us direct
ly that apples are apples and cheese is
cheese.
"A resident of Montgomery County,
Pa, has exchanged his farm of 104
acres, with the buildings, implements,
crops and stock, valued at $45, 900,
clear of incumbrance, for a theater in
Philadelphia subject to a mortgage of
$40, 900, and has given $4,000 to boot.
In year or two he Twill have the eX-
.perience."
When Mr.. Greeley once upon a
time was lecturing in Indiana, in the
palmy days of State banks, the commit
tee of one town paid fundamentally y
in notes of the local institution. He
looked at them, and then said: could
not you give me, instead of this stuff, a
well-executed counterfeit on some East
ern bank?"
There is an old coin-collector in
Ohio who claims to be the only original
Artemus Ward, and contemptuously
regards Charles F. Browne as an imi-
tator. But somehow the old coin-col-
lector has not given the world any of
those inimitable stories with which Ar
temus Wards name was associated,
since Browne died.
1t was the fault of the compositor.
The editor headed a report of the we'd
ding, Another Happy Pair" and the
printer made it read, "Another Sappy
Pair" and the bridegroom is mad
about it. He stopped his paper and
withdrew his advertisement-and yet
some persons think the printer was
more nearly correct than the editor.
just one," murmured he, invol-
UNFAIRLY drawing closer to the luscious
lips that smiled upon him with such
ravishing bewitchingness, while his
own quivered in an agony of eXpectant
anticipation. $50 | notice. replies
she, coolly, glancing at the clock, g and
time for you to turn up your coat-collar
and shut the door from the outside. "
He went.-Danbury Neo0s.
This is the way one of the ladies
who belong to the atlantic MOnthty
Contributors Club remembers things
''Gen. Forrest was buried the day my
new hat came home. Hayes was inaug-
urated the spring | made over my ole
silk. Dickens died when Jenny was 6
baby. Lincoln was killed when Mary
was creeping. The civil war broke out
when Sallie was cutting her teeth. The
King of Spain was born the year was
married"
DROPPING CORN.
Pretty Phoebe Lane and |,
In the soft MAY weather,
Barefoot down the burrows went,
Dropping corn together.
Side by side across the field,
| Back and forth we hurried,
All the golden grains we dropped
Soon the plowshare buried.
Bluebirds in the hedges sat,
Chipping low and billing.
- vi 'uIIvs' rfislI,I Is whining - -
So whispered: "Phebe, dear,
Kiss me-" Keep on dropping"
Called her father from his pillow:
There's no time for stopping"
The cord was loosed, the moment sped,
The golden charm was broken;
Never more between us two
Words of love were spoken.
What little slip, sometimes,
All our hopes releases!
How the merest breath of chance
Breaks our joys to pieces!
Sorrows cup, though often drained,
| Never lacks for filing,
And we can't get fortunes kiss
When the maid is willing.