The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-21
VARIETIES.

The King of Ashantee has 1881
wives.
Serious quarrels often grow from
triles.
1t costs ten cents a day to live in
Japan.
Widow Vanderbilt is the belle of
Bristol, VT
Catherine de Medici invented the
side saddle.
-Hay-hay fever-shows which way
the nose blows.
-H9del's was the first execution in
Germany since 1866.
Anxiety rather than overwork is
the cause Of sickness.
The barefooted boy will soon be
trying to pocket his feet.
Turkish wheat growing has proved
very successful in Kansas.
Any color, so that it is red, will be
in favor this fall and winter.
The first piano in the United States
was made at Philadelphia in 1875.
All honest men Will bear watching.
1t is the rascals who cannot stand it.
Certain locomotives are deemed
unlucky, and drivers dread to travel on
them.
Iowa expects that the next census
will make her the fifth State in the
Union.
Song of the baker: 81 Knead Thee
Every Hour" The first note of the song
is dough.
Young man, in beginning a court
ship be sure you don't write, and then
go ahead.
-" Figures won't lie" That's an
other. How about a girl with all her
"fixings'' on?
Mr. Miguel Rul, Mexican gentle
man, claims to have invented the pho
nograph in 1873.
Brass is more priced in Africa than
gold. A Chicago drummer would bring
$3.50 by dead weight
The Shah of Persia has ninety
wives; but he can afford it, for spring
bonnets are not known in his country.
"A farmer in Dakota County, Mimi,
had his reaper, left in grain field,
broken entirely to pieces by a gang of
tramps.
In Alabama the largest crop of corn
made in many years will be gathered
and the price will be the lowest since
the war.
The young ladies of Vassar are not
allowed to have pets within the college,
other than the regular professors.
Darabnry Nea0S.
Delaware can ship 100000 baskets
of peaches this year and have plenty
left at home. They were all killed last
spring, you know.
Out OF a total of 100000 Chinese in
the United States, $4,000 are in San
Francisco. The white population of
the city is about 36S,000
We never knew but one man who
had absolute faith in humanity, and he
advertised for lost umbrella in this
paper last week. Camden Post
The proper time for a girl to mar
ry is after she has counted up her cash
and found that she can support herself
in case her husband turns politician.
In 1874 there was to be a new
church built at Norridgewock, Me-, and
it was 'voted to buy one barrel of good
w. |. rum to be used at the raising
When one side brings out BIG
cannon the other Size plates its ships.
When one side brings out an iron-clad,
the other invents a torpedo to destroy
it.
"A man was hung recently at Union
Springs, Ala. Before the procession
formed the military band PLAYED
"DiXie" and 1.-The Girl | Left Behind
Me-"
An Albany clergyman was recent
ly telling marvellous story, when his
little girl said: "Now, pop, say, is
that really true, or is it just preach
ing?"
Some clothing was stolen recently
from the office of the New London
Telegram. The editor must have been
taking bath at that time. DanteLson-
gitLe Sentinel.
"A widow once said to her daughter:
"When you are of my age it will be
time enough to dream of husband"
Eyes, mammal replied the thought
less beauty, for the second time.'
-Narvaez was Spanish soldier and
a devout Catholic. AS he was about to
die, the priest asked "Do you for
give your enemies?'' The reply was
grim one: - haven't any; | shot
them ALL"
Lady giving an apple to little
boy: "Give this apple to the one of
us three here whom you think the
handsomest.h The boy looked for a
moment at all three ladies, took the APP
pie, and--ate it.
If man works for week and gets
nothing for his labor, he takes it for
bad luck and says nothing; but when
he spends five minutes in sharpening
lead pencil, and the point breaks off,
he swears like a mailman.
What volume of domestic misery
these two little lines contain: six
million bottles of hair restorative were
sold in the United States last year"
But as long as the birds make nests we
suppose people will love and take the
consequences.
"A Mendoza Qll.) man, who had
several homely daughters, got the local
editor to publish rumor that he was
a desperate old miser and had seven
barrels of gold buried in his cellar, and