The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-30
VARIETIES.

On the rail-A scolding woman
N. Y. Mail.
Russia sends out millions of suuir-
rel skins annually.
The English furriers advertise Ar
Kansas fox as a new fur.
How to make a noise in the world
Strike for a blacksmith.
Bray is the somewhat suggestive
name OF a Montreal editor.
Throw physic to the dogs; lie none
OF it. And it was castor away.
He only is independent who can
maintain himself by his own exertions.
1t is not easy to straighten in the
oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
Did you ever see an Indian Pawn
ees overcoat? Cincinnati Saturday
Night.
The total cost of ocean mail service
last year was S197, 276, a reduction of
Oslo.
North Carolina can figure up a
crop of 10000 bushels of peanuts and
only half try.
For of all the sad words that ever
were written, the saddest are these: q
got the mitten.''
An old woman in North Carolina
tainted few days ago at her first sight
of a railroad train.
"A practical joke is poor fun, be-
cause the laugh doesn't reach all the
way round.-N Y. NeaUS.
A man ninety-two years of age was
baptized by immersion in q creek near
Benton, Pa, few days ago.
Many goodly leg is lost in battle;
thousands of brave fellows walk proud
ly into war and hop out of it.
Sweet cider, even if just from the
press, is condemned by the Massachu-
sets Total Abstinence Society.
The family which makes bio show
at a funeral'is always the first to put up
a cheap tombstone.-F'ree Press.
When you have met the enemy and
you are theirs the feeling is not quite so
hilarious, you know.-Free Press.
Germany turns out annually 800
doctors thoroughly educated, about 100
OF whom emigrate to foreign parts.
Hannah More has gone West to
get married. She won't come back
Hannah More OtGaCa Republican,.
-Thackeray says Humor is wit in
love-" Is it? Now we always thought
it was buckwheat in the blood. -KeoEub
Constitution.
1t has been suggested that feathers
be used to trim hotel pillows, but no
one ever goes to bed in hotel expect
ING such favors.
-Edison's electric light has been pat
ented in London, Paris and Berlin. He
intends to pull the Berlin wool over gas
mems eyes in the latter city.
1t is well that no man can tell lust
how elections will 90. Ii such was the
case we'd all want to be candidates. or
else all would refuse to be.-Free Press.
The Rome Sentinel asks: .How
sleep the brave?" Like top, old boy;
like top since the old lady put flannel
blankets on the bed.-UHc0 Observer.
The man who goes to church SIM
ply because he has nothing else to do
may not be a heather, but he is GER
tainly an idle worshiper Bridgeport
,St0nddrd
80 Uneasy lies the head that wears
a crown" OF course it does. And
this is the reason Kings and Queens
don't sleep with their crowns on.-Nor-
rjStOW12 Herald.
"A young Detroit printer, who parts
atfectionately with his young lady at
the garden gate, refers to the tender
occasion as sup to the time OF going
to press. free Press
"A sewing machine agent, who was
very i'll, being told that he must pre-
pare to pay the debt of nature, wanted
to know if it could be paid on the
monthly installment plan.
Gen. William B. Hazen, of our
army, who was ordered to Vienna about
Il year and half ago, with instructions
to observe the organization of the Aus
trian army, has returned to New York
The man who can't leave thirty
two feet of air-holes in piling one cord
of wood upon his wagon has some
thing yet to learn in this world-some-
thing which is of great Importance to
his heirs.
The New York Mail can't see why
it should be sign of ill-breeding for
man to walk with his hands in his
trousers pockets. 1t is not. 1t is SIM
ply sign that he is not candidate for
office and don't want to shake hands.
1t is not the servant girl who is I'M
der arrest in Allentown, Pa, for open,
ing her mistress letters, but exactly
the reverse. The servant received let
tiers from her lover, and the mistress
yielded to curiosity and read them.
The chief of police of a town in
Minnesota has issued an order to the ef-
feet that "all persons whose cows are
found running at large in the city limit
will be impounded." A more effective
process, on the whole, than to impound
the cattle.
Edison feels discouraged. On APP
plication he finds that he cannot get a
patent on his new boy. The article
infringes too much on prior claim is
sued years ago to man "named
Adam, and Eve, his wife. "-Chicago
journal.
Bishop Wilson of Calcutta was
travelling to his diocese, when breeze
sprang up, then asquall, and at last
matters got so bad that the skipper
came below with grave countenance.
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