The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-13

Young ladies should always be good
examples for young men to follow.
"A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS baby was
born at Lowell, Mass, the other day.
All the police stations in Boston
have been supplied with telephones. 3,
1t is not true that the Princeton
students scalp the freshmen they kill.
Fashionable ladies of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, roll ten-pins at the bowling par
lors.
"A Marshalltown Qowa) life has
just been saved by the Notwithstanding
plan.
The New York Post calls paper col
lars the emblem of advanced civiliza-
ton.
"A Georgia paper reports there is
manifest increase of insanity in that
State.
"A dog saved the Beverly (Mass)
National Bank from being robbed few
nights ago.
London girls receive one cent for
embroidering the " clock on a stock
ing.
One of the papers in Augusta, Ca,
was printed in green ink on st. Pat
rick's Day.
If you want to keep your boy at
home, make it pleasanter for him than
in the street.
What is the most warlike nation?
Vaccination. Why? Because it is al
ways in arms.
"A Spaniard makes cigarette papers
of water crosses. They are said to be
very healthful.
Mr.. Nettle was recently married to
Miss Thorn. That's what you might
call "a prickly pair
The tramp is beginning to weary
of cold turkey, and is asking for spring
lamb with mint sauce.
"A Mrs. Whitney, of West Farms,
N. Y, is the mother, grandmother and
great-grandmother of twins.
There is an area of forty acres in
North Carolina that has yielded over
$1,000,000 in gold since the war.
Capital Lodge, No. l, of Madison,
Wis, organized in 1856, is the oldest
Good Templar lodge in the world.
The Friendly Grasp is the proposed
title of a new paper in Boston. 1t will,
of course, be printed on hand-press.
--Quilp says that Lent is a season set
apart by the church for the female
members to get their dresses ready for
Easter.
Here is the salutatory of new ed
itor down in Maryland: "What | have
to say to this community will be said
gradually"
1t takes a great many bricks to
build house; but the more man car
ries in his hat, the less he will find his
house a-growing .-Breaktast Table.
"A prize baby from st. Francois
County, Mo-, is to be set up as show
in st. Louis. 1t is only thirteen months
old and tips the scales at 100 pounds.
The man who made the picture of
Lucretia Borgia and the prairie rooster
on the new silver dollar was an English
man named Morgan Chicago Journal.
"A young woman of Woolwich,
Me-, aged twenty-three, married man
of eighty-three on payment of 81 1000,
which was the price he offered and she
was sold for.
Mr.. Stodger-" How be your wife
a-gettin' on, Mr.. Henpeckin?' Mr..
H be most mortal glad, Mr.. Stod-
ger, to say she's a-recoverin' very slow
lyn'-LondOn Fun.
A girl in Ohio last week married
wealthy old sardine aged ninety-two.
Her young, but discarded, lover has
credit now in every place in town.
Washington Capital.
No wonder the girls are ready to
tread the uncertain path of matrimony.
Mrs. Dennison has made enough out of
THAT Husband of Nine to buy a
brick house with two bay windows.
"A Mitchell County Qowa) grang-
err, widower of three weeks, per-
suaded Charles City hired girl to
marry him after conversation of five
minutes. She had never seen him be-
fore.
The Mobile Register says of the
affair in Alabama in which student
seeking to murder another student
was killed: Both acted gallantly and
manfully, displaying the highest cour-
age"
Thousands of deluded and suffer-
ing housekeepers in America will be
pleased to learn that the inventor of
the bed-lounge was torn to pieces in
shingle-mill at Bay City last week.
HGe0k-Eye.
81 wish l might de-" said a sem
timental maid, as she stood rubbing
the shoulder of her dress with benzine;
and yet, the very next time he came,
she let him lay his head right on the
same spot.
The Queen of England has pre-
scented Dorchester woman with three
pounds for being the mother of three
daughters at birth. Victoria is here
by rendered the free use of these col
umns to explain whether she wishes to
be understood as encouraging that sort
of thing. Worcester Press.
"A young man of twenty recently
took to wife a Pennsylvania widow of
fifty, the sole proprietress of couple
of paying petroleum wells. OF him it