The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
VARIETIES.
-Blue-gray jet is coming.

"A course remark" Who won the
race?''
Key West has sixty-nine cigar fac
tories.
An old hen don't prophesy an egg
till it has happened.-BtlItngS.
"A New York druggist keeps beef
tea constantly on draught.
"A stick in time saves nine-some-
times when the fire is low.
Three North Carolina neighbors are
the fathers of forty children.
Three hundred Boston firms and
residences use the telephone.
About one couple in sixteen mar
ried in Vermont are divorced.
If a man has nothing to do, and
can't get work, why not go fishing?
"A very scarlet necktie don't look
well under subdued brunette face.
If your dinner-bell has lost its clap
per, you can still have your napkin
ring.
Boston had in January 1,225 cases
of scarlet fever and over $50 cases of
diphtheria.
A Texas legislator moved to ex-
empt the dogs of widows and orphans
from taxation.
"A cradle in Connecticut family is
over 200 years old This must be the
crock Of ages.
Mississippi has no national banks,
Louisiana none outside of New Orleans,
and Florida only one.
"A paper at Columbus Ind, advises
people not to call man liar when
the ground is frozen.
The battle is not always to the
strong. Mr.. Garlick, of Indiana, has
gone into bankruptcy.
During the past year not a single
mile of railroad was built in Georgia,
Mississippi or Arkansas.
The great question, "Does it hurt
a man to hang him?" is thus answered:
1t hurts his reputation"
Omaha boasts of grocer named
William Gentleman. 1t is alleged that
he sands his sugar. just the same.
"A lady in Mount Sterling, KY, now
but eighteen years old has been mar
ried six years, and has three children.
The first hours of slumber are the
sweetest. If ever man sleeps the
sleep of the Just, it is when he's Just
asleep.
"A Providence woman whipped a
saucy tramp with an old arctic shoe.
She played the rubber, and won.-N Y,
Herald.
Mrs. Margaret Herbert and Mrs.
Catherine Tilton, twin sisters of New
Jersey, recently celebrated their nine
tieth birthday.
Boiling hair in solution of tea will
darken it, says an exchange; but some
folks don't like to have their tea dark
ened in that way.
Many mothers raise their daughters
on the principle of teaching them first
to play the piano, second to dress, third
to dance, and sew forth.
Miss Alice Walton, of Muscatine,
Iowa, collected over 1000 specimens of
butterflies last year. She has the larg-
est collection in that State.
-"Do you see any grapes, Bob?"
eyes, but there is dogs" big dogs,
Bob?" Eyes, very big" "Then come
along-those grapes are not ours, you
know"
The unrelenting wiseacre who plays
sad havoc with the fruit crop every
year is little behind time this season in
sending his report to the press that the
buds are all killed.
Said friend to bookseller: "The
book trade is affected, suppose, by the
general depression. What kind of books
feel it most?'' Pock&-books, was
the laconic reply.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
decided, :" for a man, without some in
nocent reason or excuse, to put his arm
around the neck of another mans wife,
is an assault and battery"
There is one thing calculated to de-
velop all the latent pedestrian ability
woman has in her, and that is to be
caught out in a shower with her Sun
day bonnet on, and no umbrella.
1--WE had short-cake for tca," said
little girl to neighbours boy, to whom
she was talking through the fence.
so did we,' he answered. Every
short-so short it didn't go round"
There is at least one advantage
about bald men, and that is, man who
10 D1iI 10 lDlC w SuOW
polish than anyone else, even in the
simple act of removing his hat on meet
ing a lady.
Good helps the man that helps
himself, but God help the man caught
helping himself herer' is anotice posted
behind the counter of silversmith's in
Boston. A double-barreled gun hangs
near the notice.
There is man in Warren County,
N. c., who has been married five wears
and is the father of seven children.
The first time his wife presented him
with boy; the second, triplets; the
third, another boy, and the last twins.
"A child, remarks the SATURDAY. Re-
vie,0, who gives away his toys and loses
them is likely to fail in after life. A
child who holds good grip on his own
toys and breaks those of his neighbor
is likely to be an eminently successful
man.
81 don't lose no sleep worrying
about the silver question:" said Orig
gins; "for it makes mighty little differ
ence to me whether have to pay my
debts in rock salt or cabbage leaves.