The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09
VARIETIES.

Electric belles--Female telegraph
operators.
The young ladies' question: "Is he
married?''
Diet for training baseball players
Batter pudding.
"A lecture field that no man has yet
taken-Kate Field.-NorriStoeC7e Herald.
1t takes a regular corner dandy to
strike a natty-tude.
Frog culture is new and protita-
BILE kink in Minnesota.
Free canals will result in an I'M
tolled amount of business.
Spanish colors-old gold, yellow
and black-are in fashion.
Table linen is embroidered in col
ors, with initials in each corner.
Punch notices that the baldheaded
men comb their heads with towels.
=" Real-estate raffles'' are announced
in Texas. They draw lots, you know.
1t is estimated that 100, 900 persons
signed the temperance pledge in Illinois
during the year 1877.
Industry may be the road to
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the country if he follows it.
Don't linger where "your love lies
dreaming" Wake her up. and tell her
to get the breakfast.
"A Mr.. Crane is to be hanged in New
York, and the Free Press wants Long
fellow to write up the affair.
In Russia husband may appear
nc N 1awS,,it araipc t his
wife-if he has the grit to do so.
"A Richmond saloon-keeper has
been fined forty dollars for failing to
register the sale of a glass of beer.
Gone gone Except one-one that shows
How constancy endears;
Ny faithful watch! 1t never goes
1t hasn't gone for years.
-"How can / leave thee?" said
Adam to Eve. She made no reply, but
calmly pointed to a fig tree in the dis
tance.
If Virginia is the "Mother of
Statesmen we suppose it's in order to
suggest that Pennsylvania the Pa"
N Y Commercial advertiser.
-" She likes to talk with men better
than with women" says a Washington
correspondent of Gail Hamilton. Moth
ing strange about that; they all do.
The indianapolis Journal says that
an unfortunate man who fell under
railroad train twas badly broken up,
although not dangerously injured"
Oil has been struck in the Black
Hills. For the benefit of gentlemen
who have been interviewed by the ma
tives of that region we hope it is hair
oil.
The New Orleans Democrat is urg-
ing vigorous warfare upon the Louisi-
ana lottery monstrosity, and calls for
the forfeiture of its charter by the Leg
islature.
Your room is better than your
company" as the examiner of a bank
rupt insurance corporation said to its
President, as he glanced at the elegant
offices.
Mother Now, Gerty, be a good
girl, and give Julia kiss, and say
goodnight" Gertie-" No, no! if |
kiss her she'll box my ears like she did
papa's last night"
Our friend H. has a four-years-old
who generally winds up his evening
prayer with ''God bless everybody !;
but lately, from some prejudice he has
imbibed, he adds the words Except
tramps."
He was kind husband and offered
to take his wife sleigh-riding, but when
she got in she went through the bottom
of the sleigh, and he lay awake half the
night to hear her opinion about it.
Rome Sentinel.
Sixty thousand commercial travel
ers are employed by the wholesale mer-
chants of the United States, at an aver
age annual expense of $4,000 at least,
making the aggregate the enormous
sum of $3.50, 100000.
Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets, and his pipe in his
mouth, Looking on to see how it is COM
ing out Good luck is man of pluck
with his sleeves rolled up, and working
to make it come out right.
"A bashful young man applied to
his village paper for information on the
important subject: "How to win a
woman's love" The reply was: "Kiss
the babies, caress the cat and pay strict
attention to the girls mother"
III lids DtCUlHc tOO luC CuSUOIu
of persons advertising for employment
to refer to their religious views. The
following appeared some time ago:
Wanted-A man to take care of a
horse of religious turn of mind"
The Sweet Singer of Michigan
sends the Graphic the following, hastily
flung off: ''If you feel little pale,
think of joiner and the whale, and the
frightened face of joiner when he
thought himself a goner." Very good.
"A Michigan editor, unable to live
on thirty-fve cents a week, has buried
his ambition and his journal in one
grave. When genius persists in giving
way to his extravagant appetite melan-
choly results like this are simply inev-
table Ourier-JOur71al.
Susan Dickie Oliver
Had pile of Silver,
So they took and shut her up
And said that she was crazy!
Fine sister, fine doctor, find her insane,
But the Court lets her out--free once again
~ y. Graphic.
The Senate has recommended the
appropriation of $4,000 for the How