The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-12
VARIETIES.


The ladies are now looking at their
furs.
Queen Victoria has twenty.six
grandchildren.
Who can understand a cornstalk.
Camden Post.
The Earl of Dunraven owns Estes
Park, Colorado.
-Squashes are cut gourd this season.
Bradford Breeze.
Very light fringes, composed Who'll
ly of wool, are out
The beladcholy days have cub
London Advertjser.
The song of the top-Hum again.
boston transcript.
There is gill of whisky in every
twentv-one ears of corn.
The late Gov. Axtell, of New Mex
leo, was Mormon Bishop.
indians are not at all contagious.
They are very hard to catch.
The Nevada tramps are having a
good time robbing Cinnamon.
1t is beauty's privilege to kill time,
and times privilege to Kill beauty.
Some of the peach men are light
weight boxers. Cincinnati CONNER
ciul.
An Iowa item tells of culprit be-
ing in the clutches OF the red-eyed
law"
Lottery investors always look
out for the number won.-N. Y
Herald.
Rev. Joseph Cook is said to make
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year by his
lectures.
In all well-regulated families the
hired girl has to getup and dust.-BoS-
ton Globe.
The world without woman would
be perfect blank-like a sheet of pa
per-not even ruled.
The revised statutes will soon be
ready for distribution, Mr.. Boutwell,
having completed the work.
q love men, said Queen Chris
tine of Sweden, "not because they are
men, but because they not women.n
"A ranchman in Wyoming COM
plains that mountain sheep are getting
into his hocks and degrading the stock.
"A prisoner, when asked what trade
he wanted to learn, said: "If there is
no objection | would like to be sail
or"
The American Consul at Barcelo-
ma, Spain, believes that American coal
can be proftably exported to that coun-
try.
Who says there are no heroes?
ChaS. Brown, of Chicago, married Il
widow with twenty children Free
Press.
The city of Soochaw, China, has
over 100000 people. Marking has
between 100000 and 4,000,O 200 inhab-
itants.
-Soliloquy by tippler-The public
always notices when you have been
drinking, but never when you are
thirsty.
"A smart woman suggests to us that
what IS needed in our public schools
are principals, not men.-Keobub Con-
Stitution.
Gen. James Longstrect, ex-Con-
federate, who has been appointed Rev
enue Agent, is said to be in destitute
circumstances.
The man who is not afraid of war
or yellow fever is generally afraid to
take out paper of tobacco in the pres
ence Of a crOwd.-Pucb.
1t is said that mosquitoes are bred
upon the waters. In that case they
will return again before many days
Nel0 orleans Picayune.
"A camper-out who went for his
health says he is heartily glad to get
home so that he can recruit for another
season of healthful pleasure next year.
AT a very low estimate there are at
least $500 incendiary policy-holders
annually in this country, who burn up
S5,5OO,OOO worth of property every
year.
ANY man pays too much for his
whistle who has to wet it fifteen OF
twenty times day.-Cincinnat Satur-
day Night.
-Talmadge says that the average
wy lllC pei lllClOuS uSC VI lODdC-
co on cigar stump which his father OF
some minister visiting the house has
thrown away.
The London World says that there
is no insolence like the insolence of the
well-born and well-bred to give Of
Tense and intlict pain. The sharper the
barb the deeper the wound.
The longest night in Norway lasts
three months, and when a young man
goes to see his girl, her mother, before
retiring, tells her not to ruin her health
by sitting up more than two months.
"A clergyman asked some children
"Why do we say in the Lords prayer,
who art in heaven, since Colds every
where's" A little drummer boy an
swered because it's headquarters. -
w. F. Parker, of Nashua, has had
the measles every year for twenty
years. They break out at exactly the
same hour of the same day each year,
and the case is a puzzle for the doctors.
"A Boston young man married
against the wishes of his parents, and,
in telling a friend how to break the
news to them, said: "Tell them first
that I'm dead, and gently work up to
the climax"
Reading, Pa, well-diggers the
other day found two large, live green
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