The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17

city in the Union. The birds mock all
other birds, call up dogs, police, etc,
and occasionally create a fire alarm by
sounding four long and shrill whistles.
"A little girl was reproved for play
ing out doors with boys, and informed
that, being seven years old, she was
''too big for that now" But with all
imaginable innocence, she replied:
Why, the bigger we grow the better
we like 'em.
-" Angelina, here, on my Bonded
knees, assure you that l love you and
you only. My thoughts are but of you,
MY" go George, L am so glad
you love me, because, dear, this is ice
cream season." George wilted.
"A gossiping woman, intent on
SANDER, went into neighbours and ex-
claimed, as she threw herself into a
chair: One-half the world doesn't
know how the other half livesn "That
isn't your fault" quietly responded the
neighbor.
-" Now" said the teacher, " when l
say: The clouds are broken, what do
you understand by clouds?" The old
est boy in the class thought a moment
and then said he would naturally sup
pose the clouds to be railroad freight
compact H0Uk-Eye.
"A child being shown the picture of
Daniel in the lions den, began to cry.
Don't cry, pet" said the mother,
"God won't let them harm hair of
his head" "Oh, l amt crying for
that; but just see that little lion-Daniel
is so small it won't get taste"
Wives of great men all remind us
We can make our wives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Widows worthy of our time.
Therefore give your wife a send-off
By the life insurance plan;
Fix her SO that when YOU end off
She can scoop another man.
Within the limits of York county,
Pa, there lives a man who has never
been outside of his house since some
time during the war. He reads most
of the time and does odd Jobs about
the kitchen, but he will not step into
the yard even, for fear of being drafted
into the army.
THE man who hesitates is lost"
Jes' so And the truth of this asser-
ton is never so apparent as when a
fellow reaches after the unattainable
in the shape of a sumner" and is
finally glad to avail himself of a term
which he might have met without q
cOntOrtion or strain.
An applicant for position as
teacher in Il high school recommended
himself to the board by saying that he
had "been teaching deestrick schools
these four year, The board decided
not to hire a teacher that didn't know
how to spell fore" better than that.
Detroit Post.
The following advertisement is
taken word for word from the n orth
Bend AdUertiSer: Wanted, place of
solitary retirement by person thirty
years of age, who wishes to exclude
himself from all society and live as a
hermit for any period not exceeding
seven years, on suitable terms"
Betty McGruder, a colored woman
living near Mt. Washington, in this
State, says that in 1896, when fourteen
years old, she passed through Louis
logs, the other of boards, and that she
has never seen the place since. Such
have been the changes wrought upon
the appearance of the city, even with
in the brief period of ninety-two years.
that if she We're to see it now she would
hardly recognize it as the same place.
-COWrier- Journal.
IN THE PARLOR.
Between the dusk and the daylight,
When the shadows longest grow,
There comes a silence on all things
It's the hour when one speaks low.
We sit in the parlor together
And heavily on the air
Floats the faint familiar fragrance
OF the heliotrope in your hair.
And in the kindly twilight
| see your dark eyes shine;
/ feel the touch of your garments,
Of your soft white hand in mine.
And one might see in the parlor,
When the day is almost done,
On the wall two tremulous shadows
Of faces melt into one.