The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-09
Republican.
las. A. HAYDEN, Publisher.
OAKLAND, GARRETT CO., MD.
VARIETIES.

favor.
Twins are the philopena of mar
riage.
"A green countryman makes fat
faro bank.
Certain cure for the Colorado beetle
Stop its grub.
Mrs Southworth has published
forty-three novels.
Cross-ties-Married couples who do
not agree well together.
Leather belts studded with steel
nail-headS are new glitter.
The Union Club of New York
spends $4,000 ayear on servants alone.
Women used to $500 pew can't
descend to 1915 Observing Se1tofa
"A japanese husband can get di-
vorce if his wife disobeys his mother.
The four daughters of man named
Pints are known as half gallon O
'lasses.
Every male citizen of Atlanta, Ga,
is taxed five dollars for the maintenance
of the streets.
The Georgia Legislature is consid-
ering law prohibiting the selling of
tobacco to minors.
AS politician the cat is a success.
None can beat him in his efforts to
maintain position ''on the fence"
Why is the money you're in the
habit of giving to the poor like newly
born babe? Because it's precious little.
1.-Two bits worth of complexion
is the way the Santa Barbara belle puts
it as she meanders into her favorite
drugstore.
In Virginia, when young lady de-
clines an offer to convey her home, the
lover asks permission to sit on a fence
and see her go by.
Ten children in one family at Roch-
ester, Mimi, were attacked with diph-
liberia at the same time. Four of them
died within a week.
The gas works at Portland, Me-,
are crowded daily with children and
babes, taken there to inhale the gas as
q remedy for whooping-cough.
"A few years ago 20 per cent of the
men who enlisted in the British army
signed their names with a cross. Now
adays hardly 5 per cent. cannot write.
"A kitten that is drowned before it
gets its eyes open is saved the pain of
growing up and getting its tail pinched
by the woodshed door.-FNltOn Times.
Short dresses aye slowly but surely
thought it was the long dress only that
accumulated real estate Cincinnati
Gdzette.
One by one the roses fade. 1t is
now boldly denied that the men who
wear long hair are possessed of any
more talent than those who have it
clipped close.
1t has been discovered that the best
way to prevent apples from rotting is
to put them in warm, dry cellar, and
let a family of fifteen children have free
access to them every day.
-"C-o-l-o-r-s,' said a Sunday-school
boy, slowly spelling it out" coat of
many collars-why did it have to have
so many collars, teacher? So they
could lift him out of the well easy?"
Under the significant heading of
"Polk-Hayes'' the Danbury Ne,oS says:
"Mrs. Hayes agrees with Mrs. Polk in
Directing to dancing in the White
House"
-Maddened wife of member whose
election has been invalidated for brib-
cry: "Anul Thomas electionP It's
an infamous outrage! Let them make
the voters give back the money, then"
Punch.
"A widow of Jersey City, who pro-
tested against paying her poll-tax I'M
less she was allowed to vote has had
the amount stricken off her bill of assess
ment by the Board of Finance, and
thus gains her point
az rode in the carriage with the
widower," said the cook, on her return
from the obsequies of friend, and
then added: "He said the funeral
would have been nothing without me-"
Boston Transcript.
Two thousand Milwaukeeans have
signed the pledge and eased their Wis
consciences.- Boston Post. But they
are still living in Whisky-on-sin.-Ph
ddelphiG Bulletin.
"A young lady of Williams, Iowa,
wishing to return young gentleman |
his ring, attached tag to it with his |
name thereon, and dropped it in the |
Post Office. On the back of the tag
was written: 81 hate to, but must"
An editor having read in another
paper that there was kind of tobacco
which, if a man should either smoke or
chew, he would forget that he owed a
dollar in the world, very innocently
concluded that many of his subscribers
had been furnished with the article.
He had brought her the very things
she wanted from the supper-table to her
safe retreat on the stairs, and she was |
moved to say, half laughingly: You
are a man after my own heart, Mr.. |
B-r' "Just what / am after" he |
answered, quick as flash, covering her
with confusion.
"A Philadelphia man is under bail
for $500 for trial for the larceny of one |
cent. According to his story, q neigh
Dor gave him ten cents and asked him |
to buy a bucket of coal for her. He |
took the fuel to her, but forgot to pay |
her the one cent received as change, |
and she caused his arrest.
There are 1877 members in the Mis-
I nne;Clnft,Ya To-, h.