The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14
VARIETIES.

High back combs are in great de-
mand
"A toothpick isn't the worst toilet
these days.
Truth is not drowned in water nor
burned in fire.
= The man who is honest from policy
needs watching.
Gold fish were introduced into
England in 1851.
America takes the prizes for paper
at the Paris exhibition.
-Chas. O'Connor, aged eighty, re-
tires from law business.
He who smiles at another's mis-
take forgets his own ignorance.
London girls get a cent for en-
broidering clock on stocking.
No first-class hotel will let a guest
wash his shirt in the china pitcher.
The great need at Cyprus is a jail,
hand-organ, and a bob-tailed street
car.
Why is lady $ foot like locomo-
tive? Because it usually goes ahead
of a train.
William Penn also remarked that
it was just rs easy to love rich girl
as a poor one.
African princes require their
brides to have their teeth filed like
those of a saw.
One Goldfish yields 900, 600 eggs.
This is what keeps up the aristocracy.
Boston Herald.
When a pickpocket pulls at your
watch, tell him plainly that you have
no time to spare.
The weather rule is said to be: A
cold winter, a cool summer; mild Win
ter, hot summer.
1t is said a Mrs. Grow, of Mounds
vile, Va, hung herself without cause.
-NeW Orleans Picayune,
The negroes of Sulphur Springs,
Texas, began ''protracted'' meeting
in February, 1877, and it isn't over yet.
In the United States there are $50
women practicing as doctors, 42O as
dentists, as lawyers, and 6S as preach
| erS.
There are not enough holidays.
There ought to be one more in every
State. Let it be the day on which the
Legislature adjourns.
-Woman's rights, or writes, rules
the Harper establishment, Ten out of
seventeen contributors to the Septem-
Der Harper are women.
Hey yer got emmy more O. that
sweetend salve, mister?" was the
delicate way in which an agriculturist
asked for u fourth plate of chocolate
cream.
Mr.. Jolly Death is London detect
i've. He is q good one, but he doesn't
gather in so many rogues as the elderly
member of his family who keeps the
cream-colored horse.
"A New York woman says: ''Were
it not for the self-Sacriticing women of
the land who marry and support so
many men, the number of tramps would
be largely increased"
Judge Sedgwick, of New York, sue
ceeds Judge Hilton as the target of in
| furiated woman. He has decided that
persistent scolding justifes divorce
suit as much as does a blow or kick.
Kansas may brag of her corn-stalks
fourteen feet tall, but the true philoso-
pher will still realize that a cabbage
only twenty-four inches high has the
bulge on whole wagon load of stalks.
Free Press.
During a severe storm a boy near
Baraboo, Wis, named Archer, who
was out with cattle, had wonderful
experience. The lightning struck,
knocking him and thirty cattle down,
and moving three lengths of fence.
The boy and cattle were stunned, but
all recovered.
The New York Tribune says that
this years charitable work among the
tenement-house poor of that city has
had most excellent results. The pro-
portion of deaths to the number of
cases of sickness treated was but l in
155, and the number of families visited
was enormous.
The opening of the Suez Canal has
proved the ruin of the overland trade,
by caravan to Bagdad and the Persian
Gulf, which formerly supported ancient
Damascus. Many of its houses and
shops are now empty, and its streets
are filled with beggars, where they
were formerly rarity.
Il want, and will have, wife
without falling was the remark of a
young man who had had three seasons
experience of life His sister, with only
a country girls philosophy, remarked:
'"Then you'll never marry, because,
should YOU find such woman, she'll
be sure to want a husband of the same
character
"A young lady at Lestieville, an
eastern suburb of Boston, could not de-
eide between two aSpirants for her
| hand, and told them to decide the mat
| ter themselves, discarding dueling.
They boat-raced, the winner being so
exhausted that he could not get out of
his boat for some time; but he walked
home with his prize, who had been
spectator.
A somnambulist in Herkimer Coun,
| ty, n. Y, rose from his bed and walked
mile in undress with lamp in his
hand to call upon his sweetheart. She
and her mother were about retiring for
the night when they answered his
knock. In establishment they conducted
him to chamber, receiving his eXpla-
nations in the morning, and procuring