The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

caulluOWer: DuJ more interesting Stlll,
it was the first place in the world that
had Christian ruler, Sergius Paulus
being pro-consul. 1t was here that
the name of Saul was changed to Paul,
and Cyprus was the country of Barna-
bias, who sold his estates in the island
to assist in the spread of Christianity.
"A New York paper gives the infor-
nation that there are scarcely any old
maids in Russia, and we do not wonder
at it. Russia is cold and disagreed
BILE country. Most any man would
foreswear his liberty sooner than get
up and kindle fires in a climate where
the mercury remains CONCEALED nine
months in the Cincinnati Satar-
day Night.
When the immortal gods look down
and see tall young man at church
sociable, sitting on a low hassock, and
trying to hold plate Of cake, saucer
of ice cream, and Il cup of coffee in his
lap, they knit their brows and think
there is mistake somewhere, and that
young mans knees should have been
made like a beavers tail, flat as
single, eight inches wide, and turned
nat size p.-HdU6-Eye.
Times are indeed hard. Men can
hardly get hold of money enough to
buy bread. But they continue to find
1896, 100000 to pay for liquor in
single year, that being the amount con-
sumed in the United States annually,
according to the estimates of the Hon.
Edward Young, Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics. Bread, indeed! It's a won
der there is money enough left after
that to buy piece of pie.
DR.. Thomas G. Morton, of Phila-
delphia, has received a present of
magnificent picked gorilla, sent him
from Africa by Rev. r. H. Nassau,
missionary on the Ogon River. The
beast is said to have died of dyspepsia,
which proves that the "remorse of a
guilty stomach is not always the re-
suit of dissipation, since the gorilla
was not human enough to be dissipated.
"A little three-year-old girl who
volunteered to say grace at the table
did so as follows: go, Lord, Dress the
things we eat, Dress mamma and papa
and gamma and gampa" and here,
casting up her eyes to her grandfather
in the next seat, and discovering that
he was smiling, the little one closed
her prayer by saying: "Behave your
self, gampa-for Christ's sake, amen.n
The poet of the Franklin Patriot
finds his Pegasus in the patient beast
so many of us have seen:
Out in the blazing sun all day
The old horse stands at the public rack,
hi f1nH Il
play
Dove the WORKOUT saddle upon his back.
Yet he makes no sigh of his sufferings there,
Though his eye looks sad and his head hangs
low,
But patiently waits in the SUMS hot glare
Till his hard-hearted master is ready to go.
In Indianapolis gentleman was in
troduced to a lady at a party, and at
once proposed to her. She accepted in
fun, and preacher being present,
they were married in jest; but the lady,
discovering that the gallant joker was
an eligible financier, suddenly made it
a business matter. The bridegroom
the bride refused and the housekeeping
began at once, the whole thing, intro
duction, marriage and settling down,
taking just seventeen minutes.
The tramps are making themselves
felt in Michigan. The roads are full of
them and the roads are good. All they
ask of the counties is to keep the roads
in repair. The Michigan tramps inau-
gurated special industry during the
harvest. They burned all the moving
and reaping machines they could find,
and in some cases destroyed barns and
stacks. But the peculiar mission of the
Michigan tramps is to destroy labor
saving machines wherever found. But
he is still, like the Iowa tramp, OPP
posed to making a laborer of himself,
as he abundantly proved by refusing all
invitations to the harvest-tield.
-Brakemen find some queer things
that have been left in the cars by pas
sengers. Umbrellas and canes are the
great bonanzas. There are plenty of
satchels, and not few shawls care
fully rolled up and strapped. The
rooms in large depots where such
goods are kept are curiosity shops.
There are spring overcoats, busters, all
sorts of parcels wrapped up in paper,
cigar-boXes, fans, tongs, trowels, dog
muzzles, books, pocket-handkerchiefs,
folding-chairs, rubber-shoes, aud every
thing that any reasonable traveller
could be supposed to carry. These
goods are always returned to their own
ers when called for, but many of them
are never called for.
The Hopkinsville NeW Era men,
tons that California lawyer recently
received fee that was equal to $500
for each hour ne was occupied with the
case, and says that :" even a country
editor could afford to put in couple
of hours week at the same rate of
compensation" Of course he could
afford TO do it, but would he consent to
do it, thus laying himself liable to the
charge of under-working his contem-
porariesP When a country editor or
any other sort of an editor, come NO
and offers to work for such merer lal
compensation, it is duty you to
the profession to kick him in, Jhe
street as fraud, an impostor and a
tramp. -COurier-JOur7lnI.