The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-20
VARIETIES.
Alabama taxes pistols.

spring.
Border troubles Matching the
wallpaper.
Fatigue duty-Escorting lady out
shopping,
"A habit that ladies get into-A rid
ing habit.
When one will not, two cannot
quarrel
Floral bells are going out of style
for weddings.
Chicago has three lady lawyers in
successful practice.
Theodore Tilton has made $3.50
this winter by lecturing.
Turkey gave John Bull an inch, and
he took the Dardan-L's.
-Beauregard is one of the judges at
New Orleans baby show.
Grabbing is the favorite fun with
beaus and bellies at Fernandina.
Good intentions are like fainting
ladies-all they want is carrying out.
The short dress for the street is at
last an accomplished fact.-N. Y. Star
"A woman need not always recall
her age, but she should never forget it.
The Chinese adieu is " chin-chin,"
and so is good share of the American
ado.
French lisle-thread gloves are long,
and have the stocking finish upon the
arm.
When is dog most like human
being? When he is between man and
a boy.
Large orders have lately been COM
ing to Troy, N. Y, from China, for
stoves.
If you tell the shoemaker to make
'em rights and lefts'' he'll make 'em
all right.
The Elmira Gazette has noticed that
when a woman is mad she always slams
the door.
Which are the four most corpulent
letters in the alphabet o, B, c, I,
Obesity.
THE horny-handed railroad cor
porations'' is a phrase from Western
editorial.
1t is a sure sign of an early spring
to see cat intently watching a small
hole in the wall.
Miss Ida May, James Gordon Ben
nett's former fdncee, has sailed for Eu-
rope and the gossips are busy again.
"A barber who took a razor in liqui-
dation of claim against a customer
debt razor.
Among the guests at recent Lex
ington (Ky.) wedding were the father,
grandfather and great-grandfather OF
the groom.
What dull set of financiers those
Hollanders are! They haven't had a
bank failure over there for forty years.
-Breaktast Table.
An ebony coffin, lined with white
satin, with lot in fashionable GENE
terry, was one of the gifts proffered to
a popular actress in Paris.
1t is the Boston Post that says
Lent is the season set apart by the
church for the female members to get
their dresses ready for Easter"
"A respected widower of Lebanon,
N. H., aged seventy-eight, has just
married a young widow of twenty-five,
and nobody is making any fuss about it.
With what little friction the earth
would revolve if the suavity of new
beau in the presence of the mother OF
his adored would only become epidemic!
"A London paper thinks that by re-
siding in Europe an American girl can
gradually "get rid of her war-whoop."
American girls don't war hoops now
Boston Post.
Railway travel in Connecticut is
impeded by the fiend who goes through
the train taking the votes of passengers
on the question of perpetual punish
ment. Worcester Press.
Its about time we had some SLAM
ders about political men. Isn't there
candidate who eats pie with knife,
or whose grandfather went barefooted
to church?-OU city CAL.
-Dio Lewis says a man need not
sneeze unless he wants to. He has fig
ured it up, and finds that by not sneez-
ing man can save nearly eleven dol
lars year.-Danbury Ne,OS.
The Cincinnati Enquirer remarks
that if two men marry two sisters it
does not make them brothers-in-law.
If they both live in the same house it
does not make them happy, either.
Sweet little Miss Mary Ann Pope
OF Scriba's been jumping the rope;
At the nine hundreth jump
She dropped down ker-plump,
And now she's an angel-we hope.
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This is the chorus about
there is litigation between the a.
and the publisher in Cincinnati:
Go to sleep, my ba-a-by, my ba-a-by, my ba-a
by;
Go to sleep, my ba-d-by ba-d-by, o by!
The Rochester Democrat thinks that
the Stewart Hotel for Workingwomen
is designed for those who are just
poor enough to be compelled to work
and not handsome enough to get mar
ried."
-Edward-You are much mistaken
the silver dollar you sent us with the
request that we exchange it for a good
one at the bank is not gnawed and de-
faced by rats. That is the new design.
-HdWk-Eye.
One of the few lucky gold-hunters
is w. |. Colnent, of Nashville, Tenn,
who went to the Black Hills two wears