The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-06

came to this country poor Irish boy.
We might give other illustrations, but
these two are sufficient to show that our
struggling American youth made a
great mistake by not coming to this
country poor Irish boys.-Norristown
Herald.
"A Springfield (Mass.) young man,
recently married, who has been an en-
thusiastic collector of coins, found the
other day that his new wife, with the
charming freshness characteristic of
brides, has been drawing on his cabinet
for change, and among other things
had passed out an old penny, for which
he paid three dollars and half, for a
cents worth of yeast. He coined some
new words for the occasion, and the
bride threatens to go home to her
mother.
An ex-President of the United
States is a victim of the Back-Tax law
of Missouri. The Hillsboro Democrat
contains two orders of publication of
suit by the Collector of Jefferson County
against :" said defendant, U. S. Grant, :"
who is ordered "to be and appear at
the term of the court to be begun and
held at the Courthouse in the town of
Hillsboro, within and for the county of
Jefferson and answer why he should
not pay the seven years delinquent
taxes on certain lands owned by him in
the county aforesaid.
"A sad case of restitution is reported
in the Fourth Ward. A young man,
one of the brightest pupils in the Bur-
ington High School, was very anxious
to go to college. He had packed his
trunk, bought his books, and was all
ready to start for New England, when
his father, with tears in his eyes, con-
fessed he was too poor to buy the young
home and give up his bright dreams of
learning. The distracted family are
heart-broken with grief and disappoint-
ment.-HaW6-Eye.
LEGAL TENDER.
81 almost doubt" said Nelly, blushing,
whether
It's quite the thing to squeeze my hand SO
tightly,
And close as we have viewed the moon to-
really fear you're not behaving rightly"
"Then till the case is formally decided,
II squeezings, after all, sin SO mighty,
Some fitting hands, | said, 'should be pro-
vided
To hold the property, pe'tdette lite"
So, Nelly's con entious doubts to smother,
And from remorse, dd interim, relieve her,
She gave me legal powers, to save all bother,
And left the effects in my hands-as Re
ceiver!
-Ed,tor's Dracer, IN Harper's Magazine for
Amd.
Mark Twain's latest heroine dresses
thus: Her gown was of simple Ma
genta tulle, cut bias, traversed by three
rows of light blue founces, with the
selvedge edges turned up, with ashes of
roses chenille, overdress of dark bay
tarletan, with scarlet satin lambre-
gums; corn-colored polonaise en- pan
Ter, looped with mother of pearl but
tons and silver cord, and hauled aft and
made fast by buff velvet lashings;
basque of lavender reps, picked out
with Valenciennes, low neck, short
sleeves; maroon necktie, edged with
delicate pink silk; inside handkerchief
of some simple, three-ply ingram fabric
of soft saffron tint; couture of forget
me-nots and lilies of the valley massed
round a noble calla."
The most unique trade yet is
that reported from Upton, Iowa. Eight
or'nine years ago two Michigan men,
Stevens and Kepler by name, traded
wives, Kepler getting $500 to boot and
all the children. Soon after all the
parties drifted into Iowa, where they
have since lived. A few weeks ago
Stevens left Upton, saying that he was
going TO look up new location, and
he managed to get the household goods
shipped in his wife's name to Marshall
town. Two weeks having elapsed, Mrs.
Stevens became uneasy about her man
and her goods, and followed them to
Marshalltown, where she found him
keeping house with another woman
who proved to be his first wife, the
men having agreed to retrade! But Mrs.
Stevens No. had not been consulted,
and she refused to sanction the bargain.
As things now stand, Kepler is minus
wife, Stevens has his children, and Mrs.
Kepler is "out'' husband and children
both.