The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-12-28
VARIETIES.

Boston transcript.
The snOw-shovel market has an
upward tendency.
The Ameer is a regular George
Francis Train-all blow
-Talmage says the pulpit should
never be afraid of the news.
George Eliot is a widower. His
that is-her husband is dead Free
Press.
Louis A. Cooley, who died the
other day, was an editor for forty-seven
years.
"A law is proposed in Texas to ex-
emptmaimed Confederate soldiers from
taxation.
-Fernandina, Fla, has some natur-
allied Cinnamon, three of whom voted
at the late election.
Heller had such magic that he
| changed tricks into $500, 200, which he
now leaves to his heirs.
--Lorne writes poetry. So Canada
is now like Mrs. farley, she "keeps a
poic'' of her own.-Free Press.
1t costs less than eight dollars to
cremate a dead body at Berlin, while it
cost $3.50 to bury one plainly in New
York.
There is no usein Talmage running
down clubs, when every paper in the
land is crying: Now is the time to
get up clubs"
DIR. Riley declares that "insects
have been known to be INSANE" and
the Albany Times asks: . Does he al
lude to the loony-tick?"
The Norristown Herald thinks the
song of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany is Hank, hear an Angel Sing
Sing-Angell now is on the wing"
A soft answer turneth away
wrath" If a man says that you are Il
liar, answer HIM kindly, " SO are you"
and see how his wrath will disappear.
The women were allowed to vote
on the lager-beer option question at
Plymouth, n. H., the other day, and
sale of the liquor was prohibited by q
vote of three to one.
"A courtly negro recently sent a re-
| ply to an invitation, in which be ere
GREETED that circumstances repugnant
to the acquiescence would prevent his
acceptance to the invite
The New Orleans Times offers a
medal valued at 500 for the best poem
expressing the gratitude of the South
toward the people of the North for its
kindness during the epidemic.
When the daughter of a Russian
nobleman goes into an institute for her
education, she is not allowed to 90
home until she leaves for good; 50 that
she has no home life in her girlhood.
One of the privileges of wife is
to coax twenty live dollars from her
husband and then make him a Christ
mas present of pair of ten shilling
slippers.
The marriage of a San Francisco
widower to his stepdaughter 50 dis
pleased his neighborS that they stuck
tar and feathers on his door as hint
of what they would do if he did not
move away. He moved.
The first person the Princess Louise
danced with in Canada was printer
named Stevenson. The next with Sir
Hugh Allen, of Pacific scandal fame.
Stevenson quit the printing business
some time since, and is now colonel
and II illionaire.
"A Sunday school boy of Holyoke,
Mass, rather nonplussed his teacher,
when she was telling how God pun
ished the Egyptians by causing the
frst-born in each household to be
slain, by inquiring: "What would God
ha, Il : Fl l,,l
"A Virginia woman offers to sell her
husband by auction, and apply the pro-
ceeds to the liquidation of the State
debt. g | can recommend him to pur-
chasers," she adds, "as man possess
ing all the qualities a woman capable
of controlling him could desire"
AT a recent marriage in a surbur-
ban town, the bridegroom, when asked
the important question if he would take
the lady for better or for worse, replied
in a hesitating manner, "Well, think
| will" Upon being told that he must
be more positive in his declaration, he
answered.: "Well, don't care if do"
Mrs. Power, of Philadelphia, is not
SO economical as Judge Hilton. She
Ciu plOO . lOul NdlClllHCu W SudIu INC
grave of her husband. The vigil will
be kept up for two years. She is re-
solved that no power on earth will take
Power from the earth. Free Press.
Miss Hosmer, the sculptor, is de-
scribed as below the medium size, but
active and graceful. She has a broad
forehead, clear gray eyes, very cheer
full, winning features, and short hair
When interested and little excited,
she might pass for thirty years of age,
though usually she might seem nearer
forty.
I. A farmer of Washington Coun-
ty, Pa, aged eighty, married a girl of
twenty. III. The brides elder brother
had previously espoused the grooms
only daughter. Ill. The old gentle
man, therefore, is his son-in-la laws
brother-in-law, and his wife is her sis
ter-in-law's step-mother, and her
brothers step-mother-in-law, etc, etc.
Nothing like caution. Too many
of our young people rush into matri-
mony without giving sufficient thought
to the matter. Not so Mr. Edward
Ketchum, and Miss Lizzie Wanzer, of
New York. They were married recent
ly after a courtship of forty years. Ed
ward is ninety and the blushing Lizzie