The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-01

poetry.
A man may make his in visible
and yet see it.
The blush of maiden is nature
signal of warning.
Not one man in Il thousand marries
the girl he most wanted.
Jennie June says that putty color
is very fashionable. It's very putty.
There are five different men who
claim to have invented the greenback.
Rum blossoms, according to the
New York Mail, make toper's nose
gay.
For the list of firms who haven't
failed, please see our advertising col
umns.
-Angle-worms, for fishing, should
be dug the day before and left in the
grass.
-" Going to Paris?" Non, non, mon
Sieatr. Jenat pas le Spondule1.-RocheSter
Chronicle
"A Mississippi tramp lived justly
ty-one minutes after striking farmer S
wife with an AK.
The Marquis of Lorne and Earl
Dunraven will visit this country for q
buffalo hunt next fall.
Thank goodness there is one place
where prosperity is still to be found
in the dictionary BreahtdSt Table.
If there is anything in the world of
more uncertain tenure than minis
ter's salary, it is woman's thimble.
Let young men be patient in their
wooing, for maiden's love may be
cold on her lips, yet warm in her heart.
The Cincinnati Commercial says
the eyes of fashionably -coitfured fe
male may be compared to "glow-worms
in a furze bush"
"A bill-poster at Atlanta, Ga, heads
his cards with the following:
1t is not birth, nor rank, nor State
It's "get up and get'' that makes me great"
"A woman in Burlington, Iowa, set
tied a breach of-promise suit on the
payment by the defendant of five dol
lars and costs.
"A young man in San Francisco put
out one of his eyes while taking off q
shirt; a spiral stud did the mischief.
Moral: Never wear shirt.
Barrett, the actor, refused to give
recitation for the benefit of clergy
man at Detroit. He said his profession
owed nothing to the clergy.
The test of chivalry in New York
is giving up your seat in a street car to
lady. They do not put her to the
test of replying: "Thank you"
1.-THE biscuit" says newspaper
writer, sis the national gastric clog,
the huge spore-germ of self-propagating
and self-perpetuating dyspepsia"
-" Widows over fifty" is an express
sion by the New York Commensurate
vertiSer. 1t is absurd. There are no
widows over fifty.-Bufalo Express.
An unusually affecting sight at the
funeral of Mrs. Susie Harris Mather, in
Rutland, VT, recently, was the baptism
of her month-ol babe with its dead
mothers name.
Baltimore consumes more tea than
any other city in the Union, and they
don't plant it, either. Free Press.
Hence the word Bawl-tea-more -
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.
The Prisoner Your Honor, you
said three months when you began; now
you say six" The Court" EXPOSE
ton times, you know; everything
doubled. Next casen'
New York has just discovered that
one of her restaurant keepers is a
Baron, and his nose doesn't look half
so red as it did when he was supposed
to be simply fer.-Free Press.
"A youth who has been reading
dime novels gets off this sort of poetry:
Mother, let me be an Injun,
Let my blanket be of red;
Kill the rooster in the barn-yard
For a feather for my head.
I wouldn't give ten cents yard
for all the pedigree in this world; if
man haz got level head on his shout
ders, and an honest harte in hiz body,
he haz got all the pedigree L am in
search ov.-JOsh Billings.
Chicago papers brag that they pub
lished more about the Cincinnati whis-
ky frauds than the Cincinnati papers
did, but the Cincinnati daiiies had the
most news about the big Chicago fire.
Free Press.
When a pauper dies within easy
reach of the Ann Arbor University,
the budding surgeons 90 into executive
session and "move to lay the whole
subject on the table" And it is gem
orally carried and put there. -KaIana-
200 Gazette.
Edwin Booth has never set foot in
Washington since his brother assassi-
mated President Lincoln, and he is I'M
derstood to have taken solemn oath
never to visit the capital city. Accord
ingly, Washington play-goers are COM
PEELED to visit Baltimore to see him.
Unless the managers at the Paris
Exhibition advertise their programme
in the Norristown Herald, we cannot
promise them many visitors from this
part of the country. If their old show
is failure, we shall know what to at
tribute it o.-NOrttStoWn Herald.
"A little boy in Sioux city Sunday
school put poser to his teacher. The |
lady was telling her class how God |
punished the Egyptians by causing the
first-born in each household to be slain. |