The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
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himself.
Hens come into the world by the
hatchway.
New collars and rufus are wider
than ever
-Basket-woven straw bonnets are the
latest novelty.
California refuses to permit women
to practice law.
Spring birds are month ahead of
time down East.
The hen becomes a rooster when
the sun goes down.
Paper dishes have been patented by
Dayton inventor.
Peace abroad gives us a cotton mar
ket; war corn market.
Rhode Island has codfsh-ball par
ties, and they're tonish.
jet beads add the necessary sedate-
ness to mourning stockings.
Mock turtle-Kissing before COM
pany and quarreling afterward.
1t is more blessed to give than to
receive, but it, not so popular.
81 want you to tell me the bare
footed facts" is a Kansas speech.
A Carolina exchange calls the white
shad "this peerless water bird"
-" De-speech-eti is the latest; it
applies to reticent Congressman.
Some people are like eggs, too full
of themselves to hold anything else.
Lady Duh'erin is styled 'the little
queen by the admiring Canadians.
New lisle-thread stockings are in
bourette colors to match the dresses.
The short dress for the street is at
last an accomplished fact.-N. Y. Star.
New York bellies are urging their
taper fingers into mastic-colored kids.
Members of Il feet aristocracy-St.
Louis girls. Chicago paper lot cowrse).
New chip bonnets are dipped in a
solution of gold to make them yellow.
Countless housewives are preparing
to get whitewash splashed in their eyes.
The Worcester Press wants Sitting
Bull for a professor in Princeton Col
lege.
An honest man is the most lone
some work of the Creator.-R0me Sen
ti1ael.
There are three families in North
Carolina that poll thirty-five Democrat
ic votes.
In 1872 there were thirty-two cir
Gus shows on the road. This year there
are but thirteen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Miles, of
Monkton, VT, celebrated their diamond
wedding recently.
Within thirty months Gov. Nc
Creery, of Kentucky, has denied 1898
petitions for pardon.
1t is better to have blue blood in
your veins than brains in your skull in
Boston.-N. Y. Herald.
Boys were bound to learn trades
formerly, but nowadays they don't seem
to care whether they do or not.
A Kansas editor wants quarters in a
private family where moral example
will be taken in exchange for board.
The fellow who receives a sentence
of twenty years in the Penitentiary can
be called the victim of ''Stay'' law.
A Lewiston Me.) Frenchman drove
sixteen miles to have his baby christ
ened, and when he got home had for
gotten its name.
-Osman Pasha should not have
buried his prisoners until they were
dead. Is this man a mere coroner?-
Buffalo EIpress.
Wait T. Huntington, aged eighty
years, has just resigned his position in
the New York Custom-House after serv-
ing fifty years.
that is to be, has made the best time on
record at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS calls
in one afternoon
George Eliot says that every school
boy can laugh at his sister for an error
in Latin, but that the girl may be worth
a dozen of the boy.
Chicago has $500 liquor saloons for
her 800, 900 inhabitants, giving one sa-
loon to every 178 people, or one to
every 35 adult males.
The editor of the Texas paper
which has for it's motto: "We know the
right and dare maintain it," has just
been lynched for horse-stealing.
Mrs. Phillips, of Hopkins, Ky,
went out to shoot her husband, and by
mistake shot her brother. Moral-Be
sure you're right and then 60 ahead.
"A court in Indiana has recently de-
cided that there is no limit to the num-
Der of persons whom a girl may sue,
simultaneously, for breach of promise.
The Rev. Joseph Cook says that
"Darwin's hypothesis of pangeness in
wolves several untenable subsidiary by
potheses." Very few people supposed
it was as bad as that
"A young woman in Newburg, Wis,
severely thrashed her father because he
would not raise $500 to give her as a
dowry, in order to marry man who
wanted his wife to have that sum.
A subscriber asks us: "What is
good for warts on horsesP We don't
know. We never owned but one pair
of horses-a wood-horse and clothes
horse-and they were never troubled
with warts.
Daniel Pratt, the great American
traveller, considers the passage of the
Silver bill the greatest outrage since the
mutahilitv of the infinite was first as