The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
"A hard case-Turtle shell.
warm Season-Penner.

Inc united OIdUeS consume ABOUT
eight tons of paper collars day.
"A young Oil Citizen calls his
girl Revenge, because she is sweet.
Straight standing collars thatreveal
the Adams apple are thought stylish.
The swallow-tailed coat is slightly
shortened, and rolls very low in front.
"A raw oyster to the eye will allay
the swelling caused by saying a man
lied.
No monument to the Brooklyn fire
victims has yet been reared at Green
wood.
Martin Moran, of Covington, KY,
challenges anyone to compete with him
in fasting.
Samson was an eminent tragedian
in his day, and in his last act brought
down the house.
Meet the house-fy with a dipper of
scalding water, and convince him that
he is mistaken in the house.
One of our Yonkers horsemen calls
his latest purchase Regulator, because
all the other horses go by him. Yon-
EerS Gazette.
The academy girls in Western
city performed 1.-The Kiss in the Dark
at their celebration. How often did
they rehearse?
&C don't know as | can tell exactly
what Noah folks lived on" said boy
to his teacher, "but l guess they had
Ham in the ark every day"
"A colored youth, John c. Whita-
ker, will graduate from West Point this
summer. He is from South Carolina,
and stands forty-fifth in class of sixty
six.
The members of the Massachusetts
Medical Society are discussing the adj
visibility of admitting women engaged
in the practice of medicine.
-"Brazir s Treasury is empty" Dom
Pedro, old boy, shake; two souls with
out single cent, two hearts that long
for tin-but when did you start news
paper?- Democrat.
If Edison would get up a little pho
nograph for dollar that would simply
say: "Come around about the 10TH
it would have big sale among bust
ness men.-Brea6faSt Table.
Miss Annie B. Irish, Nebraska
girl, is assistant private secretary to
Secretary Schurz, and reads and answers
all his German, French and Spanish
correspondence.
1t is queer circumstance that the
uniforms now worn by the New York
police were manufactured in San Fran
cisco, while the San Francisco Police
Board has just sent to New York for
uniforms for the police of San Fran
cisco.
The late Speaker Kerr died poor
moneyless, in fact. He had overdrawn
his pay account to pay bills at New AL
bany and as soon as the family had
collected his life-insurance theyremitted
the amount to Congress.
st. Louis cannot be far behind Chi
cago in divorces. The Republican tells
of little girl who said recently: sit
is too bad that a girl should have ia
Their and mother and two stepfathers
and two stepmothers, all living at once,
and not home that she can feel at
home in"
Nov WELD the girls the mallet-sticks
With strange infatuation;
And meanwhile play fantastic tricks
Win loudeSt examinations;
Their mallets swing the game to win,
Regardless of the friction;
Till suddenly one strikes shin,
And, though she struggles hard to grin,
She shrieks her mallet-diction.
= -HackeaSack Republican.
An exchange says that "doing
business without advertising is like
winking at pretty girl with green
goggles on" But there is some diff
Guilty about this statement. In the first
place, man who doesn't advertise
doesn't do any business to speak of,
and pretty girls are not in the habit of
wearing green goggles. -BreakfaSt Ia
Die.
Eliza Maury, daughter of Capt M.
f. Maury, is at the head of a woman
movement in Virginia to rescue the Old
Dominion from disgrace by paying its
debts. She proposes organizing and
appointing an agent in every town for
the " Woman's fund for the liquidation
of the States debt" Country people
are invited to contribute a pound of
butter or dozen eggs, and "town folk
need not give quite as much as usual
for their best bonnet and dress"
An observer of the ways of all sorts
of idiots has noticed that if polite
young man is invited to join crowd
before a bar, and replies "No, l thank
you," or uses similar words of declina-
ton, he is looked upon as decidedly
"fresh." But let him simply say: Il
amt drinking to-day" and, if further
pressed, repeat the words in an impa-
tent, almost angry, tone, and the
"code'' is satisfied, and he passes for a
good fellow all the same.-Courier-
Journal.
An interesting case is reported from
Boston, where Agnes r. Donaldson, a
young woman of twenty-five, has
starved to death, after being unable to
eat any food for the last three months.
While at work in Pawtucket Or. ~
thread mill three years ago she crushed
a finger so that it had to be amputated.
From the shock to her nervous system
she never recovered, and her stomach
became badly diseased, so that she was