The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-16
VARIETIES.

Cremation is now one of the rites
of women.
New Jersey is becoming famous
wine State.
White, Washer & King is an Atchi
son (Kan.) firm.
There are four female BARRIERS in
New Albany, Ind.
The latest style of stocking has
Piccadilly collar on it.
Gloucester, Mass, is the champion
fishing port of the world.
Woman commits hairy-carry with
switch. And she likes to get hirsute
to match.
Julia A. Moore, the Sweet Singer
of Michigan" has new incentive to
write nursery rhymes.
To spread suspicion, to invent cal
umnies, to propagate scandal, requires
neither labor nor courage.
AS week after week brings need
after need, how can we help but confess
ourselves week-need communityP
- The old gentleman who married
four girls out of the same family was
very sister-matic in his proceedings.
The Danbury NeOS wishes to know
why women, unlike men, do not have
parties on their twenty-tirst birthday.
One of the hardest things for
woman to do is to maintain economical
notions while looking in a milliner's
window.
Patent 100000 has Just been issued;
but that does not represent the total
number, as previous to 1886 the issues
were not numbered.
Places of business will be closed
and an air of solemnity will everywhere
prevail on the coming st. Patrick Day.
1t will fall on Sunday.
The latest use of the telephone is
for armies in the field, to guard against
hostile surprises. BY its employment
either side can tell a fo'n minute.
Speaking of cleanliness, Mr.. Tai
mage says that he has baptized Eeople
who were so dirty that he was tempted
to leave them at the bottom of the tank!
The Oldest Mason has turned up
again, this time at Unity, Mass. He is
Col. Nathan Huntoon, ninety-siX years
old, and was admitted nearly seventy
five years ago
The Detroit Free Press thinks this
has been a very rough winter on the
peach-growers, because they have not
had any excuse to spread the customary
annual frost-killing report.
Nothing exasperates an expectant
heir so much as to come upon a para
graph that tells about the hardy old
man or the tough old woman who has
just passed into a new century.
A new American industry for wom-
en- is the manufacture of lace with the
aid of the sewing machine. Macrame
lace is fast gaining favor and is taking
a prominent place among laces.
-Topsham, VT, is scandalized over
man of forty-three who has just mar
ried his fourth wife, thirteen-years-
old girl, when her predecessor had been
buried only about four weeks.
Lady" But l scarcely want an
other gardener; there is so little work
for him to dor' Modest gardener
"Oh, l hain't ambitious, my lady.
The least bit in the world'll do for me!'
Funny Folks.
-Four well-known bon UiUants of
Boston had dinner the other night
that cost $3.50. There were thirteen
courses and six kinds of wine, and it
ook the chef two days to prepare the
anquet. Hard times?
Episode in a political convention at
Titusville, Pa: The Chairman" The
Chair will not dispute the point with
Mr.. Carter" Mr.. Carter-'The Chair
had better not unless he takes his coat
Off" The Chair did not
Faith is generally represented as a
bedraggled female clinging to sea-
washed rock, but for simple, trusting,
undetiled faith point us to an editor
paying postage on the paper of delin-
quent subscriber Democrat.
Bronze guns, we areinformed from
Europe, are supplanting iron ones.
The fashions are always changing. If
our readers have any iron ones we adj
wise them to wear them out before get
ting these new bronze affairs.
"A father lately induced a croupv
little boy to make healthy little meal
of buckwheat cakes and molasses, but
the latter proved to be sirup of squills.
The boy said he thought something
allied the molasses the very minute his
ather told him to eat all he wanted.
We used to be told when we were
boys that pound of lead weighed no
more than pound of feathers. We
didn't believe it at the time, and we are
still led'to doubt, when we notice that,
no matter how high lead goes, in the
price current the finest feathers are
quoted as down. -Philadelphia BuL-
letin.
WHAT" asks recent writer, "is
the hardest time in boys life?' Our
boy says it's when he has to TEMPORARY
iy suspend perusal of thrilling chap
ter in 1.-The Phantom Cheese-Knife; or,
the Diabolical Demon of Rattlesnake
Gulch," to go downstairs for kindling-
wood to light the fire for the sixth time
that morning.-N. Y. Commercial.
"A curious instance of the decline
and death of whole industry is brought
to mind by the statistics of imports and
exports during the past year. Hoop
skirts, the manufacture Of which once
kept numerous large factories constant
ly employed, had already fallen so far
out of fashion in 1876 that only ten dol