The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-13
VARIETIES.

nis SAID off.
do mIhe women who do fancy work
uon I fancy work.
"A compositor makes money'hand
over nst.- Philadelphia Sunday Item.
"A fellow can't dig clans without
noying mussel. Cincinnati CONNER
Neither married nor SINGLE" is
tne way they class widowers in Maine.
free Press.
IN habits gather by unseen degrees.
40 brooks make rivers, rivers run to
seas.-Dryden.
And now Boston physician says
SnaI long walks before breakfast bring
on dyspepsia.
--Ihe person who retires with the
Sun must have warm bed-fellow.-
Hochester Cypress.
:. anybody can give advice. Taking
~ o Is The difficult part of the job.-Nea0
Orseq'as Picayatne.
You can telegraph all the way to
cape Town, South Africa, now, but it
costs $2.S73 word.
The ague tackles man with a
nearly "Shake, old boy; glad to see
you. "-Nea0 Orleans Picayu1ae.
Idiot fringe will be the favorite
sYle OF hair dressing among our most
advanced swells this summer.
When you make a note of hand,
wite only on one side of the paper.
Lave the other side for the indorser.-
Fire Press.
An invisible hair-net is not invisi-
BILE b long shot when carried along
the sVeet on a young mans coat-but-
ton.-Iree Press.
-" Irise for information" said
memberpf a legislative body. 81 am
very gladto hear it," said bystander,
emo anvants it more"
-Drydel wrote that half the good
feeling in giving was in the keeping still
about it, bu there were only a few
newspapers N those days.
"A young man at Canton, Ohio, has
sued his own mother for $4,000 for
SANDER. She circulated a report that
he was drunken and thievish.
In former times offenders against
the law were put into the stocks now
adays it is first stocks and then law
breaking. Boston Transcript.
There is nothing more disgraceful
than that an old man should have moth
ing to produce, VS. proof that he has
lived long, except his years.-SemecG.
1T is said titles can be bought
abroad for from one hundred to five
hundred dollars. The Norristown Her.
aid says this doesn't include the title of
a gentleman.
-" What a woman can do" is the
title of an article in an exchange, but
what we want TO know is, what wom-
an can't do when she makes up her
mind.-N Y. Mail.
-Forney's Progress copies the fol-
lowing epitaph from a tomb near YER
sailles: d" Except in 1859, during which
for several days she took lessons on the
piano, her life was without stain.'
According to statistics lately pub
lished by the Health Department of
New York City, it appears that Burling-
ton, Ia, is the healthiest city in the
United States; Stockton, CAL, stands
next.
To have the bride stand under a
floral horse shoe, and each usher wear
tiny one on the lapel of his coat, in
stead of the old fashioned 6outonniere,
is the newest development in the horse
shoe mania.
The happiness of your life depends
upon the quality of your thoughts;
therefore guard accordingly, and take
care that you entertain no notions I'M
suitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Antonia4S.
On flat in Chincoteague Bay there
is now goose-roost upon which half
million wild geese pass the night. They
seek the island shortly after dusk and
remain until daylight, cackling SO
shrilly and continually that the fisher
men on the shore find it difficult to
sleep.
"A New York inventor claims to
have discovered a process for making
all fabrics waterproof; but what is more
needed is an invention to make milk
cans waterproof. Or the cow. We
believe it has never been definitely set
tied whether the water leaks through
the cow or the can.-Norrasto,0 Herald.
Famine and diphtheria are destroy
ing Russians in the interior of the En-
pire, but the fate of millions of the poor
and obscure does not enlist the sympa-
thies of the world. 1t takes the sor-
rows of an Imperial household to move
the eloquence of historians and draw
tears by telegraph Cincinnati Com
naerci0t.
As Mr.. James Russell Lowell now
holds our most important foreign mis-
sion the following lines from the " Big
low Papers, are quoted to show his
earlier views on the subject:
81 du believe tits wis an good
Tu send out furrin missions,
That is on sartin understood
An orthodox conditions
l mean nine thousand dolls. per ann,
Nine thousand more for outfit,
An me to recommend man
The place would just about fit"
The Deadwood Pioneer, a copy of
which is before us, says: " In the Black
Hills two hundred young women could
find remunerative employment as serv-
ants. The trouble, though, has been
that in population such as ours, where
there are ten men to one woman, it is
a rare thing that they remain single