Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-11
L0caL Brerifses.

The farmers inquiry-hay.
Have you turned over a new leaf7
A splendid four in hand-four aces,
Men that lie in wcight-fshermen
An honorable vive-Vice President.
Glue will not mend New Years promises.
A stingy man feels poorer than Leggar.
Social parties have commenced to ripen.
Tanperng with the maie-the cuoquette.
The goat is the waste basket of the animal
kingdom.
The United States Navy is now call a floa at
ing debt.
Stranded on the shores of time--the man
who is hung
81 run on tick, and time is a good deal to
me, " says the clock.
Yellow is the fashionable ultra color dress
and decoration.
1t is as easy to receive advice as lickels
with holes in them. #"..
'Mine is high calling" says the bell
ringer in Trinity stsepe.
According to Venuor, it is about time We
were having some good weather.
To oe short in his accounts is in a cashier 4
crime, in a reporter it is virtue.
The bronze stature Of Washington is like
hero it represents man of metal.
This is brief aud to the point as the
man remarked when he got off i tin tack.
Reads Grand Datcbcss Cologne is the
sweetest rerfumcry in America md you'll
find the most lasting, il sells for % cents per
hottie and is kept at Howari Bros, Cox =
Station. APP 2U-lm
Good resolutions so offer die in BIRTH
Several have already been laid out
Do not Judge ola mans character by the
umbrella he carries. 1t may not be his.
CHARITY begins at home" Very well ;
but see that it does not ''end' at home.
Our young bachelor friends are now happy
1t now falls on the young ladies to do the
proposing, this being leap year.
The weather has such sudden changes that
it would take a thermometer with stiff back
bone to stand the strain of the variation.
/ The days have commenced to lenghten grad
ually until the 2lst Of june when they will
have again attained their greatest length.
An exchange speakes of man who tiles
in critical condition" Most everybody
will lie when they get in tight AK.
"All the worlds stage, and all the men
and women merely players" And it may
be added, without irreverence to Shakespeare,
very poor players, most of them.
The decreased number of marriages during
the year just closed, compared with previous
years, show that the young men haven't done
their duty. This beng leap year, we hope
the girls will do better.
A man who has happened TO have good
deal of experience says: "Stand anywhere
but four feet to the left of woman when .he
burIs an old bottle at hen."
Reads three minute headache and neural
pia cure is almost "A monarch for the headache,
neuralgia, rheumatism or any acute pain
made BY W H. Read, Baltimore Light
SIS, Baltimore, Nd, pr'prietors of Read 5
Grand Duchess Cologne. ap 2O-lm
Wee Fanny bit her tongue one day, and
came crying bitterly. "Waat is it?" ask
ed her mother. '0h, mama, she sobbed,
q my teeth stepped on my tongue p
Mr.. John Greer has removed from Chan
dIer's Hope, which he has SO skillfully culti-
waited as tenant for SO many years, to bis new
home near Hill Top May prosperity attend
him wherever he goes.
The Commissioners Court was in session on
Tuesday. but little business VAS transacted
Owing to the inclemency of the weather per-
.ous having business with that body could
| not turn out.
Our thanks are due committee ladies who
xere kind enough TO extend US an invitation
10 attend their Leap Year Hop, at the resi-
dence of Mr.. r. D. Mudd; and they will also
nease ACCEPT our regrets for our inability to
attend.
A Wonderful discovery Reads three min
n,e headache and neuralgia cure is tue won
der Of the 10th century as hun dreds upon
bnndreds OF our best citizens have been cured
II Two minutes ofintents neuralgia and sick
headache, after using every thing the. could
hear of, md trs ing all the doctors IN vain =
pa,dls three minute headache cure sell for IS
.an,s and is kepl at onr friends, Howard
sr',,hers ril COLIN