Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25
Loc0I Rrepfffes.

Local BreUftIes.
A CRATE irdustry-Raking the nre.
Leap year proposals are still in order,
washington's birthday is the next ho''u"'
Report is quick traveller, but not ="
guide.
This has been good winter for dsaie'' :
rubbers.
A game which is played on the SQUARE
Checkers.
The holidays being over, turkeys NV
breathe freer.
"EIhalted Shanghai berries" means ~
English eggs are uP.
A cyclone 10 the west makes the in"'''
tanis feel dreadfully blew.
The sales Of the Court House rubbish mA0'
on Tuesday aggregated $500.
The choice Of sheep at the Wills sale OrOOS"'
81. Sheep are in demand--for the dogs
The biggest cabbage heads are not always
the best, but they have the largest hearts
If "time sets its seal on all things WI!
hasn't every old maid sealskin sseque
Judge Stones family left for Annapou "
spend the remainder Of the winter on n'u'
nesday.
Reads Grand Dutcbess Cologne is n p.
sweetest perfnmery in America and you =
find the most lasting, it sells for 70 cents =.
bottle and is kept at Howard Bros, OOi =
Station. ap 2o-lm
What is the difference between the nor'n
and south poles2 All the difference III Tue
world.
When she will she will; and this is the year
she wills, and you had better be prePAreu'
young man.
Does . bonnet sing because it Is covered
with birdsr Ne; bat tue husband that pays
for it whistles.
Mush is the great breakfast dish now among
the girls of the period who want to get iA''
heavy and clumsy.
Our thanks are due Hon. Leigh ". South
erland for sending US the Journal oil Inc
Houze proceedings.
When the poet says "Scft be thy slumbers,
he means that the young lady shall not snore
hard.
Open your ears wide and listen for predlc'
tons concerning the peach crop. Vi course
the buds have all been killed.
The Presidents cabinet is valuable piece
of furniture. SO is the weather bureau. But
the most popular Is good lounge.
Why is it that, when church is burned,
nothing is so difficult to save as the organ Z
Because the fire engine cannot play upon IT.
II takes Brooklyn girl to look ahead
She married at fifteen 80 as to have her gol'
den wedding when it would do her some
good.
Ebenezcr Shugar, of Screven, Georgia, has
just married Jane Lemon, of the same locality. I
The little Lemonades will be heard from later.
Ten hours is considered full day IS work,
and yet some young men act as ia girl could
be courted sixteen hours without being tired.
Reads three minute headache and neural
gia cure is almost monarch for the headache,
neuralgia, rheumatism or any acute pain
made by W H. Read, Baltimore L Light
SITS, Baltimore, Md, prnprietors of Reads
Grand Dutchess Cologne. ap 2O-lm
"Yes," said Harlem man, 'Im rather
glad, on the whole, that there's law against
gambling on Sunday. 1t gives US one da!
to saw wood"
Brother G.rdiaer says: Happiness am often
a roostin on de lover limb, vile VI AN.
barkin' our shins pokin bout to FIN it in de-
top Oh de tall tree
Cold weather may be invigorstng and
helthful, rs the doctors assert, but for rea-
sons too numerous to mention it is not alto
gether desirable when spread on thick.
Quite crowd were in Port Tobacco on
Tuesday. Being the first pleasant Tuesday
for n month or more persons having business
in the county seat awaited themselves Of the
good day. About every other man you met
WAS a candidate for tobacco inspector, tax
collector or road supervisor.