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

The farmers iuquiry-hay.
Have you turned over new lesf7
A splendid tour in hand--four aces.
Men that lie in wcight--fshermen
An honorable vive-Yice President.
Glue will not mend New Years promises.
A s'ingy man feels poorer than a beggar.
Social parties have commenced to riPen.
Tampering with the male--lhe cuoquette.
The goat is the waste-basket of the animal
kingdom.
The United States Navy is now call a foat-
ing debt.
Stranded on the shores Of time--the man
who is hung.
q run on tick, and time is good deal to
me, says the clock.
Yellow is the fashionable ultra color dre,s
and decoration.
It is as easy to receive advice as nickels
with holes in them.
"Miue is high calling" says the bell
ringer in Trinity stseple.
According to yennor, it is about time We
were having some good weather.
To ee short in his accounts is in CASHIER a
crime, III a reporter ii ISL. vinae. eaRnsz
The bronze stature of Washington ssssee
hero it represents man of metal.
This is brief and to the point, as the
man remarked when he gotof a tin tack.
Reads Grand Datcbtss Cologne is the
sweetest rerfaaiery in America and you'll
find the MIST lasting, il SETS for IS cents per
boltl. aud is kept at Howarl Bros, Co.'s
Station. ap 2o-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. II may not be his.
Charity begins at homeH Very well !
but see that it does not END at home.
Our yonng bachelor friends are now happy.
II now falls on the young ladies to do the
proposing, this being leap year.
The weather has such sudden changes that
it would t.ke thermometer with a stiff hack
bone to stand the strain Of the variation.
The days have commenced to leugh,en grad
aally until fhe 2lst Of June, when they will
have again attained their greatest length.
An exchange speakes of man who 'lies
in critical condition" Most everybody
will lie when they get in tight Ak.
can the worlds stage, and all the men
and women merely players And it may
be added, without irrsvsrence 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.
= man who has happened to haze good
deal ofexperienee SAYS Stand anywhere
but four feet to the len 81 woman ~hea The
harls an old bottle II heu.n
Reads three minute headache and nsnrai-
gia cure is almost monarch for the headache,
neuralgia, rheumatism or any acute pain
made by W II. Read, Baltimore L Light
SIS, Baltimore, Md, prprietors Of Reads
Grand Dutehess Cologne. ap 20-lm
Wee Fanny bit her tongue one day, and
came crying bitterly. "waat is it2'' ask
ed her mother, "ohi MARIA" she sobbed,
my teeth stepped on my tongueF'
Mr.. John Greer has removed from Chan
der's Hope, which he has 80 skillfully culti-
waited as tenant for SO many years, to bis new
home near Hill Top. May prosperity attend
him wherever be goes.
The Commissioners Court was ia session on
Tuesday, but little business MAS transacted. :
Owing to the inclemency of the weather per-
sous having busiress with that body could
not turn out.
Our thanks are due committee OF ladies who
we're kind enough TO extend Us an invitation
to attend their Leap Year Hop. at The resi-
denee Of Mr. F. b. Madd; and lhey will also
please accept our regrets for our inability to
attend.
wonderful discovery. -Reads thFes min
ute headache and neuralgia cure is tue Non-
der Of the 10th century as hun dreds upon
hundreds VI UuF best ciitzeas have been cured
ia Two niniites ufintents neuralgia and sick