The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-01-18
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/ He FAMILY THAT NEVER ltEAD 4
NEWSPAPER. Tho second night after
left your city, put up At the large brick
tavern, known rs - House. The pro-
prietor in answer to some intcrrogatorics
informed me, that he owned 400 acres
of land, had raised the present season
SEQ bushels Of wheat, $50 bushels ofoatl,
and expected to harvest 1900 bushels Of
corn-that he owed no man a dollar; and
never took newspaper in his life.
had great curiosity to learn how
family kept up with the current news
9th day, when deprived of the only
means of obtaining it.-Soon after en-
tered the family circle, which consisted
olthc parents, and six children, the eldest
a daughter on the shady side of twenty
fvc,-thc mother commenced with:
"ilister, do you know whether that
great Mr.. Webster is hanged yet Z"
Eyes, Madam
Wal said the daughter, 4 allow he'll
not MAKE any more of them are spelling
books.'
Isupposc not
l've lived so long in the world, said
the mother with deep sigh, and new
or seed any body hanged yet. | always
thought I'd k to see one hanged, but il
never happened to come right, and I'm
getting so old now, don't expect ever
will. I've iced the sarcus and caravan
and SIGH kind of shows, but I'd ruthcr
seed one fellow hanged than fifty ofthcm
shows
Stranger said the daughter, there's
going 10 be an animal show tomorrow
down here bout six miles, maybe you'd
like to Icy over and 90 down. Brother
Jccms saws, they've got two snakes there,
The same kind as what can sWaler an
elephant, bat don't believe there ever
was any SIGH snake-do you!'
NO, Miss.
oval, then, the iography lies replied
! Ieems youth OF some twenty-five years.
Il allow it dors, said the mother.
why shouldn't them geography folks lie
just like other ioIksN
''NIother,' said .Jsems, you don't know
nothing what you're talking about. Don't
de United States make all the jogra-
phicsi What's the use of putting lies
inlo 'em. They make EN- every ten
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~ ,.'o Wv, ,'i,,, 90.
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asking SO many tarnal questions about
Stranger, your supper's ready
PRINTERS AND PRINTlNG.-J.T. Buck
;nrhom. in his series of "reminiscences,
| in course OF publication in the Boston
Courier, speats Of the importance of the
printer toau.hors, as follows:
"Nany who condescend to illuminate
the dari; world with the fire of their ce-
nius, through tie columns STA newspa-
per, Iitllc thinll oftbe lot OF the printer,
| who, almost srlocatcd by the smoke of ,
Iamp, sits up till midnight 10 correct his
| false Grammar. bad ortilcrrapby, and
worse punctuation. I have seen the
@rgnmeh'" OF lawyers IN h'So f"P,'e as
$cho'afS, SEM 10 '''e PRIME III '''V'r own
''"hd "!''n's, ln'4L N"'"9---'i'1' esP'o'
any "'0"''c", ana loi''sI' t'I us -sD"'c-
''a'co' WORDS hliS'F '''''.,; az" It" Ut
no points, anu 'to i9"' =" "'e'e "''e
any e'-'ilC1y o"' u l'l,'Ie' '''-'' seI'l
sermons o. ul' mes s,'' - ','' i',gSt y ."-
' u, 2oil'- OF ap'',I," =" ,',S' ,' t 'iI
'Slol % o,iG''S' o'ia'.9!, ,,..', II
"o,'eo WIN ,''e !''lio.t'', ,I .. man.
user p, Nou'u NJ ~. ','9 - ,,''u1
u'N' II ~, "''9 GUY ''''-i9 ~, l''''4
would have been treated with scorn and
contempt. us an illiterate blockhead-as
fellow betierittedto be wood sawyer
.han prinfer. Nobody would have
believed that such gross and palpable
faults were owing to the ignorance and
carclessress Of the aathor.-And no one