Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-12-17
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| individuals who seem to THINK that there i,
nothing in life so desirable as being intimate
ly acquainted with prominent public charac
| ters. We have read of many such but Major
| Luckey as described in the following, is mos,
| decidedly just '' whortleberry above the per-
simmon" OF any of them:
Few men have ever gone to Congress with
more fun and popularity than Hon. Leslie
Coombs, of Kentucky In the way of anec-
dote he is unequalled, while his mode of tell
ing stories imparts tone to them that no
one can appreciate who has not heard them.
Among the ss character" that Mr.. Coombs
knows like book, is old Major Luckey,
whose tastes for Dragging amounts at times to
the sublime. Whenever the Major has a
stranger in the neighborhood, he opens wide
and g spreads himself" and with a success
that leaves Us nothing 10 desire.
The following scene took place between the
Major and Colonel Peters, = late arrival :"
from Illinois:
Major, understand from Gen. Coombs,
that shortly after the revolution you visited
England How did you Ike the jaunt?'
Capitally hadn't been in London FIVE
hours before Rex sent for me TO play whist
and devil ola time we had of it -
Rex what Rex?"
Why. Rex the King-George the Third.
The game came of at Windsor Castle Rex
and l played against Bill Pitt and Ned Burke,
and it resulted rather comically.'
How SO p
AS we were playing the last game. Rex
said, in rather familiar manner: Major, I
suppose you are acquainted with Charles
Washington, are you not 2 -
No, sir-ee," said I, - am not-out III
tell you who [ am acquainted with-George
Washington, the Father Of his Country"
. Father be d-d" said he, ' he was
cursed rebel, aud had served him right,
would have hung him long ago"
This, of course, riled ME to that degree
that l just drew back and gave him a blow
between the eyes that filled him like bull
lock- The next moment Burke and Pitt
nouRted me, and in less than ten minutes my
shirt and breeches were SO torn and tattered
that looked like Lazarus. This give me
rather distaste for English society, SO the
next morning / set sail for America. Six
weeks after [ landed at Washington. The
first person l met after entering the city was
O."
"Why. that id old Federalst Quincy
Adams. He wonted me to play nine pins
with him. and | did SO. Won two hundred
dollars at two shillings game, and then had
a row." q
g About what?"
q He wanted to pay me off in Continental
money, worth shilling peek. | got angry
and knocked him into spittoon. While [
still had him down Jim came and dragged
me off to the White House,
What Jim %
Why, Jim Madison. Invent, played eu-
chre for two hours, when Tom came in and
insisted that should go home with him"
g What Tom %
Why, Tom Jefferson. Jim, however,
would not listen to it, and the consequence
was that they went in to fight. In the midst
of it they fell over the ban:ster aud dropped
about fifty feet. When 1 left they were Civ
ing each other h-ll in the coal cellar. How
it terminated never could learn, as just then
Martha ran in and said must accompany her
to Mount Vernon to see George"
What Martha do yod mean p
'' Martha Washington, wife to George
Washington, the old boy that gave Jessy to
the Hessians."
About here Coombs said the stranger be-
gins to discover that he was " swallowing
things" The next stage that came along he
took passage for an adjacent town The Ma
Jor we believe, is still living, and still believes
that the walloping he gave George Rex is
the dist best thirg on record y
SINaoLAR ARIrHmETIcAL FACT Any num-
Der offgures you wish to multiply by five viii
give the same result if divided by two--a
much quicker operation but you must remcm-
Der to annex cipher to the answer when
there is no remainder, and when there is re-
mainder, whatever it may be. annex to
the answer. Multiply AGA by 8. and the an
swer will be 1920; divide the same number
by 2, and you have 232; and as there is no
remainder, you add cipher. Now take 257
and multiply by 5, the answer is 1885. Ga
dividing this by 2, there is 17s and a remain
der, you therefore place at the end of the
line, and the result is gain 1885.