Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-11-21
Origin of "Getting the Sack" I"

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Origin of "Getting the Sack"
IA contemporary gives the following as
the origin of phrase now convenient to
the lips-"giving the sack" 1t may or
nay not be the true origin of the phrase
of that, our readers will please judge for
themselves j
Two gentlemen, the one Spaniard and
the other German, who we're recommen-
ded, by their birth and services, to the
Emperor Maximilian III, both coveted his
daughter, the far Helena Scharfquinn, in
marriage. The Emperor, after long de-
lay, one day informed them that esteem
ing them equ1lly, aud not being able to
SHOW preference, he should leave it to
the free and address of the claimants 10
decide tie question. He did not mean,
however, to risk the life Of either, and con-
sequently would not permit weapons to be
used, but had ordered long bag to be
produced. 1t was his decree, that which,
ever succeeded in putting his rival in this
bag, should obtain the hand of his daugh-
ter. The contest lasted for more than an
hour, when the Spapard yielded, and the
German, Eterhard Won Taibert, planting
his rival in the bag, very gallantly laid it
at the feet of his mistress, whom he espou
sed the next day
Oar Republican friend, Joe F., (every
body knows Joe) got off pretty good
thing the other day, in Western town,
at the expense Of the untsrrifed" Of
Hoosicrdom. A drove Of hogs was pass
ing through the street, when son of Erin,
who counts himself among the Union sa-
rers, feeling exultant over the Bucks
election, and thinking to make hit,
turned aud remarked to Joe, standing at
bis side
"An' by the howly ST. Patrick, the
swine are about as thick, in the strate, as
the blessed Dimycrais in lndyany."
"Yes," retorted Joe, "aud very much
like the Iudyany Dimycra,s' in another
respect-all still Jed."
The gentleman from Erin felt his dan
dor rising. and-sloped
A HOOP CATASTROPHE Sam: "Bob,
what makes you limp so p
BIB: Limp, guess you'd limpi if you
bad walked between two rows of barrel
hoops as long as | have. Why, the out
side of my legs are as raw as piece of
beef; but 1 have got an invention to cure
that difficulty. I'm going to take them
military paufs of mine, and run piece Of
bar steel right down through the stripes,
and then if any hooped female, or walking
cooper's shop, invites me out, | sha Mt
have my leg sawed off,
s6rThe following from one of our ex-
changes, ought to be printed in the largest
kind of letters, and hung up in every edi-
torial SaRctum
"Two minutes is the extent that any
one should trespass upon an editors time,
during business hours, unless he is upon
business of importance. Remember this
ye fr quenters of tho editorial room"
Acow SroRY.-The Niagara Falls IN.
y Gazette says. "Thc eastward bound
train, when passing Miller's Corner, on
Friday aftersocn, at the rate Of thirty
FIVE miles per hour, caught COW, setting
her up in front Of the engine. The train
was stopped as soon as possible, and the
COW assisted to alight, when she started off
on . run"
One of the certificates of death, written
by a physician Of largo practice" re-
eeved at the N. Y. city inspectors Office,
reads as follows: Mrs. Karolyne John
sons daughter aged FIVE mouths and ate
days dies with defscensy of life to day un-
der my attendance"
Epitaph.
Here lies the remains of SARAH WILLS,
Wha a;ed from, t,k inc foo many nilIs