The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-07-30
Che })arapraI)ist.

JJ"ITe whose soul docs not sing, need not
try to do it with his throat.
0-TWhy is a picnic like periidious rep
tile Because it is II snake (snack) in the
grass.
C@The State debt of Maryland according
to fugitive paragraph, is principally paid in
London.
G-Tom Thumb has arrived in New York
His baggage filled two cars. lie retres to his
seat" in Connecticut for while, and will
then go on exhibition.
SNUG INCoME.-Elias Howe, Jr., who
has purchased p. L. Barnun's famous place
IN bridgeport, Conn, is the inventor of the
sewing machine needle. which, it is stated
yields the pacntce the snug income of
one thousand dollars day.
u lie that will not flee from the occasions
and alluremcnts Of sin, though they may be
ever so sweet to the taste, sha Il find them in
the end to be more sharp than vinegar, more
bitter than NORWOOD, more deadly than
poison.
GTLiltle Johnny was the pride and pct OF
his parents-a bright, blue-eyed six-ycar old.
Ills father, one morning after reading chap
ter in the bible, asked him what a famine
was. HIS quick reply was, "a cob without
any corn Oh it,"
OCR SEABoARD. line Of coast belong.
ing to the United States Is very extensive
According to the report of the coast survey,
there are 6,S2l miles Of Atlantic coast 5 ,4G7
miles of the Gulf coast, and 2,2Sl miles on
the Pacific making total of II, $50 miles
C-Nicholas I.ongworth, the Cincinnati
mi llionalre, was sitting on the steps Of a
drinking house the other day, with his hat
between his knees, waiting for friend, when
passing stranger dropped quarter into his
hat, thinking him beggar Nck's perso-
nal appearance is said TO justify the inference.
C~Peter Cagger, the great Albany poit-
cal wire puller, is understood to have said
that, to make a Democratic party, it required
two sorts Of materal-a few sharp fellows to
lead, and plenty Of fools to follow. Peters
knows, for, like the man in the farce, 'Pc.
ter's on fool.'
" The population of San Francisco is 49,.
900, of whom sc, $50 are white males over
twenty-onc years of age, and 1906 white
fena les over eighteen years ofage. The Chi
nese population Of the city $3.50, and the
colorcd population l,G05.
The VAsrNEss OF A TR1ILoN. Not a trl.
lion of seconds has elapsed since the creation
of Adam, nor will that number have elapsed
until February LIST, in the year of our Lord
25 1876! For q trillon of seconds there are
81 ,6S7 years, % days, hour, 4G minutes
and 40 seconds.
a MODEL NEWSPAPER The morning after
the allied occupation Of Milan. several Jour
nails which had been suppressed by the Aus.
TRAN Government, re'appeared. One had
been suppressed five years, and, IN the last
number, had promised the conclusion" of
story in the next. True to promise, the next.
after five years interval, took up the story
where it had left oil, and concluded it.
ABEAuTlFUL LAKE.-Lake Winnepissogec,
in New Hampshire, is 413 feet above the llvel
of the sea, % miles long, and an average of
10 broad. Alton Bay being the extreme cast
end and Centre llarhor being on the extreme
west end Tie number of 365 islands are
said to nestle in its bosom, varying in size
from one constituting several dairy farms
down to mere rocks projecting above the sur
face of the water 1t is one of The most lovely
lakes in the world
1J"Mrs. Darlington says that lust before
the last war with England, circumstances
were seen around the moon nightly shooting
stars perambulated the ca nth. the desk of the
sun was covered with black spots of ink, and
comets swept the horizon with their opcrc
tails. Everybody said it pronigatcd war,
and sure enough 1t die come. Its costiveness
was felt throughout the land but the bravery
of General Jackson expiated the American
citizens and foreign domness soon became
a bye-word.
TRUE ELoouENcE.-Thc following anec-
dote is told Of an individual who listened to
the splendid argument Of Sheridan against
Warren Hastings. At the expiration of the
first hour he said to friend "All this is
mere defamation - when the second was
finished, "this is wonderful oration:', at
the close of the third. MIR. Hastings has
acted very unjustifaby - at the fourth
"Mr. Hastings is an a,rocous criminal :" and
at the last, "of all monsters of iniquity, the
most enormous is Warren Hastings.
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