Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-10-28
Scraps from Kniok's Table.

at the Editors table, which contains dish
es that we are sure are Of his cooking, be-
sides the following explanation, showing
Why these dishes are not even more
/ plenty:
We know Of nothing more ojus,
than to have a scoupdrel, on board of a
crowded ferry-boat, while you are busily
engaged in reading the exciting war news
Of.an evening journal; seize and walk off
with your travelling bag, which you have
placed upon seat beside you. Such a
raseally trick-(and the ferry-mastor at
Jersey City tells us it is one of very fre-
quent occurrsnce)-was served US the
other day, in crossing from town, on our
way to Rockland, BY the beautiful Nor
thern Railroad of New Jersey. It's con-
tents could not be of the slightest value
to the thief, any more than Lord Byron's
letter to Sir Walter Scott was to the ras-
cal who purloined it from the library at
Abbotsford There was in it several ar
tieles for the Knickerboeker, in prose
. and verse two fne poems by D. W. Gal
lagher, Esq, an excellent one by E. B.
Stedman, ESQ another by Robert S.
Chiffon, Esq, Of Washington, with sew
eral capital things from correspondents,
designed for the editors table, which
would otherwise have frightened and
made pleasant the present number. Now
Of what possible use can these articles be
to the eonfounded thief? The only thing
that lie can use is the beautiful travelling
bag-ono Of the most convenient, cem-
pact, and tasteful creations-and for that
we shall watch with a cats eye, twice
every day when we cross the Hudson"
We also snatch the subioined good
things from the Editors Table:
Cur old friend, Professor Mapes, as
he is most familiarity known-and who
. tells story. or gives an imitation, with
more naiuralness and effect than any one
other individual Of our acquaintance
amused US greatly the other night with
the following anecdote
4 voluble Frenchman (iterally cit
izen of the world, we should say) was
pOmpously naming over the different cit
les in Europe in which he had sojourn-
ed at various and distant periods of his
life.
I did live, said he, in Paris twelve
years. in Rome I was live six years; in
London I was stay seven years; in beau
tiful Florence (Ozo fresh grape and.
zc ben vic, in ze morningD eight year;
in San Petersbourugh, IN e summer time,
eight years; in Naples, was reside elev-
en- year; and SO he went on; while our
frieRd, pencil in hand, was putting down
the figures.
DO you say you have lived in all these
European cities all those ?-and he
read each separate entry over to the Gal
lie Munchausen, with the date of his
sojourn in each.
Yes; Eat is right.
The figures were added up; and the
way they Dabolrd was peculiar.
why, said the Professor, in his gra-
vest manner, my dear sir, you are over
Que hundred and seventy five years old2'
'Ah! no-=at cannot be. Read him
over gain.
The statement, item by item, vas reca-
pitulated.
Zen is so; and I am hundred and
seventy five year oldl 1 not mistake ze
time Eat live in those placesr
Like the Englishman who said that a
certain horse he was eztolling was fifteen
feet high, and Of the finest proportions.
You mean he was fifteen hands high,
Of eoursO-not JeetP
What did / say?
Why, you said that the horse was
fifteen feet high.
Then I mean feet. I never make a
mistake in the eight Of q morse. know
wat an 'orse is; I'm not hassp
Buckeye" from Cleveland, asks if
all the children have been forgotten by
the Knickerbockerg And he adds:
Don't crowd them out, whatever you do.
We don intend to; the Little People, "
whose good things have accumulated up
on US, shall be heard from in due season.
This little aneodote strikes US as very
ehiLdisb and characteristic It reaches
US from Cedar Rapids, Iowa;
'Perceiving, by the papers, that You
are again to preside at the Table of the
old Kuick, l take the liberty to send you
scrap for the 'Side-Table' Of the juye-
niles; A little three-year old, child of
neighbor Of ours, ran away from home,
and came over to our house about eight
o'clock in the evening, while her mother
/ had gone to the well for pail of water.
Rather surprised at seeing bor nut at 50
late an hour, We asked her go