The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-19

| All INDIANA clergyman makes his pas
toral calls on velocipede. He was a Col
onel of cavalry during the war.
The Hudson Railroad has carried more
than 1O, 900, 900 passengers, and killed but
five of the large number.
The department of Calvados, France,
has forwarded forty valuable horses as a
present to the Pope to remount his artil-
lery.
The Erie Railroad Company sell
through tickets, by the Union Pacific Rail-
road, from New York to San Francisco, for
| $197.35.
"A Western editor, in response to SUBJ
scriber, who grumbles that his paper was
intolerably damp, says, "That is because
there is so much due ON it.
There are fifteen hundred miles of rail-
| road under contract in Indiana. That
| State has never made such progress in the
| construction of railroads as she is making
this year.
Of the two calamities-that your child
shall read Latin at twelve, with incipient
| dyspepsia, or shall romp and frolic at the
bottom of the spelling class, by all means
| choose the latter.
-Toads are sold in Paris at the rate of
fifty cents per dozen. They are used for
the protection of vineyards and gardens
| from the ravages of insects that escape the
pursuit of the birds.
During thunder storm at Providence,
R. l., last week, the houses of brother
and sister were struck by lightning, though
several miles apart. No other property
was damaged.
The Emperor of the French received
on May I'd commission from the Institute
| of Civil Engineers, which had been APP
pointed to present to him his diploma as
| an honorary member of the society.
The 10Th Of next august will complete
| hundred years since the birth Of the first
| Napoleon. The Emperor proposes to be-
stow on that day a yearly pension of $50
on every surviving soldier of his uncle's
armies.
"A visitor who for the first time enjoyed
| the luxury of a Tuskish bath, remarked to
| friend upon leaving "This sort of thing
takes the conceit out of fellow. It makes
him believe that he never was really clean
| BEFORE
BWe would call the public attention
to the justly celebrated Wilmington City
Soap" manufactured by Moore s. Bro
1t works like magic! and no good house.
| keeper who has once used it, will be with
out it.
of the 1853 new buildings erected in
Philadelphia last year, 402S were dwelling
houses two and three stories in height. That
city is the paradise for the great middle
class, which is the life and strength of our
| country.
THE FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE Insurance
Co., of York, Pa, ranks among the best
unusual Companies. The rates are moder-
ate, and all losses promptly paid. Persons
| desiring Insurance in this Company, by
leaving their applications at THE Wing
| Office will receive their Policies without
further trouble.
"A story is circulated in Dublin to the
effect that when they were removing the
body Of O'Connell the other day, and the
priests were saying masses to shorten his
time in purgatory, one of the crowd cried
out: can is that all We can do for the sowl
of the great Liberather? Shure, then, I
might as we'll be Protestant, and go to
Heaven at oncer'
"A writer says: "Babies resemble wheat
in many respects. Firstly, neither arc
good for much till they arrive at maturity;
secondly, both are bred in the house, and
also the flower of the family; thirdly, both
have to be Graded; fourthly, both are gen.
orally well-thrashed before they are done
with
sB If you want to be in good humor
all the week, get your washing nicely done
by 10 o'clock Monday morning and have
the clothes ironed and put away before
night. Now if yon don't know how to do
this, just inquire at Moore & Bro, who
manufacture that famous " Wilmington
City Soap" Ask your grocer for it.
"A Boston paper says that little more
than two centuries since woman in that
city was condemned, according to law, to
stand half an hour in front of the meeting
house on lecture day, with her tongue
hanging from her mouth in cleft stick,
for speaking against the minister. T. X.
Beecher thinks if such law were executed
in Elmira there would not be a clothes-pin
left in the city.
-Reverdy johnson concluded his letter
to the United States Government, formally
withdrawing from office, as follows: ''Thus
terminates mission conducted on my part
with zeal and fidelity, which fulfilled the
letter of instructions given me by my gov
eminent, and which aimed to protect tho
rights, preserve the honor, and promote the
interests of my country"
Last year Polish gentleman having
caught stork upon his estate, near Linz
burg, put around his neck an iron collar
with this inscription, "Haec ex Polonia"
L
at liberty. This year the bird returned to
the same spot, and was again caught by
the same person. He had acquired new
collar of gold with this inscription: s'India
cum donis remittit ciconiam Polonis" I'm
kia sends back the stork to the Poles with
gifts.)
A trunk arrived in Boston by steamer
recently marked thus: "Boatmaltakaptyn-
hainsnoordamerika, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
acknowledgements. HG." Ono
of the most skilful of the Custom-H House
officers, says the Journal, translated por-
ton of it as follows: 'Boat Malta. Captain
Hams, North America, State of Wisconsin,
i'll country, Fon-du-Lac City," but what
"Woupuntealto" means no one has yet
been able to make ont.
Horace Greeley, in writing of the house
holds where cider was used as beverage,
says: "The boys who graduated from
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