The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-06-11

An Arab thief having obtained entrance
surreptitiously into the house of merchant,
an inhabitant of Mecca, made up a conve-
nient bale of goods to decamp with, and
was on the point of leaving the premises
when he happened, in the dark, to strike
his feot against something hard on the
floor. Thinking it might be an article of
value, he picked it up and put it to his
tongue, which, to his equal modification
and disappointment, he found to be lump
OF rock salt. Having thus tasted the salt
OF the owner, his avarice gave way to his
respect for the laws of hospitality, and
throwing down his booty, he with drew
empty handed.
A man in Philadelphia, while intoxica-
ted, laid himself down to sleep outside the
cemetery and so got himsefmixed up with
a number of corpses which medical stu
dents had dug. He came to his senses in
the dissecting room just as votary of sci
ence was about to rip him open. "Gazing
wildly around for moment terrible re-
alization of his position came upon him
like flash, anu he uttered heart-rending
screams. So appalling were they that one
OF the students went into fit, and Ger
man was so alarmed that he fell down a
flight Of stairs and fractured one of his
arms" The supposed corpse is now insane,
believing he is dead.
Wild horses are so numerous in the
Orange District of New South Wales that
they have become positive nuisance, and
devices for trapping them at their favorite
watering places are resorted to. Those
branded are impounded to be claimed by
the owners-the rest are shot and skinned,
n n sol of 4
eighty OF them were sold at two cents a
head at Blaquey Pound. Skins, at 81, and
hair 80 cents per pound.
Many methods of preserving eggs have
been recorded. There is one which is used
In the provisioning of Paris on great scale
and which is described as the most sure
The eggs are plunged, in wire baskets each
holding dozen, into caldrons of boiling
water during about minute. A. thin lay
er of the egg coagulates on the inner sur
face OF the shell, ana prevents the infltra-
ton of the air, which is speedily fatal to
the freshness of the egg.
Yonatt In his book entitled "The Horse"
says this animal will never drink hard wa
ter il soft is within reach; that he will
leave clear, transparent, hard water for
pool or stream of soft, even though the lat
ter he discolored with mud. Very cold water
from the well will make the hair raise up,
and not unfrequently cause an attack of
gripes. Give soft water when practicable,
especially if the horse be ailing.
William Hurlburt, ofCornwall, Vermont,
died last week of starvation, having eaten
nothing save what was forced into his
stomach for nearly year, from the fear
that he should become town pauper, al
though worth about $4,000, and a bachelor
about seventy years old.
In New York the other day, man nam
ed Fay put pistol to his forehead and
pulled the trigger, when the bullet, instead
of penetrating the skull, fell upon the
pavement as flat as penny. Fay has Civ
EN- up in despair the idea of blowing out
his brains.
A man in Albany took drink of gin
and molasses the other day and swallowed
q small chip with it. The chip, which
came from molasses cask, lodged cross
wise in one of The mans intestines and
caused death.
An artificial sponge, made by filing in
'dia-rubber in fluid state, with bubbles of
gas, and allowing it to harden, has recent
ly been introduced in England and this
country.
A child three years old was recently run
over by a train of so coal cars on the Erie
Railway. He fortunately fell between the
tracks; allowed the trains to pass over him,
and raised uninjured, ran into shanty by
the road side as ifnothing had happened.
To keep bugs from melons, pumpkins
and cucumber vines, mix -four Of sulphur
and fine coal-dust together, sprinkle the
vines with water, and dust them with this
mixture. 1t is death to all bugs.
~ A western editor, in commenting
upon the large amount which Queen Vic
'toria saves annually from her salary, re-
marked: That's widow worth going
.forn
There is man in Chicago who vowed
Inc would not shave until Douglas was
elected President. His beard is now eight
feet long :