National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-07-15
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"a drug store in Portland with what
he described as an awful feeling in
de stomach, jest like it wor tull of
fishhOoks and angle worms and
demanded Setter powder as he
had been advised that would give
relief. Accordingly the Seidlitz
powders were dissolved i'm seperate
glasses as usual, and placed before
him, with instructions to pour one
into the other and drink while effer-
vescing. But the sable youth did
nothing of the sort. Instead OffOl-
lowing the directions, he hastily
drank off the contents of one glass
and Immediately swallowed the 9th
er. The effect may beimagined, but
not described. The eftervescence
which should have taken place in
the glass before it was drank, took
place in the bewildered darkey's
stomach, sending streams Of the
frothy liquid from his mouth, nose,
eyes and ears. AS soon as the poor
fellow could recover breath he cried
out in frightened tones: 'My
stomach has busted ; can't live %
minute y In u few moments, how
ever, he felt better, and turning to
depart, he said :'Dat stuff may work
well nuff on the white trash, but it's
sure death on a nigger.'
AN IRIsHMAN'S ANSwER.-Ala law
yer built him an office in the form of
a heXagon OF six square. The nov
city of the structure attracted the at.
tention of some Irishmcn, who were
passing by. They made full stop,
and viewed the building very criti-
callv. The lawyer, somewhat dis
gnsted at their curiosity, raised the
window, put his head out and ad.
dressed them
What do you stand there for, like
a pack of blockheads, gazing at my
Office DO YOU take it for church ?
.'Eair,' answered one of them, Il
was thinking so, till saw the devil
poke his head out of the windy
The ELDER BOOTH-OR RICH-
ARD Ill Booth, ,as he was not imprOp.
erly desis lated-was at times the
victim of strange fancies. Once he
took a fancy to be an absolute veg
etarian, and possessed with this
idea he was travelling on II Western
river steamboat, and happened to
be placed at the table opposite u
sober Quaker, who had been attract
ell by the eloquent conversation of
the great actor. The benevolent old
Quaker, observing the lack of vi
auds on Booths plate kindly said,
"FrieId, shall | not help thte to the
breast of this chicken y "No, /
thank You, friend,' replied the actor.
"Then shall l. not cut thee slice of
ham 1" "No, friend, not any,
"Thcn thee must take piece of tho
mutton thy plate is empty per>
sisted good old broadbrim. "Frlend,"
said Booth, in those deep, stentOri-
an tones, whose volume and power
had SO often electrified crowded au.
diences. friend, never eat any
flesh but human flesh, and | prefer
that raw" The old Quaker was
spcechlcss, and his seat was chang
cd to another table at the next
meal.
A SAD SToRY.-The Scranton
(Pa.) Republican tells a maurntul
story of IA casualty on the l.ackawa-
ma and Bloomsbury Railroad last
Saturday night. a Mrs. Gaveu,
with three children, two little boys,
aged five and seven years, aud u
babe, was at the depot at PittstOn
to take the train. She put her two
little boys in u car aud then return.
ed to the station for her babe
Meanwhile the train started. The
station master signalled the con
ductor to stop, and the little boys
screamed at being carried away
from their mother. But it seems
that the train neither stopped nor
was any care taken of the children,
The mother tclegraphcd to put them
off at Scranton. Nothing further
known of them until they were found
on the railway track about two
o'clock Sunday morning; the young,
est one killed aud the other lying
iusensiblc, with his arms cut OIL
close to the shoulder. The poor lit.
tie wanderers had been run down
by train in deep cut But how
or why they were off the train, no
one knows. We have rarely read u
more distressing story.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says hat
widows who cry easy are the first to
marry again. There is nothing like
wet weather for transplanting.
Epitaph on u waiter lie could
wait no longer--he is gone. - OIL
Nathaniel Hawthorne relates an
anccdotc of the origin of Fmnklin's
adoption of the customary civil
dress when going to court as u di.
plomatist. It was simply that his
tailor had disappointed him of his
suit, and he wore his plain, with no
great reluctance, because he had no
other. Aiterward, gaining great
success and praise by his mishap, le
continued to wear II from policy.
A man at Springfield. ILL.,, bet two
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