Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1871-10-12
Odds and Ends.

The Alexandra limp prevails.
The coming man--Jack Frost.
Ocular Fundamentally lashes.
Paper cuffs-Newspaper attacks.
The church-vard of love-Marriage
A pair Of tights-Two drunkards.
Joe Pcntland, the noted clown, has
gone mad.
"Alarmism' j. what Gladstone calls
the Battle OF Dorking."
No jewelrv whatever on the streets is
the latest rule tor ladies.
4 noted bnchclnr has fallen into the
mrshcs ola net: it i u brunette.
An Obcrln colored minister breaches
occasionally in the Original Greek.
There i man now living in Ohio
whose father was born 100 years agI.
Il does not take great many apples
70 make dollars worth this season.
Never mix Your drinks j. held +" DC
i good rule with toperS and mllkmcn.
John = making Hay while the sun
shines. he i, paid 800 :or each ofhi.
poems.
The Knights Tcmplnr- ot : Joseph,
No. drH and hold their review, ON
horseback.
Irnr> \ smith. who owns Goldsmith
Maid. has 5000 worth OF hor-es in
hi stables.
There are only -ixteen person, an
nnuucrd 20 lecture ON the lo->cmijc
thi, winter.
( The latest ballad j. Bury your do.
/ in the garden, il Will make your grave
vine grow
4 tombstone iu u cemetery at DuA-
+ buy, Mass. Is inscribed: 'Chisel cannot
( help her any.
The Hartford Times mourn, that .hc
ONLY >pargow- in the park are spare
row, OF bcuchc>
\ boquet made OF grasshoppers strung
on wires took premium at county
I fair ia Massachusetts last week.
Chicago has had a swine exposition.
/ The paper, there call it a ''four-icgscd
. hog show, to prevest mistakes.
The sun charges Greeley with beng
a member of the ku-kluX fraternity,
Imagine lamb in a coat Of mail,
Ladie, now purchase high archcd in
-irp, which hook n natural n life. They
are simply pads in their hootikins.
Foppi>h Nouu. men carry a small
4 vanished willow cane, with tiny bras
trlulr on one end, and a small tassel on
the other
\ music dealer ha, in his window
i sentimental song thus marked: Thou
ha>t loved me. and lett me, for twenty
. five cents
\ Dubuque farmer put out a fire in
/ his barn with a dcluTc OF milk. Like
other consumers, the tire-tiend could
tell it from water.
\ candidate for Alderman in Chicago
ruined his reputation for sobrietr by en-
deayuriug to step on a load of hay which
he mi,took for IA street car.
\ Tennessee man. with land worth
- an acre. raises watCrmelens which
brings him $40 10 the acre. \ profit ot
900 per cent Oh capital ought to c ~Atl>-
factory.
An Irish doctor advertise, that per
sons atilctcd with deafness may hear Of
lin ia a hou-" in Dltlry street, where
Also blind persons nav see him daily
from , tilt lop'clpcN.
The Grecian bend and B ,-ton dip are
doomed Il has been discovered that
the Grand Duke Alexis likes TAIL wo-
men. aud all the 9irI, are raighenne
up aud some of them on tipioe.
rnr True woman. published at Bllti-
more. i a cheerful sheet. It. original
poem IN the last number i, headed,
.,Liues Ia not beautiful, but very
CONDITIONING woman in her coft
The New York Standard waxing cl
uqncut on the tail fashions. SAYS:
Leaves have their time offal
Tus ,eer- t, ,s.ther ~ncn cold winds blow on !,
ANA -tlrs t. set bui all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, @ Bonnet
Eighteen copies of the first edition of
the Bible ever printed are still III eXi>-
fence. The, were printed in Metz be-
tween the wears l4l0 and l445. One
Of the copies has been purchaseda at a cost
OF 50 200.
An Irishman noticing lady pass
down the street, espied two strips de-
/
knowing that these were styled sashes
and were hanging in their right place.
he exclaimed: AN faith, mama, YER
palluses are loose
The great progress that has been made
in labor-saving machines is well illus
. trated bv the fact that no less than sew
enty farmers have been cut to pieces by
moving machines this season in Illinois,
II would have taken the most expert
wood chopper long time to do this with
the old-ta .hioned axe. San Francisco
ana
A Monroe max named Elsy, having
been rendered deaf bv the whistle OF =
locomotive. the engineer OF the train
was surprised on his return to the sta
ton TO observe eleven bald-heade ed men ln
line by the track, with feryid injunc-
ton from the first one to do your darnd-
est They were all married. Dan
bury Neps
AChicago girl last week had a young
fellow before Justice of the peace for
imposing upon her. and the official, b,
wav OF improving the occasion in the IN
terest OF good morals, remarked to the
: afflicted uamsel that she should remem-
ber the maxim. Familiarity breeds
: contempt Alas SIR she replied, i;
that was all il had bred should not be
here
D The following appeal appears in the
: advertising columns of an English pa
II per: "To Christians-A young man
| never had the blessing of the use OF hi'
; limbs through being set on wet grass
) earnestly solicits AZ postage stamps. II
return he will send, free, six best nicke
silver teaspoons and tongs 70 any par