Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1871-12-28
Odds and Ends.

And with = fragile reed 1 wrote
Upon the saui--
Agnes love thee -
The mad waves rolled by and blo,ted out
The fair i'm preston.
frail reed Cruel wave! Treacherous sand
III trust yc no more,
But with giant baud ~ pluck
From $orH1y's frozen shore,
Her ttlest pine and dip IL top
In the cFatHr ot Ve>uvIus,
Ana upon the high and FURNISHED Heavens
Ill write
Agnes love thee
And would Ike - see any
bog Soned wave wash that out.
Attempts at navigation on the lakes
now result in extreme suffering: vessels
clog with ice, sailors freeze, and a doz-
"a tugs are needed to bring back those
who start out.
Here is a touching obituary from u
Boston paper:
Twas not in cruelty nor in wrath
The reaper came that day
And angel visited the green earth
And took our Judiy away.
\ Southern California paper adver,is-
es for Il Young freckled-faced man that
won't back down. with pair of saddle
bags, pistol and bowie knife. to collect
for this Office. A large salary will be
paid.
An American Snowman who took his
circus To Vera Cruz last month, writes
that he has been engaged with his elc-
plants IN revolutioniZing public opin-
ion, and he does so at fifty cents a
head
The employees on the Maine Eastern
Railroad have deposited $500 in Ports
mouth bank, subject to the order of
JEFFERSON G. Rowe, the heroic brake
man who lost an arm bv the Revere
accident.
A beautiful blonde of Kansas CITY,
wife of a prominent citizen, went the
round of the gambling deus in male at
tire, the other evening, took few cards,
and came away few thousand better
financially.
Cast iron sinks, all sizes is the le-
gcnd a Hartford plumber inscribed on
his outer wall We'll. who in thunder
(hic) said il didn't?' was the inquiry
Of an inebriated man of sin to the plumb
eraioresaid.
Stephen Pearl Andrews suggests that
the absolctoid and sbstractoid elemen-
tismus OF being echoes or reappears bv
analogy within the related and concre-
told elaborismus' This should be gen
orally known.
The Chicago Republican, unable to
appreciate poetry of the highest order.
cruelty saws of recent fire poet that,
If nybody knows this poet and will kill
him, it will cheerfully publish the
obituary notice free
In a dialogue between two Georgia
colored men named Wooten and Cook.
the former beted Cook with his black
embrace with such earnestness that the
services of six pall-bearcrs had to be Sc
cured on the following day.
While party of disorderlv women
were being tried before a Salt Lake
City pplice court not long since the wo-
men assaulted the witnesses, cleaned
out the policemen, and held the field
against odds, for some time.
The Savannah News SAYS the people
near Brunswick, GA. are having fun bv
firing into the trains of the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad, They say it il
truly laughable to see the passengers
dodge at fe flash of the gun,
An ingenious Mississippi negro
thought he would kill a sheep by hold
it in front OF an approaching locomotive.
The animal escaped with broken leg.
but the ingenious individual was made
the subject of a funeral oration.
A little boy recently became greatly
enamored of a little trumpet which
had been given him. One night as be
was being put into his little bed,' he
handed the trumpet to his grandmother.
saying: Here, gran'ma, YOU blew while
pray.
So YOU are going to keep a SCHOOL,?
said a young lady to her maiden aunt.
We'll. for my part, sooner than do tina
l would marry 9 widower with nine
children you'd prefer that myself,
was the qniet reply, but where's tho
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