Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-02-15
Odds and Ends.

Ccceha Logan helIogg, one OF the Lo-
gan sisters, does much of the work on
Don PiAtt's Washington Capitol.
\ celebrated writer saws that the
sweetest, soltest, tenderest, truest eyes
which woman can carry in her head,
are green in color.
Josh Billings says: Next tew the man
who IL wuth millVun, in point ov
wealth IL the man who don't care cuss
for it.
The New Orleans Times thinks Alex
IS should not be allowed to leave Amer
lea without being shown the Louisiana
legislature
The Ohio State Journal call. Horace
Greeley an awkward old slonmick,
who manages to step into his own buck
ct like blind cow
The New Orleans Times wants George
Francis Train Sc n after DR.. Livingstone.
Bet he'd find him. But then he'd talk
him 70 death before he got him home,
80 whats the use?
some boy, at Hartford pulled down
some telegraph wires and tied them
across bridge. The first man that
came along had his head nearly twitched
OFT, a team. was Overthrown and the driv-
er injured before the trouble was dis
covered.
Mack, OF the st. Louis Democrat,
pleasantly remarks of speaker: 'Ho
altcrnated between an ass and i liar all
the way through. As liar he said he
had recently declined an office rendered
him BY Ulysses ;. Grant, and as an ass
he said something very funny.
4 Cedar Rapids, Mich, citizen of
mature age married young wife, of
whom he grew jealous. AT last, on
preten>c OF going east for month, he
left home. only to return the same even
ing. ieaIi ing low voices and seeing
blight light in his wiies room lie de-
manded entrance, which after some de-
lay was granted, or just in time to see his
wife close a closet door and place her
sell against it. Now he had him Pistol
in hand, he thrust the partner of his
sorrows aside, and pulling open the door
OF the closet, stood face to face with a
scant;Iv-attired Young lady who had
come to stay with his wife. lie put up
his pistol and went away.
Serious family and political dferen-
ces are said 10 exist between the Car
Alexander OF Russia and his eldest son.
the hereditary Grand Duke. The Car
prefers TO speak in the German language
the language Of his mother and wife
while the Grand Duke, who is the lead
er OF the National or Old Russian party,
the basis of which is autipathy 10 all
gnisms-converses only in Russian,
and allows no one to address him in Z
foreign language, unless it be a foreign
er. In pursuance OF his rigid Russian
ism, the Grand Duke discards all those
foreign customs which have heretofore
been prevalent at the Court of st. Peters
burg. The consequence is that the
breach between him and his Imperial
father is constantly widening, and the
Car, it is reported, does not wish his
eldest son to succeed him, but that his
brother Constantine should be Emperor
after him.
| The following is from the Hillsboro
/ On. &. } Recorder: Mr.. Richard Har-
| ris, who lives near Bradsher's store,
/ Person county, n c., thirty odd wears
ago turned out a sassafras tree to grow
| tor the purpose OF making himself
! coffin, and about twelve months ago the
/ old man had it cut dowa, and got some
one in Roxborough to make his coffin
/ out OF it. The old chap occasionally
| gets in and stretches himself out by way
OF showing his neighbors good flt.'
lie paid the maker of the coffin in wheat
SO he is one living man who will have
no fuss over his grave about the coffin
when dead This reminds US of an old
coon in Murfreesboro, n. c., who had
coffin cast of iron before the war. He
| had his grave dug, also, and walled up
with brick, with a magnificent tomb
stone, setting forth his name, date of
birth, and fixing his death somewhere
about the year 1861 But he was alive
aud kicking in 1868. The old chap kept
his cast-ron coffin in his corn-crib, and
used to shell corn in it. The crib need
ed no lock at night, for you couldn't get
a negro to go near it after dark
"A gentleman visited a dentist Wed,
uesday afternoon for the purpose of
Willing away a half hour or so, and
while there lady came in with little
girl wanting u tooth or two drawn for
the latter. The child cried when placed
in the chair, and declared she would not
have her teeth attended to unless the
strange gentleman would have tooth
drawn first, and to please the little pa
tient, he took her glace with wink at
the doctor. The latter took two or three
instruments, while the gentleman reclin-
ed in the chair smilingly gazing at the
ceiling for the assurance OF the watching
child, and after softly poking at two or
three teeth, to the horror of the obliging
gentleman he commenced boring into
his jaw where a tooth had once been ex-
tracted, and before he could offer pro-
test tremendous wrench brought out
large root, which the doctor held up
to the child with diobolical grin on his
face. The gentleman rolled of the
chair, and, with an expression of unut-
terable pain in his drawn countenance
gazed reproachfully At his friend and
left the Office. The little one did not
seem to be greatly encouraged BY the ak