The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05
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VARIETIES.

How to raise beets Take hold of the
top and pull
Raphael Semmes, who commanded the
Alabama, is q candidate for Mayor of Mo
bile.
"A Danbury man who is rather untor-
tunately married, being requested by his
wife to have an ice-man stop there, said it
was scold enough at the house now to suit
him, and then lodged.
Two handsome young ladies having
commenced practice as physicians in
Blackhawk county, Illinois, it is stated
that sickness has broken out to an alarm
ing extent among young men.
"A Western girl sold her piano on her
wedding day and bought sewing machine
with which she made her husband new
suit of clothes. The husband proclaim
ed the industry and frugality of his wife,
and her three sisters found husbands in a
fortnight.
Says the Danbury Ne,oS Mr.. Ethe-
ridge has put up handsome monument on
his lot in the Slawsun Cemetery. He has
his name and birth on its face, and beneath
the space left for the death is this beau
tiful but somewhat premature observation:
None knew him but to love him.
"A new use for patent pills have been
discovered. A farmer living in a Kansas
village was abruptly visited by robbers one
night not long ago, and having gun and
powder, but no shot, loaded with box of
pills and blaz d away. The result was as
satisfactory as though the rascals had
swallowed the pills One of them was
killed outright, and another dangerously
wounded.
"A merchant who sells his sgnboard
and attempts to carry on business without
one because money is scarce would be con-
sidered little better than insane. Those
who stop advertising for the same reason
are equally foolish. Hoarders of money
the country over are waiting to learn who
will sell cheapest those articles of comfort
and necessity which even the closest hoard
er cannot DO without.
lis the Colonel here :" shouted a man,
sticking his head into Kansas City street.
car. "He is" answered thirteen men as
they rose up.
"A Pennsylvania lady has most ro-
mantle and ingenious way of managing
the gentleman so happy as to he her hus-
band. EXasperated by her persistent con-
the other day. The wretched woman cast
but one lingering, reproachful glance upon
her lord and fled, simply observing as she
departed that the brny deep should wash
away the insult. Leaving behind her
everything most dear and precious to her
the home of her married life, full of beau
tiful and cherished memories-this heart
broken woman rushed frantically to the ca
nal, and, with one parting sigh, threw in a
large stone, which made mighty splash.
Then she went and hid herself in the BUSH
es and giggled, while her husband and
twenty other men hurried up, with hor-
ror depicted upon their countenances, and
wildly dragged the canal for her body.
When the injured wife became convinced
that the wretch had suffered enough she
appeared from behind the bushes and led
him home resigned and willing victim.
In paragraph relating to an election
of chief lately Id among the Onondaga
Indians local paper says that Samuel
Isaacs was the candidate of the squaws.'
That women should be admitted to vote |
among the Onondagas is creditable to the |
tribe, and will doubtless create much sym- |
pathy for the noble reds among the advo-
Gates for women's rights throughout the |
country. 1t is nothing that squaw
should be compelled to build fire, make
canoe, spank the papooses, cook the
victuals, manufacture leggings, mecca
sins, and baskets, rub raccoon grease into
the hair of the "big injun," that owns her
and perform hundred domestic Jobs
while that gorged vagrant is sprawing by
the fire; all this is nothing, she has the |
right of suffrage, the consideration of
which is respectfully submitted to the
white squaws who are so busy clamoring
for suffrage that they neglect the wig
wan.