Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-11-19
oDDa AND Esps.

ODDS And ENDS.
The higher we take the thcrmome.
ter up 4 mountain the lower itgc,s.
TIE fact that Day hroke ycs.efday
mofuing IL no evidence that limo Is
bankrupt.
A drunken Tole 10 maa wrote OH
The wall Of his coll; jug not tia,
ye be not jagged"
A veteran officer obse yes, 81 ~neverf
place reliance on Il n NJ who is telling
what he would have done had 10 bseh
there. lhave noticed that somehow
this Mind Of people never 10 se'
there"
Tie names aud addresses Of all
persons w'io may heneeforth sehu
any stokes" about "Ash ana Tea.
s.iIash aud Tea,' or ga Shanty,"
will 10 handed % the police. The
war 10 bad enough without tho wit.
A lx.y whose family were very
much IN the habit Of making conun.
drums, was II evening asked by her
husband, in an excited tone, "Why
arc these doors left opcn3" II give
II up" instantly replied the lady.
A Young author, reading n tragedy,
perceived his auditor very often pull
of his hat at tho end Of line, aud
asked him the reason. Il cannot
pass q very old acquaintance" re-
p,icd the critic, "without that civ
uty."
"CAHooKEp."-A young lady had
coquetted until the victim was COM
pleteiy exhausted. Ilc rose to go
away. She whispered, as she accom-
panied him to the door, 81 shall be at
home next Sunday evening"" $50
shall J." llc replied.
The late Rev. DR.. Kidd, Of Abcr-
deem, al eccentric bmt popular
preechcr, observed Que Sunday in
church a man sleepin. whom he
knew, and whose vile was sitting
beside him. The doctor called out to
the latter, go home, Betty, and
bring Johns night-cap."
The ruling passion strong in death
was Enthusiastically illustrated, OH
the occasion Of a clergymau's prayer
for n dying tollman. The poor nan
had not many hours to live, and the
clergyman was in the middle of his
prayer. "Whist a Vice." said the
tollman, 81 think q hear q CART"
The Rev. Mr.. johnson was one of
those rough but quaint preachers of
the former generation who were fond
of visiting and good living. While
seated at the table of a lady in II
ncighborlng parish, h asked him ii
he took milk in his tes. "Yes, ma'an.
when 1 can't ct cream" was tic
ready reply.
1t is said that there is nov living Mt
Lye, in England, q woman VIII" is l'3
years old, and not a day older. Bur
the slrangest part ofthe story is HAT
ssshe is living with a married dau.l.-
ter" 1t is strange becall-r II is ="
disgracefully seldom that married
daughter will permit a mother t"
live even in the sam ncis, uurhoud
with her.
INNOCENCE AND VIRTrE.-Inno-
cemce is not virtue, and those VIII"
fancy that it is make a fatal mistake.
Innocence is simply ign"rance Of
evil virtue knows it, appreciates il,
rejects it. Infancy is lovely in its
Innocence; but life, with its stern
lrcalitics, demands the strong. ripencd
vigor Of manly virtue 10 resist lis
evil, 10 protect its good, I" build up
character, and to bless the world.
The newspapers say that Thomas
F. Ridgely, once Il member of Gencr-
al Grants staff, was Sentenced l."
three years in the state prison for
burglary at Boston, Thursday" We
warned Ridgely years ago that his
associations would play the deuce
with him, after awhile, ii lac ildn't
mind.
Gerald Massey is now in this c oun-
try. lecturing OH the somewhat bias
phemous c%onunIrum, "Why God does
not kill the devil" Mr.. Massey
ought TO know that it is simply be-
cause that if the devil were killed
the Radical politicians would break
into pandemonium and plumber il
Into bankruptcy in less than half an
hour after the funeral.
The first premium on matched
horses at the Oneida county IN. W
fair, was awarded resident OF Utica.
/ AS the judges were tying the ribbons
Oh, ar unsuccessful exhibitor demur.
red at their decision, saying, "Ou
what grounds do you give the prenni.
um 10 Mis- horses? 2" "On fail
, grounds" was the witty r.p'y.
The latest story Of filinl devotion
= and hcroism at the post of duty,
comes to US from Ohio. The here
was the'son Oft village reporter, and
o having discovered u broken rail JUS,
out of town, he Sat for five hours Oh 6
< fence nca by waiting for the train
so that he might carry tho particulars
80 s1,o c.In,S - ls, SXH,,
Among the nOblest of the nobl,
, acts every day being brought 10 lighr
e in the stricken city of Memphis il
the donation by individuals in tina
y city of their carriages, saddle horses