Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-11-13
Pickings and Steallngs.

The editor of a Nevada newspaper
I gives notice that he cannot be bribcd wiki
I hNs cen cigar 10 write a five dollar puff
! a man in blou>e->ccue Pars. OF
! cour>e-prcSents a ho'llcof perfume to his
| beloved. saying: when ,ou smell III,
] You VIII regret that youl Creator did not
! maze on all nose.
a Brooklyn woman. euraged AT her
/ husband coming home dad drunk. he
\ o.hcr NIGHT attcln ted % br IA, him to bv
/ pouring not wtarr iulo ht, ears. she
4 succeeded but he wont hear any usrc.
! A iitlc 2irl Wa asked whit Wa. IN.
\ meaning Of the word happy. She rave /,
/ pretty answer. saying. ''lJ i To- feel As il
Z yen wanted To give all youi things 10 your
I little >istcr.'
A cownrlly fellow havin. .icked a
/ uew>boy Tor pe>ieriug him to buy "A paper
I the lonn->tcr waited until another boy
( acco,trd hum. when he shouted in the.
I hcItIn. Of all the by-s;andrrs: "n's no
Us 70 try him, Jim; he can't read,
The most unreasonable man IN Calais
il young ''courier." who recently pot
iHId prc;D>c the @as went ouI and left him
and hi, sweetheart ia darkness. We are
/ ihclin"i To think there are few Young men
IA This city who would .ellise 10 bless he
2a' company tor such prov Dental dis
pch-atlpn, bur perhaps times ain, as they
used 10 vas .idcertiser.
-lhi, IS the smart old lady of Peoria
HI; Tier name i Ann Tekwgdi. and she.
came here when the Illinois River wa, a
creek. She didn't hurst Washington. be-
cad>c She didn't wa to. but one Of her
srdnd-ons was his body-seryant. She has
used IN, tobacco and snuff all her life
She can travel forty miles Il day, with ease.
VI railroad. she goes ont in The rain
with no other protection than a thick
CLOAK. Waterproof and an umbrella
she has voted Tor every President since
Grant. She also does everything smart
that any other old party does
"A writer in "A late lumber of All the
! ear Round'h discovered that the Seem
my nonsense choruses OF many old Eng
llNi Daliaus are IN reality the remnants of
the songs sung by the ancient Britons in
the celebration of heir sun-worship .Fal.
ia. Ia" is written in elsh, '.tal, Ia f,l
u eahlng circle or sun. and la a day. and
both words expressin. the completion of
day. AS the Druds marched around their
stone circles, likesthose still discernible AT
Stonehenge and on tine Sussex Downs
they chanted their mcaningtul chorus.
r ALA, fnl-la.' as the godthey worshpped
sank behind IN. western hills. So down.
down, derry down." in the original is
Dun. dun, daragan dun and il means
10 the hill. 60 the oaks. to the hill. and
was therefore call to worship. The old
Puritan poet. George Withers. used an
other OF these Druidical choruses in one OF |
his pleasant dittics =
There was lass, a fair one.
As fair as e'er was seen,
she was, indeed, rare one,
Another Sheba Queen,
But fool, as then was,
thought she loved me true,
But now, alas! she's left me,
Fal, lero, lero, loo!
The original of this refrain Was "Fal.
lear, ''iuadh dh," and 1t nailed the sun
rising ABOVE the sea. ''ruorai, looraI.
"ili.h trololie," and many other of these
meaningless burdeps to old
songs, have similar curious origin.
a gentleman of mechanical turn took
Oh his gas-meter t., repair it himself, and
put il on again upside down AT The end
of the quarter it was proved with aritl-
lnetical correctness that the gas company
owed him eight dollars and fifty-seven
cents.
The world Is q looking glass and gives
back every man the reflection of his own
face Frown at il, and it will turn j nd
look sourly upon yon; and laugh at it
and with it, aud il is jolly. hind com-
paniOn.