The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-05-31
PENCILINGS.
BY OUR OUTSIDE EDITOR.


Postal cards are " trump
Fishing tackle is in demand.
Light tackers-Ladies putting down
carpet.
The Fourth of July falls on Friday
this year.
The whitewashing brigade are busily
at work.
We have now fourteen hours of day
light.
White is becoming to blondes; yellow
to brunettes.
The shady side of the street is now
fashionable.
The milkmans song-"Yss we will
gather at the river
To test girls love-try to kiss her
after eating onions.
-Dslghtful-the nights; to sleep, prom
enade, or walk.
-Mawiageable-A large number of
young ladies in Elkton.
The now popular drink in Elkton-
"Whiskorus Pinches"'
Have been "taken down" during the
week-A great many stoves.
-Woman's glory is her hair; but it is
good plan to tie it up when cooking.
Housewives are already beginning to
exclainl 90 shoe fly. don't bodder me-
-Tight-legged pants are going out of
season. Tight men are still fashionable.
There is no use for man to offer his
hand in Elkton, if there is nothing in it.
| "A word to the ladies-Plant flowers
| and evergreens all around and about your
house.
Strawberries, it is said, are ten days
later ripening this year than the past fifteen
years.
The worst feature of mans face is
his nose-when stuck into other peoples
business.
-Elkton urchins are addicted to the
reprehensible practice Of indiscriminate
stone throwing.
Some dirty thief stole whip from one
of the carriages that was at Chesapeake
the other eve.
Our farmers have had to replant con-
slueIdple Corli tnlS season, OWING W tue
cold wet Spring.
The wheat crop in Cecil presents a
fine appearance-better than it has for
several years past.
TO avoid all attacks Of Spring Fever
turn out of bed at sunrise instead of
turning over. Simple, but true.
The weather is now warm enough to
permit female neighbors to lean over the
foncc and talk about the people across the
way.
Postmaster-G General Creswell has the
finest garden in the neighborhood. 1t is
under the control of "Colonel Phillipson.
There will be a game Of base ball this
afternoon Saturday. at Towards Park,
between the Warm Springs and select
nine. Game to commence at 3 o'clock.
A post-office detective passed through
our town on Friday, it is reported, and
looked in at our post office-feund all right
VIC guess.
-Politeness may prevent the want Of
wit and talent from being observed, but
wit and talent cannot prevent the want of
politeness.
Morris Dunbar has sold his horse
Buckskin;" to Mr.. Barroll for 5000.
George Turner bought the Barroll old
coach horse for $50 and sold it to the gip-
for $75. BY George, good turn.
EARLY strawberries are not good. They
are small, green, sour, and astringent, and
injuriously affect-ths pocket. Wait until
they cost ten cents box; then they are
wholesome.
The Elkton post office has been fur
nished with supply of postal cards, plac-
ing the means of cheap correspondence
within reach Of every body in this neigh
borhood.
H. r. Torbert has placed a very styl-
ish set of steps at his front door. The
massive balusters and side rails are inno-
vations on the plain door-ways and stoops
of Elkton.
Prof. Gawronski opened new dancing
school in the Odd Fellows Hall on Monday
last, and proposes to introduce some new
dances. Suppose he introduces one where
the young lady dances around the house
and looks after things.
When the gipsies left town last week,
the large Newfoundland dog belonging to
Mr.. Meyers Jollo,ced them, the dog. how
ever, being attached by rope and the
rope attached to the tail of a wagon. Mr.
NJ. made hot pursuit, and recovered his
dog somewhere in Delaware
The following "notis'' can be seen
pasted in a field a few miles from town:
" If any mans or woman's cows or oxen
gifts in these here oats, his or her tail will
be cut off, as the case may DO. l am a
Christian man, and pay mi taxes, but dam
a man who let's his critters run loose, saw
l."
The hot days are upon US with bound.
From coal stoves to tropical heats the
transition is something wonderful. The
coolest thermometer in Elkton ARTS was
up to So on Wednesday. We have miss
ed the season of Spring this year: but
from Winter to Summer without a day to
represent Spring intervening has been the
order.
- We know young man who carried 4
gun about two miles, all the time thinking
it was crab-net we heard fellow re-
mark at Chesapeake City the other even
ing, when boat blew, coming down the
| canal, "There comes the half past nine
train - we heard fellow ask for screp-
drirer to take Il cork out of bottle : but
when fellow walks several hundred Yards
back to a boat to get his coat, and at the
same time has tile coat upon his back, we
think-well - Enough Enough.
Some of our young men propose bay-
ing grand moonlight excursion on the
steamer sc. P. Smith," about the 18th or
18th of June. The courteous and gentle.
manly Captain, Mr.. Brown, has offered the |
boat cheap, and promised to spare no pains
to mako the trip an enjoyable one to all
who participate. We hope they will not |
fail to get it up, for it cannot help being
pleasand affair. The young men Of
Elkton have splendid opportunities of
spending many pleasant evening "down
the river" at IL small expense if they only |
had a little ambition about them: 20 IN
boys, and when you talk about it, talk |
"business."