Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-12-24
Plckings and Steallngs.

| Popped corn finds a ready sale in the
legislative halls OF South Carolina
The Golden Rule has thirtv-six inches
| 10 the yard, and has therefore been dis.
carded by many dealers.
Loyalty in the Dominion must be at a
| pretty low ,bb, when a Canadian paper /.
allowed to speak OF Her Majesty a THE
Old lady over the water"
The young ladies OF Rock ford, H..
nave formed cooperative self escoriing
church aud pafty-going society,"" the object
OF winch Is TO make the young men OF the
period more useless than ever.
When that biushing San Francisco
BRIDE showed the cheek for 81 600. coo TO
her new husband, h. burst into tears and
exclaimed. with intense feryor: Even
this shall not separate US"
This Is wbat-a Western jenkins saw Mt
a wedding reception the other evening
fi'~ js'i'~S "i,"" ,frv n'tnst s-PPv. taDles
were pure amber masses ofqniyering trans
luccnce catching the wine-colored pfisms
of perlumed light. aud holding them in
tremulous mirrors of rosy beauty"
People who saw him jump mp and
down aud heard him swear thought him
crazy. but he wasn't. He had merely de-
livered fifteen cords OF wood at the wrong
place.-Detroit Free Press.
OF course. "A woman doesn't want her
plants TO freeze. but still one can't blame
man for raising row when he hops out
OF bed In the morning and finds geranium
plant i'll each trousers leg.
is it true that since the introduction
Of lady operators or your lines. there isn't
so much vulgar talking over the wires 70
asked a I, male suffragist of a Western I'm
ion official. Yes ma am" he answered
but the conversation makes up in length
what il lacks in BREADTH
"A spreadeagle orator wanted the
wings OF a bird To fly TO every village and
hamlet in the broad land. but he witled
when naughty boy in tie crowd sang ont
~ ou'd be shot for Il goose before you had
flied mile
About this time OF year the young shaw
er takes advantage of pauses in the CONVEX
sation at the breakfast table to make sly
allusons To what his stockings contained
last Christmas. aud in what respects sub
sequent experience has shown Santa
Claus's judgment to have been at fault
Lewiston Journal.
The ST. Louis Globe notices that the
westward bound trains are crowded with
nice young men, who part their hair in the
middle and carry Russia leather travelling
bags. They have heard that Mr.. sharon.
who gave his daughter n million dollar
wedding present. has another daughter in
reserve, and they are going West to grow
up with the country.
A young man walked into an Indian
apolis drug store, the other day, and called
for so cents worth OF styrchniae The
clerk, suspecting his object. gave him a
harmless dose of sugar of milk" and the
youth swallowed IL at once and sat down
to die. To the surprise of the CLERK. he
soon showed every indication of poisoning
and he thinks that. had he not told him of
the harmless nature OF the potion, lie
would have died from mere Imagination.
A story is being told here of two pref
ty but not fast Baltimore girls. who
went out rowing On the lake OF I.ucerne
and when the barge of the King OF Holland
came along. instead OF trailing oars aud re-
specially falling behind royalty. actually
| raced. The king was evidently anu ed at
this exhibition OF American independence.
| and make sign to his oarsmen to let the
| young ladies go ahead. Coming to the
quay second. he told his coxswaIn to moor
| the victors' boat, anG said He knew they
| were Americans. Il Washington Letter.
"A Detroit paper says that woman
| called AT one OF the book stores there the
other day. said she would like to take a
| look at some ''chrO-meOs." as she wanted
to find something to please Harvey, who
| had worked on the farm all sum mer and
| should be rewarded. Anything relig-
ious?" asked the clerk as he ran over a
lot OF such chromos and engravings. Wall.
no. not exactly religious she answered
Some Of it might be soiemn-like. but
| down in the corner there ought TO he a
dog-fisht. or a man falling of a barn. or
sunthin' TO kinder interest the young
| mind