Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-12-03
Pickings and Steallngs.

Success In any employment is the re-
suit OF a mans love FOR his work This is
particularly true of great eaters.
To get your horse shod. You have to
make an appointment with the blacksmith.
who is 20 busy that he has TO be treated
with Difference and great respect.-T Lewis.
ton Journal.
The Free Press SAYS that a fancy
goods firm in Rockland r, Gently received
AN order Tor a beau for corpse" which
goes TO show that an assduous study OF
the speiling-book i an essential part Of
ones education.
A steam shovel i at work in Hudson
and attracting much attention. \ good
story l. told of a son of the Emerald Isle
who. watching 1t inteutly for some time.
remarked, = Begorra yez kin shovel Ike
the divil, but yez can't vote nor drink viii,
key.
A bachelor says il YOU hand a lady
new spaper with paragraph cut out OF il.
not a line Of IL will be read but every bii
Of interest felt in the paper by the lady viii
center in finding out what the mi- sing par
agraph contained.
An ignorant man in England. who for
some reason was elected 10 make a pre-
seniation TO the parish clergyman on be-
flattering remarks by Scripture quota
ton. He spoke warmly of all the parsons
merits. his diligence and his eloquence,
and finally rose 10 4 climax In fact. sir.
TO use the words of the Apostle Paul. you
are Just Ike sounding brass aud a tinkling
cymbal,
A Lewiston clergyman. n few days
since. was LETT by his wife in care of The
( baby that belongs in the hon sehold. While
he was gone, young fellow and his be-
trothed came to light the nuptial torch. 1t
was rather awkward, but with babe In
arms the minister proceeded To the mar
ria2e service and tied the knot firmly.
Said one girl TO another this morning
as they were going 10 school" Were too
early, well have 10 loaf around there until
the doors are open" Loaf around:' re-
piled the other. THAT is not pretty -x-
preston" well. I'd like to know" said
the reproved girl .'how I'm TO learn TO talk
| proper. when have three brothers harp
ing about chin music bully for you
skin OUT besides the trimmings and that
kind of talk, all the time Sure enough.
| Mrs. PARrINGrON on DISEASE -"Diseas-
| IS are various" said Mrs. Partington. "a
| She returned from the street door in con-
versation with DR. Bolus. The doctor
tells me that poor old Mrs. Hare has got
two buckles on her lungs. 1t is dreadful
TO think of. declare. The disease is SO
various! One day we hear of peoples dy-
ing of hermitage of the lungs: another
day, of the brown creatures here they tell
use of the elementary canal being out of
| order, and there about ton>ors of the
throat; here we here of neurology in the
head. there ofembargy: on one side of us
we hear of men being killed by getting a
| pound of tough beef in the sarcopharus
ing his jocular vein. Things change so
that declare don't know how to sub.
scribe for any disease nowadays. New
names and new nostrils take the place oi
the old. and might as well throw my old
herb bag away" Fifteen minutes after
ward Isaac had the herb bag for target
and broke three squares of glass in the
cellar window in trying to hit it. befor,
the old lady knew what he was about.
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