The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-12
NUMBER 4.

Gus VIII hive his little fun, YOU
see -
He is { sc1low,lat ezuberant humorist.'
Ireplied. .'"ast was the object of the
joke p
well hes going to seu his furniture at
auction, and promised to notice the fact
in to-days Argus, but / forgot it, and he
called to remind me o. it,
DO all your friends refresh your mem
CRY in that vivid manner? If I'd been
IN your place, I'd have knocked him
down.
NO you wouldn't slid Blngs: "1lo YOU
wouldn't Gus is sheriff, and he controls
two thousand dolays worth Of advertisine.
I'd sooner he'd Ii q s1e from here to Borre,,
and back as lin than to take that ad. ertis-
ing away from the Argus. what's a few
bumps and a sore shin or two along side OF
AL that fatness? No, sir, he can have ali
She fun he wants ont of me-
The Argus, believe. is particularly proud
of the fact that it exists in larc
where tAe press is free ana iniepend-
ent.
THE CORONER AND TIE FLOOD.
have referred III my book to that ccrosler
of ours who seized an Egyptian mummy
that was brought into town, summoned "A
jury, held az inquest, on the mummy,
brought in a verdict Of Oath from causes
unknown" and charged the county with
the usual fees, with compound interest
from the time of Moses. Wei. that cor
oner is still in Office, and he is still entliusi-
astic about his profession. Last Sunday
night he was at church. The minister
preached a very solemn sermon upon Eoah's
food, and after IT was over, | met the
coroner in the isle and said to him:
every impressive discourse, Mr. Wheeler,
wasn't it?
Beautiful, siri Beautiful,'' replied
Wheeler. 'eAnd yet it seemed 10 be kinder
mournful, too
Indeed, Wight didn't str=lke1nein that
way. 1t was solemn, of course, but its
tendency certainly should be to G., t,leh ehelrt
of every truly good man with cheerfulness
and hope
"oh'! L know all that said Wheeler,
''but didn't he say there wcre several mill
lion people drowned n hit food 20
q believe he did"
"Wen, then. I say thlt whom think of
all that mortli;.y, and remember that ]
wasn't coroner then, AMI amt likely to be
when ther's another such afreshet, It make,
me sick. There amt nothing cheerful
about such reflections. fcal's # hadIl {
been treated right; : f Ia been roi,5el.'
Z 4 1
when he reads the story OF the de Il ..ction
Of Ssnnacherib.
WAITING TOR INFORMATION.
4 young man the other day sent re
story entitled "1dy Grlndfathers Welding
which begins in this way:
"When my grandfather was first married,
you may be sure that I, young as 1 WAS,
had looked forward to the occasion with in
tense interest
have not published the narrative vet be.
cause it strikes me that there is hitch in
it somewhere and 1 cannot finl the author
to ask him 10 shed light upon it. For one
thing, want to asce~t in just how young
he was when tlat welding occurred. L
have a kind of an inlistinct idea That he
must have been good deal Of a child.
But even then L can't exactly make the
thing jibe with some of the natural infer
ences from the ease Nlere, for inst lnce.
WAS the authors father ali this time? and
whcre-but perhaps we had better wait un-
I'll we hear from the author. feel some-
how as ii he has 2 mission to write fiction
fiction CT the awful and deadly kind.
A QUESTION FOR PROFESSOR TYNDELL.
If Professor 1ynden drops in upon you, 1
wish you would ask him why 1t Is that when
L yawn everybody near me feels an irresist-
lille desire to yawn, ami VIII yawn in spite
Of everything The mystery in which this
phenomenon Is e11veloped ought to be Dis
pellcd- / venture to say that nine people
out OF ten when they read this para graph
VIII want to ysiwn-