West-Jersey pioneer., 1875-09-23
NOTES, QUERIES, &C.

NOTES, QUERIES, &c.
Whitelaw Reid is said to be skilled vio-
linist, but we feel it safe to say that every
man who plays the fiddle can't edit the N.
?. Tribune But it is necessary to say it,
else all the fiddlers in the country will be
starting for New York, and the country
cannot spare them.-RocAester Democrat and
Chronicle.
You knew at once by her general appear
ance, and the manner in which she smiled,
and the giggles she giggled, and the way
she talked, that this was the first time she
ever had a beau. She was, in fact, very
much excited; and like person stricken
with the first shock of palsy, didn't know
exactly how to use her tongue. The blood
rushed to her head, until there was tre-
mendous buzzing in her ears, and she recog-
Missed all her acquaintances old and young,
and called them by name in a loud tone of
voice, and wore at the same time very
triumphant expression of countenance. 1t
was moment of intense ecstasy Ito herr
moment looked and longed for ever since
she entered her teens; and all the heroes
and heroesses of all the dime novels she had
ever read, went trooping across her vision
like row of bees in swarming time. Ap-
pies, and peaches, and hollyhocks, and
mushrooms, and pumpkins and hedge fences
as they hung on trees, or blossomed on
stalks, or grew in the grass, or tore her new
dress as she swept by them, borne almost
from her feet by an electric force, all passed
as an accessory panorama of bliss on her
way to the circus, that glorious, grand,
never to be forgotten MONDAY of her new
experience. Did she enjoy the showP Did
she remember how the elephant stood on
his hind feetq Did she follow the flight of
the great, unsurpassed, unrivaled, wonder
full astonishing, most daring, bareback r.
der in the world, as he dived in doubled
up way through two hoops and alighted on
the horse again, right side up? Was the
music the most delightful she had ever
heard? Of course! But somehow, these
things got all mixed up in one glorious whirl
of delight, in the one glorious fact that she
had a beau-a nice beau in black cloth, and
a red neck-tie, and a stcve-pipe hat, and
who smoked cigar, and bought peanuts,
and candy, and lemonade, every time the
man who sold it came around and whispered
his goods so softly that the noise of the
band, and the best ten year old joke of the
clown, was drowned out of hearing entirely.
o, how her little heart went pita-pat, and
throbbyty- -throb, and bobbyty-bob on her
way home that glorious afternoon! What
mattered it if
Her manners had not that repose
Which stamps tho caste of We're de We're.
Jay Gould had to return in haste with his
family from his New Jersey residence. 1t
appears that corner in mosquitoes has
proved too much for him.
Xaver Riedl, an Austrian, has written
''Washington Hymn" of which this is the
first verse:
George Washington, heroic man.
Redeemer of rising world,
Whom God, in sport of tyrant's ban.
Upon this continent hath hurled.
With soul as pure as peak of snow
Our great example still art thou,
Who standest, beacon of the brave,
Where proud the holy, starry banners wave"
To love early and marry late, is to hear
lark singing at dawn, and at night to eat
it roasted for supper.-Richter.
Malice sucks up the greatest part of her
own venom, and poisons herself. -MontGtgue.
Let prayer be the key of the morning, and
the bolt of the evening .-Matthew Henry.
Sleep is Deaths youngest brother, and so
like him that never dare trust him with
out my prayers.-,Sir Thomas BroUme.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentle
man.-Hare.
Among the jokes in Eli Perkins's new
book, is the best one ever perpetrated upon
the late James Fisk, Jr. That gentleman
was showing witty stammerer his new
boat, the Plymouth Rock, and called his
attention to the portraits of Jay Gould and
himself, hanging a little way apart The
visitor said: "'They're very good, Colonel
you hanging on one side and Gould on
the other-f-i-r-s-t rate. But, Colonel"
continued the wicked Mr.. Travers, buried
in thought, 'ao-sc- aohere g oar SaUSor ?''
The daughter of Prince Bismarck is to
wed Count Wendezuenlenberg, of the Prus-
sian Civil Service. All, Miss Bismarck, we
could have supplied you with sweeter,
shorter name Il an that. Giddy girl, you
will yet regret your hasty action in declin-
ing our very liberal terms and offers.