The Cecil Whig., 1875-10-30
Miscellaneous Items,

MlScelianeOuS Items.
Love descends to friendship; friend
ship never scars to love.
The Jail at Greeley, Col, has stood
empty ever since it was built.
Some Of our great -grandmothers it
appears wore pull-back dresses.
"A Western woman calls her boy an
almanac; he indulges SO freely in dates.
BY an old law. of Pennsylvania all
horses engaged in racing for money can he
seized.
Sore mouths have been caused by
drinking from the cups in common use at
Saratoga.
The children in Florida say they live
on sweet potatoes in Summer, and on
strangers in Winter.
"A little child at Gadsden, Ala, was
lately attacked and killed by rooster, a
spur penetrating the brain.
Five things are requisite to good
officer-ability, clean hands, dispatch, pa
tience and impartiality. William Penn.
Rev Chas. Fisher, of Hartford, Conn.,,
has just married his 1600th couple, and
has no idea how much he has to answer for
The latest discovery at Pompeii is that
of the figure of a woman lighting fire in
a cook stove, while her husband is asleep
in bed.
The female house-fy does not bite, but
her tendency to suicide by drowning in
your tea cup quite offsets this admirable
quality.
-Four silver decanter stands, presented
by David Garrick to Hannah Moore were
sold at auction at Ross, England, recently,
for $500.
The Milwaukee Ners says that in that
city it is an insuperable objection to female
lawyers that they cannot put their feet
upon the table.
-Pittsburg is going to erect a monument
in memory of the author of cold Dog
Tray" The organ grinders should con-
tribute literally.
General Spinner estimates that there
are 1000, 900 lead nickles in circulation,
and SO if you get one you needn't feel
fattered about it.
There is man in Iowa who can hon.
estly say that .he never opened another
mans letter by mistake. His name is John
Pfafaelkaeffingarr.
Paul Boynton's suits, they say, each
costs about as much as cabin passage,
not to speak of the inconvenience of SWIM
ming over, besides.
All the inventive genius Of the great
and "tarnally cute" " Yankee nation is said
to be unequal to making fire-cracker
And we are mighty glad of it.
This is indeed an advanced age
Instead of wedding and a minister's fee,
they just jump over broomstck in 1ndi-
ana, and call it "a soul union"
Over four thousand specimens of ink
have been tested by the United States
Government to obtain one that cannot be
obliterated from defaced stamps.
-" If Jones undertakes to pull my ears"
said loud -mouthed fellow on street
corner, "he will just have his hands full,
now.' The crowd looked at the mans
ears and thought so, too.
Great curiosity was felt in Washington
circles to see Treasurer News autograph.
Several of the clerks found it on each of
their desks with polite note, and then
they didn't like it so well.
"A Lafayette (Ind. man has pear tree
that blossoms every two weeks, and now
has on it the representatives of three several
crops-pears varying in size from that of
pea to that of large hens egg.
The Warwickshire miners, while wait
ing the doubtful issue of their strike, hav-
ing borrowed states and pencils and copy
books, and are receiving instructions in
reading, writing and arithmetic.
The Leavenworth (Kan.) people are
afflicted with flying snakes that crawl
through the air, four feet above ground.
They are little things, about foot long,
spotted, with tlappers as big as mans
hand.
Santa Anna is seventy-seven, but still
erect and slender, and his black hair and
black eyes yet preserve their original bril-
liancy. lie is as fond of cock fighting as
ever, but hasn't money to indulge in it as
much as he would like.