Wilmington journal., 1876-08-11
MIR. SMITHS Roy.
Wis Startling Statements aho.


Wis Startling Statements abou, ..
Family.
Max Adeler has the following to
late III the. Philadelphia Bnllef;n. 70
family named Smith has 1ecan.,A
moved to Germantown. and M
Browns boy. on Saturday, leaned over
the fence and gave to our reporter his
Impressions OF Mr. Smiths boy. a ia5
about fourteen years old:
Yes, me and him are right wall
qualnted now; he knows more N do
and he's had more experience p.,;; o;
says his father used to he roht pin
(Smith by the way is q deacon in tha
Presbyterian chuie eh, and n verv ex0
eellent lawyer and that he had s10
oto.W 600 In gold buried in his cailar
along with IL whole lot of human bonas
people he's kill d. And he saws hi,
father IS coDJurer, and that he matas
all the earthquakes that happen an1
where i'll the world. The old man,n
come home at night, after there's hoan
an earthquake, all covered with swea.
and 40 tired he can hardly stand p;,;
says its such hard work. i
An Bill toio me that once who,
man came round there trying to 90"
lightning rods his father got mad sna
ct linn, ct him right up, and he tsLas
bites ont of everybody he comes
acrOst.
That's what Bill tells me. That's o,,
[ know about it. And he tole me tbot
once he used to have a dog. one as
these little kind of dogs. and ho wos
flying his kite. and just for finn hs
tied the kitestring onto his dogs taiI
And then the wind struck her ard his
dog went booming down the street
with his hind legs in the air for aboui
a mile, when the kite all of q sudden
begun TO so up, and in about a minute
the dog was fifteen miles high. and
commanding view of California and
Egypt and Oshkosh, [ think Bill said
He came down, anyhow, I know. in
Brazil, and Bill SAID he swum home all
the way in the Atlantic ocean. and
when he landed his legs was all nib
bled off by sharks.
I wish father'd buy me dog, sos T
could send him up that way. But I
never had 10 luck Bill said that
where they used to live he went ont on
the roof one day to fly his kite, and he
sat on the top Of the chimbly to give
hex plenty of room. and while he was
sitting there thinking about nothing.
the old man put keg of powder down
below in the fireplace to clean the SCOT
out Of the chimbly. And when be
touched her off Bill was blowed over
agin the Baptist church steeple, and
he landed on the weather cock, with
his pants torn, and they couldn't git
him down for three days, SO he hung
there, going round and round with the
wind, and-he lived by eating the crows
that came and sat on him because they
thought he was made of sheet iron.
and put up there on purpose.
He's had NJ re fun than enough. He
was telling me the other day about a
sausage stutfer his brother invented.
1t was kinder machine that worked
| with a treadie; and Bill said the wav
they did in the fail was to Fl it to the
hogs back, aud connect the treadle
with a string, and the hog'd work
| the treadle, and keep on running it up
| and down until the machine cut the
hog all up fine. and shaved the meat
| into the skins. Bill said his brother
called it Every Hog His Own Suffer-
and it worked splended. But 1 don't
know. Pears to Ile's if there couldn't
be 10 machine like that. But, any.
way, Bill said SO.
Aud he tOle me about an uncle of his
out in Australia, who was ct by big
oyster once, and when he got inside
| he staid there until he'd ct the oyster.
| Then he split the shells open and took
| half a one for q boat. and he sailed
along until he met sea serpent, and
he killed it and drav'ed off it's skin,
and when he got home he sold it to an
engine company for n hose, for $40,-
coo, to put out fires with. Bill said
that was actually so, because he could
show me man who used to belong to
tho engine company. L wish father'd
let me go out to find n sea serpent like
that; but he don't let ME have no
chance to distinguish myself.
Bill was saying only yesterday that
the Indians caught him onceand drove
| eleven railroad spikes through his
stomach, and cut off his scalp. and it
never hurt him bit. He said he got
away by the daughter of the chief
sneaking him out of the wigwam and
| lending him Il horse. Bill says she
| was in love with him, and when asks
| ed him to let me SEQ the holes where
| they drove in them spikes, he said he
darsn't take off his clothes or he'd
bleed to death. / He said his own father
| didn't know it, because Bill was afraid
it might worry the old man.
And Bill toIe me they wasn't going
to get him to go to Sunday School:
He says his father has brass idol
that he keeps in The garret, and Bill
says he's made up his mind to be
pagan, and to begin to go naked and
carry tomahawk and bow and ar
row as soon as the warm weather
comes. And to prove it to me he says
his father has this town all uDderlald
with nitro glycerine, and as soon as he
gets ready he's going to olow the OLD
thing out and bust her up, let her rip
and demolish her. He said so down
at the dam and tole me not to tell any
body, but I thought they'd be no harm
in mentioning it to you.
And now / believe I must he gong
I hear B IL whistlipq. Maybe he's
got something else to tell me.
The Smith boy, we think, Will pe
profitable to the youth of this commu>
nifty.
It has been discovered that there Is
new-profession practiced in the cities
of the Old World, as well as on TINS