The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-03
BUBBLES.

Hard misunderstanding ice.
Side issue Woman at the creation.
Shaving misunderstanding barrels.
The difference between an overcoat
and baby is, one you was and the other
you wear.
"A New Test-Aunt lin alarm. "Surely
you've eaten enough haven't you, Tom
my" Tommy lin doubt. "F-f-feel me.''
-"John, will you take some of this
butter?' "Thank you, ma ma l belong to
Good Templars. Can't take anything
strong"
-" 1t isn't loud praying which counts
with the Lord SO much as giving four full
quarts for every gallon" says an Arkansas
circuit rider.
Oft in the Silly night,
When slumber's chain hath bound me,
The neighbors cats begin to fight,
And raise Cain all around ME.
The momentous question-Augustus
Now, Emily, do you love me, or do yon
not ?" Emily: swell, if say don't, shall
have to return your presents 90
-"Mrs. Spinks," observed boarder
to the landlady of boarding house, the
equal adjustmentof this establishment coul |
be more safely secured if there was less
tresses."
The National Sunday School Teacher
tells the story of scholar who, when asked
in the lesson of David sparing Saul, :"
why David compared himself as flea,
replied that he guessed cit was because
Saul couldn't catch him.
AT the theater, the other evening, an
aged individual with powerful pair of
lungs blew his nose just as an affecting
passage had reached its climax, whereupon
a young lady, seated in the dress circule,
sententiously remarked, "s'noutrage"
A grumbling old bachelor, after lis
tening to the following, "She was her
muver's own little darling wopsy popsy
deary ducksy, so she was, 'and she must
keep still, D." asks, Why don't woman talk
some decent kind of English to their Gill
dren.''
81 Ma, does pa kiss the cat 81 I" Why,
no, my son. What in the name of goodness
put that in your head ?" "Cos when pa
come down stairs this morning he kissed
Sarah in the hallway and said, That
better than kissing that old cat up stairs,
amt it Sarah ,"
-"Speaking of bathing" said Mrs Par
tington, from behind the steam that arose
from her tea, as a vail to her bushes, when
touching upon so delicate subject,
"some can battle with perfect impurity
in water as cold as Greenland's icy noun.
tains and lndias' coral stands; but for nv
part, l prefer to have the water little
torpid
RoUGH ON LoNGFELLow.
Among the recent visitors of the poet
Longfellow was an Englishman, who, ik.
Sir Charles Coldstream, had travelled every
where, seen everything, and done every
thing, and yet was terribly ennuied.
Haw! yes, Mr.. Longfellow; thought
ought to see the great American poet, IN
sent in my card
| The poet asked his visitor to be seated
when lie resumed:
eyes, see Mr.. Longfellow; I've beer
great traveller, sir; been all over the Con
tinent; been to Iceland, Sweden, Norway.
"Indeed. you must have found much t,
interest you %
"Well, something; but it's getting t
be an awful bwar. I've just come iron
Egypt; old country-antiqities you know.
"Yes," replied the poet, many interest
ing remains of past ages"
"Ah, yes,-iust so exactly; heaps of oil
ruins. l like ruins. Now, everything
new here in America, you know-can'
find any old ruins-so thought I'd com
and see you."