The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-09-09
BUBBLES.

"A haudbill-Your account for gloves.
Sioux ing machne-the scalping knife.
"A temperance league-Three miles of
water.
Winged merchandise Bees, because they
cell their honey.
-Quadrature of the circe-Getting a
"square meal" off round of beef
-" My bark is on the sea-" as the cur
said when the captain threw him overheard.
Why is the opening of the Fall cam
paign like fashionable woman? Because
there's great hustle about it.
The family tree of a Texas family shows
branch on which several members have
been hung for borrowing horses.
A Frerchman got exceedingly angry
with waiter at an English hotel. "You
rascal"' exclaimed lie, 81 blow your nose
for YOU
There was little gathering the other
evening, and some one asked Preston man
if he wasn't fond of Mendelssohn. He
said he was passionately; but unless very
carefully cooked it always disagreed with
him.
Two little girls were lately prattlng
together, and one of them said: "We keep
four servants have got six horses, and
lot of carriages; now, what have you got"'
With quite as much pride the other answer
ed, "We've got skunk under our barn."
-"What do you sell those fowls for9"
inquired person of a man attempting to
dispose of some chickens of a questionable
appearance. I" sell them for profits, " was
the answer "Thank you for the informa-
ton that they are prophets, " responded the
querst, 81 took them to be patriarchs."
An American backwoods minister hav-
ing alluded to an anchor in his discourse,
described it's use in the following lucid
manner: IAN anchor is a large iron in
strument that sailors carry to sea with
them, and when storm arises thay take it
| on shore and fasten it to tree, and that
holds the ship still till the storm blows
over.''
George Eliot says that young mans
eyes first open to the world when he is in
love. This is not always so. Usually it is
when he has gone away from home and had
his washing sent out for the first time, and
| finds among it when it is returned an odd
stocking with two red stripes about the
top, and long enough to button around his
neck.
Old Deacon Sharp never told a lie, but
he used to relate THISTLE was standing
one day beside a frog pond-we have his
word for it--and saw large garter snake
make an attack upon an enormous big
bulfrog. The snake seized one of the
frogs hind legs and the frog, to be on
par with his snakeship, caught him by the
tail, and both commenced swallowing one
another, and continued this carnivorous
operation until nothing was left of either
of them.
On the base ball grounds yesterday,
says the Burlington Ha@keye, red-hot
ball struck the batter just where his mother
used to feel for him with her slipper, and
the empire shouted dead ball" dead
ballr' retorted the striker struck, eff
there's live ball on the grounds that S it."
An cable seaman from Ardamurchan
was at the tiller of his sloop one night
shortly after the introduction of coloTed
signal lights on ships A steamer was
approaching, and Archy saw the green and
red light for the first time at sea. He
astonished his shipmates by yelling out,
"lIard port-hard a port. We're gaun
RIGHT intae the 'pothecary's shop at Gou-
rock.'