The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ -cHooDS says VI Won WISH TO fec0llPCt
a mans name, go security for his house rent.
For keeping your memory fresh there is
nothing like this plan.
-"Have you seen the man who got shot9'
said one fellow to onother.'" Mop exclaim-
ed the other. How didhe get sllota" she
bought en-"
"A Holyoke (Mass.) bachelor, fearful OF
the wiles of the fair sex, lives in house
which has no windows and only one door.
The latter IS scarcely three feet high.
1t is stated that 10000 Philadelphia
families will break up house keeping on
the 1st OF January and strut around the
country making Centennial calls. Revenge
is sweet.
The Sioux Indian talked sarcastically
enough to the Government official: Why
don't white men put Injun on wheels, like
brave ut tobacco store, 80 he can be wheel
ell around easy y
An old addition of Morse's geography
says: ALBANY has four hundred dwell
ing houses and twenty -four hundred inhab-
itants, all standing with their gable ends
to the streets.
The 300 mile walking match in London
between O'Leary, American, and Huwse,
Englishmnn. resulted in the defeat of the
former. OLeary walked 200 miles and
H0wse 241.
The correct view of this perplex' g
situation is taken by the philosopher of
the Breckenridge Ky) NeasS: mo thank
| YOU he remarks; "dun't want the mus
ket and bareback. Pass the buck wheat
cakes and honey, please"
"A lady who had married an inveterate
smoker was asked if she had no prejudice
against tobacco, to which she replied that
she had undergone the smoking process so
long that her prejudice had been perfectly
cured
There is Chinese firm in San Francis
co consisting of seven members. They
keep their money in Il safe on which there
are seven locks, and the funds can be reach.
Ell only by unanimous consent, as each
partner has a lock to himself.
Chief Justice Waite has been waited
upon, and he politely told the interviewer
that he had but one word TO say, which
WAS wait-til the committees now collect
ing facts in Florida and Louisiana report.
pie have elected.
"A Texas horse, of unknown pedigree
has trotted in 2:24 after only little train
ing. He was bought Tor $40 while draw
ing Galveston hand cart, and his gait W
changed from pacing t. trotting by drlv-
ing him in two feet of water. He is called
Crockett.
"A bride on railroad car, seeing her
husband take something rolled up III
brown paper from his pocket, snatched il
from his hands and threw it out of he win
dow saying, that he had promised to give
up chewing tobacco. The young man told
her that she had thrown away all the
money lie had in the world.
-Adonis: Miss Jones. do you think
Brown 30 awfully ugly Miss j.: Ugly
No, indeed Why, we all think him ex-
tremely nice looking Adonia: Well,
was talking to him on the stair just now,
and lady passed, and l heard her say
That's the ugliest an ever saw I" And
there was nobody there but him and met
"A young women in the seminary at
Rockford, ILL.,, wished to get married con-
trary to her parents wishes, and was there
fore closely confined in her room. Her
lover and another man planned an elope.
ment She was to jump from her window,
in the second story, and they were to catch
her in buffalo robe. She had forced her
courage to the jumping point when the
plot was discovered.
Here's conundrum which the Alex
andria Ua) Democrat proposes Sup |
pose Grant should die before the 4th of |
March, and the Senate should recognize |
Hayes, and the House should stand by
Tilden, and the Indians should scalp Sher- |
idan and the House should impeach Thur
man and the bull dozers should capture
Don Cameron, and the European war should
homolugate Sccor Robeson, and the Su
preme Court should go crazy over the
complications, then who would be Presi.
dent2''
Some of the accidents that are noticed
in local newspapers are interesting for
their novelty. John Shawhan, in Lebanon,
Ind, accidently wounded himself with
gun. He then dropped the weapon. and
second barrel WAS discharged, hitting a
woman who stood by. Both died. An.
drew II. Shore, miner in Pittston, struck
pickaxe through a thin wall of coal be-
tween him and q stream, and the water
ran in on him SO fast that he was almost
drowned. David Garvin, tried to escape
from cell in a Newport police station by
climbing through hole over the door,
He fell, his feet caught, and he hung head
downward until D. died. George Wells. a
policeman in Danvile, KY, took revolt
yer from drunken prisoner, and put it
cooke into his pocket. 1t went off. and
fatally wounded him. A girl fell while
skating in Milwaukee, and the pointed end
of IL smelling bottle, worn at her belt pene-
trated her body several inches. A Boston
hoy impaled himself on cane that man
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