The Republican journal., 1877-05-31
Observations of Men and Things.
BY OUR GEORGE.



am particular about butter and prefer the best
there is, but put up with an inferior quality
Of music | can lean against a post and listen to
hand organ grind out Il few tunes. and occasion
ally help encourage the artist by giving the mon
key penny. | can follow a band round town and
listen to its music. and wish all the time that my
ears were as large as the Bibles that fond parents
give their children for wedding presents. | can
swalowa concert, digest an opera, and bolt good
choir but am free to confess that when put
my time against congregational singing in church
that always fear that my frame will go to pieces
before the services are over With all due respect
and with no irreverent feeling, must say that my
fountain of pity just boils over Sunday, when |
think of what the Lord has to endure The human
mind can scarcely grasp the subject but let lis try
to get vague idea Of what it must be to listen to
all the dull sermons, and second hand PRAYERS and
broken winded used up congregational singins.
that must be listened to on one Sunday and then
multiply that by fifty two and see where you and
l. my friend would be at the end Of one year. 1t
gives us about the best idea Of the difference be
tween the finite and the infinite power of cndur
ance Of anything know of.
What | know about music would not fill two
gallon jug. Music | consider to be the science of
tongues and sounds 1t dates clear back to the
creation. Instrumental music goes back to the
fourth chapter OF Genesis, where we learn that
Juba was the father of harps and organs Some
of his descendants are now going round concert
ing. under the name of the .Jubul-ce singers and
they have sung SO much that they have turned
black i'll the face.
One hundred and twenty eight feet make cord
but how many feet there are i'll Il discord, | don't
know. | otttimes think that one foot well applied
i'll suitable place, would stop discord as quick
as anything, suppose that might make string
of puns on notes and tenor and base, &C. as long
as spell Of weather. but am not going to do it
If you wanted my opinion regarding music be
cause you wished to screnade me come right along
and MARBLE under my window, and I'll sit upin bed
and listen like an ear ut a keyhoe.
Geo. A, Qumby. Esq.
Sir-Barnum writes me that he wants a clown
and will give $4,000 and expenses paid year
Would yen accept it. Yours truly, Ar&t'Srus.
BarnumS success has always been due To his cs
tiluate Of peoples qualifications but i'll this cas-,
he seems to be off the track entirely You say he
has written gotthat he wants clown and will pay
$4,000 year aud you ask w Guild you accept
ii !" OF course | would, if were in Your place
You evidently could not earn your board amy
other way and even if You fail as clown-whcl
you surely will, for clown needs brains, which
you evidently don't possess-yon might work il
as the What is it ;! at less salary. Every dog
has his day" Augustus, and yours is now before
you.
would say to Arthur Hugh McSkimk that II
could IA tail unfod' for his enlightenment, but Il,
not propose to do it through this column.
Farmer writes to enquire Nv hat know about
tho Mower family
1t is an old family, and started ont with Old
father Time. The Sickle family is branch Of ii
They were mostly farmers, and though industriou,
and of good habits the most of them have gone t,
grass in the hay day OF their youth They never
could be il success alone and always had To have
guardian. One branch OF the family. Meadow kim
Mower moved up to Winterpurt iii this State, an,
settled there and appears to be one of the lyelies
of the whole race Their children are scattered
all through Waldo County, and are highly Spoken
of by all who know them.
THoENDIKE MAY 18th, II.
Our George Can YOU tell me how | can vii
nv true love am long legged and rather home
". and she has got little handsome fellow, an,
She thinks more OF him than She does OF me, ant
she engaged to him when fell i'll love witt
her. | have carried her to ride three times NJ,
mother and brothers wife are trying to help me-
belong to the church. Did do Il Christian act il
h,r III Ilrir,
her engaged lover TRuAlAN,
feel like Il jury Of twelve men, and will give
my opinion as unbiased rs a girl without corscts
| never knew a long legged man to be IA success al
counting. When he sits down, his knees stick ~
in the air So that a girl cannot sit on them with
out slipping, and generally when mans legs art
very long, they are not very wide and the cir
feels as if she were sitting on rail fence. If yot
will come down mere Will take YOU down to tho
machine shop, all saw off part Of your legs, aut
put You into the turning lathe and put a littl,
style on You. If your pluck was only as long Il.
your legs, You would do well enough. Carried tn,
girl to ride three times and giving up now Why
Truman, I'm ashamed Of you. Why, courted
girl out West, and trotted her out to ride every
pleasant day for a year, behind span, and lost
her then My rivals father kept livery stable
and he drove a spike team and got the girl
think that one great trouble is that You belong to
the church A woman is peculiar animal. She
don't want her husband to belong to anything but
herself. W hat part of the church do You belong
to! Are YOU the lightning rod, or the stecpl", OF
the chimney, OF one of the pillars or a door mat
or what How came the church to get you! did
it have mortgage on you and ioreclose Don't
YOU put too implicit confidence i'll the old lady and
your sister-in-law, trying to help You. Play yom
hand Yourself Stock the cards aud deal yourself
both bowers and the ace, and go it alone As long
as vou don't seem to get the girl, would not lost
many meals worrying whether did Christian
act, in trying to win her affections. 1t is not
wicked TO steal, if you don't steal anything. You
take ten dollars and come down, and let me fix
YOU up IA little and we'll have the girl before snow
flies.
CAMDEN, May DIST, ".
Our George: Dear Sometimes town
clock strikes II. when it should strike 10, but
when il should strike II. it strikes l. Now why
does it not strike more than II, making l3
j. F. ROBERTS, ESQ.
| should say because the old thing needs repair
ing. Take it into Fred Lewis shop and he Will fix
ii i'll no time.
Please tell me why it is that dog will hold his
foot out, when his back is being scratched
j. +. ROBERTS, ESQ.
My modest seeker after wisdom there are several
reasons. 1t is because the foot cannot hold the
dog out, when his bac, is being scratched. 1t is
because the dog cannot hold out his back as easily
as he can his foot. 1t is because the dog cannot
Mold his back out when his foot is being scratched
or he cannot back out his foot when his scratch is
being held out, he cannot scratch his foot. when
he is holding ont his back | could rive Won rta
enough to fill we'll but these sufficient,
guess.
Gen. Grant in Foreign Parts.