The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-16

The "Murphy movement is what the
Cincinnati Commercial calls the march of
the potato bug.
The Cambria pa Freeman notices
the death of a little boy, caused by his
swallowing quantity of consecrated y
I've by mistake.
And now scientific publication warns
the public against using modern tinware
for cooking purposes. Things will soon
get to such pass that the only safe way
will be to take our victuals raw and eat
them from chip.
"A Paris Snowman recently presented to
his son-in- law, as his daughters fortune,
an elephant that danced fandango; a
camel that went down on his knees, head
to the east, at sunset; a dog that cast up
accounts, and two canaries that played
cards.
The Berks County Agricultural Society
offers prize for the best crop of tobacco
raised in that county. An amateur farmer
entered the list of competitors by planting
box of "pure Havana cigars" and was
somewhat astonished to find fine patch of
cabbage plants come up instead of tobacco.
during a recent investigation in Lon
don, room, nine feet by twelve, was dis
covered in house situated near the Bank
of England, in which resided a woman (ilD,
a man and his wife, a young woman and
three children, her younger sister, her
younger brother, and a female dog with
six pups.
"A Russian printer charges five dollars
to print one hundred visiting cards. This
is about five times as much as the American
printers charge for similar Job. But then
it takes the former ten times as long to set
up Russian name, and although the card
is two feet long he is sometimes obliged to
run. few syllables of the jawbreaker on
the other side.
"A Center street mans Murphy pledge
expired at noon yesterday. At 80 p. NJ.
he went skipping down the street yelling,
Ladies to the center an gents outside;
first four 'alf aid 'alf and right hands
round" Through the dungeon CRATE of
the station house this morning he is en-
deavoring to negotiate with small boy for
a wet towel to bind on his fevered brow.
The Quarterly Journal Of heJrtety
says: sit is estimated that coffee, both
beans and leaves, are drunk by sixty mil
lions of the human family. Tea of all
kinds is used by five hundred millions, and
opium 10y four hundred millions; alcohol, in
its various forms, by five hundred millions
of the human race. Tobacco is probably
used by seven or eight hundred millions.
The enormous circulation of the Lon
don journals has been greatly increased by
the war. Some of them have gone to enor-
nous expense. At present the Telegraph
leads the van. Its correspondents swarm
all over Europe and Asia. Those on the
Turkish side have their headquarters at
Constantinople, where Mr. Gay, the chief
of the corps, lives in ambassadorial state,
with an inexhaustible bank behind him.
The circulation of the Telegraph is now
close upon 300, 900 copies a day. The
.Standard comes next, bordering Oh 600 900.
-" Farmer" writes to us stating that he
is dsgusted with experimenting on unre-
liable plans for the destruction of the pc.
tato bug, and asks if we know of an infal
lible recipe for the determination of the
pest. Certainly. Seize him gently from
the rear with pair of tongs, then decapi-
tate him with scythe, then press firmly
on the tongs until he resembles cancelled
postage stamp, and finally, as an extra pre-
caution, hide his head where he won't be
liable to find it for a week or two. 1t is
not probable that he will recuperate suffi-
GENTLY to resume business until your pota-
toes are so far advanced as to render his
depredationS harmleSS.-Er.