The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-09
GLEANINGS.

The chief end of man is to keep the end
afar off.
Texas wheat is so high that grasshoppers
have to walk on stills.
Not many women are blacksmths, we
learn from the Worcester Press, i" but most
of them can shoe hen.
A tramp rode thirty miles in Maine the
other day, by clinging to the brake rod of
the rear car of an express train.
A long escaped murderer, who died in
Nebraska, last week, left this confession
on the stand by his bedside: &C murderer
never forgets the face of his victim.''
A contemporary inquiries if the young la
dies of the present day are fitted for wives.
We think it much more important inquiry
whether they are fitted for husbands.
The human voice has nine perfect tones,
but these can be combined into II ,192, 04i,
Ala different sounds, says some one in print,
but he is careful not to give his data.
An English collector of autographs is
said to have offered Prince Bismark $4,000
for his written resignation which the En-
peror returned Endorsed with the word ''7lie-
NAL" (never).
A fashionable report says that gentlemen's
hats are provided with a new kind of venti-
lator which will last much longer than the
hole style. Anything that will outiast hole
must be valuable addition to the resources
of people.
1t is told for fact that little taXen-
haired boy of five years, who had passed the
afternoon at an art museum, looking up in
his mothers face, said: "1f the mammals,
when they die, turn into mummies, do all
the papas turn up into puppies"
In consequence of the large number of
hotel clerks and BARRIERS out of employment
this year, it is expected that the rush of Ital-
ian Counts, English Lords and foreign no.
blemen generally, at the watering places
this summer, will be larger than ever before
known.
A Milwaukee man, recently, was called in
by a couple of disputants to decide whether
a can of kerosene was explosive or not. To
test the matter he thrust lighted match
into the can. AS there is no telegraph com.
munication between this world and the next
publication of the decision will be postpon-
ed until after the resurrection.
After seeing two doctors hang around
over man for hours and use gallon of
mixed chloroform and ether, trying to get
him to sleep that they may saw his leg OFF,
it grows more and more mystery how
robber can come in, and slap little two
y-four sponge saturated with chloroform
over a clerks nose and steal whole bank
slick and clean in less that seven minutes.
writer in the Scientific american has
been figuring about the scheme for con-
verting the desert of Sahara into sea.
He finds that it would take canal 52J
times as large as the river Rhine to supply
the water lost by evaporation, and as the
salt in seawater amounts to four per cent,
or one twenty fifth, and as nearly one fourth
of the water in this sea would annually
evaporate, it would take hundred years
to convert the desert of sand into desert
of salt.
A writer in the Baltimore Bee is of the
opinion that black-eyed ladies are most
apt to be passionate and jealous. Blue
eyed, soulful, truthful, affectionate and
contiding. Gray-eyed, philosophical, lit
erary, resolute, cold hearted. Hazel eyed,
quick tempered and tickle. A woman is
either worth good deal or nothing. If
good for nothing, she is not worth getting
jealous for; if she be true woman, she
will give no cause for jealousy. A man is
a butte to be jealous of a good woman--a
fool to be jealous of worthless one; but
is double fool to cut his throat for either
of them.
The military force of England, militia,
yeomanry and volunteers included is reck-
oned at 40, IG6, of which 1911, 1874 are regu-
lar troops. The navy numbers GJ, 600 men.
Germany has 1857 600 of all arms and
classes, with naval force of $4,000. The
Austrian army, including all reserves,
numbers S09, 600 men, with about II, 800 in
the navy. Italy has 5000 men i'll the
army, and 10000 sailors; Greece, 40, 600
land forces; Turkey can muster $40, 600
fighting men, Roumania, $4,000; Servia,
$4,000; and Montenegro, $4,000.