The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
-Californians are eating ripe tomatoes.

-CalifOrnians are eating ripe tomatoes.
Daniel Websters widow is still living
in New York city, at the age of 70.
A Connecticut man has named his colt
Eight to Seven" Itwas the most winning
name he could think Of
"A lucky Dauphin county, Pa, boy while
hunting rabbits the other day, found 1852 in
greenbacks concealed under a rock which
he had moved to get after the game.
1t has lust been discovered that all the
marriage ceremonies performed in Pennsyl-
vania on Sunday have been illegal and con-
sequently not binding, so saying an act pass
ed in TIT, lately discovered among the
archives in Harrisburg. According to this
! discovery, there are thousands of people
! living in the State in open violation of the
law
The Democrats of Texas offered prize
banner, to be given to the State showing the
largest majority for Tilden, feeling assured
that their own State which gave a Demo
cratic majority of 1903, 900 in 1876, would win
the prize The State of Georgia, however,
gave Tilden majority of 1862, while Tex
as gave him 59,995. The banner which is
very large and is beautiful piece Of work
manship, has Just been obtained at cost of
$780, and a committee will be sent with it to
Georgia.
If Hiram Taylor, of North Hampton, N.
H., had not been a merciful man who was
merciful to his beasts, the probabilities are
that his oxen would not have remained for
two hours during a bitter winters night
holding back heavy load of wood that, had
they advanced foot, would have passed
over his body and killed him. He had fallen
from his load, and had one arm caught I'M
der the runner so that he could not move,
but he kept the cattle quiet till assistance by
good fortune arrived
They tax dogs in Cecil county, and APP
ply the tax to pay for sheep killed by dogs
Thirty.two farmers received awards in Feb
ruary from the County Commissioners to
pay for the sheep which had been killed by
dogs TIE lowest award was $3.50, the
highest 1924; the next highest 500. The
total was $776 There is some chance for
sheep husbandry in that county. The law
has been in force there for many years and
the farmers would not be with it. If there
are not sufficient awards to absorb the tax,
it is applied TO mending the roads or to the
support of the public scho ols.- Democratic
AdU2cdte.
"A travelling show in the West consisted
of "human curiosities" all from one family.
The head of the concern was Il Samson and
sword swallower. His wife was the fat
woman. His daughter with her hair bleach
ed and her eyes painted was the Circassian
girl. His three year-old son, dressed in trou-
sers, was the dwarf, "agcd fifteen" His SON
n-law was the door tender His son,
in cage, was FIJI cannibal. In Wisconsin
village there was Il family row, and in the
ensuing trial in court the secrets OF their
business came out. But they have become
reconciled, and once more the old man lifts
weights and swallows swords, the Circassian
girl flirts with the fellows, the door tender
shouts the merits of the exhibition, the dwarf
oddles on his platform and kisses the wom-
en-, and the cannibal howls in his cage