The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-09
BUBBLES.
A healing medium-a cobbler.

A healing medium-a cobbler.
A crewel mantle wOrSted seller.
Cool, but not always collected-an ice bill.
What tricks are most common among
Irishmen ?-Patricks.
Loafers might be of some use, if people
would use them to strike matches on.
A good suggestion is like crying baby
at a concert; it ought to be carried out.
Answers to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are at
present thirteen men in the Cabinct-Six
without Schurz and seven with.
Editing paper is like carrying an UNI
brella on a windy day; every body thinks
he could manage it better than the one who
has hold of the handle.
He was called on to pray, and astonished
his hearers by saying: "Lord, have mercy
upon this poor sinner the greatest among
ten thousand, and the one altogether love
ly."
Phil. Z. Buster is attempting to cast a
stain on the reputation of Christopher
Columbus, by circulating a story that on Il
certain occasion he left his native land ''for
parts unknown"
Paris paper: "Tell me only that l may
hope, Stephanie, and will pass my life on
my knees before your adored image.' $50
as to give me more work in mending your
breeches! Thank you! Get out of that.'
"Algernon," she whispered, twill you
always, always love me ~ Evangeline,
l swear it," he responded in a passionate
murmur. Then there was a sound as of a
clam falling into the mud, and all was STILL
"The short horse is soonest curried," is
paraphrased by Teutonic friend of ours
up at the Brunswick to read: "Dur schmall
leetle BONES don't take such goot vile to
brush himself all over nit der curry comes. !"
Warning to tea drinkers. "Haven't been
well"' WHAT'S been the matter, then,
Betty?'' Betty: Well, l dunno whether
it's cos I'm fond O my tay, but the doctor
he do say I'm suffering from a bronze
kettle affection"
We are told that "when bid, the Berlin
gorilla will W pc its nose as daintily as a
child of four or five." And we all know
how dainty child of four or five wipes
its nose-on it's sleeves; and how, pretty
often, it doesn't wipe its nose at all.
81 will and bequeath," said Pat, "to my
beloved wife, Bridget, all my property,
without reserve; to my eldest son, Patrick,
one-half the remainder, and to Dennis, my
younger son, the rest. If anything is left,
it may go to Terrence O'Carty, in sweet
Ireland
CHATS fine pig you have there, Janetr'
said the Earl of Haddington to a servant
of DR.. Wallace, of Whitekirk, as he was
surveying the minister's farmstock. "Ou
ay, my lord" said Janet; cts an uncom.
monty guide beast; an we ca it Tam, after
your lordship.
Mary" murmured lspiug Alfred, un
decided what to say, "Mary, if you do not
love me, thay tho; that'th the only way.
But, NTH Mary, if you love me" pressed
the wretch in accents bland, "and you
wouldn't like to thay tho, then, NTH Mary,
thqueeth my hand"
81 don't know what you mean by not
being an Irishman," said gentleman who
was about hiring boy, "but you were
born in Ireland" "Och, your honor, if
that's ALL" said the boy, "small blame to
that. Suppose your cat was to have kittens
in the oven, would they be loaves of bread?'
"There's nothing" said Mrs. Mckerrcl,
who keeps the boarding house up on North
Hill, "that puts all the boarders in such a
| good humor as nice, tender roast goose. "
"Ah, yes" replied the scholarly book
agent, waiting for an invitation to stay to
dinner, "a soft anser turneth away wrath"