The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A lemon tree at stanford. Fla, pro-
duced 5000 lemons last year, some OF
which weighed a pound each.
The average age Of sheep is ten years;
cows, fifteen hogs fifteen and horses not
used as beasts of burden, twenty.
A London newsboy found $4,000
diamond which he carried about in his
pocket for month without knowing its
worth.
"A man in Wellsyiile, Allegheny
county, traded his wife for an old horse
and sold the horse for thirty cents. Bust
ress is business.
An obituary notice in Western paper
contained the touching intelligence that
the deceased had accumulated 4 little
money and ten children
"A negro in South Carolina, complain
ing Of the hard times, declared they were
the hardest ever knew. WHY said he,
81 works all dag an steals night, an yet
I'm blest eff kin make an 'onest livin' !"
This spell of political weather recalls
q saying of Fisher Ames's: A monarchy;
he says, is q merchantmen that sails well
until it strikes some rock and goes to the
bottom; republic is q raft that never
sinks" but your feet arc always in the
water"
The Ccntrevile Observer tells this mule
story: Capt. John Griffin, Of Piney Neck
lost mule last week under peculiar cir
cumstances. The mule slipped on the ice
and its fore legs spraddled open and spill
the mule in two, killing it in few
minutes"
81 will and bequeath," said Pat, "to
my beloved wife, Bridget, all my property,
without reserve, to my oldest son, Patrick,
one-half the remainder, and to Dennis, nv
youngest son, the rest. If anything is left,
it may 90 to Terrence O'Cartv. in sweet
Ireland"
The Yankee facility for getting the
best of circumstances receives an apt illus
tration in the fact that the Captain of
schooner which was solidly frozen in the
Mystic river, in Massachusetts, is now
loading her with the ice taken out in maxi
ing channel, and will sell it at a good
profit in Florida.
-" The sentence of the court is" said
Judge Porter, popular Irish magistratp,
to notorious druDkard, THAT You
be confined in Jail for the longest period
the law will allow; and hope you will
spend the time in cursing whisky" Be
.jabers l will, and Porter, too," WIS the an.
swer.
Leonard Harper johnson, of Virginia,
has devised new religion, based on new
Bible of his own composition. This pre-
tended revelation of divine will constitutes
him high priest, with a right tn claim
one tenth of the income of his followers
and to have as many wives rs he can get.
He has secured three wives, but no otfe
followers as yet, although he breaches his
doctrines eloquently.
Nothing is created in vain; even
poodle dogs have their uses. A lady who
kept one of the curly denominations, recent
ly lost her pet, and called upon u police
man to find it. The next day the Officer
came with the dog, which was very wei
and dirty. The lady was ovcljnyed, and
asked forty silly questions, among others
Where did you find the dear baby ?"
"Why, marm," replied the officer, ga
man had him tied to pole, and washing
windows with him."
Recently in London while the horses
of a heavily laden omnibus were EN-
deavoring in vain to drag the vehicle OUT
of deep rut, an elephant in char. of
keeper passed along. Seeing the helpless
ness of the horses, the keeper gave instruc-
tions to the elephant, who lowered his
head, and placing his forehead at the rear
of the bus. pushed horses, vehicle and
passengers beyond the obstacle that imped-
ed their progress.
-Four business maxims arc attributed
al, " IA Al,
basis and secret of his extraordinary Sue
cess. Quantity and ungrammatically cx
pressed, they can not fail to arrest the al
tention, and contain principles worthy to
be remembered: Don't never sell what
you haven't got" Don't never buy what
you can't pay for" Don't never put it
into any mans power to ruin you."-
Keep your mouth shut"
"A new breed of cattle. 1t is stated
in the 7urJ, Field and Farm an agricul-
tural journal, that the farmers of Nebraska
have commenced the @omestication of the
buffalo. The wild animals, while young.
are introduced among herds of the tam,
stot k, OF course only one or two at u time.
Half and quarter breeds are found to br
very hardy, and in the yield of milk, til,
COWS raised of mixed stock give even more
than the average yield of rich milk. The
experiment promises well, as the enduranc,
of the wild animals is impaired to the do
nestle stock. In this way the extermina-
ton of the species will take new form.
and when wild buffalnes become Legendary
creatures the progeny Of the race will still
exist in modified, though probably NOR.
useful forms.