The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-10-13
GLEANINGS.
The patent fire eXtinguishers ought to
have saved the Patent Office.

The patent fire eXtinguisliers ought to
have saved the Patent Office.
&c Black stockings of all colors'' were
recently advertised by an exchange.
What the country yearns for is a book
on poker, entitled THAT Ante of Mine"
The mother of male twins, we learn
from the Cincinnati Times, sings " The
sweet boy and boy
An Indiana editor says: Coal oil,
rubbed on the neck and head, will cure hog
cholera. We have tried it..
"A lady doctor in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
put up the placald, ''Gone to my husbands
funeral; back in thirty minutes
A girl at school would like to have two
birthdays every year. When she grows up
a woman she objects to having one.
"A Western critic objects to female bar
bers, on account of the disastrous shave
which Mrs. Samson gave her husband.
James Buchanan is member of the
Democratic committee in GeneSee county.
Thought the old Pub. Func. was dead.
statement that 'an express train is faster
dem
"A religious communication in an eX-
change is signed "By one that Loves the
Soles of all Men," The writer must be
shoemaker
-" We've got to economize, or the
country is ruined" was the solioquy of
husband as he kindled the fire with his
wife hustle.
The young man who wrote and asked
his girl to accept g bucket" of flowers
become little pale when she said she
wooden ware it.
Why is a man who has got up an hour
after seven like q man with a vegetable
time piece ?-oecause he has got potato
clock got up at eight O'clock
An English magazine having written
exhaustively upon Water as Beverage"
an Albany paper thinks the scheme is feast
BILE and might at least have trial.
y Russian captain by the name of
scsachevoikinscbelsky who
was wounded in the assault on Lovatz the
other day, had to be taken off the field in
trisyllablcs on three stretchers.
A teacher, after reading to her scholars
a story of generous child, asked them
what generosity was. One little boy raised
his hand and said. 60 know it's giving to
others what you don't want yourself
1t required five acres, a battery of navy
revolvers ard two grown men to finish IA
game Of draw poker in Waco, Texas, re
Gently, while the coroner stood by held the
stakes and waited to exercise his functions
as referee
An agricultural correspondent writes
to correct what he thought to be an errcne
Gus statement that recently appeared rela-
tive 20 cows giving butter milk. We ad-
here to our original statement. We never
saw a COW give any thing else but her milk.
En-.
Two brothers who went home late one
night, recently from IL celebration, diSlked
to arouse their aged father. One of them,
after il finite pains, effected an entrance
into the house by means of "a grape vine
and back window. Then taking off his
shoes, he stealtEily descended to the door
10 let in his brother and found it unlocked.
The following rhyme, which contains
more truth than poetry. is supposed to have
been written by Watterson-H. Watterson,
of Kentucky:
Twas ever thus-from childhoods hour
I've seen my fondest hopes decay;
i never took a brandy sour
But what-my nose was red next day.
There is precocious six year old boy
in Auburn, Maine, who is wonderful on
spelling and definition. The other day his
teacher asked him to spell matrmony-
" Ma t-r- m o-n-y," said the youngster
promptly. ''Now define it," said the
teacher, "Wen," replied the boy. q
don't exactly know what it means, but l
know mothers got enough of it."