The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-10-12
GlEANlNt;S.

You can keep bees away from YOU b,
the use of tob .ccp smoke. but bee is al.
ways III such COMPOUNDED hurry that h,
gets to his work before you can light your
cigar.
A Long Hill man went to Coney Island
the other day with two red headed Water
bury girls. and everybody thought he was
the agent for an electric light marafactory
travelling with samples
Said railroad eng iueer to an Irishman
whose cow had been killed "a But she
didn't get out of the way when rang the
bell" Faith, Thin" SAID Pat, we didn I
shtop whin she rang her bell naythur''
If a mosquito was as large as man
and had the percepiive faculties multiplied
to the same extent. lie would be 4 wondrous
creation. There may be inst one hole the
size OF penny in 4 mosquito bar, but he
never fails to find it.
1t was an evidence of how readily our
intelligent public is penetrated by an idea
that while Mr.. Beechcr was delivering his
lecture the other evening on The Merits
of the Spirit" hundreds of his hearers
stepped ont every few minutes to Judge for
themselves
A female writer says that women out
number men three To one in heaven, and in
the same proportion men out number women
in the other place. She shouldn't thus ex-
pose the secrets of the other world. She
will have all women striving to go where
there are the most men.
-" There are no circumstances under
which honesty and integrity of purpose
will not stand man in good stead" says
some philosopher; but we would like to
know how it will help the man who finds
himself suddenly forced to associate with
a bnil. dog in an orchard with high fence
around it.
If what a Belgian physician says be
true, that the use of tobacco causes color
blindness how sad to think that after close
application through long days and anxious
nights, when the ambitious youth las sue
ceeded in coloring his meerschaum, his abil-
ity to enjoy the same has forever departed
Sic transit coloria pipii me,rschaumH.
A temperance lecturer in Missouri, who
breaches general morality as well as absti-
nence from strong drink, has an auti-swear.
ing pledge which might create some confn-
sion if taken literally. 1t promises that
the signer thereof will not swear or take
the name Of God in vain, and that he ''wil
try to influence others tn do So
A sage has just discovered that "all
the historical angels OF revelation, poetry
ard art, are masculine, without single ex
ception. The angels OF the Bible. the angels
of art, the angle of Milton and Dante are
all masculine" True, oh most noDle Sir;
and did it ever occur to you, that while
there are no feminine angels on canvas or
poetry, there are no masculine angels any
where else.
Two little boys were put in the lIol-
yoke Mass. Jail, for stripping leaves from
tree in the park. Soon afterward the
jailor heard their voices. Peeping into the
cell, he saw both on their knees SEQ Lord,
please let Us out of this place, and well
never do II again, never" prayed one sob
bling culprit, while the other was repeating
the Lords prayer. PRAY harder" said
one of them, land speak your words plain
or the Lord won't understand YOU" try
to Jimmy. but I'm crying so cant. said
the other, and then both redoubled their
prayers. The iailor let them out