The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-01-04
Isl BIBLES.

"A cynical rhapSodist wants to know:
What is there So clcvating in genius ,"
Whisky, my friend, sometimes
- Is green wall paper healthy" asked
4 medical journal Not if il is eaten fried.
Nothing is healthy that is fried
"A mules head does not contain brain
capable of culture aud refined rearing, but
1t is wonderful To what an extent the other
end of him can be reared
If Eiisou's electric light should take
the place of Kerosene in our kitchens, there
must be some other plan adopted to prevent
the increase of ignorant servants.
Our Boys has run over 200 nights
in London. We may say that this SOFT Of
thing Is characteristic of the present gen.
Grafton, although we do not want to
B-yronic.
A Chicago girl lost her overshoe while
travelling through Virginia last year, and
now some newspapers are writing up long
articles about the discovery of subterra-
mean cave IN that State.
An liish soldier. on hearing that his
widowed mother had been married since he
quilted Ireland, exclaimed: Murther, |
hope she won't have a son older than me:
if she does shall lose the estate"
A person in New Bedford, Mass, an
nonncing himself i'll a card TO the news
papers a candidate for the Legislature.
says: IL promise that, if elected, won't
always have the rheumatism when the yeas
and nays are called
j. J. Piatt has written a pretty poem
about boys snowb,lling, and calls it a
| Winter Morning Idyl.' There were too
many cows To milk and chores to do where
We were raised, for a boy to know much
about Winter morning IDLE.
The English language is wonderful for
! its aptness of expression. When a num-
Der Of men and women get together and
/ look at each other from the sides of a room
| that's called 4 sociable. When a hungry
crowd call upon poor minister and eat
him out of house and home-thats called
\ donation party.
- You may not be able to dress in silks
/ nr velvets or diamonds lady, but at least you
may be sufficiently in style 10 stop in your
walk, Ierch down and grab the of side
lower corner Of your dress skirt, little
east by nor west kitterng south, and lift
the august demi train along with the rest
of yourself into the street car while the
| passengers all wait and swear
An old lady in Glasgow was left a
legacy of $4,000. having already a sma il
fortune of some $1,000 or 10000 She
invested the legacy in the city of Glasgow
bank, and when the crash came went dis
tracted at the thought Of beggary that was
awaiting her. To her surprise no call was
made upon her, aud, on investigation, she
found TO her delight that her agent had
embezzled the money while pretending to
invest it in the shares desired.
Two ladies met on the street and one
inquired of the otheI:-" Why, you look
very happy, this morning. What's hap
pened p - Oh, I've just been up having
my fortune told, was the reply, land the
woman says, I'm to marry twice more,
have diamonds and n camel's HAIR shaw
and that can go to the opera six nights N
week, if | want to- " Dear me, dom t
wonder that you are happy. But you
won't say anything 10 your hush and -
"Uh, of course not Poor man, He's
good To me- and it might hurt his feelings
to know that I'm going to marry twice
more. think I'll tell him that I'm likely
to die first.