The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-06-21

Mcdowell, on Tuesday Last, to Mr.. w. r.
McAdams, OF PniladelI hia,-he being at
torney for tn plaintiff in the case, for the
sum Of s15, III It sum Icing the ost Of sale,
and the party at VIII ,Se i'll stance the sale
was mad, having Judgment ass inst the
property. which, together with other claims,
amounted to its full value. \. =. hockey,
auctioneer.
Prof Beal's Stereopticon exhibition in
the Hall, on Wednesday and Thursday even
ings, was u success in every thing except
the size of the audience, which was small.
The Professor caught \ number of waSpS.
beetles, cricketS, potato bugs and spiders.
whose portraits he delineated upon tie
screen by means of his instrument in Il
greatly enlarged size. The insects kept
raving round like mad animals, and their
portraits reminded one of the pictures OF
some of the prehistoric animals, whose pet
ritiei remains biologists have gathered up
from the bowels of the earth.
The schools are closing and the scholars
are glad of it. 1t is entirely natural they
should be- The schoolmaSter is to his pupils
Il very ,liSagreeable parsonage. and the bet
ter he is as schoolmaster, the worse he is
is in direct opposition TO the happiness of the
scholar. The real boy and girl do not enjoy
study. They accept it much as they do med
icine, because they think it will do good,
but they would prefer to get along without
if. School troubles while they last are
genuine affairs, and bring with them as
actual pain as do the affair struggles in the
selfish world
The inventive genius of the average
American surpasses belief. Recently, we
noticed the invention of a fan to be attached
to sewing machines to fan the operator and
blow the flies and mosquitoes to destruction.
We thought this the most ingenious con-
trivance we had ever seen, but some other
fellow has beaten it. He has invented Il
substitute for tobacco. Other substitutes
had been invented, but they were vile
combination of bitter herbs wrapped up in
paper and proved in most eases a miserable
failure. The ingenuity of the new inven-
ton consists in initiating the size and shape
of a plug Of tobacco so closely that the
chewer cannot tell the substitute from the
genuine plug. The new article may be had
at Arts.
-Gillis Kitchens of Sussex county, who
once killed his child as a sacrifice was not Il
init the rash act by attending Methodist
revival, rs the newspapers have it. He has
always been 4 Baptist, and still clings to
that faith. Had he been a good Methodist
such one as was old Ben Brown the late
and venerble negro preacher, he no doubt
would never have committed the deplorable
deed. He has, however, been l man of
very eccentric habits, and might ut any
time commit similar crime. Kitchens
used to he devilish man, and we always
purpose of tormenting his wife. He may
yet turn up and the Methodist Church, nor
a religious revival not be to blame for it.
Breukroter Light.
A writer in Southwestern journal
says, 81 have pair Of old quails (male
and fenale) with family of twenty-seven
little quails. They are the most delightful
and cutest little things l ever saw. The
young ones are about half-grown, and do so
many queer things that they keep me in Il
fit of mcrriment all the time l am watching
them. The old ones, as write, are sitting
on each gate post, whistling their g Bob
White" call in answer to their neighbors in
the woods. l never saw anything half 50
nice AS a quail. I got mine from a lady
friend, who commenced raising them last
year by mere accident One evening, while
hunting berries i'll the pasture, she found Il
sick quail on her nest. The quail seemed
insensible and almost dead. She took the
planted them in her hen-house. With kind
treatment the bird was well in few days,
and strange as it seems never showed any
desire to leave her new home, but con-
young auails, and raised twenty to be full
grown. The lady tells me that this year she
has raised over two hundred This is a
hint worth taking. We have often heard
of cartridges being raised under hens, but
never before that they would remain when
full-srown and go on propasating ON their
own hook