The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-26
VARIETIES.
Rambling notes-Bank bills.

-RamDl1ng noteS-Bank Dllls.
The best of ends-Large dividends.
Darkness that may be felt-A black hat.
-Courtship is not to be run by the rule of
three.
"A kitchen proverb-Things rubbed
against crater become less.
All who advertise do not get rich, but
very few get rich without.
Positive and comparative-To lay a wa
ger is bet, but to win it is better.
No matter what rank vegetables may at
tain, the cabbage will always be head.
-"What color are the people of Afghans-
tan ?"-The Afghan-is-tan color
The best medicine for a sick man is to
back him up against q mule The animal
will heel him.
Why are women archers by nature BE
cause the bent of their inclinations is to bend
beau.
always pay as you go" said an old man
to his nephew. "But, uncle, suppose |
haven't anything to pay with ?" "Then don't
CO."
The hardest thing in the world for
young woman to do is to look unconcerned
the first time she comes out in a handsome
engagement ring.
1t is not strange that writers sometimes
get puzzled in their choice between that"
(which" and "who" Relatives are always
more or less troublesome.
-"What is that dog barking at ?" asked a
flop whose boots were more polished than his
ideas. "Why," said the bystander, che sees
another puppy in your boots"
Mother" said n little square built urchin
about five years old, "why don't the teacher
10 EaIr
every boy in the class but one"
"A little boy, three years old, who had
been looking out the window for few min
utes at q beautiful red sunset, exclaimed:
"Mother, look how sore the poor sky is"
What images do l associate with the
Christmas music as / see them set forth
on the Christmas tree An angel speak
ing to a group of shepherds in field;
baby in Manager; solemn figure, with a
beautiful face raising dead girl by the hand;
the same in tempest, walking on the water to
ship; again, with q child upon his knee and
other children around again restoring sight to
the blind hearing to the deaf health to the sick,
strength to the lame, knowledge to the ignor-
ant; again, lying upon a cross, watched by
armed soldiers, thick darkness coming on,
the earth beginning to shake, and only one
voice heard: Forgive them, for they know not
what they do!-Charles Dickens.
Captain Otis Ingraham, of the Sanford
steamer Cambridge, is responsible for bear
story barely within the limits of belief At
Franklin, Me-, Thanksgiving Day, two lads,
armed with rifles, were out for days sport,
when they encountered a bear in piece of
woodland They tracked him to his den in
the side of a ravine, where one of the lads
fired at him. The first shot was followed i'm
mediately by another from the other lads
rifle. The last shot Infatuated the bear which
charged out upon the boys The elder push
ed his rifle barrel into the bears throat and,
bracing the stock upon his own chest, endea-
vored to hold the bear back until his brother
should reload.
But the bear was too much for the brave
boy, and forced his way out of the den. The
boys held their ground and attacked the bear
with the butts of their rifles. After despcr-
ate struggle, in which one of the rifle stocks
was shattered, the boys partly stunned the
bear, and one of them cut the brute's throat
with his hunting knife. The boys who had
this exciting adventure are aged seventeen
and fifteen years.