The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

A man who won't take off his hat to
himself once in a while in summer
must be cold-blooded wretch.
"Never mis- stake perspiration for in
SEPARATION, said an old minister to
young pastor just being ordained.
The man who fell out of his bunk on
the steamboat, explained that his black
ened eye was berth mark.
In the Persian gulf last year a million
and half dollars worth of pearls were
found, and thirty divers were appropri
ated by the sharks.
When boy has gold watch pre-
sented to him he will cheerfully travel
two miles to regulate it in the presence
of his enemies.
A family of young ladies who reside
hereabouts so often entertain their COM
pany on the front stoop that they have
gained the title of the step-sisters.
There are 825 boys actively employed
as messengers by the twenty-four sta
tions which the American District Tele-
graph company has in New York city.
Smithers believes in unlucky num-
bers. For instance, he says, it's un-
lucky to have thirteen persons at table
when there is only dinneeff- s enc &c
ten.
Falrhatdlt, Mimi, boasts of having
geRIine Vermont Morgan mare, forty
six years old, in perfect health, and be-
ing used daily. She dropped foal
when forty.
There is ship now sailing out of
Holland that was built in 1858. The
history of vessel that has seen over
three centuries of navigation must be an
interesting one.
1t is all nonsense that cats cannot live
at the hight of 5000 feet above the sea.
At $4,000 feet they feel SO airy that they
can dodge brickbats throw from three
different directions at once.
The canine species is endowed with
instinct, and the human with reason,
but when the weather gets hot it makes
no difference-the dog, as well as the
man, changes his coat and pants.
Probably the Oldest paid teacher of
youth in the world is the German gov
erment schoolmaster of Heringen, in
the province of Limburg, one Abraham
Levi Dickstein, who recently completed
the sixt h year of his activity as
pedagogue and the hundred and fourth
of his age.
The best engraved portrait ever made
of the late Governor William Allen, Of
Ohio, was the one generally used in his
last campaign in that State. 1t was cut
on saw blade in the Ohio penitentiary,
by Charles Ulrich, convict. Ulrich is
one of the most skillful engravers in the
country, but he has used his ability
mainly in the work of counterfeiting.
Having plenty of time to spare in
prison, he made this picture from pho
tograph.
The story of Cinderella and her slip
per is older than history. The annals
of the world do not 60 back far enough
to tell us from whence this and many,
another legend first came.
THE GHOST TO HAMLET.
Bet you two dollars and halt
am thy fathers ghost,
Doomed for a time to walk the night,
Until 1 can get put on the day force,
And the foul crimes done in my days OF poll
tics
Are burnt and purged away.
But that am forbid, could tale untold
Whose lightest word would weigh as heavy
AS freight car; freeze thy young blood;
Make thy two eyes stick out like ink bottles;
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end
Like quilts upon brand new paint brush.
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears OF flesh and blood: List, list, oh,
list
/ intend to sell it to a newspaper for forty dol
lars,
-Pstroleum World.