The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-11-25
VARIETIES.

A w;Hter wrap-a SNOWFALL in the eye
Revised axiom-To err is human, to for.
give unusual.
The man who minds his own business
has good steady employment.
"A great many men are like horse
they are always on the go but never get
ahead.
"A Vassar College girl, upon being asked il
she liked Goldfish balls, said she never attend
| ed any.
1.-THE prettiest thing in autumn bonnets
are the faces" SO thinks an exchange. So say
we all of us.
| 1t was Artemus Ward who said there
| were two things in this world for which no
one is ever OVERWHELMINGLY, twins.
| -Ifa two-wheeled vehicle is bycicle, and
| q thTee-wheeled a tricycle. it does not follow
that the one-wheeled is an icicle. 1t is a
| wheelbarrow.
| Physicians say that it is not healthy to
sleep in the daytime. This opinion is back
| up by all the flies in the community, and they
put stop to sleeping when they can.
An agricultural exchange offers some
advice on "How to Tell Bad Egg" Didn't
read the article, but our advice would be: II
you have anything important to tell a bad
egg why break it gently.
Hi! you dropped brick up therep'
shouted a pedestrian, on whose shoulder a
brick had fallen from fourth-story scaffold.
Gail right" cheerfully responded the brick
layer; "you needn't take the trouble to
bring it up"
1t is astonishing how much one without
money can give. A kind word, a helping
hand, the warm sympathy that rejoices with
those who do rejoice and weeps with those
who weep.
Two young men who move in the very
best Austin society, went on spree not long
since. After they were under way one OF
them said in an inebriated tone CT voice:
"Lets bid each other good night, Bill"
"Why, you amt going home, already? It's
| right in the shank Of the evening"
"Of course, Pm not going home now, but
| after awhile we won't know each ozzer from
a shide of sole-leather sho let's shay good
night now before it'sh too late"
They embraced
Society item: Two young men went to
Henderson to see the Misses Jones, two very
| estimable young ladies there. A colored girl
came to the door and the following converse
| ton took place: care the Misses Jones in ?"
Eyes sab; Mrs. Jones am in. Does you
want to see her ?" mo; we want to see the
Misses Jones" "NIrs. Jones-dat's what |
said" 1--WE want to see the Misses Jones,
can't you understands" Course | kin. De
| missus in dis heah house." "Confound it, we
want to see the old lady's daughtersw "Oh,
de Miss Joneses! Why didn't you say sop
reckon youse bofe drunk"
"A man who had evidently just arrived by
tlo fro in bod; inf hos 10
9th or day and asked as Day in ?"
"What day, sah," asked the porter.
"What do know about him? Do look
like detective? If Day amt in, tell Week
to step out here"
what Week do you refer to, sab?
ooh, last week, or week before Christmas !
Do you take me for an almanac? Who rms
| the shebang, anyhow
"De widow Flapjack, sab"
"Well, then, tell her to take down her sign
out there Boarding by Week or Day" That
sign is put up there to deceive the travelling
public" and he picked up his grip sack and
swung himself on board of a street car.
The King and the Miller.
Near Sans Souc, the favorite residence of
Frederick the Great, there was mill, which
| much interfered with the view from the pal
/ uSt' oIChu Ming SCllJ W lluullC w lJ
| the owner would take for the mill; and the
unexpected reply came that the miller would
| not sell for any money. The king, much in
| censed, gaze orders that the mill should be
pulled down. The miller quietly made no
| resistance, but folding his arms, quietly re-
marked:
The kind may do this, but there are
| laws in Prussia"
And he took legal proceedings, the result
| Of which was that the king had to rebuild the
mill and to paya good sum of money besides
| in compensation.
Although his majesty was much chagrin-
ed at the end to the matter, he put the best
face lie could upon it, and turning to his
| courtiers he remarked:
II am glad to see that there are just laws
and upright judges in my kingdom"
A sequel to this incident occurred about
| forty years ago. A descendant of the miller
of whom we have just been talking had come
| into possession ofthe mill.
After having struggled for several years
against the ever-increasing poverty, and be-
ing at length unable to keep on his business
he wrote to the King of Prussia, reminding
him of the incident we have just related, and
| stating that, ifhis Majesty felt so disposed,
he should be thankful, in his present difficult
| ty, to sell the mill The king wrote the fol-
lowing reply with his own hand
| Ny Der NGghbor.-I cannot allow you to
sell the mill 1t must always be in your pos
session as long as one member of your family
exists, for it belongs to the history of Prussia
| regret, however, to hear you are in such
straitened circumstances, and therefore send
you herewith $4,000, in the hope that it may
be of some service in restoring your fortunes
Consider me always your affectionate neigh.
Dor,
FREDERICK WILLIAM.