Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-04-08
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Florence Percy, the author Of Rock
Me to Sleep, Mother" now lives in
Maine and edits paper there.
Country grocerymen have had to fuiu-
ish an extra supply Of sitting accommo-
dations around the stove this winter
Russakofl, who killed the Gar, would
like to lecture But the police authori
ties say, Not this evening. CiuciiH,ai
Inquirer.
The metre of much of the alleged po-
etry that is born to blush unseen In the
waste basket is fully as unreliable as
the average gas meter
The portrait Of Milton, which was
once owned by Charles Lamb. has iu,l
been bought in London by Nh Quaritch
for 81, ,755. 1t was painted about 1910.
The Rev Joe Cook believes that Le
could convert 5000 Hindoos perycar for
five years, and why in Texas he doesn't
begin is what the public would like to
know.
We know a man SO cross-eyed that he
put his hand into another mans pocket
and abstractcd therefrom watch. He
wanted to learn the time Tie judee
told him it would he three years.
Pashence is a good thing for a man TO
hay, but when he haz got so much ov it
that he kan fish all day over the side ov
a boat, without any bait on his hook.
laziness IL what's the matter ov him.
,,,rlrH Mrs NIesy ,sli.as os caluselsae.
T lege for the tialdtn4 ~ ~ S.
/ called .'Hhbbard f5aliD ass. ss4esmf iii |
Al l.4t.t Il. an.
barti.v
The Saltwater Lu1,5eyma,s wants 10
know if, the world coming to an end this
year, the occurrence will inyalidate con
vict labor contracts? Why, of course
not Such contract always hold good,
world or no world
Some mischievous school children at
Carson's Run, Mich, agreed to play
"ghost' one day last week, and selected
little Annie Sicablc, aged IT, us their
victim. They succeeded SO well that the
girl fell iusensible on seeing a sheeted
figure, and died the same day.
A dog in a Cincinnati theatre smelt
smoke, traced it to fire in a dressing
room, barked an alarm, and thus saved
a large audience from an imminent dam
ger. His name has been changed from
Bum" to Hero, and his diet from
hard crackers to sponge-eake.
The Illinois Senate has passed L bill
making education compulsory. The
time is not far distant when Chicago
family IN Europe will not advertise
their place Of residence by eNclaiming
IN an art gallery "Ain't them ere pic
turs the purtiest you ever seedY'
Mr. Mark Spery, of Greenup, Ill,
has sent to Secretary Lincoln memento
of the late Abraham Lincoln 1t is a
strip of oak from the bridge oyer tie
/ Embarras river at Greenup, built in IS31
abraham 1lineoAn was esT;r,,ctSSoi ~ T,a
employed IN the CONSTRUCTION Oh INC
bridge.
He drew his breath with a gasping
sob, with a qnavering voice he sang, but
his voice leaked ont and could not
drown the accompanies clamorous
bang. He lost his pitch on the middle
A, faltered on lower ID, and toundered
at length like battered wreck adutt on
the wild high G.
Charles Fette, machinist of Indian
apolis, who had spent many years under
the delusion that he could solve the
problem of perpetual notion committed
suicide lately in the woods near Lions
Vile, Indiana. He wandered away from
comfortable home while deranged, and
had been missing many days before his
body was found.
A Mr.. Davis, OF Wayne county Ken
lucky, possesses a little human moeMn8
bird in the person Of daughter, two
wears old, whose musical organs are
Wonderfully developed. Her mother
states that she would sing piece
through correctly when twelve months
old, before she could speak plainly.
She is now two years old, and warbles
every note like a French moelling bird.
Another remarkable trait about the lit
tie singer is that she can catch any air
the first time she hears it.