Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-29
THE NEWER ARITHMETIC.


A CITIZEN whose gas bill was 81 for
the month of January shut his house up
for tNo weeks in March and his gas bill
was $7.75. How much did he make?
Ir q butcher-cart going at the rate Of
n mile i'll three minutes strike an Alder
man who is walking at the rate of four
miles hour, what is the resisting power
of each
Il COUNTY Treasurer knows of dead
sue thing in wheat, and he puts in
S3, 600 Of the peoples cash. The dis
tapee from his town to Canada is $50
mites, and the average speed of n rail-
road train is thirty-five miles an hour.
Find--but they never find 'em.
A STONE weighing twenty-five pounds
is concealed under an old hat, and q
man kicks it with such force as to send
it nine yards. As il takes two and one
half ponnds of active pressure to move
one pound of dead weight one foot,
what force did he exert
A MAN spends eighteen cents for lager,
ten cents for tobacco, twenty cents for
cigars, fifteen cents for street car fare,
and loses $3.50 at poker he then per-
mlts his wife to purchase button-hook
for thres cents, and figures that her ex-
travagance will ruin him in three years.
WHAT is his capital
A MAN has ninety-one sheep, eighty
seven calves and thirty-five pigs, and
he desires TO divide them equally among
three sons and daughter so that the
daughter shall have niue more head
than the boys. What will be the share
of each, providing three sheep are
stolen, two calves get lost and five pigs
follow circus away ?-Detr0it Free
Press.
SWEET SALLY sALTER.
Sally Salter, was young teacher who taught;
And her friend, Charlie Church, young
preacher who praught
CTbough his enemies called him a screecher
who scraught).
His heart, when he saw her. kept sinking, and
sunk
Aud his eye meeting hers, kept winking, and
wunk;
While she, in her turn, fell to thinking. and
Trunk.
Ee hastened to WOO her, and sweetly he
wOOed,
For his love grew until to a mountain it
grewed.
And what he was longing TO do, he doed.
The secret he wanted to speak, then he spoke
To seek with his lips what his heart had long
soke;
He asked her to ride to the church, SO they
rode
And so sweetly did glide that they both
thought they glodc,
Till they camcto the place to be tied, and were
tode.
Then " homeward, he said "let us drive"
ard they drove;
And rs soon as they wished to arrive, they
arrove;
For whatever she could not contrive. he
controve.
The kiss he was dying to steal, then he stole !;
At the feet he was longing to knell then he
I knole;
And he said. Il feel better than ever fole.'
So they to each other kept clinging. and clung
While Time in swift circuit kept winging, and
wung,
But sad was the thing he was bringing and
brung.
The man Sally wanted to catch and had
caught
That she wanted from others to snatch and
had snaught,
Was tho one she now liked to scratch, and she
scraught.
So Charles warm love began freezing, and
froze,
And he now took to teasing, and cruelty tose
The grl he had loved to be squeezing, and
squoze.
"wretch - he cried, when she threatened te
leave him, and left,
81 How could you deceive me, as ycu have
deceft?"
And she answered. al promised to eleave, and
I've cleft