The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11

This last remark conveys to the reader the
presence of light, joyous feeling which is
wholly assumed on my part.
The door Of our room is full Of holes where
locks have been yrcnched OF in order to let
the coroner in. Lust night could imagine
that was in the act of meeting. personally,
the famous people who have tried To sleep
here and who moaned through the night and
who died while waiting for the dawn
The chambermaid is very versatile, and
waits on the table while not engaged in aei-
tatiug the ovrrwurked mattresses and puny
pillows upstairs III this way She ilnpGrts the
odor of fried pork 10 the pillow eases and
kerosene to the pie.
Sue has wild, nervous and upprehcnslVr
look in her eye rs though She feared that
some hercucan guest might size her in lis
great. strong arms and bear her away to
justice of the peace and marry hcr. She GER
tau MY cannot fully realize how thoroughly
,rrurc She Is from such calamity She is
.a,t us safe as she was forty years ago. when
she promised her aged mother that She would
never clope wtth u .y one.
SUN, she i, ,laiable at time, ana rnnvcl.eS
freely with me at table as She bans over my
shoulder, pensirely brushing the ummb, into
my lap with general utility towel. which
through the house. and She asks which we
would rather haye-"teH or eggs
This afternoon we will pny our tin. in ne.
rorlance with lifelong custom 81 ours, and
90 away to p'rmeaic the busy haunt, Of mrp
1t will be- sad to tear ourselves away from the
Fifth Avenue hut"l at this place; still. there
is no great loss without some small gain, and
at our next hotel we may not have to chop
our own wood and bring it up stairs when
We want to rest The landlord uf a hotel
who goes away 10 a political nertng uuG
leaves his guests 10 chop their own wood. ana
then charges them full price for the rent Of d
bosterous and tempcst-tos,ed bed, will never
endcnr himself 10 those with whom he il
thrown in contact
We leave ut?:i0this afternoon hpping that
the two railroad, may continue to fork here
Just the SANE Is though We had remaned- -
Bill Nve in Boston Gloic.
Ancient Methods of Measuring Time.
No wonder the ancenis didn't get ulonz IN
tie world ns well as tho people Of to-day
they lost too much time And the reason
they lost time was because of thuir mpufect
ways OF measuring it, They had IA depend
Oh the sun dial for the mos, part \ sun
dial might bc very useful when there WAS any
sun, but it was entirely u~rl,Ss utl rIaluc d.lys
and during the night III IA, latter .t,,. tic
tuanl husband Inclined TO hup4 md late
pruiited luu.h 1t might hc N,o O'clock III
the morning when he rrppt ia. tut he could
swear it "rI5 only H. and Iii, poor wife had
no way ot proving that Aq was ls ing II re.
moves much uI the bitterness II ie when
you cant prove It on Il fellow
The Gr7,k, and Romans, Of whnmwe have
occasion e. S"uk occasionally, although this
is not stiirtiy classical Journal had an i'm
proNement on the sun dial, which they could
resort 10 when the sun dial was on strike
for eight hours as Il days work II was a
large jar filled with water, aud hole was
made in tho bottom through which the water
could esfapr. The flow Of the water told off
the hours, 1t was called the rlpINy ,lia, which
means The water steals away"
Sometimes an Old Roman WHO had been
drinking good many Roman punches before
going To bed would wake up in the silent
watchcs-w" ueuu sun dal--yt the night,
parchrd With 'ir,t No other ltlpid being
handy he would drink lh, contents Of his
clcp,y'iIu Inat stopped the clock OF course.
and he would ryeFla-tiugN liz ald waiting
for morning % come lla would never mis-
the water ill The r"l-yd was ,lry
King Alfred burned candles 10 tell the
time by, enrh candle usth two hours. A
dozen candles would mukc one iay, though
ne got little confused when the grocer, in
order to hold Iii roval patronage AMI alver.
tl5e himself os the s"viai candle iuakcr for
the king, gave him thirteen for doan
There are few kig 8 since Allreds time
who could mike note Of time in that manner,
because 50 many of them wrrc iu she habit of
burning their candles at 10th ends -rcNt,
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