The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-04-07
NEWS NOTES..

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The 'preutiest things in Esster bon,
nets this year, like other years, were
the wearerS.
A woman who dresses well on hun
dred year says: Il am too poor to buy
anything but the very best. "-Dry Goods |
Chr0nicIe.
ByQueen Nictorias orders no intoxicat-
ing liquors are to be in future allowed
upon the premises of the Peoples Palace
i'll London.
Miss Frances Z. Willard calls the per.
sistency with which the temperance
movement is pushed by the better half
of humanity as 1.-The naturalization of
the tireless womau's tongue"
Nine converts to the faith cure, five
men and four women, were baptized on
Sunday at Jersey City by immersion in
the half-freeziug waters of the bay, and
Oy this time may be occupied by appli
cations of the new system to their con
gestive chills or ailments OF like nature.
In some sections of the country the
modest LAWYERS are pulling down their
shingles and putting mp their shutters
for fear that their names will be men
toned in connection with the Chief JUS
ticeship. A. such times as these nobody
is safe -Boston Transcript.
A colored man. aged SO vca.s, who re-
moved from Lynchburg (Na.) to Knox
vile, SO that he might live with his sou,
was so weakened by his ride III the rail
road cars. which was his first he had ever
taken, that he died short time after he
reached his new home
Elliott Sheppard. the new proprietor of
the New York .Haa and Express, has
signalzei his purchase OF that paper by
! issuing an order to the effect that any Of
his employees using profane language
would be Immediately discharged Bar
nun is said To be negotiating for that
office to exhibit it as a newspaper
| curiosity.
Whoever offers to send things "from
pure benevolence," provided "a stamp is
sent to pay the postage might as well
| be let alone. Some years ago citizen
of Philadelphia advertised that he would
send first class steel engraving of Gen
eral Washington on receipt of 81. He did
it, too. 1t was postag, stamp that cost
three cents, but it was first-class steel
engraving. Christian AdCOcate.
A Mis-. Chase, of Jamestown, N. Y,
who is recovering from long illness,
attributes hel improvement to the fact
that she has coughed from her lungs
three pieces of yarn, each about an inch
| long. She REM mbers that about a year
ago she used yarn of the color of the
pieces coughed up, and believes the
pieces were bitten off aud swallowed I'M
| consciously.
Miss Isabella Singer, who is about to
become the Duches de Cazes, at a pre-
liminary cost to her of $50, 00O-for an
establishment for the Duke and an out
lit for herselt-is the youngest daughter
of the widow of the sewing machine man.
Sue is taller by several inches than de
Cazes, who must be indeed very short to
let the fair Singer sacrifice SO many of
her high notes in bis behalf at this stage
of the engagement.
In advising a class of embryo preachers
at Hoboken. n. J on Friday Bishop
| Fowler reminded them that they must
| "preach sanctiticatlon, not cranktitica-
ton and that they should put ideas into
their sermons even if they had none of
their own-''but,' he added, ''if you
steal other peoples ideas be honest about
it and tell where you got them" Nothing
could be fairer than Bishop Fowler S
| views on these points,
A simple remedy for hiccoughs is given
by the New York Medical .jOurRdI. The
sufferer should close his external audi
tory canals with his fingers, exerting a
certain d gree of pressure; at the same
time he is to drink a few 81 ps OF any
liquid whatever, the glass or cup being
held to his lips by another person. The
effect is said to be immediate.
The Philadelphia Netcs says that "high
license has come to stay in that city, and
the sooner those in the liquor business
realize this fact the better it will be for
them The people have determined that
the liquor traffic shall be controlled and
kept within proper bounds. The Repub
lican party has the credit of inaugurating
this great reform, and TOR so doing the
entire liquor interest will in the future
be arrayed against it,"
| APRIL is here,
There's song in the maple. thrilling and new;
| There's flash OF wings of the heaven own hue
There's Il veil of green OF the nearer hills;
There's Il burst OF rapture i'll woodland riils;
There are stars in the meadow dropped here and
there;
There's breath of arbutus in the air;
There's Il dash of rain, as il flung in Jest;
There's an arch of color spanning the west;
April is here!
-EmmG [. De,cd, in 81. Nicholas.