The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-03-31

Was Drought Oy L !luG lhlCl. "buldu
against a tavern keeper. and she was IN |
fair way to get damages when the evil |
dence unexpectedly showed her marriage |
was not legal. The Court therenpOn dis
missed the case.
Father" said the editors little boy,
sis the new Emperor of Germany an
editor? see when he speaks OF himself |
he says we" "No my SOD. That is |
word the emperors have StoleI from |
the editors without proper credit. -
Peoria Transcript.
Ont in Douglas county, Kansas, they |
have hit np0n new way of destroying
wolves. A large piece OF beef is placed |
where the wolves will easily find 1t, and |
in the fight resulting for its possession, |
experience has shown that one or more |
of them are almost sure to be killed.
Mrs. Lawrence Corcoran. of South |
Orange, N Y, has proved her claim to a |
share i'll a seven-inillion-tive-h hundred |
Thousand dollar estate in England left by |
a Mrs. Ellen Blake. Her husband is a |
laborer, aud she had assisted him to earn |
living by going ont to days work at |
the houses of neighbors. Her share is said |
to be $50, 900.
A Detroit man bought what purported |
to be "a tub of butter, but test proved |
that it was oleomargarine. He was
angry when the fact that he had been
cheated dawned upon him. but he was
more so when he found stone that |
weighed IL pounds concealed ir the mid
die of the oleomargarine.
An aged preacher of Middletown. !
Connecticut. claims to have travelled |
16 900 miles, preach ID over $500 sermons,
performed the marriage ceremony SO |
times, the baptismal ceremony 1858
| times, and delivered $50 funeral dis
| courses. The largest sum he ever re-
| celved for a wears labor was $500.
The Iowa Legislature has enacted a
law under which druggists are compelled
to label every package of poison they
sell not only with the word Poison"
| hut with the names of two antdotes. |
| The f,vorite tonic under the act will
| have to have on the label water" and
abstinence" or else the druggist will |
wink at the law when Customer winks |
at him.
n careful clIlZel Ol Dan Francisco,
! who had 10 confidence in banks and saw
ngs institutions, secretad his surplus
earnings, amounting to $1,000, in piece
of gas pipe. The improvised bank did !
not prove secure, however, as pleasant
young man who lodged with tue careful
citizen relieved the pipe of It's contents
and got as far away as Los Angles before
he was arrested.
The Idaho Statesman claims at last to
have found the real cause of badness: -
| 1t is the wool hat first worn when kus- |
suth first came to the United States, and |
which was never fit for man 10 put on
his head. 1t is hot and air.tight, causes
headache and loss of hair. The plug
hat is airy, and its roof is so high that |
the action of the sum is not apt to lame |
diately affect the brain. 1t is the most |
sensible hat yet invented, upless it be a
straw hat for summer"
A case of actual hard cheek" is re
ported from Detroit where sixteen
year-old lad has been in the habit of |
''thrusting pins and needles, which he |
collected on the sly, into the right side of |
his face and neck. He was recently sent
to hospital for the insane, with the hope |
1ndC ne tDlgnJ Ut cuTeu Oh Tue mania.
At the time OF his departure, i. is as
serted, he had between 80 and 40 pins
buried TO the head in his cheek, besides |
an unknown number of needles, which |
were entirely out of sight.
Ole Of the most unique of the many pri |
vata dinners gwen this season at belmont
co took place this week. On the plate of |
eacn guest and attached to the menu was |
a beautiful ring with IN emerald stone,
set in diamonds. The rings cost $1,000 |
and as there were eight guests, the |
| menus, with thir novel attachments, |
must have cost over $4,000. The host was |
George Law, "a street railway magnate |
aud several times millionaire. The |
| guests of this dinner were not 81 greatly |
surprised, for Mr.. Law is known to spend |
considerably over 500 900 year on Jew
elry. Very nearly all of this he distrib-
utes around among his acquaintances.-I
| Sprtnafeid JHt0H.
There was time when the paper collar |
reigned supreme. 1t encircled the mas
culiue neck from Maine to California, and
| attained great popularity as an article Of
feminine attire. Nestled in boxes of
every variety of color aud style of adorn-
nshing store window. In it's decaying
stages it filled cutters, lent vanity to ash
| heaps, and dotted the landscape along the
line of every railroad in the country,
dividing houors across the Western plains
| with the tin can. It's stronghold was in
the crowded metropolis, but its trail ex.
| tendei into the rsmotest backwoods
district. 1t would seem, considering this
immense popularity, that Mr.. Meserole
the inventor OF the collar, must have been
insured against poverty for the rest of his
days. but, it seems, this is not the case.
A bigamy trial in New York, in which
member of the family is Involved, brings
out the tact that the wealth which &C.
craed from the patent has. like the collar
itself. vanished, no man can say whittier
Tile Western BOOkseNer.
The Rev. Thos Harrison, 1.-THE boy
preacher whe is remembe red by 1.-The
oldest inhabitant," has been conducting a
prolonged revival iu New York for some
time. Rslig ious enthusiasm has run high;
and a jubilee celebration is to commem-
crate the conversion OF the one thouS-
andth soul. 1t is somewhat remarkable
to what an extent the once youthful
evangelist has aroused religious senti-
New York is the least adapted to the
methods of conversion characteristic of
the South and puritanicil New England.
Its pDpuI ttiun is anti emotional, and not
remarkable for its devotion to church |
matters. 1t is, therefore. Instructive to |,
observe the success which has attended |
the revivais OF 1.-The boy preacher'in that |
city. aud timely to ing lire if there is not
a tendency to return To the old fashioned |
hallolujah mode of worship. In eight |
weeks more than nina hundred parsons |
have professed conversion, and the com
ing jubilee celebration promises to mark |
an important event in modern religious |
revivals.
The spiritual success of Sam Jones'
meetings was far short of what has been |
accomplished by Rev. Thomas Harrison. |
Death of Railroad President.
PHILADELPHIA, Mch. 2S.-Isaac Hinck. |
ley, president of the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore Railroad Com
pany, died at his residence here this
morning. He had been suffering from a
complication of diseases for some time
past but he bravely held out against
them until about month ago, when he
was compelled to go to bed. Mr.. Hinck-
ley was born at bingham, Mass, on
October IS 1915, and was graduated
frnp Harvard [ University in 1874 He |