The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-03-23
FORGET-ME-NOTS.

Bis marck was born on All-Fools' Day, in the
year bf the battle of Waterloo, yet, notwith-
stanJing the inauspicious date, he has seemed
to get along very we'll in the world. There are
people who think that the acceptance of Bis
malcES's resignation as Chancellor of the Ger
man Empire by the young Emperor William
ouE1f for propriety's sake to have been post
.g5ned till the first of April. But [ don't know
As Lord Beaconsfield used to say, what's the
good of a fellow unless he's devil of fellow
And what's the good of an emperor unless he's
a holy terror. I believe in turning the rascals
out, and Bismarck has had his share of Office
holding and of gout. It's time for him to fol-
low McGinty. Give the boys a chance,
say /. Germany and the world can get along
without Bismarck. No man is indispensable.
In this age of general enlightenment it is'not
necessary to idolize any man. Hero-worship
is folly. believe that there finer voices and
higher talents for singing than PATHS, | be-
leve there are thousands of abler statesmen
than Bismarck, and | have no doubt there are
crowds of greater pugilists than John l.. Sui
Ivan, if we could only find them; and we shall
never find them if we don't give them chance
TO come to the front. Therefore, | say turn
the rascals out Bismarck, get thee gone,
Col. Sam Johnson the able correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, is one of the closest
observers and keenest critics in Washington.
He said the other day that the effect of the
Civil Service law would be- If properly carried
out, to fill the Departments with ugly old
women, instead of the pretty young ones that
always get their appointments under the spoilf
system Well, am very glad the Civil Service
law doesn't operate very much The fact il
apparent, for anybody can see at glance thai
the girls in the Departments are all young and
pretty.
The elevator man in one of the Department.
is great gossip. Every time enter the build
ing and take lift in the elevator the gossipinl
conductor, who Is something of a humorist
has a story TO tell. On the last occasion it wa
about lady clerk in the Department who re
ceives salary OF 81 200 year.
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People will get up occasionally with terrible
heads on them in the morning, and knowing
this to be so, philosophical friend of mine tn
other day consulted some of the ablest physi
clans in town as TO what could be done for tn
relief of such head.
For the benefit of all whom it may concern
give the prescriptions of DIR. Lincoln and Dr.
Stanton: 81 have no sympathy with the drink
ing patients" said DR.. n. s. Lincoln. %
think that the proper thing TO do with a ma
when he gets tight is to string him up by tn
thumbs and fog him within an inch of his life
After a continued fit of drinking the onl
thing TO do with the man is to lock him up an
give him absolutely no stimulants. littl
Belfast ginger-ale may do him no harm, bu
don't give him drop of whisky or any stron
drink For a simple case of sickness in tn
morning, arising from too liberal use Of th
flowing bowl the night before, there is nothin
better than hot water internally and cold wate
externally. Take copious drafts of hot wate
The first draft may produce Vomit The