The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-12-27
MISCELLANEOUS

"A roast leg OF pork should always
be accompanied by apple sauce, and by
mashed potatoes and mashed turnips.
A Great Change.-He-''I intend to
lead a better life h%enceforth. hope to
succeed in time. 1t takes time, of
course" She-"Yes, it takes time to
bring about great changes. "-Yankee
Blade.
According to superstition cOrpsecan-
dies are no other than human souls
dancing over the graves where their
bodies lie, or the souls of dead relatives
coming to fetch those who are to rejoin
them.
He Was Seized. THE subject
write about must seize me. Otherwise
| can not do good work" Il presume
you were seized by robbers about the
time you wrote that article on The
Robber.'" Eyes, | was. | had just
paid my ice bill. "-Yankee Blade.
"A p~erplexing suit, involving pro-
fessional secrecy, has been before the
Paris Society of Public Medicine. A
suburban practitioner called in to at
tend a patient suffering from scarlet
fever advised the landlord to disinfect
the house. This was done, and the
landlord sued the patient to recover the
cost. The patient thereupon sued the
doctor for breach of professional secrecy,
and it is thought that he will win his
case.
Cheese Sandwiches: One = fourth
pound of crumbled cheese, the yelk of a
hard-boiled egg. a tablespoonful of
,,a1Eal I,ttn. nnnho1f fnolnnnnf u1 of
salt, a dash of pepper, one-half tea
spoonful of made mustard, a tablespoon
full of milk, and thin slices of bread or
biscuits, lightly but evenly buttered.
Put the hard yelk in a small bowl, make
smooth with a spoon, add the butter,
cheese and seasoning. mixing we'll, and
lastly the milk.-Boston Budget
Winfield Scott Hancock Dcran, the
phenomenal boy smoker. died recently
in Trenton, N. j., in the fifth yea of
his age. His death was not caused from
| the use OF the weed, however. but from
an attack of virulent diphtheria. He
had been sick only a week. His mother
| says that he had smoked from the time
he was seven months old. She kept
b%oarders, and the men used to take him
upon their knee while they were smok-
ing their pipes and give him a few puffs.
The friends of many of Warwick's
most highly respected citizens were
inexpressibly shocked when. in this
weeks Warwick Dispatch, they saw
their names appended to a call for a
public meeting to be held in that viii
lage for the purpose of 'organizing a
Burglar and Horse Thief Association"
1t must be, they thought, hat it was
intended to organize an association fol-
the detection, arrest and conviction OF
burglars and horse thieves. but there
was not a word about arrest or detec'
ton in the call .-Middletown Argus.
The Maine Mrs. Darlington is still
on deck. One lady just returned from
Boston informs the neighbors that she
rode sup stairs in 4 refrigerator, and
had her clothes washed at a foundry.
An old lady in Bath recently mortified
her relatives intensely. At a grand din
ner she overheard a lady guest politely
answer to the wielder OF the carving
knife that sit was immaterial which
portion she had" A luscious slice wa:
passed up to her, and our old lady after
an appreciative glance guessed she
would have a small hunk off'n the i'm
material"
An amusing incident Is reported il
the Vledomosti Of Kharkov. An Egyp'
tian mummy was brough to that city To-
exhibition. The Tariff Commissioner
were at a loss about the import duty K
be levied on it, as no such ware is speci
fed in theircatalogue. Atlast they found
in one of their catalogues a certain pain
which is called mummy. ThereupoI
they decided to have the Egyptian piece
of antiquity weighed and to levy on /
the tax due on its weight in paint. 4
similar incident, says tho same paper
occurred in another city of the empire
A skeleton was imported from Germany
Tie tax gatherers, not knowing to wha
class Of goods 1t belonged, decided t.
put it down among the things that ha'
once been in USE"
Says q rounder OF q Now York res
taurant: "An infallible recipe for de
stroying any fear you may have of tn
waiter is contained in -four words: -Lool
at his feet. | ne yer saw a waiter in m,
life that had a pres entable pair OF peda
cAIFoluiIicS. Iio Una ID oidhu, oudfe
clean-shaven, Gle ar-eyes, clad in snow.
linen, and tho master of a superciliou
manner. If you feel that he is cowinI
you at all glance at his feet You will
find that his trousers are ragged an,
turned up at the bottom, and that h
wears an enormous pair Of rusty shoes
and that they are as hilly and ridgy a
the boots of tho equity old uncle in tn
old-time comedies. After this you ma
look him in the eye with absolute fear
lessness."
1t is a fact known to the close oil
servers Of Chinese life in New York tina
some of the Cinnamon here nave falle'
into the way Of quaffing lager beer a
times. 1t is not their habit, however
to quaff it in the beer saloons, where /
costs five cents q mug. They like t
get it more cheaply by buying 1t !
bigger measure, or by the pint, quart @
half gallon, and there has been at leas
one case in which q Chinaman bought q
much as q gallon at a time, all Of which
however, was not consumed by pagan
OF his race. 1t Is learned on hig
authority hat Cinnamon loathe tn
taste and smell Of lager when first the
try to drink it, and it Is only by perst
vering efforts that any of them becom
able to do SO. They are too thrifty I
spend much cash upon it, and it is re
ported that a pint will serve as a Who'll
days supply for three or four consumer