The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

lead better life henceforth. 1 hope to
succeed in time. 1t takes time, OF
course" Sho-"Yes, it takes timo to
bring about great changes. "-Yankeo
Blade.
According to superstition corpse can
dies are no other than human souls
dancing over tho graves whero their
bodies lie, or the souls of dead relatives
coming to fetch those who arc to reioin
| them
He Was Seized. Tho subject 1
write about must seize me. Otherwise
you wero seized by robbers about the
tlmo you wrote that article on Tho
hoboer. "Yes, l was. had just
paid my leo bill."-Yankeo Blade.
"A perplexing suit, involving pro-
fossional secrecy, has boon before tho
Paris Society of Public Medicine. A
suburban practitioner called in to at
tond a patient suffering from scarlet
fever advised tho landlord to disinfect
tho 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 no will win his
case.
Cheese Sandwiches: One fourth
pound of crumblod cheese, tho yollk OF o
hard-boiled egg. tablespoonful of
melted butter, onc-half teaspoonful of
salt, a dash of pepper. one-half tea
spoonful Of made mustard, a tablespoon
full of milk. and thin slices OF broad or
biscuits, lightly but evenly butterod
Put tho hard yelk in 4 small bowl, make
smooth with spoon, add tho butter,
cheese and seasoning. mixing woll, and
lastly the milk. boston Emdgot
Winfield Scott IIancocI1 Doran, The
phenomenal Icy smoker diod recently
In Tronton, n. T. in tho fifth year OF
his age. His do&th was not caused from
tho use OF tho weed, however. but from
an attack OF virUient diphtheria. IIo
had been sick only L week. liz mother
says that he had smoked from sho time
ho was seven months old. S,y kept
eoarders, and tho meM used to take him
Upon thor knees while they were smok-
iLg their pipes and giv5 him a few 'puffs
Tho friends OF may OF War,Ncl1's
most highly respected citizens we're
inexpressibiy shocked *hen, in this
weeks Warwick Dispat1h, they saw
their names appended to- n call for
public meeting to be heltt IN that viz
lage for the purpose Of Organizing \
burglar and Horse Thief associations,
1t must be-; they thought, shat it waS
intended to- organize an association for
tho detection arrest and conviction of
burglars and horse thieves, BUT there
was not a word about arresS or detec-
ton in the call.-Middletown Argus
Tho Maine Mrs. Darlington is still |
on dock. Ono lady just returned from
boston informs the noighbors chat she
rode cup stairs in refrigerator, and
had her clothes washed at fcandry."
An Old lady in Bath recently mortified
her relatives intensely. At grand din
ner she overheard lady guest politely
answer to the wielder of tho carving
knife that lit was immaterial which
portion sho had.'' A luscious slice was
passed up to her, and our old lady after
an approciativo glance guessed sho
would have small hunk ofr'n tho i'm
material"
An amusing incident Is reported in
tho Nledomosti of kharllov. An Egyp-
tian mummy was brough to that city for
Tho Tariff Commissioners
were at loss about tho import duty to |
be Levied on it, as TO such ware is speci- |
fled in their catalogue. Aslast thoy found |
in one Of their catalogues p certain paint |
which is called mummy Thereupon
they decided to have tho Egyptian piece
of antiquity weighed AMI TO levy on it
tho tax due on its weight in paint A
similar incident, says tbs samo paper, +
occurred in another city OF the empire. |
a S1yQ10tnn i,,arO to, E-,.>
The tax gathercrs. mot knowing to what
class of goods it belonged, decided to
put it down among the Things that had |
onco been in use
Says a roundor of a Now York res
taurant: SAN infalli!ilo recipe for do
stroying any fear you may have of tho
waiter is contained in four words: Look
at his feet / re yer saw n k-aiter in my.
life that had a pres eRtable pair of pedal
eXtremities. lie may he bland, suave,
cloan-shavcn, clio ar-eycs. clad in SNOWY.
linen, and the Iaa stor- of superciiouA.
manner. If yiu feel that no is cowing
yon at all glaree at his feet You will :.
lind that his trousers a1e ragged ais3
turned up at the bottom, and that 10
wears an ono smous.paireE rusty sho?s,
and that they are as,hillJ and ridgy as
tho boots of .he geuty old uncle in tho
old-timc col iedios. After this you nay
look him irttho .oye th absolute par
iessness."
1t is fact. known 30 tho close. OBJ
servers Of Chinese life. IN New York that
some of the Cinnamon here have fallen
into the Nay. cd; quaMng lager lseer at.
times. II is not THAR habit. however,
to quan it,in tho. bec1 saloons, where 10