The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-20

HOOK lOSC the safe OF n Darfel or IOW
necked CLANS because of the quarantine
which was instituted for the protection
of sixty-five millions of lives, and he
made quite little war over it., creating
general panic III the country and great
Inconvenience to Mr.. a. NJ. Palmer.
1--WE have no more right to measure
the great economy of the universe by
our little two dollar horizon than we
have to establish law that no man
shall be admitted to the Authors club
who writes with his tongue out We
cannot all think alike, and that is the
reason why we now and then run across
an original thought expressed in an
original way.
IF more people fancy that the present
tariff arrangement is more beneficial to
them than the other, more people will
vote that way. If more peoplcv vote that
way, and experiments should be made
successfully with n purified ballot, the
side so voting i'll the greatest numbers
will elect their candidate. Then the
horizon will clear up again, another prize
fight will be brought to our notice, and
the march of improvement will be once
more resumed.
"And now if you will explain that
method of enumeration to me, we may
go on board our train"
eyes, indeed" said the studious man
as lie carefully folded his napkin, there
by revealing the fact that he lived
simply when ut home, and that his wife
attended to her own work. "You see,
have to be very careful about my health;
otherwise l shall be taken from you be-
fore the great work of finishing my col
lection is done. l am making II very
large and fine collection of je,o de SPIRITS,
so l must be very careful of my general
health, for no one else could ever finish
the collection. Many of them are my
own. l put them in to give color to such
men as Lamb. am the mint sauce OH
Lamb, rs you might say. am the
author of the maxim that the cucumber
fights better when it is down.
81 read some time ago that Mr.. Glad
stone owed his long life to the fact that
he used great care and method in lnasti-
eating his food, counting the number of
bites carefully, giving thirty-two, fo-
instance, to steak, and from that down
to two for ice cream. 1 have had to
raise the rate OH steak good deal on
this trip and lower it on tea. AT homo
we have very careful method of mas;i-
eating, as has MIR. Gladstone ut Hawar-
den, and child who swallows his pic
even without giving it the regular num-
Der of bites has to pay penalty of
twenty-five chews on our beautiful eli
mate. 1t is very CHEEKY to sit ut our
table and watch and listen to the con-
versation mingled with the enumeration
Sometimes we have concert at
table, and the counting is done to music
l lead on the violin. have written all
accompaniment for fried tripe which
would please you, know; also a little
nocturne for shad, with half and three
quarter rests for taking out the bones
1t is beautiful. The grapeskin polka is
also very fetching, and n soup somnam-
bula in fiat is popular. My children are
thus learning music, mathematics and
hygiene"
With that he unbuttoned his coat SO
as to let his whiskers out for a few
moments to surprise and delight the
/ Virginia breeze. decided that il Mr.
Gladstone really has sliding scale OF
enumeration like a child who is binding
i'll the game of "hide and go seek" Inc
will wait many a long, weary day before
he is invited to come and stay over Sun.
day at our house.
An Englishman got on at Greensboro
Evidently Pullman sleeping car was Il
new thing to him. 1t probably Just hap
pened SO accidentally, but one could SEE
that he was not familiar with it. The
berths We're not yet made up, and it was
clear that he could not figure out how
one might sleep there three dollars
worth. He begged my pardon, but was
this the sleeping car? l said that it wa.
SO regarded.
Then he did not say anything for quite
awhile. Finally he begged pardon agail
and inquired if that car went through t.
New York. said that from the talk
had with the railroad authorities l sus
pected that it would do 50.
Just then the porter opened the bertl
of No. 0 i'll such way as to squat thu
life out of lady's new butterfly bonnet
and my friend saw at once that the cal
could be what is called metamorphoset
in n moment. When his berth had beer
made up saw him take his satchel ant
go to the dressing room, but 1 thought
nothing of it till later on l was aroused
from my brown study, which 1 was ther
at, by the entrance of figure and the
pattering of bare feet along the aisle o
the car. AT first thought the car was
haunted, for l hardly recognized the
Englishman, as he had removed his eye