The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-06
MR ODD BREAKS OF SPEECH.
Object Lessons in Careless Arrangement
of Words.
(From the Rams Horn }


of Words.
(From the Rams Horn
y coroner's jury in Maine reported
that: deceased came to his death ly eN-
cessivc drinking producing apopleXy in
the minds of the jury
An old French lawyer, writing of an es
tate he had Just bought, added: ''There
is chapel upon it in which my wife and
wish to tie buried, if God spares our
lives =
On Il tombstone in Indiana is the fol-
lowing inscription: This monument was
erected to the memory OF John jenkins,
accidentally shot ;,s 4 mark of affection
by his BROTHER
\ Michigan editor received some verses
not long ago with the following note of
explanation: "These lines We're written
fifty years ago by one who has. for long
time slept in his grave merely for pas
time"
\ certain politician, lately condemning
the government for its policy concerning
the income tax, is reported to have said:
They'll keep cutting the wool Off the
sheep that lays the golden eggs until they
pump it dry"
An orator at one of the university
unions bore oil the palm when he declar-
ed that 1.-THE British lion, whether it is
roaming the deserts of India or climbing
the forests of Canada, will not draw in
its horns nor retire into its she'll"
y reporter in describing the murder of
II man named Jorkin said: "The muir
derer was evidently in quest of money,
but luckily Mr.. Jorkin had deposited all
his funds in the bank the day before, so
that he lost nothing but his life
a merchant who died suddenly left in
nj n lnft far m If
spondents, which he had not sealed. His
clerk, seeing it necessary to send the let
ter, wrote at the bottoms "Since writing
the above have died"
An Oklahoma editor expresses his
thanks for basket OF oranges thus: eve
have received IL basket of oranges from
poor friend Cos Bradley, for which he
will please accept our compliments some
of which are nearly six inches in dame
ter
The Morning Post in 1912 made the fol-
lowing statements: "We congratulate our
selves most on having torn Off Cobbett' :
mask and revealed his cloven foot. 1t
was high time that the hydra head of fac
ton should be soundly wrapped over the
knuckles. -
An English lecturer on chemistry said:
Zone drop of this poison placed on the
tongue of IL cat is sufficient to kill the
strongest man, and an English lieutcn-
ant said that the Royal Niger Company
wished to kill him To prevent his going
up the river until next year.
~ clergyman in an English town warn.
ed his hearers lately mot to walk in Il
| slippery path, lest they be sucked, mnel-
| strom-likc, into its meshesn' This meta
| phor suggests that of another clergyman,
who prayed that the word might be rs II
nail driven in n sure place, sending its
roots downward and its branches up
ward =
The present Duke of Leeds is reported
to have accused the late government of
| making Il direct attack on the brewers by
| means of II side wind. 1t was during the
late administration that one of the Irish
whips telegraphed TO Dublin that "the
| silence of the Irish members would he
| heard in the house OF commons no longer
J 1t was the celebrated Sergeant Arabi1
/ who, at the central criminal court, in
| formed the prisoner before him that ''i1
| there was clearer case of n man robbing
| his master that case was this case and
| after passing sentence, concluded 81
therefore, give YOU the opportunity of re-
deeming IL character irrctrievably lost -
In the Irish house Of commons of 119-
during IL debate on the leather tax the
chancellor of the cXchequer, Sir John Par
nell observed that sin the prosecution OF
the peasant war every one ought to be
ready to give his last guinea to save the
remainder of his fortune" Mr.. Vande-
leur replied ''that II tax on leather would
press very heavily on the barefooted peas.
antry of Ireland
At recent temperance gathering III
orator exclaimed: 1.-The glorious work
will never be accomplished until the good
ship Temperance shall sail from one end
of the land to the other, and with IL cry
of Victory at each step she takes, shall
plant her banner in every city town and
village of the United Statcs.n
Another speaker said that "All along
the untrodden paths of the future we can
see the hidden footprints OF an unseen
hand. 1--WE pursue the shadow, the
bubble bursts and leaves the ashes in our
hands,