The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-21
OLD Break. of sneech.

me following collection Of curious
phrases is taken from the Rams Horn:
A coroner's jury in Maine reported that
Deceased came to his death by excessive
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
a chapel upon it in which my wife and
wish to be buried, if God spares our
lives"
On a tombstone in Indiana is the follow
ing inscription: This monument was
erected to the memory of John Jinkins,
accidentally shot as a mark of affection
by his brother"
A Michigan editor received some verses
not long ago with the following note of
explanation: These lines were written
fifty years ago by one who has, for a long
time, slept in his grave merely for pas
time"
A 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 egg until they
pump it dry
AN orator a one of the university unions
bore off the palm when he declared that
the British lion whether it is roaming
the deserts of India or climbing the for
ests of Canada, will not draw in its horns
nor retire into its SHE'LL
reporter, in describing the murder of
a man named Jorkin, said: 1.-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
his bureau a letter to one of his CORE
sDondents which he had not sealed. His
clerk, seeing it necessary to send the
letter, wrote at the bottom: "Since writ
ing the above l have died"
MI.
thanks for basket of oranges thus: eve
nave Received a basket of oranges from
our friend Gus Bradley, for which he will
please accept our compliments one of
which are nearly six inches in diameter"
The Morning Post in 1872 made the
following statement: I'VE congratulate
ourselves most on having torn off Cor
belts mask and revealed his cloven foot.
1t was high time that the hydra head of
faction should be soundly wrapped over
the knuckles."
An English lecturer on chemistry said:
zone drop of this poison placed on the
tongue of a cat is sufficient to kill the
strongest man." and an English lieuten-
ant said that the Royal Niger Company
wished to kill him to prevent his going
up the river until next year."
clergyman in an eastern town warn
ed his hearers lately mot to walk in a
slippery path, lest they be sucked, mael-
strom-like, into its meshes!' This meta
phor suggests that of another clergyman
who prayed that the word might be as
nail driven in a 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 a direct attack on the brewers
by means of a 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
be heard in the House of Commons no
| longer"
1t was the celebrated Sergt. Arabin who,
at the central criminal court, informed
the prisoner before him that eff there was
clearer case of man robbing his mas
ter that case was this case;'' and, after
| passing sentence, concluded: Il, there
fore, give you the opportunity or redeem
| ing a character irretrievably lost"
In the Irish House of Commons of 1895,
during a debate ON the leather tax, the
| chancellor of the eXchequer, Sir John
| Parnell, observed that "in the prosecu-
| ton of the peasant war every one ought
to be ready to give his last guinea to save
| the remainder of his fortune. Mr.. Van
! deleur replied that "a tax on leather
would press very heavily ON the barefoot
! ed peasantry of Ireland"
At a recent temperance gathering an
/ orator exclaimed: 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 a cry of Vic
tory at each step she takes, shall plant
her banner in every city, town and vil-
| lage of the United States" Another
speaker said that "All along the untrod-
| den paths of the future we can see the
| hidden footprints of an unseenland." eve
pursue the shadow, the bubble bursts and
! leaves the ashes in our hands!'