Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-28
PASTEPOT PERSIFLAGE.


 
 PASTEP0T PERSIFLAGE.
 A state exchange has an editorial head ed "Bryan's Bad Break" Yes, Bryan
 has made a bad break, and it is going to
 keep Mark Hanna up O nights patch
 ing it.
 The New Decatur Advertiser notes this coincidence:
 Some weeks ago a lady in West Deca- tur found in her work box Mexican bean that had been given to her eight years ago by Mrs Ivens, the wife of the proprietor of the Iyens Machine shops.
 Impelled by curiosity as to whether the vital principle in the seed had become extinct, she planted the bean and
 watched carefully for it's growth. In few days it sprouted and the tender vine began to climb and put forth leaves.
 And now a strange thing happened AL
 most simultaneously with the growth of the bean vine 8 rumor Sprang up that the old Ivens shop, which for years has stood out like spectre against the west ern sky, gaunt, grim and deserted, would soon resound once more with the busy feet of honest toilers-good men and true to the dollar of our daddies." The vine has now attained a splendid growth, and in the near future the Ivens Machine shops will be put in operation Let us hope that in this instance at least ''in vino veritas" will be confirmed. Joe Johnston is a-coming-Selma
 Times.
 Look here, Jim Nunnelee, thought you
 had more sense.
 In the same issue the Times notices the
 most successful fly trap of the season:
 There is little bit of turtle at
 Groves drug store. He is not much larg-
 CT than a quarter. This turtle, small as he is, swallowed twelve flies at one meal
 and seemed to'relish them
 It's the same way at Brundidge, ac-
 cording to the News:
 The crowds sit around and discuss pol ities all day, and at night the finances, and the August and November elections are just as near settled as the were in the morning.
 A little son of MT. John Hampton of Madison county had one of his legs cut off by moving machine few days ago. He was in some weeds and his father, who was driving the machine, did not see him until after the accident occurred. Alabama can boast of her incipient Spekes and Stanleys. The Talladega News Reporter says:
 Lee Ballard and Hugh Brown, couple of our 1-year-old boys, left last Satur- day for water trip to Selma. They went down Talladega creek into the CooSa, and Whensthe trip has been finish ed will have covered several hundred miles, It is probably the first water trip taken by white persons over this route. The News Reporter pays this deserved tribute to one of the most tirelesS of democratic workers:
 Syd j. Bowie has made gallant fight for the party, and with the boys all over the county deserves great credit for the coming certain success of the ticket. This hot spell has proved fatal to horses in several instances. "The merc1- full man regardeth his beast" Quoth Charlie Lane as he mopped his | heated brow:
 Today the COW administration got it's horns into the editor of the Tribune to | the extent of a $25 fine for violation of | the privilege tax law. To keep even the Tribune gave the COW administration s | tail 6 twist to the extent of $27, excess | taxes paid by the editor under the uncon- Stitutional tax of 1 per cent. The editor | of the Tribune got the cash and the cow administration got the appeal bond. It occurs to us we are still on top. Some of the state papers are criticising | the populist convention for nominating | the vice president first. This reminds | one, as the immortal Lincoln used to say, I of a story by Lincoln himself: "Why | didn't you go at him with the other end | of the pitchfork?" demanded the irate | owner of dog which had been thrust to 1 death by neighbor. "Why didn't he | come at me with the other end?" was the 1 reply. Perhaps the populists thought it | better to "come att the people with the l other end.
 The main obstacle in Bryan's pathway | to the White House is Mark Hanna s | gold brick.-Sheffield Standard. But he'll have no sore toe to show
 after the first Tuesday in November. The Standard also says: '"The thirty-fifth anniversary of the | first battle of Manassas was observed in | a quiet way here by the few old vets | who participated in that great fight" The First National bank team of Mo-
 bile played the National bank team of | Scranton, Miss, Sunday. Details are not | at hand, but it is presumed that "accept- ances" Con papeD were numerous; that | the error column was clean, and that l the game all around discounted any heretofore played upon the diamond. | Can anybody accommodate the Flu | faula Times:
 We do not pick up many papers in which we do not see personal cards from | pops coming back to democracy But l there has not been this summer so far | as we know, a card from any democrat announcing that he had gone over to | populism. If any such card has ap- peared in Alabama will not some | thoughtful fellow let us see it?' COMMERCIAL CLUB NOTES.