Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-13
onp sREAks- Of SPEECH.
Some Mixed Metaphors and weird Arrange.
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coroner S jury in Maine reported that
deceased came to his death 0y excessive
drinking, producing apoplexy IN the minds
y An old d French lawyer writing Of an
estate he had Just bought, added: There
is 4 chapel upon it in which my wife ana
wish 10 be buried, II COD spares our
on a tombstone in Indiana is the fol-
lowing ingcription: This monument was
erected to the memory OF John JlnK ,ils,
accidentally shot as mark OF aHec'foi'
a Michigan editor received some verses
not long ago with the following nost az =,
Exclamation: .sThese lines were written
10 years ago by one who has, for lois
time, slept in his grave merely TOT pas
time go. .o,demn;ng
the government for its policy concern nii
the income tax. is reported 10 have say w.
They'll keep cutting the wool on Inc ans
sheep that lays the golden eess
''' An p orator at one of the. university
unions bore off the palm when he declared
that ''the British lion, whe.ne nl; ~ Il the
f fng.s sne o uss canada viii not draw in its
horns nor retire into its shell. ,aar of
A reporter in describing the . riuiur muir.
man named ss,d Jofk,l' in s Quest Of money.
h h,t uc Tds Nj. Jorkin had deposited all
his funds in the bank the day peiore' 50
that he lost nothing but MS ire. 10. &,
merchant who died suddenly left IN
,,;s I,nraa,, letter to one of his cores
nondents which he had not seaied. il!s
clerk, seeing It Necessary % 9.s ie Writing
ter, wrote at the Dottom' Sihoe "ii'i'ie
the above have died. o. bic
thanks for a basket OF oranges tnu a fr W.
our friend Gus Bradley for whlcn ne Will
please accept our compliments some ot
which are nearly six inches in diameter,
The Morning Post in 1872 made the fol-
lowing statement: I'VE congratulate our
selves most on having. torn of Corbett,
mask and revealed his cloven 1901; u
was high time that the hydra head OF
faction should be soundly wrapped over
the knuckles.' .
An English lecturer on chemistry said:
"One drop of this poison placed or. on me
strongest man." and an English l1euten-
ant said that the Royal Niger COMPANY
wished to kill him to prevent his going up
the river until next year.
A clergyman in an Eastern town warned
his hearers lately mot TO walk IN slip
perry path lest they, be sucked maelstrom-
suggests that of another clergyman who
prayed that the word might be as nail
driven in a sure place, sending its roots
downward and it's branches upward.
The present Duke of Leeds is reported
to have accused the late government of
making direct attack on the brewers by
means of 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 Sergeant Arabin.
who at the Central Criminal court. in
formed the prisoner before him that IF
there was a clearer case of a man robbing
mis- master that case was this case and
after passing sentence, concluded: Il,
therefore, give you the opportunity of re-
deeming 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-
tion of the peasant war everyone 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 bare
footed peasantry of Ireland"
At 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 cry
of Victory! at each step she takes. shall
plant her banner in every city. town and
village 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 unseen hand. We
pursue the shadow the bubble bursts and
leaves the ashes in our hands. Ram S
Horn