The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-10-03

Hamlin, the actor, to-day. Squcesicks
says he possesses the art which concrals art
Hicks-That's fact. You d never know
he had any,-Boston Transcript.
All animals when taken for sea voyage
become tanner. Monkeys suffer greatly
from nal de mere. Fowls and geese soon
become thin, and cocks generally cease to
crow. Birds, too, are affected by the sea,
and never sing during voyage.
1t is curious coincidence that George
w. Legg, Treasurer of Pike county, Ohio.
and George X. Legg, Treasurer of Pike
county, Arkansas, recently proved to he
defaulters, and ran away as fast as their
legs could carry them.-New York Tribune
The domestic tastes of the Princess of
Wales have a most natural origin. Her
father, in early manhood was poor
younger son, and lived almost in seclusion
with his wife and children Her mother.
a German matron, trained her to house
wifery.
The bottom of the Pacific between
Hawaii and California is said to be so level
that a railroad could he laid for 800 miles
without the grade anywhere This fact
was discovered by the United States sur
veying vessel engaged in making soundings
with the view o laying cable.
The largest hornets nest that has ever
been taken unchanged was more than
yard in circumference and foot inches
in length. 1t was found suspended from
the roof OF house on the Earl of Clar-
endon'S estate and weighed barely three
pounds 1t was said to contain $50 insects.
The pig, though greedy and omnivolous
when kept in style, and very foul feeder
on the New Zealand runs, is most partcu-
lar III its choice Of foods when running
wild in English woods Its special dainties
are underground roots and tubcrs, and it is
the only animal, except man, which appre-
ciates and seeks for the trutlle.
\ Russian army lieutenant, who was
visiting the Cathedral at MantZ. undertook
to climb to the highest point of the spire,
which is 32l feet from the ground. bv
means of a ladder left by some wolkmen.
ON reaching the top, he toppled over and
fell into the interior of the tower. a dis
lance Of eighty feet, and died in few
minutes.
They tell of Georgia candidate who
offers to gin cotton free for everybody who
will sign contract to vote for him. An
other one-a candidate for Coroner-fnding
a family that contained twelve votes.
lerked his coat and shnged the house for
them. The Georgia candidate means bust
ness this financial year.-Atanta Constitu-
ton.
4 lady recently wrote to the Cunard
Steamship Company suggesting that more
than two clothes hooks be placed in the
staterooms of the vessels sailing from Bos-
ton. The company sent her courteous
reply saying that her suggestion had, on
examination, been decided to be most rea-
sonable, and that directions had already
been given to supply with the requisite
hooks not only the staterooms of the
steamer on which the lady had just crossed,
but every other steamer OF the line-New
York Tribune.
When Young Chief, prominent member
of the Umatilla tribe of Indians, in Oregon.
goes away for his annual vacation the State
authorities publish the following notice:
'Noung Chief has permission to visit Wal.
Iowa and surrounding country, with var
ious other Indians, to be away sixty DAYS.
He is good, law abiding man, and very
friendly toward the whites. If any of his
crowd are boisterous or violate any law. if
reported to me | will have the matter recti-
fed. Any favor shown him will be appre-
cated. He respects the whites and asks
that they respect him."
The practical use of aluminium is extend
ing in various parts of Europe. In Ger
many two corps of the army are equipped
with aluminium, which includes chevrons
and every article of metal usually carried
on the person, even the buttons on the
clothes and the pegs in the shoes The
sword bayonets, scabbards, ETC., are also
made of the new light metal In Paris
there is a cab made of aluminium, and in
many of the races at Longcamps the horses
horses were shod with aluminium. There
are also several racing sulkies made of
aluminium. 1t is only short time ago
that an Ohio firm built several duckboats
of aluminium.
a number of officers were talking in the
hall of the Army and Navy Club day or
two ago when the conversation turned on
the care which is exercised in the selection
of recruits for the army. From the facts
brought out it would seem that the United
States service is one of the hardest in the
world to enter, even as a private. The
standard of the enlisted man has been
raised so often that it is now harder to be-
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