Little Egypt Heritage Articles eduda tsunogisdi © Bill Oliver 6 November 2006 Vol 5 Issue: #36 Special Edition ISBN: pending Osiyo, Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Little Egypt, “Current Items” Quotes from a local newspaper for 6th January 1871, under “Current Items”: The Coal Ring = The fireside circle. Hush Money = The price of a family cradle. Best Climate for Toper [dunkard] = The temporate zone. The militia of Pennsylvania number 13,000 men. Harrisburg, PA, contains 685 more females than males. The policies of the[sic] Washington are liberal as to travel. Virginia has half a million members of the Order of Good Templars. A Slow Match = The marriage of a couple after thirteen years’ courtship. The Mutual Life of Chicago makes all its policies non-forfeitable. A “History of Tobacco” is announced. It should be illustrated with fine cuts. The city of Boston paid $21,285 during the last year for bathing 1,397,914 men, women and boys. The sagacious A. Ward once said he thought it rather improved a comic paper to print a joke now and then. [This next one has a ring of truth to it. (Huge grin)] The man who is too poor to hire his boots blacked, and too much of a gentleman to black them himself, wears dirty boots. In Norfolk the indolents [it is a proper word, folks] proposed to organize a lazy club, but failed on account of the party being too lazy to sign their names to the constitution. The State Inspector reports 628,979 barrels of salt inspected in Michigan last year being an increase of nearly 70,000 barrels on the product of the previous year. A Lady, aged 61, in England, finding herself on the wrong railroad train, leaped from it when it was running at a speed of forty miles an hour, and escaped without any injury. Dobb, the portrait painter, says that everthing should be in character. For instance, search warrants should be printed on “tracing paper”, and wedding notices on “fool’s cap”. A man in Essex, Mass., refused to have the pegs of a new pair of shoes he was buying for his boy rsped off, because in that case the boy would run all over town, and the shoes wouldn’t last him three weeks. The Superior Court in Cincinnati decides that a wife has a vested right in her husband’s society and companionship and can maintain an action for damages against any person who tempts him to stay from home. [Just one more ...] It was once observed to Lord Chesterfield, in the course of conversation, that man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. “True,” said the earl, “and you may add, perhaps, that he is the only creature who deserves to be laughed at.” Tomorrow is election day ... don’t let “Vote Bee Gone” win ... “Rock the Vote”-- VOTE ... it’s YOUR country! [I think that both those quotes have “tm”s, but I’m not positive.] e-la-Di-e-das-Di ha-wi nv-wa-do-hi-ya nv-wa-to-hi-ya-da. (May you walk in peace and harmony) Wado, Bill -=- 457 PostScript: