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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.
T. L. G.4XTT, Elitor aul Prop.
The Family Hammer.
There is one tiling no family pretends
to do without. That is a hammer. And
yet there is nothing that goes to makeup
tiie equipment of a domestic establish
ment that causes one-half as much ago
ny and profanity as a hammer. It is al
ways an old hammer, with a handle that
is inclined to sliver, and always bound
to slip. The face is as round as a moon
and as smooth. When it strikes a nail
full and square, which it has been known
to do, the act will be found to result
from a combination of pure accidents.
The family hammer is one of those rare
articles we never profit by. When it
glides off a nail-head, and mashes down
a couple of fingers, we unhesitatingly de
posit it in the yard, and observe that we
will never use it again. But the blood
has hardly dried on the rag before we
are out doors in search of that hammer,
and ready to make another trial. The
result rarely varies, but we never profit
by it. The awful weapon goes on knock
ing off our nails, and mashing whole
joints, and slipping off the handle to the
confusion of mantel ornaments, and
breaking the commandments, and cutting
up an assortment of astounding and un
fortunate antics, without let or hindrance.
And yet we put up with it, and put the
'handle on again, and lay it away where
it won’t get lost, and do up our mutilated
and smarting fingers, and yet if the out
r*g*eous thing should happen to get lost,
we kick up a regular hullabooloo until it
is found again. Talk about the tyran
nizing influence of a bad habit! It is
not to be compared to the family hammer.
Waked Up Through Both Hemispheres.
The Troy Whig relates the following:
“We have heard much of the wonders
of cable telegraphy in outrunning time
and annihilating space, but an anecdote
related to us last evening hv Mr. W. P.
Phillips, assistant agent of the State As
sociated Press in New York, who is on a
visit to this city, surpassess anything we
have ever heard. A gentleman of the
Western Union Telegraph office, at No.
145 Broadway, New York, was sitting in
the cable-room when a telegram from
Philadelphia, destined for Paris, came
over the wires. This message, like all
others for France, was to go over the
cabin via Duxbury, Massachusetts.
The operator called Duxbury a few times
and then said : “That fellow is asleep
evidently ; but the cable men are always
awake—Fll have to get one of them to
go in and wake him up. So he stepped
to another desk, called Plaister Cove, in
Newfoundland, and sent the following
message:
*‘To Cable Operator, Duxburv : Please
go iu and wake up mv ' own true love/’
This message Plaister Cove hastened to
send across the ocean to Valencie, Ire
lanc}, who in turn rushed it to London ;
thence it was hurried to Paris, and still
onward to the European end of the
French cable at St. Pierre ; the operator
thpre.-ilashing it back to Duxburv. In
less thau two minutes by the clock the
message had accomplished its journey of
some 8,000 miles, by land and sea, as
■was evidenced by the clicking of the in
strument on the Duxburv desk, which
ticked out in a manner a little morepetu
lent: “ That is a nice way to do ;go
ahead. Your own true love.”
Rubber Overshoes for Horses.—
This is a recent invention, which prom
ises to be a boon to the equine inhabi
tants- of paved cities. The shoe is made
anil lined in precisely similar manner to
the articles of apparel worn by the hu
man race, and, in fact, presents no points
of difference, save in its shape and its
manufacture of the best quality of India
rubber. It is designed as a substitute
for the iron shoe, and as a means of pre
venting the many maladies to which
horses’ feet are subject. Horses suffer
ing with cracked or contracied hoof, and
similar painful hurts, it is said, are quick
ly cured by the substitution of the rubber
covering for the unyielding metal slice.
The elasticity of the former allows the
Hoof to remain in its natural shape, while
protected from abrasion against pave
ments by the heavy rubber sole beneath.
The device is easily removed from or
put on the hoof, and hence, while stand
ing in the stall or turned out to pasture,
the liorsq may be left hare-footed. In
winter time the covering serves as a pro
tection against illness due to the common
practice of mingling salt with the ice and
snow in City streets, while the roughen
ed surface of the rubber beneath serves
to give the animal a foothold in slip
ery weather. As compared with iron
shoes, the cost of the rubber one is
about one-third more, and their weight
is some forty per cent, less, while they
are very durable. Sixteen sizes are
manufactured, so that accurate fits may
be obtained.
T\vo lovers hugging each other in. a
railroad car are accepted as an instance
af a bad. case of “ opcg^cemmunion.”
The Chirography ofWeH Known People.
It may be gratifying to some poor pen
man to know that some of the smartest
people write illegibly. We would not
advise any one, however, to imitate poor
writing, for that alone does not indicate
the possession of talent:
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes a grace
ful and picturesque hand.
James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd,
was an abominable penman.
Byron wrote a horrid hand, as every
body knows.
Lord Bacon re-wrote one of his works
twelve times.
Gladstone writes a neat, regular and
beautiful hand.
Lords Derby and Palmerston wrote
beautifully.
Pitt wrote a flowing hand.
Earl Russell is a penman.
Sir Robert Peel’s writing was too mer
cantile for beauty.
Queen Elizabeth’s waiting was thin,
spiteful and irregular.
President Grant’s penmanship is both
elegant and business-like.
Canning wrote an exquisite hand.
Wellington’s chirography was clear
and noble.
Mary, Queen of Scots, wrote a fine,
graceful, feminine hand, that indicated
sweetness and nobility.
Macaulay, the historian, wrote a
sprawling hand.
Lord Chesterfield’s writing was a mod
el of graceful elegance.
The ex-Emperor Napoleon wrote a
neat, easy, running and legible hand.
The poet Gray wrote with elaborate
neatness and regularity.
Rogers, the poet, wrote a careful, fin
ished hand.
Tom Moore’s hand w’as an easy run
ning one.
Walter Savage Landor wrote a bold
and vigorous hand.
Edgar A. Poe’s handwriting was strik
ingly beautiful, and as clear, regular and
legible as print.
T. Buchanan Read wrote a pleasing
and picturesque hand.
N. P. Willis wrote a careless, dashing
hand.
Sir Walter Scott wrote a wretched
hand.
Tennyson’s handwriting is chaste and
classic.
Longfellow and Bryant are both fine
penmen.
Franklin’s handwriting was large and
bold.
Paul H.-Hayne writes a most dainty
hand.
Mrs. Herners w'rote a graceful, running
hand.
Keats’ handwriting was bold, but rath
er clerky.
J. Fenimore Cooper was a miserable
penman.
Aubrey de Yere writes a very gentle
manly hand.
Washington wrote a firm, dignified,
manly hand.
Edward Everett’s handwriting "was
beautiful.
Augusta J. Evans’ handwriting looks
like a man’s.
Reverdy Johnson’s handwriting is
worse than Byron’s was.
The printers, swore unrighteously at
Dickens’ “copy.” *
Washington Allston w r rote a legible
and artistic hand.
Chief Justice Chase once w r rote a re
markably beautiful hand.
Gen. Robert E. Lee wrote an open,
frank and noble hand.
Hon. Mrs. Norton and Charlie
Bronte wrote beautiful hands.
Father Ryan, the poet-priest, writes a
charmingly graceful hand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s handwriting
is sprawling, illegible, and decidedly
bad.
Horace Greelev -wrote a shocking
scrawl, which drove the printers nearly
crazy.
Questions for Debating Socie
ties. —If the traveller who took the
course of human events has ever been
heard of since ?
If brass will make a candle stick, what
will make one let loose ?
Where does a candle go to, when it
goes out?
If the hollow of a log can be heard ?
If tin will make a can, what will make
a can’t?
If twelve inches make one foot, how
many will make a leg?
If five and a half yards make one pole,
how many will it take to make a log?
Do potatoes ever wear out, as we often
hear of potato patches ?
tf pig pens will do to write with ?
Will the Cape of Good Hope fit a lady ?
The girls of Yassar College play foot
ball—and many a young man therea
bouts wishes he were a foot ball,.espec
ially bs the girls sometimes miss the ball
and land on their heads in the grass. It
must be an inspiring sight, too, to see
the girls engaged in this important
study ; and if they were to charge fifty
cents admission, tjie gate money would
be more than enough to pay for their
education.
fcEA Fowl Guano.—Read the notice
of this excellent fertilizer in another col
umn, and settle your indebtedness.
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
Natural slippers—Eels.
Mud is the father of dust.
A cutting affray—A sausage chop
per.
The voices of the night—Those
blessed babies.
The only perfect thing—A moth
er’s first boy.
A willing prisoner—A man lock
ed in slumber.
An era unknown to women—The
middle ages.
A clean shirt is one of woman’s
best gifts to man.
The devil likes to sign himself
“ soul proprietor.”
A depraved punster says he shall
smoke if he chews too.
Fall suits were first worn by
Adam and his partner.
A corn-extractor that has never
been patented—The crow.
A soldier cannot be even half a
soldier if he is in quarters.
What is everybody doing at the
same time ?—Growing old.
’Tis better to have loved and lost,
than never to have had a mother-in-law.
Polite—“ Please, sir, if you’ll get
off my corn long enough I’ll kick you.”
Why is the letter S like a sew
ing machine?—-Because it makes needles
needless.
A worn-out shoe is like ancient
Greece, because it once it had a Solon
(sole on).
An unoccupied peanut stand in
Hartford bears the notice, “ Closed for
inventory.”
What comes once in a minute,
twice in a moment, and once in a man’s
life ? The letter M.
What is it that goes up the hill,
and dowm the hill, and yet never moves ?
The road.
—— Maud —“ Quite a nice ball at Mrs.
Millefleur’s, wasn’t it ?” Claude —“ Very
quite ; indeed, really most quite.”
The hair of a young lady in
Montpelier, Vt., turned white in a sin
gle night. She fell in a flour barrel.
A lady of Kenton, Ohio, was re
cently admitted to the bar. It was her
father’s. She got a glass of ale and left.
After your wife of the period sees
you safely incarcerated in the debtor’s
jail, who will care for mother-in-law
now ?
young husband when he beheld her dark
locks gradually returning to their origi
nal red.
A Danbury little darkey refused
to go to church “kasehe didn’t want to
look there like a huckleberry in a pan
of milk.”
A correspondent aptly questions
us if Dickens didn’t mean the “ B-niglit
ed States of America” when he wrote
U-nited?”
What is the difference between a
farmer and a bottle of whisky ?—One
husbands the corn, and' the other corns
the husbands.
what’s in him let him go to sea. The
first rough weather will generally enable
him to ascertain it.
What is the difference between the
man who flays the young ox and the
helmsman of a vessel ?—One barks his
steer and the other steers his hark.
Mississippi is singularly blessed
in some respects. A traveler there says
some of the land in that State is so poor
that a disturbance could not be raised on
it.
Young Bride. “Was she his
own darling duckums? Yes, she was
his ownty donty darling duckums?”
Exit old married man, enraged and dis
gusted.
young?” said Mrs. Partington, as the
organ boy performed with a monkey
near the door ; “ and hoy much his little
brother looks like him, to be sure.”
The eclipse was not all moon
shine, but that talk about the earth’s
shadow was humbug. A Chicago girl
raised her foot to scratch her ankle, and
the foot got between the sun and the
moon.
When the average Texan editor
wishes to obliterate a paragraph from
his manuscript, he doesn’t smash a few
pens in trying to cross it out. He sim
ply ejects over the objectionable spot
about a pint of tobacco juice, and calmly
proceeds with his writing.
A New York paper contains the
the following : “Fifty dollars reward !
If the individual who entered my house
and stole a wallet containing $l5O, will
allow me to interview him five minutes,
the above reward will be paid to his heirs
or assignees.”
The best shot ever heard of has
been made in Calais, Me., where a gen
tleman fired in midnight darkness at the
bark of a dog, and the next morning found
the animal dead, the bullet having hit
him in the throat. The entire race of
Englishmen, from Gordon Gumming
down to any undistinguishable cockney,
may be challenged to beat this.
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VENETIAN RED, dry and in oil.
VARNISH, of all kinds.
TURPENTINE and PAINT BRUSHES.
ANILINE DYE, red, black, and purple.
The largest and finest selected stock of
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SHELL BOXES, BABY BOXES,
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IVORY TEATHING RINGS.
ARNICA COAT PLASTER, white, black
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Shaving and Tooth BRUSHES.
The finest selection of Imported HAIR
BRUSHES ever had in this city, for Christ
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LADIES’ CACHOUS, for the breath.
Fine PUFFS, LILY WHITE,
Nail and Infants’ BRUSHES.
OTTO OF ROSE, in small vials.
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ROSE CREAM.
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Fine TOILET SOAPS.
Beautiful SHELL BOXES, containing Per
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Price, from 75c to $9 each.
SAPOLIO, 25c per package.
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