YANKEE NOTIONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 18, 20 January 1876, Page 4

YANKEE NOTIONS.

[From papers by the mail.] At a Georgia hanging, the other day, a chap in the crowd took offence at some remarks by the doomed man on the scaffold, and tried to get at hid with a bowie knife. Probably one of the most trying times in a man's life is when he -is introducing his second wife, 17 years old, to his daughter, who is past 20. — ■ Detroit Press. An lodianapolis man advertises: " See our 2 dol. shirt." It doesn't take much to make an Indianapolis man proud. "He was born in Maine, but was a native of this couotry for the last thirty years," is the way a Texas paper winds up the biography of a deceased sub- 1 scriber. There is a bullfrog farm in Southeastern Wisconsin, thirty acres of swamp fenced in, and the proprietor sends thousands of these featherless birds to New York. If there is anything in the world whioh will make a woman mad, it is to have a man bang over the fence and survey the week's washing on the line, 1 and grin and grin. " I say, Sambo, where did you get : de shirt studs from?" "In de flhop, to be sure." " Yah, you just told me you hadn't no money." " Dats right." «' How did you get 'em den?" " Well, I saw on a card in de window, * collar studs/ so T went iv and collared 'em." - — Ohio Valley News. In one block io the Western part of Detroit, says the Free Press there are; eight ladies who won't go to church on Sunday because a ninth lady has an India shawl and they haven't. Audi the lady who has it won't go beoausej there is no chance for her to show off j the shawl before the eight, whose feelings she well understands. " I know tbat my little boy is bad/ I said a loving mother, " I know that he may be breaking somebody's windows ' or something right now; but isn't it far better for him to be out in the fresh air tban to be stuck here in the house, where he might be falling into a tub of hot water or permanently injuring himself some way? Seems to me it is." A delinquent arrested for drunkenness was asked in the polioe court what he had done with his money. " Invested it in lots," was the reply. " What lot 8?" was the next question. " Lots of whisky/ he replied with a serious face. There was a laugh, and the justice told him to go and come no . more. — Rochester Democrat,