AS EARLY PATRIOT.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3390, 3 November 1879, Page 1

AS EARLY PATRIOT.

Daniel Shields thought; it was Fourth of July, and at midnight his thick-ribbed voice was heard crying out in the dark* ness: ' / " Who-r-a-y for onr glorious Ameriky!" officer who pursued him tried to argue the matter,^ but Daniel pulled off . his coat, spit on his hands, and waded in with the war cry: " I kin lick any man who says George Washington was too proud to wash his hands wid bar-soap." . , . Daniel was very humble when .walked into court. His head had been banged, his clothing damaged and his patriotismT quenched, and he looked down at the saw-dust and said never a word.

"Patriotism," began his Honor, as he looked over the desk, ** is one of the noblest sentiments in the human soul. It creates armies and saves nations; : it makes heroes of men and. heroines of women."

" Thin I'm a patriot," replied Daniel, •i bii backbone began to stiffen. "Bat no true patriot will let whisky mix him up so that be misses the glorious Fourth by a whole week." " And navthnr will I next fime, your Honour. I'll hold the same day as. the rest of yces, and if I don't do inorc hollering for the bard of liberty than siren other men, you may sind me up for a year." " Well, Daniel. I think I'll try yon." "Do, sir, and I'll bet you'll hear my yells above all others. I love the Fourth of Julia, sir. She is like a mother to me." " NiT«r, your Honor. I'll take nothing on that day but warm water. Good-by, your Honor. It's a rale. pleasant chat Ire bad wid ye, and I shan't feel' so bad to come again."- - .; ■»

Ik a recent lecture reported by the Philadelphia Press, Pr Bichardson, of Philadelphia, remarked: "It is worth while for common people to learn . that 50,000 typhus germ* will thme in the circumference of a pin head or a visible globule. It is worth while for them to note that these germs may be. dessicated and be borne, like thistle seeds, ererywhere, and like demoniacal possessions, may jamp noiselessly down any throat. But there are certain things spores cannot stand, according to the latest ascertained results of science. Soap chemically poisons them. Here sanitary and microscopic science come together. Spores thrire in low ground and under low contions of life. For redemption fly to hot « »ater and soap, ye who live in danger of m.ilarial poisoning. Hot water is Hanitar T. Soap is more sanitary. Fight typl'ms, small-pox, yellow fever, and ague with «oap. So »P is a botrd oi hetltn>" ApiW.pob of the great commercial rogueries of the age, an American poet thus p.trt»dies Young's sentiment about the ws 1" :— " A little stealing is * dangerous part, But stealing lately is a noblo art; Tlsmean to rob a h«iroost or new, • t . But atealii'S n»l'»ona makes us gentlemen." , ,- At a religions conference recently held in London.it was stated that the wages paid to women engaged in producing tcnpenny Bibles were not enough to keep body and soul together, and that three recent strikes in the bookbinding trade had arisen out of Bible work,