An Irishman complained to his physician that "he stuffed him so much with drugs that he was ill a long time after he got well."
A correspondent of a New York paper described Mr. C.'s journey to Washington to attend "the dying bedside of his mother."
A dealer in engravings announced: "'Scotland Forever.' A Cavalry Charge after Elizabeth Thompson Butler, just published."
A Western paper says that "a fine new school-house has just been finished in that town capable of accommodating three hundred students four stories high."
A coroner's verdict read thus: "The deceased came to his death by excessive drinking, producing apoplexy in the minds of the jury."
An old edition of Morse's geography declares that "Albany has four hundred dwelling-houses and twenty-four hundred inhabitants, all standing with their gable-ends to the street."
A member of a school committee writes, "We have two school-rooms sufficiently large to accommodate three hundred pupils, one above the other."
A Harrisburg paper, answering a correspondent on a question of etiquette, says: "When a gentleman and lady are walking upon the street, the lady should walk inside of the gentleman."
A clergyman writes, "A young woman died in my neighborhood yesterday, while I was preaching the gospel in a beastly state of intoxication."
A certain friendly society, which was also a sort of mutual insurance organization, had this among its printed notices to the members: "In the event of your death, you are requested to bring your book, policy, and certificate at once to Mr. ——, when your claims will have immediate attention."