THE
" Multum
VOL. 1. NO. 1.
ECHO.
in Parvo. "
Bush N.Y. Friday, December 19,1879.
Salutatory.
!
Price One Cent.
A Lady in the Car.
By the Hawk-Eye man.
We take considerable pleasure in handA woman with three bird cages and a
ing you this diminutive sheet, and while
we expect to find plenty of material, we I little girl has just got on the train. She arrespectfully invite contributions, and shall ranges the three bird cages on a seat, and
be pleased to insert any articles that may then she and the little girl stand up in the
aisle, and she glares around upon the unbe contributed. We have heard that
I gallant men who remain glued to their
" Man is a vapor, full of woes,
[seats and look dreamily out of the window.
Starts a paper and up he goes "
| I bend my face down to the tablet and
but give the ECHO a liberal support, and write furiously, for I feel her eyes fastened
we may hope to see it thrive.
\ upon me. Somehow or another, I am alT H I S P A P E R will be issued every ways the victim in cases of this delicate
other week, at first, but we expect soon to nature. Just as I expected. She speaks, fasissue it weekly.
j tening her commanding gaze upon me.
" Sir, would it be asking too much if I
begged you to let myself and little girl
The Subscription Price
have ttiat seat ? A gentleman can always
we lave fixed very 1OWT — only twenty-five! find a seat so much more easily than a
cents a year, postage paid.
lady." And she smiled. Not the charmingest kind of a smile. I t was too triumphant
to be very pleasing. Of course I surrenderA limited space will be given to adver- ed. I said: " Oh certainly, certainly. I could
tisements at the low rate of 5 cents per find another seat with out any trouble."
line; 25 cents per square. 25 per cent off for:
She thanked me, and I crawled out of
six insertions, 50 per cent off for twelve in- my comfortable seat, gathered up my overcoat, my manuscript,my shawl strap packsertions.
age, my valise, and my overshoes, and she
and the little girl went into the vacant
W E expect that the ECHO will reach Ipremises as soon as the writ of ejectment
j had been served, and they looked happy.
the most of the citizens of this, and the surThen I stepped across the aisle; I
rounding towns, making it an excellent ad- [took up those bird cages and set them
vertising medium.
along on top of the coal box, and sat down
mms* » »«P—
in the seat thus vacated, remarking to the
T
John B.Gough in a lecure in England woman who w as eyeing me with an expression
which
trouble, tl at 'it was
referring to the question whether alcohol much warmer boded
for the eanar es up by the
was a food or a medicine remarked that in stove." She said nothh g, but gave me a
his opinion it was " very much like sitting look which made me wa m r t h e stcve can
down on a hornet's nest — stimulating but make it for the caiiries.
Cl%icago Si a idarcJ.
not nourishing."