Historical Wyoming County April 1959 - Old Fulton History

April 1959 Page 77
SUPERSTITIONS AND SAYINGS (cont.)
And then the shovel broke. (Said after hearing a "tall tale.")
Forty and a little bit. (Answer used by old folks when asked
their age.)
It went half way around and tied in the middle.
So small, when he dies he can be buried in a match box.
So stingy he'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes. (They
used to close the lids with pennies until they had set. )
Sticks like a barnacle on a mud scow (stoneboat).
Quicker'n you can say Jack Robinson.
He is pretty small potatoes.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. (Like father, like son.)
Flat as a pancake. No more expression than a pancake.
Cold enough to freeze the hair off a cast iron dog.
Too much worry goes to a bonnet,
Too much ironing goes to a shirt.
Nothing pays for the time we spend on it;
Nothing lasts but trouble and dirt.
I'll knit a few stitches ..while the people are gathering. (Based
on an industrious old lady who sat by her dead husband's
coffin, knitting, while the people gatheredSaid when-you
snatch a few minutes relaxation between big jobs.)
Lucky at cards; unlucky in love.
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The 1819 Poormaster's Book for Gainsville was reported to have
shown two families assisted, one for $22.53, the other for $91.76.
Charges listed included 16 lb. flour @ 61^; two lb. pork for 31^; 1
qt. whiskey @ 25^»--l qt. rum, 50^5 and $1.00 paid "ousterhorut for
digging the grave." In one other case, Poor Master J. W. Brownson
recorded the item of whiskey twenty-one times.
Charles B. Matthews., then residing in Buffalo, but formerly of
Wyoming, was nominated by the Populist Party in.1894 for Governor of
New York State. He was then manager of the Buffalo Refining Co., a
Knight of Labor and a Farmer's Alliance man.