BY DAVID OYER,
Scrofula, or King's Evil,
i- a constitutional disease, a corruption of the
1 ioecl, by which this tiuid becomes vitiated,
juid poor. Being in the circulation, it
p.-rvades the whole body, and may burst out
hi disease on any part of it. No organ is free
from its attacks, nor is there one which it may
r.'it dc-tr.iy. The scrofulous taint is variously
earned by mercurial disease, low living, dis
ordered <>r unhealthy food, impure air, tilth
r. .1 filthy habits, the depressing vices, and,
A ID-.'C all, by the venereal infection. What
ever be its origin, it is hereditary in the con
f utuii'iu, dis •eudmg " from parents to children
ui : j the th> ! and tdurtii generation indeed,
it -coins to he the rod of Him who says, "I
v.dtl visit the iniquities cf the fathers upon
their children."
Its effects commence by deposition from the
1 'nod of corrupt or ulcerous matter, which, in
the lungs liver, and internal organs, is termed
t -berelts ; in the glands, swellings; and on
the s irfaec, eruptions or sores. This foul cor
ruption, which gc-ndcrs in the blood, depresses
the energies of life, so that scrofulous constitu
tions not only suffer from scrofulous com
pleh.t:;, but they have far less power to with
stand the attacks of other diseases; conse
quently, vast numbers perish by disorders
which, although not scrofulous in their nature,
a:: - .ill rendered fatal by this taint in the
sv .a. Most of the consumption which de
i oi.ates the human family has its origin directly
in tlris scrofulous contamination; and many
destructive disease* of the liver, kidneys, brain,
and, indeed, of all the organs, arise from or
ar: aggravated by the same cause.
tine quarter of all our people are scrofulous;
tr. !r persons are invaded by this lurking in
1m e. m, and their health is undermined by it.
T.i cleanse it from the system we must renovate
i o blood by an alterative medicine, and in
vT rate it by healthy food and exercise,
ti an a medicine we supply in
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1 ou discovered lor the expurgation of this foul
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system from its destructive consequences.
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not only scrofula, but also those other affec
tions which arise from it, such as ERUPTIVE
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Sept. 28, 1860.
11l OPENING OF NEW]PALL
AND
WINTER GOODS
AT
CHEAP SIDE, BEDFORD, PENN'A.
THE undersigned have Just opened a large and
handsome line of NEW and fashionable DRESS
GOODS, Clotbs, Cassinierts, Jeans, ready made
Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Glass, China
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which for quality and price cannot be surpassed in
Bedford.
Having been selected from the best houses in Phila
delphia, and purchased at very low prices, we will
engage to sell as low as the lowest for cash or pro
duce only. FLORAE call and examine our stock
before purchasing. No trouble to show goods.
OSTER & CARN.
Oct. 5, 1860.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE
THE undersigned, appointed Auditor to dis
tribute the funds in the hands of Sheriff Fluke,
arising from the sale of the personal property
and also of the real estate of WM. M. Earnest,
gives notice that he will attend to the duties of
said appointinei ts, at his office, in Bedford Bor
ough, on Saturday, the 14th day of November
LB ®- 0. H. GAITHER,
Oct. 26, 1860. Auditor.
A V. eekly Paper, Devote j to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c —Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
Slgritnltural.
A Good Dialogue.
[The scene of the following interesting dialogue,
is that of two farmers on opposite sides of a fence.
Mr. SMITH, who has beside him a basket of very
small potatoes, is leaning on the fence, looking
wistfully over at Mr. JONES, wbo is digging a
splendid crop of large potatoes. The dialogue is
pleasing and instructive, and should lie read by
every one.]
"The potatoes they are small.
Over there, over there."— Old Song.
Mr. Smith—How is it, neighbor Jones, that
your potatoes are so large and fine, while just
over the fence, on similar soil, mine are small
as pullet's eggs, and precious few at that I
Mr. Jones—l manured this field with
-
brains.
Mr. S.—Pshaw. All the Cinciocinn&ti hog
killers couldn't supply brains enough for this
ten acre field.
Mr. J.—l used human brains, of which
there are plenty.
Mr. S.— Nonsense; now don't make fun of
uie because I'm unlucky, aud Providence has
sent you a good crop.
Mr. J.—Providence helps those who help
themselves. I used my own brain < on this
field.
Mr. S.— So did 1 mine, aud they are good
is anybody's.
Mr. J. Ab, there's the trouble. You koow
it all yourself; I don't, and so I get all the
outside help I csu. I've been collecting oth
er men's brains for my land for twenty years,
and you see the result in this crop.
Mr. S. Yes, I see the result, but I don't un
derstand it.
Mr. J. Well, when we began here twenty
years ago, 1 thought myself a good farmer,
but 7 believed oihers had good idens, too, and
I made it my business to get at their thoughts,
some 1 found in agricultural books and papers, j
others I picked up at the County Fairs, by
asking how the big things were raised, and of
ten I've got a good hint from a neighbor.
Mr. S. I've always been down on this'book
farming,' but your crops stagger me; they're
real knock down arguments. I'm sick of the
poor show I get for all uiy work, and am des
perate enough to try anythiutr for improve
ment
Mr. J. I'll give you my experience; it may
aid you. About nineteen years ago, 1 heard
that some meD who had been brought up on
farms had olubbed together, and one of them
was going to publish a paper, which should
consist mainly of accounts of how different
farmers cultivated various crops. aDd such like
matters. 1 sent for the paper, and have doDe
so every year since, and now 1 have nineteen
large volumes, every page of which I have
read, a little at a time, aud the whole has not
cost the produce of a single acre. Why lam
astonished when I think over the ten thoasand
thoughts, and hints, and suggestions I have
thus gathered. What a blank would be left
iu my head, if these thoughts were taken
away.
Mr. S. But does the practice of farmers on
other kinds of soil and with a different climate
suit your waDts ?
Mr. J. Why, no, not exactly, perhaps.—
But then, every thought 1 get from another*
starts a new thought in my own mind, and thus
I am constantly improving my own skill and
practice. You see, 1 get all the brains I can
from other men's heads, and compost them well
in my own head with a mixture of oommon
sense, and then make the application to my
fields. In that way, I have manured this crop
of potatoes with plenty of brains. Tbe edi
tor called here last week on his Western tour
among farmers, and seeing my good crops, he
asked me to write just how I have treated this
field for years past, and I promised to do it as
soon as my crops are gathered. He will prob
ably priDt it, as be constantly prints all such
practical matters, and perhaps a hundred
thousand persons will read it: and though oo
body else may do just as I do, many will get
a new hiDt, and improve upon it. You may
read it if you will.
Mr. S. I would like to borrow your paper. ,
Mr. J. Better take it yourself, for then you
will be more likely to read it. Yon will find !
hundreds of plain talks about various kinds of
crops, during a single year. One hint gave
five bushels of com more on each acre of a
large field in a siugle year.
Mr. S. 1 can't afford to take it this year.
Mr. J. You would make nothing of spend
iug two cents a week for extra tobacco, or a
eigar, or candy, and that's ali the paper will
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1860.
f cost. How little a woek it costs to supply
yourself and family with a large amount of
information through any good paper,
Mr. S. What are the politics of that pa
pei ?
Mr. J. It doesn't touch politiia. It is de
voted 10 such subjects as Field and Garden
crops, Animals, eto., and has, besides, a good
deal about Wouions' Work, which wife says is
worth more than ten times the few pounds of j
butter it costs to pay for the paper. Tbeu !
there is also a department for the young folks, i
coutaiuiog many things which please the ehil- j
dreu—not mere trashy stuff, such as is often ;
printed for tiiein, but information that will j
have a good influence ou them. 1 would sell
a dozen bushels of wheat to have my young '
people get the good reading in that paper, but
the average price of one bushel will pay for it
a year. My Jehu says he can pay for it easy
with the eggs from two or three heus. If I
was a mechanic or merchant, and had only a
little garden, I should take the paper to tell
me how to make the best use of the little plot;
and if I had not a foot of land I should still
want it for my wife and children.
Mr. S. Does the editor know anytb'Ug
about farmiDg?
Mr. J. The editor who owns and publishes
the paper was brought np ou a farm, whore he
learned t> work. He has studied all the books
ou farming, and experimented for years in the
laboratory, and has, besides, traveled all over
the country to see what was doing. Then he
has several associates—Farmers, Gtrdeners
and Housekeepers, who know what they write
about, aud among thein ail they do gather up
a wonderful lot of information every year.
The laoguage, too, is so plain, so like talk
ing with you, that I enjoy reading it/ Then,
too, every paper has engravmgs, whiob show
one exaotly bow animals, and plants, and itn
plemeots and household furniture look, much
better tbaD words oould describe them. Among
these are plaDs of buildings, that help one to
plan others, and also nnny very fine large pic
tures, which are worth more than the cost of
a whole volume.
Mr. S. I suppose tboso engraving* and de
scriptions are partly to help tbe editor to sell
implements or fettilizers.
Mr. J. Not at all. The editor keeps noth
ing of the sort to sell, 60 that he may be per
fectly free to praise or condemn anything, ac-
cording as it may be valuable or worthless to
his readers. You would laugh to see bow he
comes down on poor inventions, patent ma
nures, and all kinds of humbugs.
Mr. S. Is tho paper adapted to our part of
the countrv?
Mr. J.—Exaotly. Soils and rf crops and
climates differ, but tbe general principles of
cultivation aro the same everywhere, aud here
is the benefit of a paper published for the
whole country. Every reader gets new ideas
by learning what is done somewhere else ; and
further, I find that the paper has letters from
every part of tho country, and one or more
associate editors in different sections, so that
we get information from many regions and our
own too. One thing I must mention par
ticularly. The editor is coostautly warning
-his readers against humbugs, tilling bow
sharpers take tbe advantage of people. Why,
I was just going to send a dollar for an artiole
j advertised in glowing colors, when I found it
shown up as a humbug in this paper. Hut 1
cannot stop to talk more now—l have such a
lot of potatoes to harvest.
Mr. S.— I wish I bad, 1 must try that paper
a year, and see what there is in it. 1 can
manage to save two cents a week.
Mr. J.—Never fear. If you don't fiud it
pays, I'll buy your copies at oost for the boys
to keep.
Mr. S.—What did you say tbe paper is
called ?
Mr. J.—The American Agriculturist. It is
published in N. Y. City. The editor, though
one of our country farmers, and living in the
couDtry, finds he oan publish it oheapcr there,
where printing, aud paper, and mailing facili
ties are all convenient.
Mr. S.—How shall i get it ?
Mr. J—Simply inclose a dollar bill in a
letter, giving, your name, Post Office, County
and State plainly, and direct to Orange Judd,
41 Park Row, New York City.
Mr. S.—When does a volume begin ?
Mr. The twentieth volume begins Jan.
Ist, but all who send in the dollar now, got tbe
remaining numbers of this year, in addition to
the whole of next year's. So if you subscribe
now, you get fourteen months papers. The
proprietors also offer some valuable premiums
to those who get np lists of subscribers. Send
for the paper and you may afterwards find it
frell worth while to make up a olub. Some
1700 persons have got good premiums in this
way during two years. Soma of your German
neighbors, would join you, perhaps, for tbe Ag-
ricu/turist is printed separately in German.—
I d. f i intend to start a club myself, but I have
so many potatoes to dig, 1 cannot get time.—
My sister-in-law in lowa, got np a club last
year, aud reocivod a premium of $1)0 Wheeler
& Wilson sewing machine ; an old acquain
tance in Wisconsin got two or three good farm
ing implements, and a young nephew of mine
in Ofio got a beautiful copy of Webster's great
DietipSfy. These things only oost them a
lirtSi time, showing the paper eveuings and
election day. Send in your subscription and
the first paper will tell you all about the pre
miums, I forgot to tell you that every year
the publisher also sends out to all his subscri
bers who want them a lot of choice garden and
field Midi.
Mr. §—What does he charge for them ?
Mr. J.—Nothing; they are seut free, except
tho postage. They are of the best kind and
one single parcel 1 got last year was worth
more to me than the price of the paper.
Mr. S—l'll try it a year, any Way ;if half
what you say is true it will be a good invest*
meat.
Mr. J.—You'll find every word 1 have said
true.
Mr. S.— I'll send this very night, while in
the spirit of it.
J.—l)o it aDQ you'll always thank me for
this talk. Good day, 1 must hurry up digging
my potatoes, I've such a lot of them—thanks
to a hiut in the Jigricult wrist.
S,—How did you say I should direct tbe
letter containing tbe Doll'r ?
J.~2b Orenge Judd, 41 Park Row, New
York City.
How a Lady Preserved Webster's Re -
ply (o Hayue.
The Taunton (Massachusetts) Gazette incor
porates tbe following interesting reminiscence
iu a notice of the article on "TAe National
lntelligzncer aud its Editors," iu the last At-
Hsuttjp i'lonthit/ ;
It will be seen from this interesting narrative
that there was a time when Joseph Gales stood
alnue auioug Coogressiooal reporteis; and to
still further illustrate his position in that line,
wo call to mind what we once heard an intimate
friend of Mr. Webster say we owe to him aud
his wife with regard to the celebrated reply to
Mr. Hayue. Meeting the Massachusetts Sena
tor as be was going to the Capital on thut morn
ing, Mr. Galas inquired of him how long he
intended to speak. About half au hour was
tlio reply. Ttie editor's duties at that time
were pressing, hut be ventured to take so much
time from them. Mr. Webster, however, di
rectly after met Judge Story, who said that he
thought the time had come to give to the coun
try his views on the Constitution. To this pro
position he asseuted- Mr. Gales took uti his
pencil, unaware of this Dew arrangement, and
alike unconscious of the lapse ot time under
the enchantment of the orator aod consequent
ly he wrote on until the close of the spell.—
Some days passing away, and the '-proof" of
the speech not Webster called
on the reporter aod made enquiry. "I have
the notes," said Mr. Gales, "and they are at
your service as I shall never find time to write
them out." This led to some- remonstrance
aod persuasioo, but the overtasked editor stood
firm. Then Msr. Galas oame to his rescue by
saying she thought she oonld decipher her hus
band's shorthand as she had formerly occasion
ally done so. Mr. Gales doubted, seeing that
it was fifteen years siuce she had tried it. Hut
she bad beard the speech, and as the resistless
sweep of its arguments and tbe gorgeous aud
massive magnificence of its imagery were yet
vivid iu her miud she persisted in undertakiug
the diffiouit work. In due time thereafter the
fair mauusoript came to Mr. Webster's hands
for final correction. Scarcely a word needed
to be changed; and soon a set of diamonds cost
ing a thousand dollars, accompanied the rich
thanks of the eloquent statesman. Thus was
saved to literature the most memorable oration
of the American Senate.
A SENSIBLE LANDLORD.— An exchange says:
A little incident transpired some weoks ago, at
one of our Frankfort hotels, which is worthy of
notice.
A little girl entered the bar-room and in piti
ful tones told the keeper that her mother bad
sent her there to get eight cents.
"Eight oents!" said th 6 keeper.
"Yes, sir."
"What does your mother want with eight
cents? I don't owe her anything
"Well," said the child, "father spends all
his money here for rum, and we have had noth
ing to eat to-day. Mother wants to buy a loaf
of bread "
A loafer remarked to the bar-keeper to "kick
the brat out."
"No," said the baf-keeper, "I'll give her the
money, and if tbe father comes baok again I'll
kick him out."
'Ma, has Kate got bees in her mouth?'
•No; why do you ask such a question?'
'Because that little man with no bair on his
face oatohed hold of her and said he was going
to take the hooey from her lips; and she said,
'Well, make haste!' '
An editor in the western part of Michigan
is in a fix. He dunned a subscriber for Lis
subscription; be refused to pay, and threaten
ed to flog the editor if he stopped the paper.
THE FINAL, DESTINY OF THE
EARTH,
Encke's comet, wbich revolves about the
sun in 34 years, has been observed to complete
its revolution in a constantly shortening pe
riod, showing that it is being drawn inward
towards the sun. This fact has led to the
general conclusion by astronomers that the
planets are moving in a resisting medium, far
more attenuated than our atmosphere, but still
( sufficient to affect their motions. If this is so,
it follows by strict neoessity that our earth and
its sister orbs are all winding spirally towards
the sun, and that they must eventually strike
agaiDSt it and become incorporated with its
mass. The time required for this purpose be
longs to those inconceivable periods with which
geology aud astronomy have to deal. The
resisting medium is so exceedingly attenuated
that it exerts but a.sligbt iufluenco on the
comets, which are themselves masses of the
very thinnest vapor, and its influence would of
course be very much less ou the dense matter
of the planets.
Astronomical observations, with all their
wonderful delicacy, have yet failed to detect
the slightest progressive shortening in the pe
riods of revolution of any of the planets. It
is curioos, however, to noto the ob
stacles which prevent the perception of this
fact, if it does exist. All the measures of
these revolutions are sbortening-with the rev
olutions themselves. If we begin, for instance,
with the earth, the problem is to ascertain
whether the time occupied by the earth in its
journey around the sue is gradually becoming
shorter. The first plan that suggests itself is
to compare this with the rotation of the earth
upon its axis, to see whether the year oooupies
the same number of days and hours and
seconds that it did in former times. Hut if
the earth is gradually cooling, it is contracting
ia size, and its rotations oo its axis are becom
ing more rapid ; in other words, the day is
shorteuing with the year and if the measure
shrinks just in proportion to the thiog meas
ured, we cannot toil whether the latter is be
coming shorter or not.
If we take the time of the revolutious of
the moon around the earth as a standard, the
same resisting medium wouid draw the moou
towards the earth, and shorten the month also
with the year. If we resert even to the less
satisfactory measure of the sun's rotation on
his axis, his bulk is aiso diminishing by the
radiation Of tit* boot, kdii ihc pof.>d t>i" kil
rotation is consequently beoomiog shorter. In
brief, from the two causes of radiation and the
resisting medium, all the times and distances
which could be used to measure the earth's
distance from the sun (or the period of its
annual revolution) are shortening together.—
So that the differeuoe, in the exteut of tbeso
several contradictions are the only means left
for detecting by observation the approach of
the earth to the sun, if such approach is really
taking place. These differences wouid doubt
less reveal themselves in the course of genera
tions to refined astronomical observations.
If the earth and the sun are gradually be
coming oold, this winding of the earth towards
tbe sun would tend to keep us its warmth, and
it may be a wise provision for prolonging, by
some millions of years, the continuance of
animai life upon our globe. But this period
must come to a close, for if there is a resisting
medium, pervading the space between us and
the sun, the final destiny of tbe earth is to
curve gradually forward till, with a velocity
hundreds of times greater than that of a can
non ball, it dashes itself with au awfully sab
lime crash into the mass of the suu.—Scien
tific American.
ROGER A. PRYOR.
This "valiant" coxcomb member of Con
gress from Virgtuia, recently, it will be reool
leoted, closed a speech with the declaration
that if a President of the United States (mean
ing Mr. Lincoln) should have the temerity to
use force to prevent the secession of a South
ern State or States because a Republican had
been (Constitutionally) elected, and no other
power should offer, he (Roger A.) solitary and
alone, would be the Brutus to plant u dagger
iu bis heart!
Roger is thus "taken off" iu the Boston
Transcript :
"IS THIS A DAGGER."
Roger Pryor turned to Brutus !
'Tis awful to think ou !
lie's going to shoot us !
And poiDard Abe Lincoln !
For, should Abe be eleoted,
And veto seoession,
Bold Roger will give him
No time for confession ;
But murder Old Abe—
How it makes the blood curdle !
And 6tick him where Brutus, did,
Over the girdle.
But who is this Roger,
That vapors and swaggers ?
Tbis valorous Roger,
Tbat talks about daggers ?
Why it's Roger A. Pryor,
Whose clay has growu hotter,
Since the roasting it got
From the hands of the Potter.
•Gentlemen of tbe jury,' said a Western law
yer, •! don't mean to insinuate that this gen
tlemen is a covetous person, but I'll bet five to
one tbat if you should bait a steel trap with a
new three cent piece, plsoo it within three inches
of his month, you would CBtob his soul. I would
uot—the Court and gentlemen of tbe jury—l
would not trust him in a room with a millstone
and the angel Gabriel to guard it.'
•Why did Adam bite the apple I 'said a school
master to a country boy. 'Because he had no
knife,' said the boy.
VOL. 33, NO. 46.
PEW.NtLVtVU SS.
In the name and by tbe authority of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, William P. Packer,
Governor of the said Commonwealth.
PROCLAMATION.
FELLOW CITIZENS:—The revolutions of the
year Lave again hrough* us to our annual fes
tival of Thanksgiving to Almighty God. Ia
no preceding year have we had more abundant
cause for gratitude and praise. The revolving
seasons Lave brought with them health end
plenty. Tbe summer fruits and tbe autumn
harvests have been gathered and garnered in
unwonted exuberauee. A healthful activity has
pervaded all tbe departments of life; and prov
ident iudu-try has met with a generous reward.
The increase of material wealth has been lib
erally employed in sustaining our educational
and Religious institutions, and both are making
the most gratifying progress in enlightening and
purifying tbe public mind. White in Europe,
central aod absolute Governmsnts, by their
pressure on personal right 3 and liberty, are pro
ducing excitements, which threaten to upheavo
the very foundations of society, aod have led,
io some instances, to bloody and cruel wars, we,
iu the enjoyment of constitutional liberty, and
under the protection of just and equal laws,
are peacefully pursuing the avocations of life,
and engaging io whatever promises to advance
our social and individual improvement and hap
piness. "The lines are," indeed, "fallen to us
io pleasant places, and we have a goodly herit
age." In all this we see the crderings of a
kind and merciful providence which call not
only for our recognition, but for our public
Thanksgiving and Praise.
Under this conviction, I, WILLIAM F.
PACKER, Governor of tbe Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, do hereby appoint THURSDAY,
the 29th day of NOVEMBER next, to be ob
served as a day of public Thanksgiving and
Prayer, and recommend to all our people, that
setting aside, that day, all wordly pursuits,
they assemble in their respectivo plaoes of wor
ship, and uuite io offering thanks to God for
his manifold goodness, and imploring his for
giveness, and the eontinuancc of bis mercies.
Giveu under my Hand and the Great Seal of
the State, at Harrishurg, this twenty-fourth
day of October, One Thousand Eight Hun
dred aud Sixty, and of the Commonwealth
the Eighty-fifth.
WM- F- PACKER^
By the Governor.
WM. M. HIESTER,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Out of His Reckoning.
A good story is told of a Washington county
man, who on his way to Cincinnati became some
what elevated by sundry 'drinks,' but as good
luck would have it, found a boat at the wharf
and was quickly on his way.
Soon after leaving the wbarf a man came
around for his fare. Horrali banded out a five
dollar bill, and received four dollars aud ninsty
fivo cents in change. He rammed it into his
pocket book with great eagerness, supposing
the oleek bad ruado a mistake. That done he
leaned back into his chair and fell asleep. A
little while and he wa9 plucked awake by the
same man, who again demanded tare. 'Dis
covered the mistake,' thought be, holding out
a handful of change. The niao, as before, took
only five cents, and Horrali again wont into a
doze. Ere he had got fairly to dreaming of
home, and friends far away, around came tho
oolleotor agaiD, aud thus it went on for a long
time.
At last Horrall thought it very iuoonveuient
and concluded to vote the ccnduotor a nuisance,
and give hiua a bit of adviee besides, so, said
he—
'ls (hie) this a daogcr(bic)oua bo(bic)boat?'
'By no means,' said the man. •Bran new.'
•Then (bio) why do (hie) don't you collect all
the (hie) fahair at once—not bother a fel(hic)
beller for it every mile as it (hie) comes duoP
'lleally,' said the man, •where do you think
you are going?'
'Cinciu(hic)binuati,' said Horrall*
'Cineiunati,' said the polite oonduotor; why,
you must be sadly out of your reckoning. This
is the ferry boat, and all this afternoon you
have been riding to and fro between New Al
bany and Portland!'
That night Horrall stayed in Louisville.
A clergyman observing a poor man in the
road breaking stone with a pickaxe, and kneel
ing to get at his work better, made this re
mark:
•Ah, John, 1 wish 1 could break the stony
hearts of my hearers as easily as you are break
ing these stones.'
The man replied: 'Perhaps, Master, you don't
work on your knees.'
tEP"I would not marry an Eastern man, if I
had to live an old maid all the days of my
life, exolaimcd a buxom country lass.
Why not? demanded her astonished com
panion.
Because every paper you piok up ooutains
an acoount of the failure of the Eastern mails.
The shortest speeob on record was that of
Geo. Nye, standing in a railroad ear recently,
in a Western State. "Fellow oitiaens," said
the waggish General—and just then the whis
tle sounded for a start, and be concluded,
'•Good bye!"
'What do you ask for this?' inquired Obadiah'
of a young Miss.
'Fifteen shillings.'
'Ain't you a little dear.'
| 'Why/ she replied blushing, 'all the men tell
I me so.'