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JOcwfei tn fltoliticB, Cifcrctture, Agriculture, Science, Jttorciliiij, aui cncral Intelligence.
Vol. 2s.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. MARCH 31, 1864.
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Published by Theodore Schoch
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JOB PRINTING,
, of all kinds,
Executed in J11' on th
THE LAST CHARGE.
Now. rridrl of the North, will you join in the
, striie
For country, for freedom,, for honor, for life?
The giant grows blind in his fury and spite
One blow on his forehead will settle the fight!
,
Flash full in his eyes the blue lightning of
steel,
And stun him with cannon-balls, peal upon
peat !
Mount troopers, and follow your "game to its
lajr,
As the hound-tracks the wolf, and the eagle
the hare!
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Row. trumncts. vour summons, till slunrards
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Beat, drums, till the roofs of the faint-heart-
yet ere the signet is stamped on the !
Yet.
Croll
Their names maybe traced in the blood-
finriuklcd roll ! "
Trust not the false herald that painted your
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shield; i
Truehonor to-day must be sought on the field!
Her scutcheon shows white with a blazon of
red
The life drops of crimson Tor liberty shed !
The hour is at hand, and the moment draws
nigh !
The dog-star of treason grows dim in
the
sky !
Shiiyj forth from the battle-cloud, light of the
morn,
Callback the bright hour when the Nation
was born !
The rivers of peace through our valleys shall
run,
As the glaciers of tyranny melt in the sun ;
Smite, smite the proud parricide down from
his throne
His sceptre once broken, the world is our
own !
WHAT IS THE USE T
What is the use of trimming a lamp,
If you never intend to light it
What is the use of grappling a wrong,
If you never intend to fight it 1
What is the use of removing your hat,
If you never intend to tarry !
What is the use of wooing a maid,
If you never intend to marry ?
Whatis the use of buying a coat,?
If you never intend to wear it!
What is the use-of a house for two,
If you never intend to share it?
What is the use of gathering gfoldi
If you never intend to keep it,
What is the use of planting a field,
If you -never intend to reap it ?
What is the use of "buying a book,
If you do not intend to read it?
What is the use of a cradle to rock,
If you never intend to need it?
' A Smart Woman. .
A preacher not long since asking to stay
all night at a country house was forbidden by ne eniereu nis piea. u uage v arren con-
the lady. Knowing her to be a member ofd and ??T(1? that . and
- J . . , lx t Reibe both claimed the lady (pointing to
the church and generally pleased to enter- UJrg . Carey.Eeibe) M wif( Jnd hejbbc.
tain ministers, he began to quote Paul toj lieving himself to be the legal claimant,
her, hoping that she would understand by j had becoming disorderly in demanding
this that he" was a preacher. He hardly got ' peremptorily of Reibe that he should
out, "for thereby some have entertained an- give her up. Reibe, thro the Prosecut
gels unawares," when she said. "I know 1 ing Attorney, Mr. Straub, exhibited to
sir. but angels would not come with tobacco
Ftuckanto their mouth."
Avitlioutfurther ceremony.
rtuefcinto their mouth:" The preacher left
A California adventurer was recently la-
menting to another his folly in leaving the
comforts of a home, with a kind wife and
twcTbeHufiful daughters. The other, after
l.tomno- in K?lpnrp rpniip.l 'MV rasp is
much worse than yours, for I have a wife and
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six children at home, and never saw one of
'
them." "How can,that be?" said
the first
speaker. "Were you ever blind?"
"No
sir." " Then, pray, what can you mean by
"Then, pray, what can you mean by
saving that you' have a wife arid six children
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and yet- Jiay.e uever.-.seen one of them?"
"Why, simply that one of them was born af-
ter lf -ieft:home." ' The querist considered
tir. ii u n " "
wmse.i soiu,
'A poor jilted blade says :
Woman's love is like Scotch snuff,
,.You get one pinch and that's enough.
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thereupon a darkey, with more sense
as e1i: as- soul, responds :
Woman's lub, like irtgyj-ubber,
. It stretch de more de more you- Iub her.
a-,r
"now manvrous maice a lunongi
father asked; of his son,- a fast urchin,
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as he came home one night from the town
yrhSa I guess
VouM hfnk one rod made an acre, if
111a ll l"ktaSrd:a:! t Su fiL
JVUU KUl SUUU it U1ULUUU ita X uiu
old vinegar face this afternoon."
A DOMESTIC DRAMA.
Wife fn Court With TWO -Husbands
She Chooses tier Pint One-
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0n Tuesday, in -the Police Lourt,. a
sinr;ular occurrence in real life took
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place, which in this City, at least, has
seldom transpired. The facts are these :
About five years ago, a man named
Edward Carey left an affectionate and
beautiful wife and three interesting chil-
dren, to seek a tortune in tne mines or
California. For one year after his arri-
val in the gold country wrote constantly
to his wifer and enclosed frequent sums
of money. Suddenly the correspondence
'ceased, and Mrs. Carey, receiving no mo-
'. neY s compelled to adopt other meahs
'to obk"11 a livelihood for herself and lit-
! tie ones. In a few weeks thereafter,
Mrs. Carey, received information that
j her husband had been'killed in the mines,
: wich was corroborated by a subsequent
letter received from California. j
For three years she lived, as she sup-
posed she was,. a widow. . Receiving the '
.attentions of an Italian named Joseph
J Reibe, who succeeded in gaining her af-
' fection. she consented to marriage, and
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(about a year ago tne two were legany
united in the bonds of wedlock, and have
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Oh Sunday last as the church beHs were
euuiuiwiiug lvj Liitj uuu.n; ui uuu uiu ui-
jshippcra of the True Being Edward Ca-
Vho ,had arnTed dire.ct from Cttl,1?r--
, ma, by the morning train, was making
inquiries, in the neighborhood in which
in .Ko. uP nc nA
i his family resided when
his family resided when he-left Cincin-
uati. for his wife and children
His
neiuhbors and friends stood amazed, and
trembled upon beholding the mau whom
they had long since believed to be dead.
Upon being assured that it was Carey,
who was not dead, but living, he waS as
tounded with the intelligence that his
wife, who had also believed that he had
""one to that bourne whence no traveller
returns," was
again, married to another
man, with whoni
she was now livincr in
domestic felicity. Ascertaining the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. Reibe, the afflict
ed husband hasteued to ascertain whether
what be had heard was true or false.
Knocking at the door, a tall Italian,
measuring six feet one and one-half inch
es, came to the 'door. Carey inquired.
"Does Mrs. Reibe live here?"
Italian "She does. Will you "walk
in?"
Carey 'Yes, sir; will you please tell
her that a centleman desires to see her?"
The Italian consented, and going to the
door leading into the dining-room, called
his -wife Uy her first name. She answered,
and, all full of smiles, came running into
the parlor. Upon seeing her first hus
band, who rose from his seat to meet her,
she screamed out "My God, Carey!" and
fell fainting to the floor. The husbands
both hastened to raise her from the floor.
When Carey informed Reibe that he was
Edward Carey, the lady's lawful husband,
Reibe also claimed her as wife, and add
ed, "I shall never give her up." Before
the wife had fully recovered from her
fainting attack, the two husbands had be
come eugaged in angry, violent words,
resulting in Carey drawing a pistol upon
Reibe, and in the latter being forcibly, e-
jected from the house.
Reibe, on Mondaymorning, had a war
rant sworn out in the Police Court, charg
ing Carey with disorderly conduct and
provoking him to commit a breach of the
peace. Carey was arrested, and when ar
raigned before Judge Warren, in. Ibe
presence of Reibe and the wife, he asked
j the court to hear an explanation before
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Lne ou" uie marriage ceruncare, ana
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minimi visiuixio vuuiu uu uu iu uiai
court: xne wne, wno, nice lMooe. was
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all in tears, was called up and asked bv
the court if either of these men was he'r
, husband. She replied that she had been
, married to both, but, having learned that
her first husband was dead, she had'form-
ed an attachment for Reibe three" years
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auerwarus, auu murrieu mm aiw as-
sunng the court of her deeply-seated at-
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fjifhnip.nr. :ilv:ivs fnr Cltrcv nnil nnw ho.r
warm affection for Reibe. v.'ho had been
0 her an affectionate and devoted hus-
. h.-md. the court inouired of her. viz:
. band, the court mouired of her. viz:
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; "What do you now, propose to do
live with your first husband, who -is le-
gaily such, or your last husband, who,
bv misapprehension and unintentionally,
' yu have mSLe yur uusband ?"
j -The kd replicd My duty and my
desire is to go aud live with my first hus-
band, Edward Carey." -
Tbs scene which followed, can never
be described. Carey and his wife ap-
proached each other and wept aioua,
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his chair like, a statute, presented a pic-
fiirP. nf desnair and, disannointment.
Prnsentlv his feelinirs overcame himx and
j lie grievously wept eliciting me syinpatuy
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left the courtroom .no jjjbo a ter re-
ceivmg kindly aamouuuu iroai mv wu
! that he must be resigned, and pursue the
rfhpr Jpft the presence of
left the
Uie court deeply chagrined, and terribly
mortified at tt fate which had befallen"
bin,, narev and his family are prepar-
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to Icavo the city, and Reibe, all alone
in a deserted house, refuses to be comforted.
I The Battle-grottnd of Gettysburg.
A letter from Gettysburg in the Balti
more Sun says :
"All the bodies of the Union soldiers
have now been disinterred from the pits
-and trenches, where -they were hastily
thrown after the battle and carefully.
buried in their appropriate places in the
cemetery.
The total number of bodies thus re-
moved ajid entombed is three thousand
five hundred and twelve. About one
thousand of them are unknown, and de-
posited in that part ot the enclosure set
apart for those unrecognised- Nearly or
quite a fourth of the whole number of
the slain belong to the State of New York.
Many Of the unknown bodies have since
been recognized, their names having
been discovered from letter, photographs,
medals, diaries, clothing, and other things
found upon the corpses. Quite an a-
mount of money, in small sums, raging I
fromthe fractional part of a dollar up to
fifty dollars, was also found upon these
bodies by those who disinterred them.
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xnirty-six uoiiars in goia were round in ,
the pocket or one, aud thirty to forty dol-
ii a i 1 x
1 i ro nnnor fi rrA
of others, brides many relics memen
toes, &c. All this money and these rel
ics have been taken care of by the com
mittee, properly labelle'd, and. held in
safekeeping for the relatives, should they
ever be discovered. An elegant huntingr
case gold watch and five or six silver
watches were also found upon different
bodies.
A War Eagle.
Au exchauge says tliat when, in the
year 1S61, the Eighth Wisconsin. Regi
ment marched from that State to the seat
of war, it carried with it dn eagle. From
Hhat time, through all the marches, bat
tles, sieges and vicissitudes of-war, this
bird has remained with the command
and shared its hardship, dangers and ad
ventures. Whenever the regiments has
joiued battle with the foe, the eagle has
been at his post with the soldier who
owns him, at the head of Co. D. As the
engagement waxed hot as the roar of
the heavy guns shook the earth, and the
rattle of small arms pierced the dun and
sulphurous cloud that hung about the "el Henry Thomas, marched from Camp baked potatoes and cooked tomatoes ; tur
lineof battle the eagle would flap his Birney, and after parading-through the niPs smashed, and squashes squashed,
wings Hnd mingle his voice with the tu- principal streets of our city stacked arms and j30 on' A 8tranger asked him, after
mult in the fiercest and wildest of his in front of the Holliday Stroet Theatre, ward hy. ho read xt, aloud whe the
screams. Twice has he been wounded upon the very ground where on the 20th printed copies were on the table. "Force
inaction, one ball cutting away a great and 21st of April, 1861, the secession- of habit, replied the landlord; "Got so
w;nn np fn!i fthais. "Rnf iia ho intn p T.,n:,. An m,;jnnn of used-to it I cant help it. lou seel
never turned tail to the foe. . ex-Marshal Kane, gathered to carry out
He has gone with his regiment through their nefarious plots. The various move
seven States, a fit companion and emblem ments of this body of men evinced the
of the heroes of the Northwest He is high state of discipline to which the men
now at home with the veterans recruiting, have been brought by their officers, and
and there is not a banner or a "broker" which favorablv impressed all lovai men.
in the United States that brings
the regimeutal flag as fast as the
men to
war-ea-
gle of the Eighth Wisconsin. Thousands
flock to see him, and his sharp, shrill cjry
is always heard at morning and evening,
with the fifes and drums of the guard.
The people of Wisconsin are determined
that when the wars is over, and the eagle
conies home again, he shall be kept at
the public expense, in the Capitol grounds
at xMadison.
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Home-Brewed Ale.
(r. Burton, in the Rural tyew Yorlccr,
rrivoo 1-ita nof Vinrl nf mnlf nrr hnmp hrpwprl
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ale as follows :-
"The art of brewing is very easy to be
understood, for it isvexactly similar to the
process 01 maKing tea. jrut a nanuiui ui
malt into a tea-pot ; then fill it with water
the first time rather under boiling heat,
After it has stood some time, pour off the
liquor just as you would tea, and fill up
' the pot again with boiling water. In a
similar manner pour that off, and so go on
filling up .and pouring off till the malt in
the pot is tasteless, which will be the case
when all its virtue is extracted. The li-
' kvitlt- mnnf .linn tin lts1shrl TV'lfll
' u. u.ll(4 i.m1,u uv, ,u
u iL'n xiupo m i-, uu vmt.uiu ucvumw
1 cool enough tnac is aoouc-oioou neat
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add a ltttle east to ferment it. and the, xiT ti,..!!.-
.thing is done. This is the whole art and
process of .brewing ; and to brew a large
quantity requires the same mode of pro
ceeding 'as it would make a tea breakfast
for a regiment of soldiers.
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pecK 01 man uuu iuur uuu8 ui ..upB
will produce ten quarts of ale, and ot a
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better quality than can usually be pur
chased. .
1 TIip fntnpa nf burninrr coffee arc now
erful disinfectants. Experiments have
been made at Parjs to prove this. A
quantity of meat was hung up in a closed
room until decomposed, and then a chaf-
iug dish was introduced and 500 grammes
0f coffee thrown on the fire in a few min-
utes the room was completely disinfected,
In another.room sulphurated hydrogen
and ammonia were' developed, aud "90
grammes of coffee destroyed the nmell in
uuuut uuu mmutc. i uou OMu
that coffee destroys the smell of musk,
castroeum, and assaiceuua. as a piuui
that the noxious smells are realLy dcom-
posed by the fumes of coffee, and not
ii.mma tt AnnnnAmAfarl ntf thnm 1 r. 1Q V
stated
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that the first vanors of the coffee
were
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gradually
diminish as the fumigation
continues
The best way to effect,this
fumigation is to pound the coffee in a
mortar, and then stew it on a hot iron
plate, which', however, must not be red
hot.
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Artful Doings.
The Portland Advertiser gives two or
three. examples of sharp practice, one of
which is that of a stranger who called at
a tailoring establishment, and, as he en
tered, addressed the proprietor.
"How do you do, M ?"
"Really, sir, you've got the upper
hand of me, I don't know you."
"Don't know me ?" exclaimed the stran
ger. ."Why, I've been fishing with you
many a time up in Wyndham and there
abouts." "Have'you?" said the proprietor.
"Yes, and I want my coat fixed," was
the reply ; .the buttons and button holes
repaired."
"Tain't worth fixing said the tailor.
"Well, I thought I would have it fixed
up a little. It will do to go out fishing
in, you know. How. long will it take to
dout? If it should take over an hour I
shall not have it done."
"I can do it in half an hour," said the
tailor.
. "By the way," said the dodger. "I
have got to go down to the bank, and
" shall want a coat to wear."
j "There is mine take that," said the
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ODnging' proprietor : "ana a petter one
you never wore in your life."
The stranger took it and went to the
bank, it is presumed, but never returned
to get his old coat.
And yet another. A man went into a
a certain boot and shoe store, and after
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dickering about a pair of'boots which'he
had on tiis feet, trying to beat down the
shopman, another man entered the store,
apparently in search of the first comer,
went up to the customer and struck him
a blow in the side of the head. The cus
tomer looked up to the shopkeeper and
asked : " . .
"Would you stand that?"
The sho'pkeeper. said : "No sir;" at
which the customer returned the blpw,
and the first assailant retreated to the
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door, followed by the customer and shop-
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keeper, the latter of whom said to the
man wno naa tne doocs. "uo in : ana
he went in aud he went off. and that was
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the last he ever saw of his man or his
boots.
A Great.Chanere.
On Mnnrlnv thn TW.mr.nf nf Hnl.
' nwi1 frnoT,a ..nrlor . Tio nnmnmnrl nf nnlnn.
Baltimore American.
A Federal prisoner. Junius H. Srowne,
wrifps .1 fanfitinns lfittfir. in the Mark Tan-
jev vein) to a4Dincinnati paper, from his
ccu in tie military prison at Sallisbury,
orth Carolina, under date of February
loft, ti covs'tho s.nvpq flic rphpls mvp
n.;snnarl, ttnnTnnanMtn fnr tlio n Wnn
0f iieat by a perpetual emission of
smoke," that the prisoners live on bread
'and por.k, and often bread alone, with
smoke and cdd interspersed ad libitum,
nj ty...t xt fi.Qt.niiiSri hvnkfnqr. frnm
dinner by inhaling an extra volume of
smoke, and taking five additional shivers."
He adds :
'Most adversely for me, my appetite has
increased. . However, I manage matters
very wejh When I become very hungry, I
expose myself to the cold, and vice versa;
so one discomfort strangles another, and
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I am enabled to continue the beatitudes
, of my bondage. Who would not be a
prisoner r
i.
There now resides atBazetta, Trumbull
J
county. Ohio, a Mr. Marvin and his wife,
, whose united amount to one hundred
and seventy-five years. On the i52d 01
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and commenced keeping house April17th
ot tne same year? anu sun continue to wve
by themselves, and manage their domes
tic affairs iu their own way. Mr. Marvin
was born on March 26, 1772, hence should
he live until the. 26th of this month he
will be fied uinctv two vears. Mrs. Mar-
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yin was born June. 14, 1781 and is now
in her eighty-third year Their young-
est sou is forty-five, jears old, and their
oldest is nearly sixty-fiye.
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rm. f rnm n a?r.ln
statement sometimes causes ludicrous mis-
representations. " Thus it was stated in
I.UICSUUUIIIUUO. J.WUO iu tint. uiuvu .x.
the newspapers, sometime ago, as a good
joke, that an old lady refused to touch a
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newspaper containing the President's nies
sage because she had heard that he had
the small-pox. The story wont to Franco,
whereupon Galignani's (Paris) Messenger
solemnly announces that "so stupid are
the lower orders of the United States that
vthoy hesitated to take the journals con
taining the President's Message from the
postotfice, fearing that they might catch
the small-pox, under which the writer of
the messages was reported to be suffering.
,
Bk-The merriest people in the world
are the Germans; they have always pip
ing times.
- 1ST" There are three hundred and fifty
thousand; Qdd;Fellows in. England.
Decidedly Cool.
There are two fun loving individuals
residing in , whom I will designated
as George and Kibby. They were never
known to meet without one's trying to
get up a joke at the other's expense. At j
a town meeting, held here one day in De-
cember, Kibby was chosen moderator a
great honor, as he thought.
About twelve' o'clock that night, which,
was horrible cold, George rdde up, on
horseback, to Kibby's door, and rapped,
Kibby came down stairs, shivering in the
cold, having nothing on but his shirt and
pants, when George sang out:
;Kibby, were you chozen moderator at
our town meeting to-day 7
Yes, I was," he replied.
"Well, then, do for God's sake moder
ate -the weather; if you don't we sfiall all
freeze to death!" shouted 'George.
Without waiting for a reply, the wag
put spurs .to his horse and was soon well
on his way homjs. -But he declares, till
the present day that he heard a sound
coming from Kiby's door way that soun
ded like a man swearing.
Bound to Win.
The Buffalo Express is responsible for
the following :
"A chap who some time since caught
the oil infection, ,put for Tidioute, and
commenced to bore a well. - After he had
reached a depth of some three hundred
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i leet, without even sretunjr a "show.
some
or his more rortunate neighbors took- it
upon themselves to ridicule him on ac
count of his poor success an operation
which he bore very patiently. The next
day some of the same party having occa
sion to visit his engine house, were rath
er startled from their propriety at seeing
a shingle nailed up in a conspicuous
place, upon which was inseribed the mot
to, "Oil, Hell, or China!" It is needless
to say his neighbors discontinued their
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that it was not long before the persistent
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11C1IUH BUUtJk. UK.
A Mississippi Story.
Printed bills of fare were provided, yet
the landlord stood at the head of the ta
ble, at dinner, and in a loud voice read
! off the list of articles in a rhyming way
. "Jtiere s ooueu nam, ana raspoerry jam;
commenced business down here at Jack
son (the capital of Mississippi) and most
all the Legislature boarded with me.
There was not a man of 'em could read,
so I had to read the bill of fare to em."
"A Contagious Disease!"
At a lively vilage in Illinois, not far
' from Woodstock, they have a benevolent
I association, one of whose objects IS to
watch with and take care oflts sickinem-
be.ra- Lasfc fal1 an unmarried young lady
was admitted to membership. In a cou-
- pie of months she was blessed by a bright
, eyed babe, and was very sick. Some of
tue youoS a(J members expressed to the
1 chief officer of the association their indig-
nation, and asked him if he really thought
ifc their duty t0 visit fcle unfortunate one.
"Well," said he, after much deliberation,
"I suppose not. You are not
obliged to
watch where there is a
contagious dis-
ease)
Kissing the Butcher.
"My dear," said an affcotiooate wife,
"what shall we have for dinner to-day."
"One of your smiles," replied the hus
band ; "I can dine on that every day !"
"But I 'can't," replied the wife.
"Then take this," and he gave her a
kiss, and went to his business".
He returned to his dinner.
"This is an excellent steak," said he,
what did you pay for it?"
"Why, what you gave me this morn-
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ami CXOiaua
liiuu vuu aiiaii uavc uiuuvy uuav uuik
, vou n tQ market."
J o
JJj3 A lady who had read of the ex
tensive manufacturcof odometers, to tell
how far a carriage had been ruu, said she
wished some Connecticut genius would
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invent an instrument to tell how far hus-
bands in the evening when they
fi down tQ Pogt Qgce
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ICF- young lad ran away from home
and went to a tavern, where he was found
j by a friend with a segar in his mouth.-
"What made you leave home ?" inquired
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j his fnond. ."Oh," said he "father and
mother were so sauuj luu, x uoumn B
sfnnd it. so I ouit them.
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jgSaflt is stated that. the commerce, of
the world requires 3,600,000 able-bodied
men to be constantly traversing the sea:
The amount of property annually moved
on the water is from fifteen hundred, to!
two thousand minions or dollars: anu uie
.i n i i i .-iai
amount lost by the casualties of the sea
average Ivfenty-five millions of dollars.
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I It is one of the most singular co-!
incidences of the war that Col. Streight,!
for whom John Morgan was held as a
hostege, should have" escaped from prisou
at Richmond in precisely tire same man-
ner as Morgan did from Colaibu3,
jBST "So far from believing that slave-
y must die," says the Richmond Whig,
"we have long held the opinion that it is'
the normal and only humane relation
which labor can sustain towards capital,
When this war is over we shall urge that
cycry Yankee who ventures to puta foot
on Southern soil be made a slave for life.
and. wear an iron collar, as a badge of in
feriority to the African. Slavery will
stab itself to death about the time the
Yankees learn to tell the truth, and no'
sooner.
JgSA Dutchman being called upon to
help pay for a lightning rod for the vil
lage church, toward the building of which"'
he had liberally subscribed exclaimed;
"I have helped to build a house to de
Lord, and if he chooses to donder on it,;
and knock it down, he muslVt do it at'
his own risk."
BA young man -from the country,'
who was as ignorant as he was presumpt
ous, addressed a lady of education and
respectfully in the following manner :
"Madam, shall I have the supcrimblici
ty and congramicating pleasure of escort-'
ing your calico body to the place of your
abode?"
BmTwo little children were talking of
the moon the other evening.
Charles
said solemnly, in his imperfect pronun
ciation, that it was "Dod."
"No, it ain't," said Sarah, "it ain't big
enough." "Well," replied the boy, determined
not to be put down alttfgather, "It is a",
hole he looks through anyhow."
JJST'uSam," said an interesting young
mother to her youngest hopeful, "do you
know what the difference is between body
and soul? The soul, my child, is what
you love with; the body carries you a
bout. This is your body," touching the
little fellow's shoulders and arms : "but
there is something deeper ic. You can
feel it now. What is it?"
"Oh, I know," said Bam, with a flash
of intelligence in
his eyes, "that's ni
flannel shirt!"
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JSS'-A lady friend of ours was in Chi-
cago, the other day, aud was asked by
her gousin how she liked 'the Balmoral
stocking.
"0, very well," was the reply.
"Well, I don't," said the cousin, "nor
will I wear them either"; I'll be hanged,"
if I'll make a barber's pole of my leg for
the sake of being fashionable !"
On a very rainy day, a man entering;
his house was accosted by his wife in the
following manner:
"Now, my dear, while you are wet go
and fetch me a bucket of water."
He obeyed brought the" water and
threw it all over her, saying at the same
time
"Now, my dear, while you are wet go
and fetch another."
The imports of wool into New- York for
the year 18G2 were 37,847,513 pounds ;
for the year 1863, 48,881,361 poutfds
from December 22, 1863, to January 25,
1864,4,221,239 pounds, and for the month
ending February- 22, 1864, t3,456,379
pounds.
The first bell in Haverhill, Mass., was
purchased in 1781; before that time there'
was a singular substitute as appears by a
vote passed in 1730 : "That Abraham
Tyler blow his horn half an hour before
meeting time otf the Lord's day and ou,
lectilre days, and receive one pound of
pork annually for his services from each
family."
After a boy had called several'
times nt a store in Bennington, Yt., the.
other day, for Mr. Dewey, he was asked1
what he wanted of him, and coolly re
plied, "Oh, nothing only his house is'
on
fire."
A young man adc t sc? in a New Jersy
paper for situation as son-in-law in a re
spectable family. Yould have no objec
tion, he says, to go a short distance into
the country.
Bgk, Some people wcrp hit on ,Thank3te
giviug day when a Chicago clergymen
said : Shoddy comes from the devil, and"
those who supply shoddy to our gallant
soldiers, go to the devil.
"My lord," said the foreman of .a
Welsh jury, when giving iu their verdict,
"we find that man that stole the mare uofc
guilty."-
81A writer in the London Fiehl says;
there is not a toad, frog, snake or reptile'
ofanykiud in New Foundland. What
an opening for Copperheads 1
JESy When a man wants money, friends
or assistance, this fact is very apt to ac
commodate him and let him want.
A cotemporary .3 publishing '.'Ilourf.
; t - t t.i f
wltn iivmns. . nours witn ttir.is
aroT
much admired by young ladies1 ,.' ,
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People an d cows are the ouly be-
ings that have calvesi. ' -V
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nIt is better to be- prouUgFlqur
prfdo than vain of our vanity t
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Somebody says that birch rods
make the beat baby jumpers.