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far sale. Scranton, Pa. 33tf.
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m re, or at iiis residence on Vatnian lorinerly
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DENTISTRY.
nil, 1,. T. BVRNS
a, " ■* lias pcrmanent-
OFFI-E on second floor of NEW JEWELRY STORE, on
I OCA St. vB-nlB-oin.
PACIFIC HOTFC
170,172,174 &. 176 Greenwich Street
•XS DOOR ABOVE COItTLANDT STREET, NEW YORK.)
T:;c unnersizned takes pleasure in annonnclng to
'' numerous friends and patrons that from tins
''.lie. the charge of the Pacific will t>e
$2.50 PER DAY.
B-ing sole Proprietor of this house, and therefore
• tniui the too common exaction of an inordinate
rti.t, he i fully able to meet the downward tenden
cv .> prices without any falling off of service.
It will now, as heretofoie, be his aim to maintain
cii'liiuished the favorable reputation of the Paelflo,
w hi -h it has enjoyed for many years, as one of the
he-' of travelers' hotels.
THE TABLE will lie bountifully suppl.ed with
every delicacy of the season.
riCK iTTfcXItAXC'E will be found efficient and
rd obliging. . . ,
Mil. LOCATION will be found convenient lor
-1 • . business calls them In the lower part or
*. c city, and of ready" access to all Rail Road anu
Steamboat Lines. ' JOHN PATTEN.
Get loth 1868. nlB-6m.
HUFFORD HOUSE.
TUNKHANNOCK. WYOMING CO., PA
R PBIS ESTABLISHMENT lIA.S RECENTLY
t i*an refittel and lurnished in tho latest style.
Every attention will be given to the comfort and
r.r: on -e of those who patronize the House.
H, HUFFORD. Proprietor.
Tani.har.ncci, Pa., June 17, 1363 —v7n44 .
BOLTON HOUSE.
11 AUIUSKUItQ, I'KNNA.
The having lalely purchased the
IIUEIILER HOUSE " property, has already com
-'r, e i •: b alterations and improvements as will
't isr this • .1 and popular House equal, if not supe
r. to nny Hotel in the City of Harrisburg.
A continuance of the pubiic patronage is refpect
fully solicited.
GEO. J. BOLTON
WALL'S HOTEL,
LATE AMERICAN HOUSE,
•UNKHANXOCK, WYOMISG CO., PA.
PHI - establishment has recently been refitted an
furnished in the latest style Every attention
* he given to the comfort and convenience of those
pa-ronize the House
T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor.:
- unlthannock, September 11, 1 SGI.
MEANS' HOTEL.
TOWANTDA, 37*2 X.
TU B. BART LET,
•Lat9f.lT InilUM BMII, ELUIRA, N. Y.
PROPRIETOR.
The MEANS HOTEL, b eno of the LARGEST
If Est ARRANGED Houses in the country—lt
1> " the most modern and improved stylo
' ' trains are spared to make it a pleasantand
" 'topping piane for all,
f Rives bis customers the benefit of hi
/, ' ia !*etunii: facilities, ami save" to them the
bM i Uilu!y w Jobers, ilildleiceu and
dealer*,
Latent ,Vcir*.
Late arrival of New Goods.
Great Bargains at the New Store of
C. Detricli,
in S, Stark * Bri.-k Block
AT TDIHAIOCK, PENN'A.
Having just returned from the City, I am now
opening an entire New Stock of
FALL GOODS,
and one of the lorget and richest assortments ever
altered in this community. Consisting of
RICH AND FANCY COL'RD DRESS
SILKS,
FRENCH AND ENGLISH MERINOS,
EMPRESS AND PRINCESS CLOTH?,
POPLINS, PAREMETTOS,
BLACK AND COLORED
ALPACCAS WOOL, ARM PRE, PEKIN
AND MOI'SKLIEU DELAINS, INPORTED
AND DOMESTIC GINGHAMS, PRINTS
of Best Manufacture* and Latest Styles,
Ladies Cloths and Saoqueings, Cloths,
Caasitaeres, Vesting*
Satenetts, Tweeds,
Jeans, Cottonades,
Drills, Denims,
Tick*. Check*,
Stripes,
Sheetings
Shirtings, Bleached
A Brown. Shawl*,
Sontngs, Iloods.
Furs, Ladies' Reticules, Shopping Bag* and Baskets
TRUNKS, VALISES, and TRAVELING
BAGS,
Latest! Styles,
Kid, Siik, Lisle Thread, Cotton
Gloves, Hosiery, Notions,
Toilet and Fancy
GOODS,
FANCY SOAPS, PERFUMERY,
iVc-, fc-, iV-i
;( :
Black and Colored Velvets,
Ribbons,
Ruffles,
Frills,
Fringes,
Braids,
Beads, Ball and Bugle Trimmings
:o:
A Large quantity of BEST STYLE HOOP SKIRTS
and CORSETTS, seleoct from Manufacturers, at
greatly reduced prices,
FLANNELS all Colors and Quolitits
READY MADE
Clothing,
AND GENTS'
Furnishing Goods.
HATS AND CAPS
of Latest Styles,
CALF, KIP, ant HEAVY, BOOTS A SHOES.
Ladies'. Misses', and Children's Kid Prunelle Mo
rocco and Calf (Jailers, Shoes, and Slippers,
Wall ÜBd Window Pape Window
Curtains, A' Curtain Fix
tures, Carpets A
Oil -
Cloths. China,
Glass, and Stone Ware,
Tinware, —made expressly for this
Trade, and warranted to give satisfaction,
20 per cent. Cheaper than the usual rates in this
sectioD,
IXails,
Spikes,
Iron,
"Steel,
Horse Shoes
I lor so Shoe Nails,
Nail Rods,
Paints,
Pa\nt Oils,
Pain I e r i
Material, Putty, Window Glass, Kerosene O
Hall, i"Parlor, Stand, and Hand
Lamps,
Lanterns, Lamp Chimnies, Shades,
and Warners.
COAL.
ASIITON, TURK ISLAND, BDL. SALT
FLOCK,
FEED,
MEAL,
BUTTER,
CHEESE,
LARD,
PORK,
HAMS,
aDd FISH.
SUGAR,
TEA,
COFFEE
SPICES,
SYRUP, A
MOLASSES,
WOOD & WILLOW WARE,
ROPES,
CORDAGE,
BASKETS,
BROOMS,
PALS,
TUBS,
WASH BOARDS,
CARPET
SWEEPERS,
BRUSHES, of all Itlnda.
PATENT MEDICINES. DRUGS, and DYES
FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Ac., Ac,
These goods have been selected
with great care to suit the wants of
this community, and will be sold as
heretofore, at the lowest living rates
for cash or exchanged for country
produce at market prices. Thankful
for the past liberal patronage, I g hal
endeavor by strict attention to my
business, to merit a continuance ot
the same, and will try to make tho
future still more attractive and ben
eficial to customers.
C. DETIiICK.
TUNKHANNOCK WYOMING CO., PA. -WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1868.
I !&!!•
CHRISTMAS CAROL.
"Little ehrlldrcn, can you tell,
Do you know tho story well,
Every girl and every boy,
Why the angels sing for joy
On the Christmas morning!
I
"Yey, wo know the story well;
Listen now and hear u? tell,
Every girl and every boy,
Why the angels sing for joy
On tho Christmas morning.
1 ' "Shepherds sat upon the ground,
Fleecy flocks were scattered round,
AVhen the brightness filled tho sky,
And a song was heard on high
On the Christmas morning.
"Joy and peace," the angels *ang;
For the pleasant echoes rang ;
"Peace on earth, to men good will I"
liark ! the angels sing it still
On a Christmas morning.
"For a little babo that day,
Christ, the Lord ol Angels lay,
Horn on earth our Lord to be;
This the wondering angels 6ee
On a < 'hristma* morning.
"Let us sing tho angels' song,
And the pleasant song prolong;
This lair Habe of Hetklebem
Children love and bless him
< in the Christmas morning.
"Peace" our little hearts shall fill;
"Peace on earth, to men good will! "
Hear us sing the angels' song,
And the pleasant notes prolong
On the Christmas morning."
MY LOVE AND I.
And we sat In tho quiet evening,
All alone, my love and I,
And she played on her organ softly.
And I listened silently,
For jhe sang mo a gay song sweetly,
Like a chorus of wedding chimes,
And oh! in the music ringing
Came the thoughts of other timer
In a dream I was still beside her,
In the summePwoods and dells,
And I led her on in the sunlight,
To the sound of village bells.
And she sang me a grave song sadly,
That was soft, and sweet, and low,
Of the good book's golden promise,
That wine and oil should flow.
In a dream I was still beside her,
And I saw her, yet, the same,
Though tho promise wag for others,
And those good things never came.
Then she sang me a j old song softly.
Like a sigh from a dying breath,
And 'twas only the world's old story
Of love, and life, and death.
And T thought as I sat beside her,
As I heard her gently sing,
That with such sweet thrilling voice*
The choirs of angels ring.
So we sat In the quiet evening,
All alone, my love and I,
And she played on her organ softly,
And I listened silently.
SEE INTEW THINGS :
OR,
Jedediah Juniper's Interview with New
York.
BY FALCONBItIDGE.
"Git aout !"
"Carriage, sir '? take you right up !"
"Git aout, I say! Plague on't, liaow
veou du go on, and follow a filler araound!
'Spect a feller's tu darn'd lazy, or tu proud,
tu hang on tu his own bundle ?"
• "But if you are going up," continued !
one of the Jarvies
"Goin' ujt ?" echoes the bedeviled Yun- •
kee, freezing to his valise.
"Yes, sir, up to a hotel"
"A ho-tel ? Git aout, golldarn ye !"
"Yes. sir, take you right up ; here's my
coaeh."
"Here's your carriage, right away !"
cries another. -
"Mister, take my coaeh ; that other feller
'll charge you double fare."
"That feller 11 swindle you ! echoes an
other. *
"And you'd rob a hen roost!" is the
ready answer.
"O, you go 'long !" replies the challenged
Jarvey ; "you're just out of the Toombs,
for stealing a bridle !"
"And you come out o' Sing Sing last
night, where you was put for stealm' a bri
dle with a horse to it!"
"You're a notorious thief !"
"You're noted for lying ; choked your
self trying to tell the truth !"
"You lie 1"
"Do I! Take that I"
"Go in ! Give it to him I" yell omnes;
"Fight!" is the echo.
"Let up !"
"Give it to him !"
"Murder-r-r!"
"Call the police !"
Now the lighting becomes general, some
fifty of the carriage and cab drivers, with a
large sprinkling of thieves, dock loafers,
and idlers of the various calibers found in
the vicinity of a New York steamboat land
ing, But where was our Down East friend,
amid this general and sudden ' 'revolution '
of the sanguinary republicans Gone, dou
ble quick time, of course. No, there he is,
iu the very midst of the combatants ! How
they rush around him ? How they hit and
hustle one another, and he seemed to escape
• wound, scratch, or scar ! And the quiet
observer might discern rather un odd ex
: pression mantling the face of each psuedo
pugilist ; for now and then, as they tossed
one another over our Y'ankee friend, and
cried out in brave tones,
"I'll give it to you 1"
" To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Eight. "
"Call me a liar ?"
"Take that; I'll pepper yon !"
They grinned and leered and actually
seemed to have a jolly tune of it. Down
East was not idle ; legs and lungs were in
motion.
"Let go-o o ! Gull darn ycou, let me
i aout-t-t!"
"Call me a thief 1" cries one of the art
ful dodgers, making a. feint at a "cotempo
j rary" ard hitting Yankee.
"I-I-I-git aout-t-t!"
"Said I was a convict, did ycr ! Take
that!" veils another.
"And that!" savs a third, making a miss
hit, (!) and smashing the Down East gen
tleman's sheet-iron looking hat tightly over
I the Yankee's orbs of light,
j "Everlastin' cre-a-a-a-tion !"
"Go in, lemons !.' shout the crowd.
"Let go mv hat! what in the sin are you '
baout-t-t V Let go, goll darn ye ! yeou'll
tear my hat all tn Hinders !"
"Call the peer-less!" cries one of the
thieves.
"Here's a feller raisin' a light!" yells the
carriage driver,
"Murder-r-r ! A feller's got my watch !"
"Look out for peek-pockets!" shout the
loafers and thieves.
"Let me aout! Let go my pockets, goll
darn ye ! What are yeou at ? Git aout o'
that ! Murder !" cries the poor victim,
A hustle takes place, the crowd scatter,
somebody cries that pick-pockets are about
and the "per-lees" are coming !
"Hallo ! 'lire, what's all this about ?" ex
claims the red-faced policeman, coming up
to poor Down East, who has finally man
ned to extricate his head from his hat, the
.ertion putting him all in a foam of pres
uiration, as wall as tumbling up Ids hair
line quills upon the fretful porcupine.
' 'What's all this row,en ?"
"llaow ? Goll darn ye ? Yeou oue of
them feller's been pitchin' into me ? Jest
say so, and I'll be darned if I dnnt jest
wallop yeou aont of yeour ceow skins, or
my name's not Jedediah Jumpier, miuir /"
'"What ?" cries the policeman. "Are
you the feller's been raising all this muss ?"
"He's the feller, Mister Perleesman,"
says one of the coachman, coming up to
the scene again.
"Yoou're the darned skunk as hit me !"
cries Jumper, throwing off his hat and
coat in the most heroic fashion, and evin
cing other symptoms of "going in."
"He's drunk ! Take him off!" cries a
loafer.
"He's been raising a fight here all the af
ternoon !" says another, coming up with
more con/erts.
"He's picked my pocket, the thief!"
cries one of the rascals.
"And stole my watch !" chimes in an
other villiau.
"You etarnal, double-and-twisted skunks,
yeou," gasps poor Juniper, now writhing in
the hagds of the ferocious policeman, "you
pizen-mean, eeowardly. low-lifed sarpints,
yeou've stole my wawch, yeou've hooked
iny puss, and"
"Come along !" roars the virtuously in
dignant officer. "Come along, you rascal !
M'ant to let on you've been robbed, eh ?"
"Him robbed ! ! ha ! ha !"
"You're a pooty feller to be robbed !"
Ha ! ha ! 1m !" shout the thieves.
"Come with me, yon scoundrel! I'll
show you how to come here and kick up a
row among decent, honest people, just to
get a chance to pick pockets ! Eli ?"
"Me pick pockets ? Groa-a-a-t kingdom !"
"Came along !" cries the policeman.
"Give me my coat! Sa-ay, look a'here !
Fetch back my eoat! Stop that feller with
my hat! Sa-a-y, look a'here I"
"Come along with me !"
And hatless and coatless, sans purse and
watch, poor Jedediah Jumper was rushed
off to the police station, valise in hand,
which lie had been fortunate enough to re
tain, by hook or crook, iu spite of all the
exertions of the thieves to seize it. The
policeman made a formidable charge
against J. Jumper; lie hud been drunk,
fighting, molesting honest people in the
discharge of their respectaful avocations,
and picking pockets.
"Look a'here, 'Squire,"exclaimsthe out
raged Jumper
' 'Hold your tongue, you—you rascal!"
"Want tu know it that feller's a-goin' tu |
rip into me tliot way and I stand here
'swallerin' his goll darn lies and yeou lis
ten' to 'em V"
"I I-I'Ll give you thirty days on the Is
land," roars the magistrate, "if you don't
hold your jaw. Now, I'll fine you five dol
lars and cost, and give you two hours to
leave the city."
"Yeou du ?" says Yankee.
"I do ; and if you don't pay the fine, I'll
send you up for thirty days, you rascal!"
"I calculate, 'Squire, yeou call this a
mighty spry town ?"
"Wlihat's that ?"
"Peert fellers at craowdin' strangers !"
"Will yon hold your jaw V"
"Grea-a-at on grabbin' a feller's watch !"
"Do you hear me ?"
"Stenlin' a feller's puss !" continues the
! imperturbable.
"Mr. Clark, make the rascal's fine seven
■ dollars!"
" Hold on, ho-o-o-o-ld on, Squire let us
see how much the damage is naow, great
j gravy ! What! seving dollars fine for git-
tiii' robbed, coat gone, liat hooked, wawch
stole, puss grabbed, a-a-a-nd everlastin' sin
and misery if yeou don't beat creation and
the speckled Jews, —two dollars and a half
for bein' snaked up here by this feller! —
Nino real dollars and a half! Well, I
gaess I've got as much as that and a leettle
over."
Opening his valise, Jed jerks out a cap,
which lie socks npon liis head, slips into a
bob-tail coat, hunts up an old wallet, from
which lie extracts a ten dollar bill, and
hands over with,
"There's the document —call it square—
and if I ever gin yeour darned, eternal
town another call, yaeu can bet on
fining me my hull-pile and stealin' my
shirt and beuts !" *
"Commit him to jail!" cries the magis
trate.
"And if I ever catch yeou down aour
way, yeou old pizen sarpint, I'll lather
'yeou till yeour hide won't hold pea-pods !"
Whether it was the shortness of Jed's
coat-tails, or the want of haste, the officer
didn't grab the prisoner, who was off like a
shot from a shovel, a victim to "the force
of circumstances," and the dangers and
d>flail besetting green-horns in pursuit of
novelty in Gotham.
ADVICE WORTH KNOWlNG. —Zchokke, in
one of his tales, gives the following advice
to a bride : In the first solitary hour after
the ceremony, take the bridegroom and
demand a solemn vow of him and give him
a vow in return. Promise each other sa
credly, never, nor in jest, to wrangle with
other—never to brandy words or to in
dulge in the least ill-humor. Never—l say
never. Wrangling in jest, and putting on
an air of ill-humor merely to tease, be
comes earnest by practice. Mark that!
Next promise to each other, sincerely and
solemnly, never to keep a secret from each
other, under whatever pretext, and what
ever excuse it might be. You must con
tinually and every moment see clearly into
each others bosom. Even when one of
you has committed a fault, wait not an in
stant, but confess it. Let it cost tears,
but confess it. And as you keep secret no
thing from each other, so on the contrary,
preserve the privacy of your house, mar
riage state and heart from father, mother,
sister, brother, aunt and all the world
You two. with God's help, build your own
quiet world. Every tliird or fourth one
you draw into it with yot:, will form a par
ty, and stand between you two. That
should never be. Promise this to each
other. Remember the vow at each temp
tation. You will find your account in it.
Your souls will grow, as it were, to each
and at last will become as one. All, if
many a pair had, on their wedding day,
known this secret, how many a marriage
were happier than, alas, they are !
A Bachelor on Sleighing.
Things matrimonial are sour grapes to
old bachelordom ; sleighing is a matrimoni
al kind of thing ; ut least a good deal of
matrimony has always followed closely on
the heels of a good deal of sleighing. An
old dried up, shrivled up, hard up old chap
whose heart never experienced the divine
affatus that comes with love, thus talks of
sleighing:
"If you meet a couple, one of whom is a
female aud the other ain't, and the one that
ain't is trying to make figure B's on the snow
with a whip, and squirting tobacco juice
into the circles, while the woman looks
straight ahead or leans a little t'other way,
it may be safely put down as a man and
wife of some standing. If two youthful
heads are bent down over some pretended
curiosity on the rol>e, while the horse has
the getting along left wholly to his discre
tion, this indicates the first symptoms of a
the heart and generally of the brain !
When you meet a dashing pair, with a
team that is equally on the dash, ribbons
twisted all around the driver's arms, with a
very long whip in the socket, they may be
set down as somebody else's wife taking an
airing with somebody else's husband.
When you see a blooming young widow
snugging up to a beaver coat, like a sick
kitten to a hot brick, this means a wedding
—that's if the widow can only have her
way about it. And so on.
Sto" Two fashionably-dressed young men
acquaintances, recently met in a street car,
when the following conversation occurred :
'-Cliawles, are you going to the private
masquerade ? *
"Aw, I was thinking about it; but lam
iu Somewhat a dilemma as to what charac
ter I shall select."
A sedate-looking old gentleman, who sat
by, remarked after a glance at the slim pro
portions of "Chawles."
"My young friend, if you will allow me,
I can suggest a becoming character."
Said the young man, "I shall be under
great obligations to you if you will do so."
"Well," was the reply "get a gntta-per
clia outfit, and go as a monkey."
Exit. "Chawles."
A surgical journal speaks of a man who
lived five years with a ball in his head. A
waggish friend of ours says he has known
ladies to live twice as long with nothing
but balls in their heads.
TWICE BETROTHED AND TWICE
JILTED.
Several years ago a young lady in Taze
well county was wooed by a young man.
He obtained her consent and the consent
of the old folks, but three day j before the
wedding she took a freak into her head and
went off and married another man. The
young man was heart broken, and packed
up his effects and to New York city There
he hid his grief, buried liimself in business,
and engaged in speculations, was success
ful and became wealthy. A younger sister
of the girl that jilted him, moved by sym
pathy, commenced a correspondence with
him to endeavor to mitigate his sorrow. The
correspondence became interesting. The
young girl grew up, and as years rolled on
ripened, into great beauty. The sight of
her photograph awakened in the young
man's l>osom the love that lie had sup
posed crushed forever, lie proposed to her
and was accepted. Her father who was a
widower and was anxious to get married
himself as soon as his caughter was out of
the way, so he urged the match forward.
The means of the lover now admitted a
brillant wedding, and preparations were
made for it. They were to lie married last
Wednesday in style, and depart immediate
ly for New York city.
A few days ago the expeetant bride re
ceived a letter from her betrothed, stating
that he had entered into a speculation
which would keep him in the city, so that
he could not possibly be with her at the
time appointed, and asking her to delay
the ceremony for a day or two. He also
referred to the time when he expected to l>e
united to her sister. Provoked to think
that he still remembered his former love,
the young lady wrote to him in passion,
and setting down at the same time wrote to
a cousin of her's, a farmer in lowa, who
had long loved her, telling liini that she
liad brol her engagement, relating the j
circumstances to him, and ended by saying
that she was already to IK- married, and if
he would come and be there at the time
set for her wedding she would many him.
He complied. Her betrothed in Now.
York, astonished to receive her letter, clos
ed up his business as best he could, ami
came to Tazewell county bv the next train.
He reached the little village where she liv
ed, and was hastening up to the house to
fulfil his engagement when he was met by
some of his friends, and told that his in
tended bride had just been married to
another man. He fainted away on the spot
and was taken up to the hotel. When she
was told of it she was overwhelmed with re
morse : but it was then too late ; she was
legally married to her cousin. The New
Yorker, twice jilted and heart-broken, left
for his home without seeing her, and she
passed through this city yesterday, on her
way to an lowa farm, looking very dejected,
and anything but a bride. — Peoria Tran.
NEW STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
The State of Pennsylvania is about to build
a hospital for the insane upon a lot of
ground on the Susquehanna river, in the
vicinity of Danville, Montour county, from
plans and drawings furnished by Mr. John
Mc Arthur Jr., architect. The buildings are
to be made of stone, in the Italian style of
architecture. They will consist of a centre
and four continuous wings,lateral and trans
verse on each side. Tlio centre one for
offices, apartments for steward, Ac., will
have a front of 80 feet by 202 feet deep. The
front lateral wings, for dormitories &c.,
will bo 38>i by 158 *2 feet, three stories
high, and connect at right angles with the
first transverse wings, 127*2 by 50 feet,
and four stories high. Attached to the
rear are the second lateral wings, with
transverse wings at the extreme end, ma
king the wholo length of the building 1143
feet. The accommodations are intended for
about 600 patients, to be equally divided be
tween males and females. The exterior walls
of the entire edifice will be laid in rubble
work, painted with colored mortar. The
staircases throughout are to be of iron.
J©- There seems to be a mutiny in Gov.
Geary's camp. Fitzerald's City Item , al
ways intensely radical, pays the following
tribute to Geary :
"Poor Geary is travelling and begging
day and night to secure a renomination.—
He coaxes, implores, promises, threatens,
whines and cries. Jsever before has such a
spectacle been seen in this State. Mr. W.
W. Ketchum and General Harry White, of
Indiana, are his competitors—both abler
and better men, and neither of them liars."
Quibble reading that "it has been
decided in the Court of Queen's Bench, in
Dublin, that a clergyman of the Court of
England can legally marry himself," ob
serves that this might be well as a measure
of economy, but even in the hardest times
he would rather marry a woman.
AN INTERESTING PCZZLE. —When A girl
of 15 years of age marries a man of 45 yrs
he, of course, is three times as old as she.
After baring lived together for 15 years,
she wil' be 30 and he will bo 60 years, the
husband being but twice as old as his wife.
How long, accc rding to this rule, would
they'have to live together that she would
be of the seme age ?
TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, in Advance.
m. 20.
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five"' The Manchester (N H. ) Mirror
thinks it a "remarkable fact" that a Citizen
of that place should have lived iu the same
house eighty years. , ,
The following is one of the two or tliroe
lines iu'the English language, that read
precisely the same, either backward or for
ward : "Smig & raw was I ere I saw war
k gnus."
On a certain occasion of an eclipse in
Virginia, a colored individual became great
ly elated. "Bress de lord" said he "do
nigger's time hab come at last, and now
we's gwine to hab a black sun."
BATHER ANXIOUS. —An Irish dragoon, on
hearing that his widowed mother had mar
ried since he quitted Ireland, exclaimed :
"I hope she won't have a son oulder thin
me, for, if she does, I sholl lose the
eslitate.
A DECIDED SEED. —"Do you sell pies ? "
asked a green fellow, as he louged into a
confectioner's on Wellington street.—
"Pies, sir V " replied the gentlemanly pro
prietor. "Yes sir, all sorts, sir ; what kind
of pie will you lrave sir ? " "Well, I think
I'll take a magpie."
•A lover who was slighted by the ladies,
very modestly asked one if she would let
him spend the evening with her.
"No," she angrily replied, "that's what
I won't."
"You needn't lie so fussy about it," re
plied he, "1 didn't mean this evening, but
some stormy one, when I can't get any
where else."'
CHVBCH FI LL. — relates
a good story of a mail whose life had not
iWu entirely unspotted, who applied to a
worthy deacon for admission into the
church. Unwilling to offend him, and yet
not inclined to receive him, the deacon re
plied, "The church is full just now ; when
there is a vacancy 1 will notify you."
"This 'ere lianimal, my little dears, ,v ob
served the keeper of a menagerie to a
school, "is a leopard." His complexion ia
yallcr, and agreeably diversified with black
sj>ots ! It was a wulgar terror of the han
cients that the critter was hin capable of
changing his spots, vieli was disproved in
modern times by observin' that he wery
frequently slept in one spot, and the next
night changed to another."
ONE OF THE BOTS. —"Where haye you
been, Charley ? "
"In the garden, ma."
"No—you have been swimming; you
know I cautioned you about going to the
ereek. I will have to correct yon. Look
at your hair, how wet it is."
"O, no. ma. this is not water it is sweat! "
"Ali, Charley, I have caught you fibbing,
your shirt is wrong side out."
(Boy triumphantly,) —O, I did that just
now, ma, climbing the fence ! "
During the war, a Georgian soldier while
in camp near the house of his sweet-heart,
sent her a boquet with a card attached, up
on which was the following poetic effusion :
' • Axcept this bokay from a feller
Who oft has hurd the kanons beller,
Has listened to the fife's tooten,
And helped to doo a heap of shooten ;
Has seen the war clouds darkly rise,
Like fifty buzzards when they fliz,
Who now is bigger tban his dad,
And wants to marry mity bad."
Beer* M'lle Luggel, the pretty French ac
tress, was recently married to Prince Tob*
stoi, one of the wealthiest young noblemen
of St. Petersburg.
The Prince "popped the question" in a
somewhat unusual manner. There was a
fair at the St, Petersburg French Theatre,
for the benefit of the French hospital.
M'lle Lusgcl presided at one of the stands
of the fair, and Prince Tobstoi b&nteringly
asked her how much she would take for
kiss.
She glanced at him rather sternly, and
replied that she would not kiss any man
but her betrotl. 1.
The prince passed on, but returned to
M'lle Lusgel's stand a quarter of an hour
afterwards, and said rather thoughtfully
to the young actress :
"Will yon permit me to ask yon another
question, Mademoiselle ? "
"With pleasure, sir."
"Have you a betrothed ? "
She eyed him a moment with surprise,
and said then, with a blush and a smile,
"No, sir."
"Would you like to have one ?*^
"That depends on circumstances," ah#
said, laughing.
"Well, then, would yon take me?" 80
saying, he handed her his card. ; -
Slie was greatly astonished, and finally
stammered ont that sho wouldhim an
answer the next day. ,r
On following morning ho -called at
her house, and the reply was in tho&ffrtua
tiveand to-day M'lle Lusp*} is fuinoeat
and a happy wife. 1 •