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VOLUME XIX
NEW SPRING.
AN IP
g.HANSI,MIDSg
GEORGE STOVER
gAs RETURNED FRO'f PHIL - A`7l L
PHIA WITH A SUPPLY OF•
00011,
NOTIONS, IPTENSCIE
GROCERIES,
To which he invites the attention of
of his patrons and the public generally.
March 30, 1866.
AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE AND
TRUST CO I
Corner Fourth and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia
incorporated 185(t. Charter Perpetual. Author.
jzed Capital, $500,000. Paid Up Capital, $250,000
Philadelphia', Feb. 4. 1861.
The Trustees have this day declared n Dividend
of FIFTY PER CENT, on all premiums received
upon Merv Ar. retteirs during the year
eerriber 31st, 1863, and in force at that date, the a
bove amount to bo credited to said Policies, and
have n}po ordered the Dividend of 1860 on Policies
ist.tted during that veer to be paid, as the annual
premiums on said Policies are received.
OFFICERS.
Prisiden f—A lexander Whi ildin.
Secretary and Treasurer—JOn S. 'Wilson.
.Actuary--John C Sims.
BOARD OF TRllSTEES.—Alexander Whill-
Alin, J. Edgar Thomson, Goorge .Nugent, lion. Jos.
Pollock. Albert C. Roberts. P. B. Mingle, Samuel
Work. William J. Howard, Hon. .loseph Allison,
Samuel T Bodine, John Aik.man, Charles F. Heaz
litt, Isaac Iltizlehurst.
WM. G. Flom. Chnmhersburg Pa., is the general
Agent of the American Life insurance and Trust
Company for Franklin Co.
Jos. DommAs. Agent for Waynesboro' and vicin
ity.
CERI3NCES.--Joutt Ptrturs and Witztest
H.l.ltio.rniacron.
Call and get a pamphlet.
JOS. DOUGLAS, Agent.
Oct. It, 1865, ly.
EAGLE HOTEL.
Central Square, Hagerstown, Md
/THE •above well-known and established Hotel
has been re-opened and entirely renovated, by
the untiersigned, and now offers to the puldic every
comfort and attraction found in the begt, hot e l s .—
THE TABLE is bountifully supplied with every
delicaey the market will afford, THE SALOON
contains the choicest liquors, and is ronstantly and
skilfully . attcnded. THE STA_BLE is thoroughly
repaired, and careful Ostlers always ready to ac
commodate customers.
JOHN FISHER, Proprietor.
Hagerstown, June 2.—tf.
Mentzer's Horse & C attle Powder.
M loAElr: having purellesed — of — M r.
* M M er . tze 6 r; the recipe for, making-Abe above
far-famed Horse and Cattle Powder, for Pennsylva
nia and Maryland, takeilthisinethod of informing
the farmers, drovers, &c.,•that he has on hind and
intends keeping a good, supply always on hand.—
Country .mercliacits and others keeping such articles
for sale, would do wall to supply themselves with a
uantity. He will sell it on commission or for cash
Cheap, Orders will be puuctu , • • • •
' January 31.,
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY HORNING
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PERISHED LOVE.
The sun that sinks into the main
Shall gild another morn.,
The moon with• pearly band again
The evening's brow adorn;
And stars, though lost in day, shall yet
Illume the heavenly plain—
But love, when once its life is set,
ever rise a]
The cuckoo far from winter flies',
But with the breath of spring,
Ilow, swift she speedti from southern skies—
Their blue upon her wing.
From waving boughs her song is trilled,
As sweet as e're before; •
I3ut love, when once its voice is stilled,
Its echoes wake no more
Rude hands may pluck the blossoms rare
That scent the air to-day;
New flowers as fragrant and as fair
Shall greet another May;
But love's rich glory and perfume
Withered, revives no rsore—,-
In rain your care—that tender bloom
No spring will e're restore.
T-g_AL INT
Scenes of our Childhood
How often, in our leisure hours when sea
ted alone in the quiet of our - ehamber, do
our minds wander back to the days of our
childhood ! And, oh, with what feelings of
inexpressible sadness do we wander along
through the green fields and flowery vales, a
seemingly fairy- land ! Who that does not
view with jningled feelings of leering and
ree•rer, some lovely—spot,--awayl-bback in t
past, that rises upon his memory like a vis
ion of a land of beauty and love, where
"The flowers are always blooming."
And the grass is always green"—
a green. mossy dell, warmed 'up by sunlight
of a soft and golden hue, that he never more
may visit ? Oh, what untold heaps of treas
ures would we not give, could we but emi
grate to that land once more! Bat money
will not buy us a passage to that fairy land,
where the laughing playmates of our youth
are playfully eliasir , the butterfly that is
ever on the wing, and beckoning us to come!
Skill may not convey us to that far off land,
that fancy has painted so bright. Such vis
ions often break in upon my musing hours
aN vivid as if for the time being I was enact-.
log them over again, and the little playmates
of my early years rise up and pass, one by
one, before my mind like little angel boys
and girls that have flitted away to some un
known sphere, I remember a laughing, romp
ing little girl, with sunny -hair and sky-bine
eyes. She is sleeping—somewhere sleeping
—and the grass is growing over her little
grave in the green fields of Kentucky. An
otber and yet another ! Little angel forms
are lying side by side, beneath a green, mos
sy mound on the sunny banks of the Ohio
river. One found a grave in Central Amer
ica; another lies hurried in Louisiana; One,
crossed over the Rock mountains, and is si
lently sleeping in 'the land of gold;' another
is taking a long, long', rest in the Oregon ;
two are taking their last sleep mid' the soli
tude of the plains;• some are buried in South
west Missouri; while one lies deep- mid the
' coral groves beneath the dark blue waves of
the Southern Ocean. Ono is wandering in
the land of Idaho; and others are scattered
broadcast over the land, I know not whith
er. But such is life, from the cradle to the
grave. From all that is lovely, all that is
dear, all that we appreciate, sooner or later
we are doomed to part, by the universal law
of change The world is one vast theatre,
in which is momentarily presented to us
'change of scene' all the days of our life.—
But for this we should not murmur, for by
this universal law of change we live. It is
this that makes man an intellectual being,
and by it we appreciate life. Tt is this that
bids the shipwrecked mariner hope, that en
ables the captive to endure his captivity;
that carries hope to the sick chamber; that
enables the sufferieg poor, the down-trodden
and oppressed-of every clime to hope with
confidence for change. It is by this univer
sal law of change, that the sunshine decends
upon the earth. and the rain, from heaven
that makes the grass to grow, and the flow
ers to bloom, and the birds to sing. It is
this that gives the wonderful—as , well as
beautiful—play of the countenance, and the
melodies•of the human voice. In fact, it is
this that gives us all we feel or know of en•
joyment or happiness on earth. .Then let us
not repine, if the same universal law pro- .
duces some changes that fill our hearts with
sadness, upon which we cannot look with a
smile.
MATRIMONIAL . ADVICE —Our young wo
men are daily cautionod against marrying dis
sipated and reckless young men; but with
equal, if not greater propriety, may young
men be cautioned against marrying idle and
e . stravagant 'young. women. for a great many
unhappy marriages are the•testilt of the lat
ter, as well as otthe former. • Foolish moth
ers think they act.aireetioniitely by indulg,
log their daughters in fondness for the gid
dy pleasures onife, and allowing them to
contract habits ofindolence riot dreaming
that Thoiere"thereby unfitted fur the stern
realities of • life, which must surely await
.them. Let them marry wealth or poverty,
they:will be unable to supporteither condi
tion. I 4 et them remain single,_ and life will
become' more and more burdensome as it
ad
vances.
A. *".axtlll"9" lA9"emiralrozaraie3r a N43ixtretl. in 3Pcblitiosi said. 'l9l6olialcon..
Gov. Oglesby and President John-
At a meeting lately held at Jacksonville,
Illinois, Governor Oglesby addressed the vast
assembla g e in an able manner, and we ex
tract the following, having reference to Pres•
ident Johnson's present position;
'Well, they say, 'Oglesby, what have you
got to say about Congress and the President?'
That's the nub. -I say, when Congress pass
ed the Freedmen's bureau bill, Congress did
right. When the President vetoed it, : he
did wrong. When Congress passed the Civ
il Rights bill, Congress did right. When
the President vetoed it,. he did wrong.—
When Congress passed it over the veto, Con
gress did doubly right: [Tremendous ap-
Ilause.] I came here to endorse Congress.
say let Congress go on. We look to you,
because you are the law making power. The
President has nothing to do with it. We
have got no one man power in this country.
We dont want any vain coxcomb to talk a
bout maintaining the rights of the people.—
[Hear.] Who in the name of common sense
is there bat people. [Cheers ] I tell Mr.
Johnson he insults the people by talking to
them in this way. [Applause They don't
want anybody to stand up and feed them
[Laughter.] The world never gazed on such
a demagogue, but like all enormities it con
tains within itself the seeds of destruction.
His egotism before the American people
makes him powerless for harm. He lead the
American people ! I tell you the American
people can lead themselves and are his su
periors. [Great applause.] If he wants Co
lead anybody why don't he arouse himself
up to the trying times—to the dignity of a'
noble emotion, and say, I will elevate the
colored masses of the South, who need sup
port; [Applause.] • But no, he turned his
back on them, and goes snuffing around
some platform and talks about takinc , care of
'the American people. They ask, 'what will
you do if ho comes back ?' I will take . bun,
but I tell you frankly, I will never respect
him again, .Never ! NEVER ! I NEVER ! ! !
We elected him because ho said he' was in
• f - freedorn, He received your votes
and mine and them took counsel from the
worst men of the nation. From Vallandig
ham, from Sam Cox, an d Stephens o f
Georgia. lie takes counsel from every rob
el that goes and visits Washington, and ex
cludes every loyal man from his councils, be-
cause they will not flatter and fawn upon and
eater to his egotism and vanity. I toll him
plainly I don't want him to stand by me.—
I say : 'Satan get thee behind me.' [Laugh
ter.] Ile appointed Governors of the rebel
States and they called elections, and mem
bers have been chosen for Congress, and Mr.
Johnson says 'let them go in.' I say to Mr.
Johnson, don't care if they never get• in
to Congress. It will be no loss to the nation
if they don't. Did we fight this war - for the
benefit of the rebels F Did we specially con
sult their happiness ? Not a bit of it. We
fought this war for the preservation of the
Union of our fore-fathers, Are wo to rush
down there and hurry them up into Con 7.
gross Why should we ? They hate us
and despise us. It is unsafe to trust them.
I don't care if they never get• into Con
gress.'
Bottles have been carried to land nineteen
months after they were trusted to the waves;
as the following remarkable anecdote swill
testiEly: "In March, 1825, the Kent East
Indianian took fire in the Bay of Biscay,
during a storm, while six hundred and forg
one persons were on hoard, most of them
soldiers of the 31st Regiment. When all
hope was gone, and before- a little vessel
was seen, which ultimately saved more than
five hundred people, Maj. wrote a
few lines, and enclosed the paper in a bottle,
which was left in the cabin. Nineteen
months after this, the Major arrived in the
Island of Barbadoes, in command of another
regiment, and he was amazed to find that the
bottle (cast in to the sea by the explosion
which destroyed the Kent) had been washed
ashore on that very island! The paper is
still preserved. The facts are authenticated
by some of those saved from the Kent."
A PUNGENT SERMON.-St: Jerome, in
one of his sermons, gave a rebuke to the
women of his day, which has seemed to be
so apropos to our own, that it is circulated
just now in Paris quite universally: "Al)!
I shall tell you who are the women that
scandalize Christians, They are those who
daub their checks with red, and their. eyes
with black—those who. plaster faces, too
white to be hnman, reminding us of idols—
those who cannot shed a tear without trac
ing a furrow on the painted surface of their
faces"—those whose' ripe years fail to teach
them that they'are growing old—those who
chalk wrinkles in to the counterfeit present
ment of south; and those who affect the
demeanor of bashful maidens in the presence
of grandchildren "
C EN:rr,tmEN.—Perhaps these ore rarer
personages than somo-of us think for. Who
can point out many such in hts Circle? Men,
whose aims are generous, whose truth is con
stant, and not only constant in kind, hut ele
vated in degree; whose want of meanness
makes them simple; who can look the world
honestly in the face, with on equal; manly
sympathy for great and small? We' all
know a hundred whoSe coats are very well
made, and a score who have excellent -man
ners, and one or two happy beings who are
what they call in the inner circles and have
shot into the very centre of the bull's eye of
fashion; but of gentlemen how many I Let
takda little scrap of paper and each make'
out his list:— rlkackerase.
'An old fellow put West. on seeing the re
fusing of his late wife 'lowered into the grave
exclaimed., with tears in• his eyes : "Well,
I have lost hogs, and I have lost cows, but
I never had anything to cu.!, roe np like
this !''
Things a Farmer. Should Not Do.
A farmer should not break up MOO land
than he 'can cultivate thoroughly; half tilled
land is always growing poorer, while well-til
led land is constantly improving. A thrifty
and prudent farmer trill not devote- his sole
attention to the improvement of certain,fields
on his farm, because the land is 'easy to
work at,' and let other portions of his preni,
isos go uncultivated, and grow nothing but
brush, bogs, briars and stones. • -
A farmer should never have amore cattle,
horses or other animal stock than he can
keep in good order. An animal in good or
der at the b9gioning of winter is already half
wintered. Nor should he let his cattle en
dure the chilling storms of winter in an open
yard or field, whilst a few dollars .expended
in the way of making comfortable stables
would amply repay him in saving of fodder,
and afford a greater amount of milk..
A former should never depend too much
on his neighbors for what he ean,,by careful
management, produCeon his own land. He
should not make it a common practice to ei
ther buy or beg fruit while he can plant
trees and cultivate them on his own ground
nor annoy his neighbors by borrowing tools
to work with, while he can make or buy
them. 'The borrower-is servant to the lend
er.'
A farmer should-never be so immersea in
political matters as to neglect doing his vari
oni,kinds of 'work in due season, and to snug
up matters and tngs for winter; nor should
he be so inattentire to polities as to remain
ignorant of Those great questions of national
and State policy which will always, agitate,
more or less, a free people.
A farmer should not be continually bor
rowing his neighbor's, newspaper, while ho
can easily save money enough, by curtailing
some little extravagance, to subscribe and
pay for one of his own.
A farmer should never refuse a fairprice
for anything he wishes to sell. I have
known-men-to refuse a dollar and a half for
a bushel of corn, and after keeping it five or
six_months_they—were-glad--to -get a dollar
for it. I have known farmers to refuse to
take a fair, marketable price for their dai
ries of buttet, and after keeping it three or
four months, they concluded to sell the but
ter for only two-thirds of the price which
they were first offered. 'A bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush.'
A farmer should not allow his wood-pile
to be,reduced down to the 'shorts,' merely
drawing a little by piece -meal, and green at
that. lie most expect to encounter the sour
looks of his wife and family, and perhaps be
compelled (in a series of lectures) to learn
that the man who provides green wood to
burn in winter, has not measured the first
rules of domestic economy. Nor should he
employ some 'bote►l' to build his chimney
'tipside down,' so that his family will be near
ly smakod out of the house, and the walls of
the room become as yellow as saffron.
A farmer should not lot his buildings look
as old as the hills, and go-to decay, while he
could easily afford the moans to keep them
in good repair; nor should he allow tattered
clothes and old bats to be stuffed in tho win
dows, in the place of glass. If ho does, he
need not be alarmed if ha acquires the repu-,
tation of a mean man, or one who tarries long
whore liquor is sold by the glass.
A farmer should not bo contented with di
lapidated looking fences on his farm, so as
to tempt his cattle to become unruly and des
troy his crops, while ho has plenty of oppor
tunities and materials to make or keep them
in repair,--{Working Farmer.
`Eight More as Twelve•'
A Dutchman in Pennsylvania leased his
lands to an oil company in Pennsylvania last
Spring, on condition of receiving one-eighth
of the oil procured. The well proved to be
pretty good one, and the Dutch farmer be•
gan to think that the oil men should giro
him a better chance, and ventured to toll
them so. They asked him what he wanted.
I.le said they ought to give him ono.twelftb.
The agreement was finally made, with the
understanding that the Dutchman was not
to tell any one.
All went smooth until, the next division
day came, when our friend was early on hand
to . see how much . better he would be.off un
der the new bargain Eleven barrels were
rolled to one side fur the oil men, and oho
for him. This did not'sult him.
illoW's dish ?' says he,•'l tink I was to
got more as before; by jinks you mako mis
take.'
The matter was explained to him, that he
formerly got one barrel out of every • eight,
but it was his own proposition to only take
one of every twelve.
This revelation took him aback. Ire scratch
ed his bead, looked cross, and relieved his
feelings of self reproach •by.indignantly re
marking: 'Veil, dat, ish great• dish ish the
first time as ever I knowed eight vash more
ash twelve.
ABOUT MIDDLII3O.—OId Rev. Mr. R. Wag
one day attending the funeral of one of the
members of his church, when' after praising
the many virtues of the deceased he turned
to the bereaved husband and said :
'My beloved brother, you have bean nail
ed to part with one of the best and lovliest
or wives—'
Up }ramped the sorrow-stricken husband,
interrupting the tearful minister by sorrow.
fully saying—
' 'O, no,. Brother 8., not the best; but a
bout middling--About middling, Brother
B'
gure'thing on the toothache : Take equal
quantities of alum and common salt, pulver•
iso an'fi mix them, and apply theui to the
hollow tooth on a piece. of cotton.
Wbat is the differenea 'Between a Catho•
lie priest and n Blptist 1 One uses was. Can.
ales and thin shier 41,5_
MAY 25, 1866.
Jim Siniley's Jumping Frog
-;. "Mark Twain," a San Francisco contribu•
tor to the New York Saturday 'Press, dis
courser; on a queer California' genius named
Jim Smiley, who was always toady to bet,—
Here it a speeitnent
Well, this"
hero Smiley 'had rat-tarriers,
and Chleketi clocks and -Tom -cats, nad all
'them kind of things till you :couldn't rest,
and you couldn't sleep, and you couldn't
fetch him nothing to bet on but he'd match
you. He ketehed a frog one day and fetch
ed him home, and said ho califlated to edu
cate him, and so he never done nothing for
throe months but set in the back yard and
learn the frog how to jump. And you bet
ho did learn him, too. He'd give him a lit
tle hunch behind, and the-nezt-minute-yoted
see that frog whirling in the air like a dough.
nut, see him turn one summerset, or may be
a couple, if he got a good start, and come
down flatfooted and all right, like a cat.—
He got him up so in the matter of catching
flies ; and kept him in practice so constant,
that he'd nail a fly emery time as far as he
could see him.. Smiley said all a frog want
ed was education, and he could do most any
thing—and I belieie hitri. Why, I have
seen' him set Daniel Webster down here on
this floor—Daniel Webster was the name of
the frog—and sing out! "Flies, Daniel, flies;"
and quicker'n you could wink, he'd spring
straight up and shake a fly off _the counter
there, and flop down en the floor agin as sol
id as a dob of mud, and fall to scratching
the side of his:hind foot as indifferent as if
he hadn'tio.idea ho done no' moro'n any
frog might. You never see a frog so mod
est and straightforward as he was. And
g:.
when ho come to a fair and square jumping
on a dead level, lie could get over more
ground than any animal of his breed you ev
er see. Jumping on a dead level• was his
strong suit, you understand, and when it
come to that, Smiley would ante up money
on him as long as he had a red. Smiley was
monstrous proud of his frog, and well he
might, for fellers that had traveled and had.
been everywhere, said he laid over any_ frog
they ever see.
Well, Smiley kept the beast in a little box,
and he used to bring him down town some
times, and lay for a bet. One day a feller—
a stranger in the oamp, he was—co:nu actress
him with his box, and says:
What might it be that you've got in the
box?"
- And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like,
"It might bo a parrot, or it might be a cana
ry way be, but it ain't; its only jest a frog."
And the feller took it, looked at it careful,
and turned it round this way and that, and
says 'lrm—so 'tis. Well what's ho good
foil"
"We:l," Smiley . says, easy and carelos3,
"He's good enough for one thing I should
think—be can out jump any frog in Calave
ras county."
And the feller studied a minute and then
says, kinder sad like, -Well I'm only a stran
ger here, and I ain't got uo frog; but, if I
bad a frog I'd bet you.",
And then Smiley snaps. "That's all right
—that's all right—if you'll hold my box 'a
minute I'll go and get you a frog," and so
the feller took the box and put up the forty
dollars along with Smiley's and set down 'to
wait.
So he sot there a good while thinking and
thinkina b to himself, and then he got the frog
out and pried his mouth open, and took a
teaspoon and filled hiin full of quail shot—
filled him pretty near up to his chin—and
sot him on the floor. Smiley went to the
swamp and slopped and slopped around in
the mud for a long time, and finally lie ketch
od a frog and fetched him in and gave him
to this feller and says: "Now, you're ready
set him alongside' of Dan'l, with his fore
paws just oven with Dan'l's, and I'll give
you the word " Then he says, "One—two
—three—jumpland him and the feller touch
ed up their frogs from behind and the now
frog hopped off lively, but Dan'l gave a
heave and hysted up. his shoulder—so—like
a Frenchman, but it was no use—he couldn't
budge; ho was planted as solid as' an anvil,
and he could no more stir than if he was.an
chored out. Smiley was a good deal Sur
prised, and he was disgusted, too, 'but ho
did't have no idea what the matter was, of
course.
The feller took the money and started -a
way. and when lve was going out at the door
ho sorter jerked his thumb over his shout
der—this way—at Datil and says again,
very deliberate, "Well I don't see no points
about that frog that's any better'a any other
Irou
_Smiley, lid stood soratehin' his head and
looking at Dan'l a long time, and at last be
says. -"I do wonder what in the nation
that frog piny'll off for—l wonder if there
aint something the matter with him;, he pears,
to look mighty boggy, semehow," and he
ketched Dao'l by the nape of the neck, and
lifted him up and says, "Why, blame my
eats if he don's weigh about five pounds!"
and turned him upside &own, and he belch
ed out about a double handful of shot.—
And then ho- saw how it was, and then he
was the maddest man—he set the fro. , °
down
and put out nftor.the feller, but he never
ketched him..
...The oldest church now existing in this
country is Situated near Smithfield, Isle of
Wight county, Virginia. It "was built in
the reign of Charles I, between tho, years
of 1630 and 1635." The- bricks, lime and
.timber were imported from, England. The
timber is Englibh oak, and Was framed in
England. The structure is of brick, erect-.
ted in the most substantial manner, Thd
mortar has beenme-ao hardened that it -will
strike fire.in collision with steel.
She who can compose a cross baby. is
greater thaa she who composes books.' ,
A lady sometimes get as much intoxica,
tett at her glasq, as a. toper does at his-
180.00 2Plizas X ear
13XAUTIFUL EXTRACT —The, loved. ones
whose loss I lament are still in existence;
they are Diving with me at this - very, time;
they are, like myself, dwelling in the great
parental mansion of God; they still belong to
Me as Ito them. As they are_ ever in' my
thoughts, so, perhaps, am lin their'S. As
I mourn for their loss, perhaps they rejoice
in anticipation of our re-union: What to
me is still dark, they see clearly. Why do I
erieve because I can no longer enjoy their
pleasant society? Diffing their lifetime I
was not discontented, because I could not al. -
ways have them around me. If a journey
took them from me, I was not, therefore, nu. A
happy. Ar - 7d — t - in7i it different now? They
have gone on a journey. Whether they are
living-on-ear th r i ti-a—far-distan
some higher world in the infinite universe of
God, what difference is there! Are we not
still in the same house of our Father, like
loving brothers who inherit separate room's?
Have we, therefore, ceased to be brothers?
—Rowan.
TILE RIGHT SIDE. , --"We trust the Lord
is on our side, Mr.---Lineoln,'-' said the speak
er of a delegation of Christian men to that
good man (twing one of the dark days of the
rebellion.
"I do not regard that so essential tie some
thing else," replied Mr. Lincoln.
The pious visitors looked horror struck
- until - the - President-added:
"I am most concerned to know that we
are on the Lord's side."
Mr. Lino°le was right. The right side is
not my side or your side, but the Lord's
side. Mark that, my children. The Lord's
side is, the place for every one of you to ral
ly on. Ills banner has right, truth, love
and holiness written upon it. Be sure yoti
stand up for God's banner, even if you have
to stand alone.
TIIS DIiPERENCE —Matrimony is II o t
buckwheat cakes, warm. beds, comfortable
slippers, smoking coffee, round arms, red lips,
kind words, shirts exulting in button's; re
deemed stockings, boot-jack, — happiness, eto.
Hurrah!.
Single blessedness is sheet. iron quilt,blue
noses, frosty rooms, ice in the pitcher, unrs
generatedlinen, heelless socks, coffee sweet
ened with icicles, gutta.pereha biscuits, flab
by steak, dull razors, corns, coughs, codes,
rhubarb, wisery, eta. Ugh!
YObTIIFT7I. CONDUOT.—The line of con
duct chosen by a young man during the five
years from fifteen to twenty, will, in almost
every instance, determine his character for
life. As he is then careful.or careless, pru
dent or improvident, industrious or indolent,
truthful or dissimulating, intelligent or ig
norant, temperate or dissolute, so will he be
in after years; and it needs no prophet to cal
culate his chances in life.
An Israelite lady, sitting in the same box
at an opera with a physiceian, was much
troubled with ennui, and happened t o
gape•
'Excuse me madame,' said the doctor,
am glad you did not swallow.'
'hive yourself no uneasiness," replied the
lady, q am a JowesB, and never oat pork'
Read the biographies of our great 'and
good men and women. Not one of them had
a fashionable mother. They nearly all sprung
from strong minded women, who had about
as little to do with fashion as with the charm•
ing clouds.
Every man bath a domestic chaplain with•
in his own bosom that ,preaches over the
sermon to him again, and comes over him
with "Thou art the man."
A marriage recently took place in South
Carolina, whoroia tbo bridegroom was eighty
eight, the . bride ftfty.f.ve, and the pastor
eighty-Eve. It was a runaway match—the
parenta . of the blushiag damsel being averse
to it.
'A clergyman lately traveling in the oil
region, saw a child stumbling and falling.—
Ile kindly piekel her up, saying: 'Poor lit
tle•dear, are you hurt?' when sbe' cried out,
'I ain't poor. Dad has struck ile,
A coxcomb teasing, Dr, Parr with his pot
ty ailments, complained that he could never
go out without catching cold in his head.—
',No wonder,' returned the doctor, .you al
way .go out without anything in it.'
A learned: coroner being: asked how be se
oounted for the great mortality this year, ex
claimed: "I cannot tell; people seem to die
this year that never- died before."
Tho Boston Commercial env that since
elocked.stoekings for ladies ate in fashion,
young men will be looking oftener than ever
to see what time it is.
Covet not "your neighbor's house, nor
his wife, nor his oi, nor his ass," but if you
are a.single man, you way covet his daugh
ter.
'When the blossom and leaves of a woman's
beauty full, we discover her defects, as we
behold ravens' nests iu the trees in winter.
By pulling your finger froth- the wateryon
leave no hole in the fluid, and by dying yoil
leave no vacancy in the world.'
Extremes meet. Civilization and' barba
rism come together. Savage Tedium and
fashionable ladies paint their ram,
• Henry Ward Beecher is over fifty years
of age; Fanny Fern, is fifty. .
There were in eleven
died masked ba'll3 in one night.
WTI is a (I:lilt 111:9 a railroad? Beoadst
there - are. sleet ors u.lll4ti
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