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VOLUME XX
1866, FOR SUMER. 1866.
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tomers and the public generally that they
have just received a new and complete stock of
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and whiehihey offer at panic prices. Their stock
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and other Baking articles of best quality.
Pepper Sauce, Tomato Catsup, Pickets, Cider
°Vinegar.
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goufitry Produce bought and the highest market
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we have received, we trust by fair dealing, and
earnest effints to please and accommodate, to in
crease our trade Still further.
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* To•wliich he invites the attention of
of his patrons and the public generally.
October 26, 1866.
TO TAO PATRONS OF TUB
"Village Zt. ie icor c1.,17
Yost honored patrons; gentle friends, once more,
The Aew Year finds the carrier at your door,
Sedately joyous as becomes the day,
He sings - spontaneously his annual lay.
His generous arm the latett tidings bears,
His simji•Pest wishes shape themselves to prayers,
It sends you 6 reetiegliriimry—his cye—behol
Each face that gladdenevi New Year's morn of old,
Each bright-eyed daughterdaughter, bloom and curls,
For carrier boys appreciate the girls;
Men flatter ladies with affected whine,
But a Boy's praise is always genuine;
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And pardon the intrusion, may he see
Those generous hands well filled that used to he;
Ten, twenty, fifty,—anything you please,
The rare one dollar is quite as good as these,
And he who drops it. whatso'cr his lot,
By "one", at least shall never he forgot,
Our Muse reminds us of a great event—
How Bill arid Andy 'round the circle went,
Will _Grantand_Parragutio_raise_a_di
To softly blind and take the people in.
Said Billy, "Andy, tell them 'of the stars,
Before which fell Rebellion's bloody bars;
give hack to them our fathers' Constitution;
Which with their bloodthey_gotby revolution;
Tell• them how to vote that in the fall, _
The Radicals may be slaughtered, one and all,"
Then • ff they started, round the circle swung,
The Bread and Butter boys loud paeans sung.
Grant was displayed at every Rail Road station—
Billy and Andy took their whiskey ration.
"God blast— hic—hic"—s ild Andy,"hcar then/ call,
Grant, Grant,— nought cise,—to the Devil with
them all.
I tell you, Bill,—hic—hic—they do not want us,
Whene'er they see me, there's a•devlish rumpus."
-e ena the stars, the thirty-siz, you know,
And on t Constitution, harp and blow;
Tell them t Rad's got up the Orleans' fight,
And played t e Devil in the Memphis riots." •
So An did, t all availed them nought,
With whisky an •mg the people can't ha caught.
And so tl t e election ,ante; their cash, their cuff,
Their 'es, the people lasted at a pull:
The frie ds who tried our liberties to crush,
We hol in fire wrought chains, full tight enough:,`
nd so sing out :
Keep ate. t the music of Union,
The music our anc store sung,
When Statps, like a j bilant chorus, •
To beautiful sisterh oil sprung.
0, thus shall the gre• Constitution,
That guards a c homes of our Land,
A mountaiu of freedom and justice
For millions eternally stand.
East and West North and South, all unfurling
One banner alone o'er the sod,
One voice. from America swelling
In worship of Liberty's God,
Glassware
Keep step with the music of Union;
'Tis thus we shall nourish the light
Our fathers lit for the chained nations
That darkle in Tyranny's night.
The blood of the whole world is with us,
O'er ocean by oligarchs hurled.
And they who would darn to attack us,
Shall sink with the wrath of a world.
Keep step with the music of rd i tic s-- in„
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Hark ! beaming in light from on high,
And circled by Liberty's Martyrs, '
Hear Lincoln, the sainted, reply—
Yes, cheer for the past with its glory,
For the unfettered present hurrah,
And shout for the starry brewed future,
With labor, and virtue, and law,
Bast and West, :forth and South, all unfurling
Ono Banner Mono o'er the sod,
One voice from America swelling
In worship of Libeity's God.
Farewell, dear friends, the devious windings passed,
Out "slip.shod" muse has found the cud at last;
Confound the traitors. turn !heir wrath to shame,
And build a new the temple of our fame;
King oat oppressive hate and let us see
In decd, us name,-our Fathers' land is free
May al! your joys be dothled, large increase,
And hope, and happiness, and health, and peace,
And friends and faror throng around your way,
And fill the pockets drained on Ne,w. Year's day.,
Dear children. generous friends, once more, ikdieu,
And may the l'ye of Christ abide with von.
THE CARRIER.
A men living in Washington Territory has
nomed an'infant on as follows: John-] lnler-
Sherman Sherillan•-McPherson- Kilpatrick..
Thotnas- Butler Farragnt Lyon-G rant- 31 aek
Suii th.
•See that each hour's feelings and thoughts
end actions are pure and true then will your
life be such. The wide posture is hgt sepa
rate spires of grass; the sheeted bloom of the
varies but is tea flus-trs.
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING; JANUARY' 1861
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CARRIER'S ADDRESS!
The old year died last night, dear friends,
The old year died last night,
We heard tie town•clock striking twelve
As time finished his shroud of white,
And vve smoothed his gray locks tenderly back
And covered his face from sight.
We heard the hoof of the posting steed
That his son and heir (loth ride,
But just as his trot the threshold crossed,
The old man• gasped and died.
He said with his last expiring breath,
LLet your hearts be reconciled,
As ye clung to me through the past,sweet friends,
Amy cling t.) this dear child."
.4f%.xL IlacaelpeorLd.exLt Family Nevironz•fivem.
A TRUlla 'iz''h.
BY HORACE °REMY
There is, even on this side of the grave, a
haven where the storms of life break not, or
•are but. in gentle undulations, of the uurip
_pled'and mirroring _watets—an oasis, not in
the desert; but beyond it; a rest, profound
and blissful as that of the soldier returned
for ever from the hardships, the dangers and
th - iwils of war, to the bosom of that dear
domestic circle of whose blessings ho never
prized at half - their worth until he lost
them.
This haven, this rest, this oasis, is a -se
rene old age. The tired traveler has• aban
doned the dusty crowded and jostling high
way of life for one of its shadiest and least
noted b •.lanes. The din of traffic and of
worldly strife has no longer magic for his
ear; the myriad footfalls on the city's stony
walk is but noise or nothing to him now.—
He has run his race of toil, or trade, or am•
bition. H is day's work is accomplished, and
ho has come home to enjoy, tra quit and un•
harrassed, the slendor of th , i,sunset, the
milder glories., of late eveni Ask not
•• • ether-ht-r-h..s not b , •
according to the vulgar start'' , rd of success.
What matters it now whether the multitude
has dragged his chariot rending. the air .with
idolizing acclammations, or howled like wol
ves upon his track, as he fled by night from
the fury of those he had wasted his vigor to
= e-rve-?--W-hat-avails-it_that_b road_landsli ave_
rewarded his toil, or that all has at the last
moment been stricken from his grasp ? Ask
not whether he brio& into retirement the
wealth of the Indies or the poverty, of the
bankrupt; whether his couch be of down or
of rashes; his dwelling a lint or mansion.—
He bas lived to little purpose, indeed, if he
has not long since realized that wealth and
renown riffe the true ends of exertion, not
absence the cone ve proof of ill fortune.
Whoever see sto k ow-if his career has been
prosperous an 'ghteniog from its outset
to its close, if-the -evening of his days shall
be genial and blissful, should ask nosiifoc
broad_acres,-nor-towering-edifices,nor—laden
coffers. Perverted old age may grasp those
with the yielding clutch of insanity, but
they add to his cares and. anxieties, not to
his enjoyments. Ask rather: Has he mas
tered and harmonized_his_erring passions ?
Has he lived a true life ?
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Ty — vri — tedoes cacti
hour knelt the conclusion and how few of
them are true ones. The poor child of sin
and shame and crime, who terminates her
clouded being in the early morning of her
scarce budded, yet blighted, existence; the
desperate felon, whose blood is shed by com
munity as the dread penalty of its violated
laws; the miserable debauchee, who totters
down toiiis loathsome grave in the spring
time—of his years, but the fullness—of his
feasting iniquities—these the world v i tiliant- .
ly affirms have not lived true lives ! Fear
less and righteous world, how
,profound and
how discriminating are thy judgments !
But the idolater of self, who'devotes all his
moments, his energies, his thoughts, to
schemes which begin and end in personal ad!
vantage; the grasper of gold and lands and
tenements; the devotee of pleasure; the man
of ignoble and sinister ambition; the woman
of frivolity, extravagance and fashion; the
idler, gambler; the voluptuary-----on all these
and their myriad compeers' ' %bile hurne on
the crest of the advancing billow, how gen
tle is the reproof, how charitable the judge
ment of the world ! Nay, does it not pick
its way 'ffltintily, cautiously and inoffensive
ly through the midst of drunkard making
the national faith breaking ?
A true life must be simple in all its ele
ments. Animated by one grand and Nino
lag impulse, all lesser aspirations find their
prop aces in harmonious subservience;
simplicity in taste, in appetite, in habits. of
life, with a responding indifference to world
ly honors and Aggrandizement, is the natur
al result of the predominance of a divine and
unselfish idea. Under the guidance of such.
a sentiment, virtue is not an effort brit a law
of nature, like gravitation. It is vice alone
that seems unaccountable, monstrowt, -almost
miraculous. Purity is felt to be as necessa
ry to the mind as health to the body, and its
absence alike the inevitable source of pain.
A. true life must be calm. We wear out our
energies in strife for gold or farms, cud then
wonder alike at the cost and the worthless
ness of the weed How sloth is jostled by
gluttony, and pride wrestled by avarice, anu
ostentation bearded by meanness!! The soul
which is not large enough for the indwell
ing of one virtue, affords lodgment and scope
T )
and arena for a hundred vices; but Abil — tit -
fare can not be indulged with itnpi(nity
Agitation and wretchedness are the inavi a
ble consequences, in the midst of which — the
flame of life burns flaringly and swiftly to PI
close.
A true life must be aCtiltil and joyous
Tell - nio not, pale anchorite, of your ceaseless
vigils, your fasting, your scuurgings The
man who is not happy in the path he has
chosen, has chosen arnisis.
THE SOUL MADE Visii:ll.E —.Every one
knows that in every human face there i, au
impalp.ble, immaterial something, we call
‘'expression," which FCOMS to he as it were,
"the soul made visible." Where minds live
in the region of pure thoup:hts tied e
motions, the i:ecilities and sanwilies of the
inner temple Ellin() out through the mortal
terminent..- and ptsy over it like lambent
The imeen,o makes the whole alter
sweet; and we can oneeratard what the pact
meaus when ho says
4 .Bomuy born of murmuring sour I
Shall pm into her rice
Oa the Mbar hand, no man eon lead a gor
nindizing sordid or lic,...c..ations life, and still
wear a countenance lialltkred and 9.lnctili e d
with a halo of recce and. j y.—llonAcz
A Planet in a Blaze•
A correspondent of the Hartford Times
has the following, which we copy for the
speculation it may-afford:
MEssas.' EDITORS.—The belief that this
earth is eventually to be destroyed:by fire is
I substantiated by the discovery that planets,
-exceeding- the.earth in size, have- been sub
jected to heat so intense as to entirely anni
hilate them from the firmament. The keen
eye of the telescope, gathering rays from the
Hplenets - which are visable and flied, has at . -
' forded tho. vision of the astronomer sufficient
light for him to assert that nearly two thou-,
sand of these stars have disappeared from
the firmament within the last four centuries.
A few evenings since, while watching the
firmament, with the moon at her full, my at
tention was attracted to a large star which
stood-a-few-degrees above the eastern hori
zon, and apparently on fire, It represented
very nearly a revolving beacon light— her-
Dating color—first, its face presen ed a
bright crimson color, then followed pale
bluish tint, then it would relapse into s na
tural whiten ss—presenti all the phenom
ena of a large agrati hen acted upon
11 by a strong wind. am of the opinion that
th - " Fi be 'lre.
he star was being consumed by S.
Such are the triumphs of true science
(which always lead. the aspirations of man
God•ward), that the laws which have pre
vailed in kingdoms not made with hands, are
used to embellish the Word of Truth, by the
mental research of the noblest work of God
--man. -W ho-dare-dispute—the-teach ings-of
the revealed Word, that the earth shall no
more be o'erspread with Water, but that the
time shall come when our planet shall melt
with fervent heat. Unaffected by this dele
tion, who can say that other planets will not
keep up their revolution and track the hea
vens, still borrowing their dazzling splendor
from the Great Central Orb.
Rev. A. WEBSTER MILLS.
Lebanon, Conn, December 1, 1866.
Cheerful
Tonics, atimulativea, medicines ! "Thereis
nothing is the pharmacopoeia half so'in
spiriting-as-a cheerful temper - ! — Do-not fa.
cy yourself a victim ! Do not go through
the world with a face half a yard long ! Do
not pursuade yourself that everything hap
pens wrong ! My dear friend, you are the
only person that is wrong, when you say that
great deal better to be without an arm or a
leg, than to lack cheerfulness. What if the
globe does not roll round in the precise di
rection you want it to ? Make the most of
it. Put a pleasant face on the matter, and
do not go about throwing cold orate on the
fire-sides of all the rest of mankind. If you
are in want of an example look at the birds.
or the very annshine on the grass ! Show
us one grumbler in all nature's wide do-
mains.
'The man who is habitually cheerful has
found the true philosopher's stone; there is
no cloud •so dark but ho sees the blue sky
beyond—no trouble so calamitous but he
finds some blessing left him to thank Provi
dence for. He may be poor and destitute,
but he walks clad in armor that all the mines
of Golconda cannot purchase. Snow and
rain cannot penetrate it—scorn and contume
ly fall harmless from its surface. The storm
that sinks a less courageous craft can only
compel him to trim his sails and try again.
Who would be a mere thermometer, to rise
and fall in spirit with every change of life's
atmosphere ?
Whenever we see a man sighing and de
spondent about anything and everything, we
know it is his mental health that is out of
"gear." Cheerfulness is all he wants. No
matter how thick, and fast vexation "•ay
come, there - is nothing like a bright littler:
of the soul's sunshine to disperse them.—
Counted in dollars ail i cents, your weak
may. be a sultry sum, but if you have a cheer
ful temper, you are rich.
Dimensions of Heaven
The calculation here made, based on a
text in Revelations, is both curious and in
teresting. It is copied from an old Western
paper, and will suggest thoughts fur those
who think_:
A Description ?of Heaven.—Revelation,
XXI chapter, 16th verse , : "And he Meas
ured the city tvith_a reed, twelve thousand
furlongs. The length and breadth and height
of it are equal."
Twelve thousand furlongs, 7,920,000 feet.
which being cubed, is 948,088,000,000,000,-
000,000,000 cubic feet; the half of which
we will reserve fur the throne of God and
the Court of Heaven, half of the balance for
the streets, and the remainder divided by
496. the cubical feat in the rooms 16, feet
square and 16 fact high, will be 5,743,750,-
000,000 rooms.
We will now suppose rho world always did
and always will contain 900,000,000 of in
habitants end a generation will last 331.2
years-2 700,000,000 every century, an d
that the world will stand 100,000 years
-27,000,000;00_0,000 persons. Then suppose'
there were 11,230 such worlds, equal to this;
number of inhabitants and duration of years. I
then there would be a room 16 feet long,and
end 16 wide and 16 . high fur each person,
and yet there would' he room.
Anv - Yasr"ro LITICLITION..---A New Ilamp•
.hire blacksmith being urged to bring a suit
against a calumnious neighbor fur dander,
replied...that he could go into his shop and
hammer out a hotter character than all the
courts iu the state could tiro him. With
ezcellent wisdom this man preferredto Loop
oat of lawsuits—a chance that is generally
fonnd . in the long run to he the best.
Locr:—GoD—Now.—The sweetest word
ill our language is 1.0V6. The greatest word
iD our Isng.otage Gon. 'rho word expregs
iog the shemtest lime i: ..Now. The three
make the grease:; at.' 1 t-he -we. test duty man
cal I'' I ru.
OTHER DAY,
I dream—l dream of other days;
My heart will wander "back,
To gaze upon the fresh young flowers
That bless'd its devious track.
My thoughts cling round the dreamy past,
- And those lov'd angel-hours, •
When life was all too bright for tears,
And hope sang wreath'd with 'lowers.
-I-dream-of-rtrany—peristell - hop•
Of many a spoken word, .
That, lost am itinthe wreck of time,
Will ne'er ngair. be heard!
Oh! haw the ghosts of buried joys
Start up and haunt my gaze, •
When o'er the tomb of Love and hope
I dream of other days.
Pursiuit of Knowledgb•
Tho following is a most remarkable and
praiseworthy instance of what perseverance
and industry, rightly directed, are able to ef
feet. Among the graduating class, of the
last commencement at Williams' college, was
'one by the name of Condit, from Jersey.—
The gentleman is a shoe-maker, mare ,
has a family of four children. Six years ago,
becoming sensible of the blessings of an ed
ucation, he commenced learning the simple
branches, such as are taught in our primary
schools. One by one, as he sat on his she
maker's bench; he mastered grammor, arith
metic, geography, &c.,_with some occasional
assistance from his fellow-w - orkmen. At
this time he determined to`obtain a collegiate
education. Without means, and with a
large family depending on him for support.
he commenced and learned Latin and Greek
in the evenings, after his' days' labor was
over, under the direction of a friend; and af
ter the lapse of a year and a half, prepared
himself, and entered. the sophomore class at
Williams' college.
He brought his bench and tools, as well as
his books, with him. The stadents suppli
ed him with work; - the faculty — sesisted him;
and with the fund for indigent-students-and
some occasional assistance frour_otber eources
he was enabled to go through tho — cTollego
course, and at the same time support his fam
ily. lie graduated on his birth—day—aged
thirty-two. He stood high in his class, and
received a part eat commencement,- but de
clined. At the farewell meeting of the_class,
iti — eonsitertitiniTuf his perseverance, talent:
and Christian character, they presented him
with an elegant set of silver spoons, tea and
table, each handsomely engraved with an ap
propriate inscripti on.
Mr. Condit will now enter the Theological
Seminary at New York, and will no doubt
make a faithful and popular minister.
What young man in this country will ev
er, after such an example as this, despair of
obtaining an education?
`.l Don't Care '
Indeed, Mr. Upstart, 'ddon't • ClTe. ' So
says the strutting fop, the idler, lounger,
loafer. So says the vain, giddy, flirting nov
el reader—the impudent miss to her mother,
'I don't care "I'll So as "please, road what
I please, dress as I please!' $o says the un
ruly. disobedient urchin. So says the iron
hearted rumseller. The cruel oppressor,
'Let me alone, I'll do as I please, kill or no
kill—l 4143't care,' says (he profane swearer
an d Sabbath breaker. 'Who's a better
right?' how does this sound, young friends.
Little readers, do you ever say to your pa
rents, teachers, or any one, don't care?'-
0, shame; shame! 'Care?' yes, you should
always care; care to do good, to do what is
right, honest, pure, lovely, and of good re
port. Care to be affable, courteous, indus
trious; neat, obedient—temperate in all
things. You should care to keep good com
pany, read good books, and shun the evil.
You should fear God and keep his command
ments, to acknowledge Him in all your ways
—to do justice, love mercy, and walk hum
bly, glorifying God in all things. These are
the things you should care fordaily and hour
ly. •
There is no Rarer mark of lazy, trifling,
impudent, insignificant. good for nothing
chaps, than this same don't care ism; to hear
them drawl out. when they do something
wrong, 'I don't care.' Is it not a forerun
ner-of every evil? of everything base, mean,
low, corrupt, shameful?
Whenever we bear a boy, girl-, or any one
making use of the expression, don't care,'
it forcibly reminds us of the proverb of Sol.
onion: 'A whip for the horse. a bridle for
the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.'
FERTILIZING THE SAHARA —The Lem
''don Scientific Review says: "This vast de
sert, whitened by the bones of so many un-
fortunate travellers who have at various times
perished on its inhospitable sands, is likely,
before many ages, to be changed into a rich
and beautiful country. The only cause of
its sterilify • has been the absence of water.—
This will ultimately be supplied by means of
the artesian walls in the utmost abundance.
Every day new cases tiro produced by the
multiplication of these . wells, whieli supply
vast quantities of water."
A Gbon NuasmymaN.—At a Denver
dinner party tho other day, where Salt Lake
peaches and grapes formed prominent articles
of the de4sert, the conversation naturally
turned upon the fruits of that region. Var•
ions opinions were expressed, and finally one
to the effect that 13righam Young was the
hest fruit gardener in the United States
A lady responded: "fie certainly ought to
I.e, t-ieee, froth all accounts, ho hat! the. utort
tate,nsivenursery iu the word."
"[lave the jitr . ; , ' agreed?" asked a ittd:T or
coart uttscheu, wh,ont he met upon the
s:ai►s %jilt a bucket in hie hand. ,"Yes, ) '
replied Patrick, •they have agreed to send
o a for a hail gallon"
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Our Fortune Teller
The man who is born in Au.nst
into Ihe world-in the very nick of time to
get adrink of new peach brandy„ He will
be fond of ladies and will adore Bologna sau
sage. lie will, be passionate, hot-headed
and devoted tb - Swits'er-False. If an Irish
man, he will_be a_bricklayer;_if a Seetchman
he will brew ale; if an Englishman, he will
be a tradesman; and if an American he will
be an oil spectilator and make a lar• e fortune
.dealing" in fancy paper. e will wear
a stove pipe and will be sent to Congress or
be elected to the penitentiary. The lady
wbo is born in this month will be handsome
and attractive if 'not othorwise. She will
have rosy cheeks and bright eyes if she
doesn't eat chalk and drink vinegar "to gi' e
herself an interesting, delicate pallor. She
will be able to talk a few, and will be either
__very fond of admiration or very different
from the rest of her sex. • SLe will have two
husbands and will die a widow.
The man born in September will be a
queer baby if, he don't cry. He will be call
ed a "dear little precious" by his affection
ate mother, who will have a partiality for
him which will not be shared by the kittens
=• • • . = tre son le p ace. e wi get
older and larger in the usual way, and will
have a nose. It may bo red. He will sleep
in the gutter under Certain circumstances
and other circumstances he won't. The la
dy born in this month will be fond of being
courted, will wear tilters if she has a pretty
foot, and ankle, and will be constant until she
finds a new sweetheart, and her lips and
cheeks will occasionally conic i n contact
with a mustache, and she will somethnes
have a jeans coat sleeve round her waist.
Clinching a Sermon.
I heard a sermon once from a venerable
itinerant preacher on benevolence. I thought
the effort vory lean, hut one thing imi ressed
me a little, "Go," said be, "and do soms•
thing after I have done preaching. Have it
to ssytwhen I come hack, four weeks hence,
that you have done something, and Ovoid
and God's - word for it, you will be wetter
and a happier man." I knew a poor widow
living on the edge of some woods about a
mile from my home. !ler husband had been
dead three ve.--
two or three years, and with three beln•
leis little girls she had a hard conflict with
poverty. .1 had often spoken kindly to hi r
and thought my duty ended when. the words
were . o net; tut w ten the sermon of the
old white-headed preacher was done, the res
olution was fortncrt to,go and do something.
Next day I visited the cellar and measured
a bushel of potatoes, a bushel of apples, and
variety of other things, and having put
them into a wagon, started for the cottage of
the widow. A load of wood for which I paid
three dollars, preceded me.
An hones drive brought both loads in
front of the ho.tso, and when explanation
was given there were wet eyes and warm
hearts in both parties. The widow. wept for
joy-suck the children joined in, while I, find
ing my feelings too much for my strength,
had to give sway also in tears 'I he act was
one that give me a new spiritual start; and
when the preacher came back, I thought the
discourse ono of the most eloquent I had ev
cr listened to. The change was
y in myself,
not in him or his preaching.
COARBF, BUT STINGING.-A brow
counsel asked a witness during a trial
sault, at what distance he was from the per
ties when the assault baripened. He repli
ed:
"Just four feet five inches and a half."
"now come you to be so very fine% fel
low?" said the counsel.
"13cesuse I expected some fool or other
would ask me," said he, "so I measurel
it."
The cele . nrated rortrait painter, Stuart,
once met a lady in the street in Boston, who
saluted him with, "Ah. /11r. Stuart, I have
just seen your miniature, and kissed it be.
cause it was so much like you." "And 'did
it• kiss you in return?' "Why, no?" "Then
said Stuart, "it was not like me "
In Dublin, a great Methodist orator once
attempted to preach from the text, "Remem
ber Lot's wife," and made n failure. After
wards remarking to Dr. Bad that ho did
not know the reason of his failure, the ven
erable doctor replied that "he had better
herealter let other people's wives alone."
"Muss," said Ginger, "what had you rath
er ride in—a Aragon tsid Iklassa Kost a drivin'
or steam boat?"
"Wy, I'd radder, ride in de wagon, be•
km if it npaets, dsr you is:—but if de
steamboat blows up' de Lord only knows mbar
you nm.
n Irish an, nn hearing of a friend bar
ing a ) coffin made f..r himself, exe!airti
e.d: "By my sowl and that's a good idec
Sure.sad a stone m•ilin last a wan Lis
lite time"
Quilp thinks it rather remarkable that
while several tlinusnnd feet are rerinired ro
wake ono rood, a single toot, properly appli
ed, is often t , afficieut to woke ono civil.
Snoakey says: "The prettiest s-ming m*.
chine io the world is about. seventeen yearn
old, with'short sleeves, lew ticek dress, and
gaiter boots on."
"Do you like nnve's?" asN Mies Fitzge- -
rald of her back woods !over. "I can't exy;
I never ate any; but Pm death, on peeltuw.'
'lh
Are iRa eirl in (3 ,, oinna,ti snell a hard
at knitting thar when bhe has uothiag to do
R ho knit;: at.tr brow
ll'lLy is a romve like an-old Kmoker? Bs
ci,n•a it cinnot do witii . atat a pipe
° Nitellen girls are now termed "dm yrtin,7 )
lames of the other par'or.
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