BY FREIYK L. BAKER.
BRITTON & MUSSER'S i f
FAMILY DRUG!" 1:E,
.11Iarket Street, - 4 ,1 11 ,- a, Pa.
BRITTOT: & MUSSER, successors to Dr. F.
will continue the butlinees at the old
.fiend, where they are daily receiving additions
,„ their stock, which are received from the
Dioat reliable importers and manufacturers.
T h e y would respectfully ask Q liberal share
public patronage.
they are now prepared to supply the du
of the public with everything in their
[ale of trade. Their stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINTAS
FRT,SII AND NYRE, lump JUST ARRIVED.
I'ol ernes` o g.iquoN .
FOIL MEDICINAL USES ONLY, -
All THE POPULAR PATENT MEDICINES.
Dye Stalls of all kinds, Fancy and Toilet Ar
ticlei of every kind, Alcoholic and Fluid
Sixtrati, Alcaloid and Resinoids, all
the beat Trusses, Abdominal Sup
po rtera, Shou bier Braces, Breast
Pumps, Nipple Shells and
Shields, Nursing Bottles,
A large supply of
HAT, HAIR, TOOTH, NAIL AND CLOTHES BRUSHES. ,
Toth powder and Pastes, Oils, Perfumery,
,atps, Combs, Hair Dyes, Invigorators, Sze.;
Old Oil, Lumps, Shades, Chimneys, Wick, &c,
Physicians supplied at reasonable rates .
Nlitlivines and Prescriptions carefully and ac
curately c ompounded all hours of the day and
bight, by Charles 11. Britton, Pharmaceutist,
who will pay especial attention to this branch
d the business. Having had over ten years
parties' experience in tke drug buainess ena
qcs him to g uarantee entire satisfaction to all
eh„ way puts/Diu the new firm.
ItAssou's Compound Syrup of Tar, on
Died and for sale.
A huge suppl of School Books, StationarY,
&c y .. always on hand.
SUNDAY HOURS:
From Sto 10, a. in.,-12 to 2, and 6to6p. m.
ChtirVl 11. Britton. A. Musser
Marietta, October 20, 1866. Iltf
gin A. LINDSAY, .408
MANUFACTURER & DEALER IN
BOOTS & SHOES,
MARKET STREET, MARIETTA, PENN.
%Vonl4 most respecttully inform the citizens
of this Borough and neighborhood that he has
ut Ibis lone the largest assortment of City made
work ever offered in this Borough, amongst
which may be mimed the new-style
;Foot, Globe,—V AANOI.qiS
FOIL THE LAME&
A. L. being a practical BOOT AND SHOE
MARIO, enables him to select with more
;elginent than those who are not. He contin
;:es to manufacture in thd very beat manner
everything in the BOOT AND SHOE line,
.Aluch he win warrant for neatness and fit.
Call and examine the new stack before
og elsewhere.
W ILLCO.K wo R , L isE GLIII ss I3S
a.V%iwt..a
_/ILadzirie
The most simple, complete end easily man
wed Sewing Machine now in use. It does
(eery ,!Pieription of work—never stops, at or
1.4A:1 to be helped over scams, but does all
is work rapidly and well. The needle re
ylires no adjustment —you cannot get it in
wrong—it makes any width of hem you wish
-,(1,,es braiding beautifully: The Braider tif
a the foot of every machine and part of it.
lind is always adjusted, never gets out of place,
Call and examine them before purchasing
itrq other, at
H. L. & E. J. Z ARM'S,
C , ,riler North Queen ,street and Centre Square,
Solo Agents for Lancaster County.
Lancaster, February 17, 1865.-tf.
1-11.rnE-le, IVI.
Physician and Surgeon.
If AVI NG removod to Columbia, would em
-I.l_ brace this opportunity of informing hie
I ,, treer patients and tamilies in Marietta and
•ieittity, that he can still be consulted daily,
Lit wren 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at
the residence of Mr. Thomas Stence. Any
word left there will be promptly attended to.
Marietta, April 1,1867,4 f.
DR. J. Z. HOFFER,
DENTIST,
Or TILE BALTIMORE': COLLEGE
I lium' OF DENTAL SURGERY,
LATE OF HARRISBURG.
11FFICE:—Front street, next door to It
Willifitus' Drug Store, between Locust
'lll,l Walnut streets, Columbia.
DA.NIEL G. BAKER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LANCASTER, PA
OFFICE :—No. 24< NORTH DUNE STREET
opposite the Court House, where he will at
tend to the practice of his profession in all its
various branches.
- "VAT_ - C7Nrc•rrall,
Sul icon Dentist, 4
%/ MET STREET, ADJOINING="II4.4
rn j r & Itatlt's ,Store, second floor,
MARIETTA, PA.
H. B. TROUT, X. D.,
Offer s his professional services to the citizens
of Marietta and vicinity.
Ot vac I::—III the Rooms formerly occupied
by Dr. V. Hinkle, Market-et., Marietta.
Arr KNTION SPORTSMEN!!
A Eley's Gun cape, Eters Gun Wadds,
Dupont's Sporting and Glazed Duck Powder
Baltimore Shot; Shot Pouches, Powder Flasks
old at JOHN SPANGLER'S.
THE SEASON!
Amuther amval.of those incomparable Gas
Ilurrung Parlor - Stoves. Also,
THE IMPROVED VULCAN HEATER.
Cull unesee them at J. SPANGLER'S.
CHOICE Lot of Books for children called
IX in iltstructable Pleasure Books ; School and
l'alwr Books, Stationary, Pens, Pen holdeis
at DR. LA NDIS'.
SomwritiNG NEW Patent clasp pock
et books, no Bunt bands to renew, adapte
1 .0 say condition of the finance, at
JOHN SPANGLER'S.
li "). "
El OF .431E121CA, for beautifying
n
t hr complexion, softening the skin, re
-'.n mil, freckles told pimples.
nt Dr. Luntliz' "Golden Mortar."
T4,tcm ariett an.
2ld.Ys'✓7i~4.
The Mariettian, is published weekly,
at 1 11:0 a-year, payable in advance.
Office in "Lindsay's Building," near
the Post office corner, Marietta, Lan
caster county, Pa.
Advertisements will be inserted at the
following rates : One square,tenlines
or less, 75 cents for the first insertion,
or three times for $1:50. Profession
al or Business Cards; of six lines or less,
ow a-year. Notices in the reading col
umns, ten cents a-line ; general adver
tisements seven cents a-line for the first
insertion, and for every _additional in
sertion? four cents. A liberal deduc
tion made to yearly advert4sers.
Having put up a 71610: Jobber press
and added a large addition of job type,
etas border, etc., will enable the estab-
liihment to execute every description of
Plain and Pane?'Printing, from the
smallest card to the largest poster, at
short notice and reasonable rates.
A Snake in tho Grass,
BY JOHN G. AXE
CoMe, listen to me, my lad,
Came, listen to me a spell
Let that terrible drum
Fora moment be dumb,
For your unele.is going to tell
What befell
A youth who loved liquor well.
A clever young man was he, my lad,
And with beauty uncommonly blessed,
Ero with brandy and wine
He began to decline,
And behaved like a person possessed.
I protest
The temperance plan is the best.
One evening he went to the tavern, my lad,
He went to the tavern one night,
And drinking too much
Rum, brandy and such,
The chap got exceediugly "tight,"
And was quite
What Vier aunt would entitle a "fright."
The fellow fell into a snooze, my lad,
'Tie a horrible slumber he takes-L.
He trembles with fear,
And acts very queer ;
My eves! how he shivers and shakes
When he wakes,
And raves about great horrid snakes !
'Tis a warning to you, and to meouy lad,
A particular caution to all—
Though no one can see
The viper but he—
To hear the poor lunatic howl,
"How they crawl
All over the floor and the wall:,
The next morning he took to his bed, my lad,
Next morning he took to his bed;
And he never got up
To dine or to sup,
Though properly physicked and bled ;
And I read,
Next day the poor fellow was dead.
You have heard of the snake in the grass, my
d,
Of the viper concealed in the grass;
But now you must know
Man's deadliest foe
Is a snake of a different class !
Alas !
'Tis the viper that lurks in the glass.
THE LAST TlME.—There will be, dear!
reader, a last time to us with all things;
earthly—a list time to speak of the
goodness of God, and urging sinners to
come to this fountain of life.
A last time we shall have of speaking
to a beloved brother or sister, or kind
father or mother, it may be, who knows
novas yet the blessedness of religion.
A last time the Sabbath school teach- I
er will have of appearing before his
clue.
A last prayer the Christian will offer,
a last hymn of praise he will sing.
There will be, to, to the sinner a last
time—.n last tithe of attending the pray
ermeeting, a - last prayer he will hear of
fered for his salvation. A last sermon,
a-last Sabbath that will ever dawn upon
him.
There is to be, there mast be a last
time to all these privileges which we
now enjoy.
Do we rightly consider these blessings ?
The present is ours ; it may be our last.
Let us wisely improve each day-and mo
ment, as though indeed it were our last,
then shbil we be prepared for the un
known future:
or The following purports to be a
model medical puff: "Dear Doctor, I
shall be one hundred and seventy-five
years old next October. For over eighty
four years I have beeu an invalid, un.
able to step except when moved by, a
laver. But a year ago, I heard of the
Gyanicular syrup. I bought a bottle,
smelt the cork, and found myself a new
man. I can now run twelve miles and a
half in an hour, and throw thirteen sem.
ersaults without stopping."
dar Almost every young lady is pub-
g6tptilkut thnitsebania goltrnat for itt ffiontt Gait.
MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1867.
Remembrance of the Dead,
They tell us--don't they ?--that one
.. .
of the mercifullest dispensations of
Providence is our facility for forgetting
—the ease and quickness with which
we get over things. To me it seems
that what points out the sting of every
grief, is the thought that a time will
come when we shall grieve no more.
It is terrible enough, God wot„ for a
person to drop out of our lives ; but to
drop out of our hearts tool Ah, poor
dead ones I is not that hard ? As long
as their memory is with us fresh and
green—as long as h lives with us, as '
they themselves lived with us, coming
in and going out, in the house and in
the street, in talk and in silence, on Sun
days and on week-days—so long as we
do seem to keep a little portion of them
with-us, they do not seem quite gone
away from us. But the - same thing hap
pens to na all. Strive and resolve as we
may to keep our sorrow fresh, and new,
and glossy, it is all to no purpose ; it
grows insensibly old, and stale, and shab
by, like the crape around our hats. Have
not you, oh friends, before now, seeing
some aquaintance who had just issued
out of a great tribulation, laughing and
talking, apparently unchanged—have not
you said within yourselves, how unfeel
ing he is i how different I should be !
And lo ! the apple of your eye is taken
away from you, and in a week or two
you also are laughing and talking—the
river of your life flows on smooth, • un
ruffled, as if that new made grave were
razed out of creation.
' . Ont of sight, out of mind," is true to
a certain extent of all of us. We can
not be always thinking of what we never
see ; that it is the very thing that makes
it so difficult for us to rest our minds on
heaven, and heaven's high King. We
cannot see them, and so we but feebly,
tranciently realize them. The people
we see, who talk to us, and we to them,
whom we can hear, and, touch, and feel,
gradually fill more and more of that va•
cant space ; the overpowering force of
time saps our woes, as a little wave,
splashing through long ages, wears and
hollows at last the great granite rock.
But oh ! we don't forget. really ! I don't
mean you to think that. The wound
heals over slightly ; we cored not walk
about with great gaping gashes. The
world's work could not get done if we
did ; but beneath the surface that looks
all fair and even, there is a great dull
ache going on always—an ache that takes
the taste of our life's savory meats, and
makes us tall short day all too long.
Troy, N. Y.
MARRIAGE AND CELIIIAbY.—An essay o
warning and instruction for young men : also;
Diseases and Abuses Which prematurely pros,
trate the Vital Powers, with sure means of
releif. Sent free of charge, in sealed letter
envelopes. Address, DR. J. Smilax Houorr-'
TON, Howard Association, No. 2 South Ninth,
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. [ july I , .
S. S. RATHVON,
Merchant Tailor, and Clothier,
At P. I. Kramples Old Stand, on the Coyl
ner of North Queen and Orange
Streets, Lancaster, Penn'a.
GR ATEF U L to the Citizens of Marietta{
and vicinity, for the liberal patronage
heretofore extended, the undersigned respect-.
fully solicits a continuance of the same; as
suring them, that under all circumstances, no.
efforts will be spared in rendering a satisfactory{
equivalent for every act of confidence reposed.{
CLOTHS, CASS/MERES A N VESTINGS, and
such other seasonable material as fashion and
the market fain/Mee, constantly kept on hand
and manufactured to order, promptly, and rea l
sonably, as taste or style may suggest.
A L50,-READ Y , DI ADE CLOTHING,
Gentlemen's Furnishing Goonds
and such articles as usually belong to a Mer
chant Tailoring and Clothing establishment.
Bishop, who was fond of shoaling,
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
OF in one of his excursions, met with a
MEDICINE AND SURGERY. friend's gamekeeper, whom he sharply
A Semi -Monthly Yournare Medicine, Surgery, Ireproved for inattention to his religious
• Physiology, Hygiene, and General Litera-1
tune, devoted to the Profrsnind_thenpr../.. duties, exhorting him strenuously to
go to church and read his Bible." The
keeper, in an angry mood, responded,
Why - I do read my Bible, sir, but I
don't find in it any mention of the apos
tles going a-shooting." " No, ray, good
man, you are right," said the bishop ;
"the shooting was very bad in Palestine
so they went fishing instead."
unta:
?OFDUNES AT A SINGLE BLOW.—"I. find,"
said a shrewd merchant, "I make most
money when I am least anxious about,
it." There is practical philosophy in
this remark. Caution, prudence, sagac
ity, and deliberation are all necessary
to business success. Some men, it is
true, get rich suddenly, but the great
majority do not, and cannot. Bonaparte
once said, "I have no idea of a merchant
acquiring a fortune as a general wins a
battle—at a single blow." Such for
tunes too often vanish.suddenly.
To make a whitewash ibat will not
rub o'l, mix up half a pailful of lime and
water ready for whitewashing ; make a
starch of half a pint of flour and pour it
into the whitewash while hot ; stir it
well and it is ready for use.
If yu trade with a Yankoe, steal hiz
. fast • for if he _et6 to .whit•
The Power of Woman,
Whateveri may be the customs and
laws of a country, the women of it decide
the morals. They reign because, they
hold possession of our affections. put,
their influence is more or less salutary ?
according to the degree of esteem which
is granted them. Whether they are our
idols or companions, the reaction is
complete, and _they make us as they are
themselves. It seems as if nature con
nected our intelligence with their dignitYl
as we connect our morality with their
virtue. This, therefore, is a law of eter
nal justice ; man cannot degrade, women
without himself falling into degradation ;
he cannot raise them without himself
becoming better. Let us cast our eyes
over the globe and observe two great
divisions of the h - uman race, the east and
the west. One half of the ancient world
remain without progress or thought and
under the load of a barbarous cultivation,
women are serfs. The other half advance
toward, freedom and light, the women
aro loved and honored.
A PonaNn JOKE.-A good story is
old of a Mr. Sayre, of Lexington, Ken
neky
, Mr. Sayre lisps &little, and a good
joke is told of him, the better for its
truth. Some years since an overseer of
one his farms told him he needed some
hogs an his place. Said Mr. Sayre :
"Very well, go and buy four or five
thouth and pigs right away, and put
them on the farm."
The man, accustomed to obey, and
hat without questioning, asked :
"Shall I take the money with me to
purchase with ?"
"No thir I They all know me. Them]
thein here—l'll pay them, or give you
the money to pay when you get them."
The overseer went his way, and in
two weeks returned, when the following
conversation took place:
"Well, Mr, Sayre, I _ can't get that
many pigs—l have ridden all over the
country, all about, and can buy but be-
t ween eight and nine hundred." .
"Eight or Pine hundred what?"
"Eight or nine hundred, pigs."
"Eight or nine hundred pigth ! Who
told you . to buy that many pigth? Are
you a fool ?"
"Yon told me to buy them two weeks
since. I have tried to do it."
"Eight or nine hundred pigth I I ne
ver told you any such a thing."
"But you did—you told me to go out
and buy four or five thousand pigs I"
"I• didn't do no thutch . thing I rtold
you to go and buy fon!. or five thouth
and their little pigs, and you have done
it I thould say."
J/fMr. Sayre had pork to Bell next , 11.
TRUE RELIGION Is PLEASANT.=OIIO of
the great avenues to success in religion
consists in making it pleasant, and being
pleasant yourself, and acting in such a
way as to explode the old notion that a
thing is dull in proportion as it is good,
and that a thing is good in proportion
as it is stiff, and hard, and narrowing,
and that a man with a lugubrious face,
bringing midnight to children, was a
great deal more apt to produce deep
emotions than anybody else. Gaiety
and humor, and genial ways, tend also
to deep affections and moral earnestness.
It is the spirit not only, but the express
declaration of sacred writ, that we are`
not only to do men good, but that we
are to see to it that, in doing good, it is
not done harshly, or at the expense of
suffering. We are to do them good, if
possible, in the pleasantest way. We
are to make religion pleasant to them.
----__
cr They have a patriarch in Taunton, I
Mass., who says that he once raised a
floc k of wild ducks from a pond, when
he took aim at them with his gun and
fired. They flew away with mach clam
or, and, surprised to find that none of
them dropped, he examined the field of
battle. He picked up four bushels of
legs. There is a touch of pathos in the
old man's voice as he added I flied too
low."
A philosopher being asked what was
the first thing necessary toward winning
the love of a woman, answered, "An op-
"Too Mum" Drmo."-,-in a small vill
age in New England, lived an old chap,
who,,though very wealthy, did not pos
sees a goad education, as also - did not
hie Fife. He yurchased much of his
household goods at a dry-goods and gro
cery store in the,village and at, the end
of the year the bill was presented for
payment. On one occasion in ladling
it, over, he,observed that the worcl
to" occurred frequeooy. On reaching
home le said to his wife
" What have
f yom,been doing with so
much ditto this year ?" sho,wingherbew
it stood onthe bill. " I haven't bought
any' and what have you been doing with
so much ?"
" I haven't bad a bit," oho replied.
"You must have, had it," he . returnsd,
"for M. alwaYs deals honestly by me,
and here it is on the bill. Yon can see
for yourself."
" I donq care if it is . ; I haven't had
any, and M. has cheated yon; I always
said he wonld." •
".Well, then, I.mnet see about it," he
replied. So he trudged back to the
store. ' "
"Look here M., what do yon mean
charging me with so much ditto ?
haven't had any, and my wife says she
hasn't."
M. bit his lip and politely explained.
When 'the old - gentleman returned
home, his, wife inquired if he had found
out about the 'ditto.
"Yes," slSid he "I have found out
=
hat I was a great fool, and you was, a
ditto.
SPlCy.—Therb was a knot of sea cap
tains in a store at Honolulu, the- keeper
of which had just bought a barrel of black
pepper. Old Captain --, of Salem,
came in, and seeing the pepper, took- up
a handful of it,
"What do you buy each stuff as tha
for Y It halt peas," said he to the store
keeper.
"Peas there isn't a pea in it," re
plied the storekeeper.
Taking up a handful as he spoke, he
appealed to the , company. They all .
looked at it, and plungedtheir heads into
the barrel, and , bit a kernel or so, sand ,
then gave it as their universal opiniOn
that there wasn't a pea in it
,
"I tell you there le, ".said the captain,
again scooping up a handful ; "and I'll
bet a do - liar on it." • •
The Old Boston argument all over the•
world. They took him up.
"Well," said he, "spell . that," pointing
to the word 'P-e-p-p-er,' painted on, the
side of the barrel; "if it isn'4 half p's,
then I'm no judge, that's all."
' he bet was paid.
MASTER AND SCROLAR.—" When I was
a boy," said an old man, "we had a
:choolmaster who had an odd way of
catching idle boys. One day he called
out to lat 3 :
"Boys, I must have closer attention_
to your books. The first one of you-that_
sees another boy idle I want you to in
form me, and I will attend to-the case.
"Ah, thought I to myself, "there is
Joe SimpsoEc - that I don't like. I'll
watch him, and if I see him look off his
book, I'll tell. It was not long, before
I saw Joe look off his book, and I imme
diately informed the master.
"Indeed," said he, "how did you know
he was idle 1"
"I saw him, said I.
"You did ; and were your eyes on.your
book when you saw him ?"
I was caught, and never weached for
idle boys again.
If we are sufficiently watchful over our
own conduct, we shall have no time to
nd fault with -the conduct of others.
FOR SUNDAY.—The following is to be
read every Sabbath morning, just before
starting to church :
"Diary do you remember the text this
morning V "No papa, I never can re
member the text ; I've such a bad mem
ory." "Mary," said her mother, "did
you notice Susan Brown?" "Oh, yes.
What .a fright! She had on her last
years bonnet, done up ; a pea green silk,
a black lace mantilla, brown.gaiters, an,
imitation of a lioniton collar, a lava
bracelet, her old ear drops, and such a
fan ! Qh my 1" Mother—" Well my
dear, your memory is improving."
A lady was examining an applicant
for the office of "maid of all work," 'hen
she asked her if she could scour tinware
with alacrity. Ma'am," replied
Mary, "I atlas scour 'em with sand."
sgr Refusing to pay your printer's
bills and robbing a hen roost are the
same thing in Dutch, only a little differ;
ently expressed.
sir The last case of jealousy. is that
of a lady who discarded her lover, a sea
VOL. XIII.--NO. 43.
Stuff for Smiles.
Why is a woman mending her stock
ings deformed ? Because her hands are
where her feet ought to' be.
A wicked paragraphist thinks " stuffi
ing" in this country developes the fair
as well as the fowl.
"Of she goes," said Mr. Smith to his
spouse, as they started .by the railway.
"Yon are wrong," said Mrs. Smith,
'for this is thernail train."
"Sam, why am members -of de Con
gress like de fishes 2" " I don't meddle
with the Bailee' Pomp." "Why, don't
you see, dey'e so fond of debate."
Carlyle, in hie advice to young men,
Gaye : "If you doubt whether to, kiss a
pretty girl, give her the benefit of the
doubt."
"One might have heard a pin fall."
is a proverbial expression of silence ;
but it has been eclipsed by the French
phrase; "Yon might have heard the
unfolding of a lady's cambric handker
chief."
It is stated that a sexton of a fashion
able church in New York, has sold two
bpshelS of "bugle trimming," found in the
pewa'and aisles, during the last season.
It is to be sorted and used again.
"The eastest way to get a living,"
says a vagabond poet, "is to sit on a
gate and wait for good luck. In case
goodjuck don't come along, you are no
worse off than you ware before."
We have heard of the witty reply of a
slave who had stolen and eaten one —of
his master's turkeys, when he was accus
ed of the crime. He replied, saying that
"massa's property only changed form ;
he has less turkey, but more nigger."
There is an old story that a Jaw while
indulging in a morsel of forbidden
food, (pork) was overtaken by a terrific
thunder storm, and that, as the thunder
roared, and the lightning flashed around,
he exclaimed : "Plesh my soul, vet a
pother apout a leetle pit of pork !"
"How is your son to-day ?" asked a
friond of a stock broker. "Very ill,"
replied the old gentleman, struggling to
maintain- composure, tears coursing
down his cheehs ; "very ill—l would
not give ten per cent, for his chance for
life."
"Pa, didn't you whip me for biting
Tommy'?"
"Yee; my child, you hurt him very
mach."
"Well, then, pa, you ought to whip
mamma's music teacher, too, for he bit
mamma right in the mouth, and I know
it hurt her for she put her arms around
his neck and tried to choke him."
"As I was going," said an Irishman ; N.
"over Westminster bridge the other day,
I met Pat Hewins, says I 'how are you ?'
'Pretty well, I thank you, Donley,' says
he. Says I, 'that's not my name.' Faith
and no more is my name Hewins,' says
he. So we looked at each other, and
faith it turned out to be neither of us."
A young lawyer, who had long paid
court to a lady without much advancing
his suit, accused her one day of being
insensible to the power of love. "It
does not follow," she archly replied,
"that I am so because I atm not to be
won by the power of attorney.""F4r
give me," replied the suitor, "but yon
should remember that all the votaries of
Oupid are solicitors,"
Apolitical convention in. New Eng-
land several years ago nominated a quiet
well-to do farmer for the office of Lieu-
tenant-Governor. The nominee gra
ciously received the committee appointed
I wait upon him at his residence, and
after expressing his thanks for the honor
conferred upon him, informed the com
mittee that he had peculiar qualifications
for Lieutenant Governor, "For gentle
men," said he, "that is just the office I
have held in my house for the last twen
ty.five years."
lir I serenaded Sophia once when she
was but a tender lass, and the greeting
which I received for my traveling musi
cal convention has never been fully
appreciated by me. It was the witching
hour of 1 a. m., when church-yards yawn.
Everything was hushed and stillness
reigned profound. I commenced to
sing, "I bring a little flower to Thee."
Sophia's A tjrannical pap stuck his head
out of 't' window, and in a voice of
thunder roared : "Well, just set it on
the door-step, and don't make so much
fuss about a cussed little flower."
Cr "Sir, I'd have you to know that I
keep one of the best tables in the city,
sir !" exclaimed an indignant landlady
to-a boarder who had beeafiuding fault
with his fare. "'That may be true,
ma'am,' quietly started the boarder,
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