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BROWNYILLE. N. T.
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iege of yearly advertisers will be confined
cir own business ; and all advertisements
thereto, to be paid for extra,
i advertisements charged double the above
ments on tbx inside, exclusively will be
ra.
Wholesale and ltcbul Commission
House, Omih i and Fontcnellc.
THOMAS GIBSON,
IS nojr receiving for salf. n large assortment of the
latest style ot LKDST! Alri, tt. .- ; -f , -Also
Leaving' Corn Miii, adapted for jjrirding
meal cr horde feed with two horses.
Al-io, a lar,;e lot of lla.ll-bu-hel .Measures, stamped.
MercbanU eupphed on whole ale terms.
N. M. FL0RER,
WHOLESALE DEALER IH
Pork, B icon, Iird, S. Cured Hums,
DRIED BEEF AND BEEF TONGUES.
No. 0, SFC.tmare Street, Cincinnati, O.
L M. M UUiUAo,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
AND OBSTETRICIAN,
Two Miles from Urownville, on claim near Mr.
CrsmKlGS: Tenders his professional services ti the
citizens of emaha county.
PRINTING!
Bill Heads
jjAl Labels,
. IB 1
Lading.
1KB BILLS, BALL TICKETS,
? othcr kind of -wcrkthat may be' called for.
purchased, in conn -t-iion with the Ucfloc
e; an xten-ivc and cx?elle'jt variety of
est styles, we arc prpard tA.do any kind of
-.tioae'd in the above Catiil.-gue, with neat-di-ij:U-h.
..j.rV.'tor, who, havir. had an extensive ex
will ive his personal ittention to this branch
ss and 'bop-?., in his endeavors to please,
he .cxelloeo of bis work, and reasonable
n receive share f the public iitrnape.
USINESS ' CARDS.
f V B I
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Corner Second and Morgan Streeta. ;
ST. LOUIS, MO.
1 TANUFACTURERS of Steam Engine3 andBoil-
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Screws and l'rcssc's, Lard Kettles, Lard Screws and
Cylinders, Wool Carding Machines, Yxmng'B Patent
Smut Machines. Building Castings, Ac.
JSfAgents for the sale of James Smith & Co.'s
oupenor jiAVyiii.ci vivijo.
YOUNG'S PATENT SMUT MACHINE. Well
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factored aud for sale by
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TUE OLD ORIGINAL CLOTHIERS,
Ho. 114 AND No. 1 MAIN STREET,
ST.. LOUIS, 3IO.
FOR the approaching spring, we will have a TRE
MENDOUS STOCK OF GLOTIIISG, manufac
tured by ourselves in New York, expressly for this
market.
In point of STYLE, QUALITY and PRICE, rc
defy any and all competition! We have mtrked
d -wn our price very low, as we intend selling to none
but
CASH AXD TJIOMPT MEX.
To such we would ask a thorough examination of
our Stock before purchasing.
l-at SI Alii J & 15KU.
imOVNVIIJLK
:CAR F..LAKE & CO.,
GKNIiliAL
MID LOr AGENTS.
ICE 02 LIVln. let Ut aad 8i bti
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S. HOLLIDAY, II. D.
GEON, PHYSICIAN
id OlDatotriciaii.
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a haro of public jatronage, in the various
f his profession, Irom tue citnens ol lruwn
vieinity. . .
1850. SPUING 1850.
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WHOLESALE AXD RETAIL -
BOOKSELLER & STATIONER.
AND BANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS.
No. 123 Hain, St. Louis, Ho.
IT AS fvT sale all the Spelling books: G.-ographies,
iTJ. Headers: Ilistoriries; Chemistries: Dictionaries.
Arithmetics; Philosophies, fc, now in use, together
with a large stock ot Law, Medical and miscellaneous
books forming the most complete assortment to be
fi.und in the city. Also, riting paper, and roreigr
and Domestic stationary, of the finust quality.
countrr merchants and others should not fuitto call
at No. 120 Main st.
M.
W. BIDES.
RID EN
5c. J. D. N. THOIAPSON,
:OLES.VLR ANn RKT All. PE AI.ERS I!t
ire, Qucensware", (iroceries, aud
Countrr. Prodace.
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GOODS, GROCERIES.
Ineens'ware, Hardware,
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ir attention paid to manufacturing our
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reet, between llain aud Water,
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T TAYING made nrrangtui-nts Ly which we will
AA. receive accurate copies of all the Townships
embraced in the Eastern poniou of Nebraska, we
are now prepared ti offer our services to the
"SQUATTEK8 OF THE TERRITTORY,"
In Filing Deciaiatory Statements of
Intention to Preempt. Securing
lre-f niption", Locating Laud
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REFERENCES.
Hon. A. A. Bradford,
S. F. Nuckolls,
Messrs. Dolman A West,
Peter A. Keller, . .
Thomas Lnmpkin,
June 23, 1856. vl-ni
Nebraska City.
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St. Joseph, Mo.,
Washington City,
. W.- WHEELER,
ITECT AND BUILDER.
ownville, 1".
L. RICKKTTS,
ITER AND JOINER.
NKii'.US4vA. TERSITOKY.
MORE MEN WANTED.
A FEW more active and energetic young men can
find iminediato employment, by which they can
easily make $C00 to $1000 a year, to act as agents for
several new and popular works, just published for
agents, and not for sale in book stores.
We have a great many agents employed, many of
whom are making from $15 ' to $20 per week. Those
who wish to engage in this pleasant and agreeable
business, will fur particulars, requisites, 4c, address
C. L DERBY & CO.
Publishers and Wholesale Booksellers.
Editors of Newspapers, by eivinj the above and
following, three insertions, and calling attention ta
it, shall receive any three of the following works;
Life of Josephine, by Headly, $1.25
Life of Lafayette, " $1,25
Life of Napoleon. " $1,25
Wild Scenes of a nuntr's Life, $ 1 ,00
Life of Mary and Martha Washington, " $1,00
Odd Fellows Amulet, $1,00
Any person wishing any of the above books, can
havo them sent bv mail, free of postage, on receipt
.i i
oi me aoove rciait price.
. vl-n C. L. DERBY A CO., New York.
ivr.h spcxcr.it co.,
-Two N..nh F..rth Strf-et, Near Locust.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
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ng Cards Ac., Slainod and Varnished or
hrt nti-e.
1. Walnut and other fancy wood rieture
Ming.
ie Supplied. Old Frame, tc,, Re-gilt.
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New York. o. w. child, g. c. manscr,
S. Lrnis. St. Liuis.
CHILD, TRATT & CO.,
Direct Importers. Jobbers and M.mufcvturers' AgentH
i f .1 n c a
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v. , BEAUTY OF F2IENCSHIP.
Friendship inspires tliose who are
possessed by it. It is a perpetual fire,
kindling brave thoughts and noble
deeds. To deepen his friend's regard
for him a man strives to heighten his
merits and multiply his achievements.
Love adorns itself that it may win its
meed. One desires to appear beautiful,
heroic, "wise, divine to his friend. To
gether wccairdo what Ave should never
have dared, arid . endure what would
have crushed us alone. ,
"Our hands in one, we will not shrink
FromT fe's severest due;
Oar hands in one, wo will not blink
That terrible and true;
What each would feel a stunning b'ow,
Falls on us both as autumn snow."
The fortifying and motive power of
friendship is varied, immense, and in
exhaustible. It has strengthened
patriots to lay their lives on the altar
of freedom and their country. It3
glowmg cordon was around lell, and
Furst, and Arnold, and their compeers
on the field of Grutli, when breast to
breast, in the shadow of the Swiss
Alps, swore to free the canton from
Austrian thralldom, or die together.
It has encouraged philosophers, poets,
artists, inventors, in their rejected
teachings and unappreciated labors.
The description, by his great disciple,
of the last moments of the poisoned
sage, in his prison, amid a group of
admiring friends, is an illustrative
picture, whose colors fade not in the
sun of Athens, and which the world
will never let perish. The public
career of the great-soulcd Gracchus
plainly owed its chief impulse to the
ardent, evcr-aimr.ating friendship of
Laius JJIosius. lhis communing en
thusiasm still sustains the true and
good when evil days como and the per
secutions of evil men prevail. Now
that the dark eves of Hungary are
lull oi tears, and the pale features of
Italv fixed m despair, and trouble sits
on tho majestic visage of England,
and a usurper lords it in the Tuillcries,
its electric chain, drawn by. a common
cause around Ivossuth, Mazzini, Hugo,
and their brother exiles a connect
link fastened to each heart vibrates
shocks of lijdit andstrensth into their
bosoms.. It has ever been while
humanity remains in man it ever will
be companionship to the captive,
wealth to the poor, impulse to the
struggling, support to the suffering,
solace to the wretched, jo to the pros
perous, and to all who deeply know
it, an inspiring presence through life,
and in death a hope full of immortality.
But before all subordinate calcula
tions of service the inestimable, primary
use and worth of friendship arc in the
spontaneous royalty and delights of
its own prerogative and fruit r. We
prize our friend last for what he docs
for us, first for what he is to us. Darius,
holding an open pomegranate in his
hand, and being asked what it was of
which he would 'wish a number equal
to the seeds thereof, replied by glanc
ing at tho favorite who leaned against
the throne, and pronouncing the plural
of his name, "Zopyruses." Zopyrus
succeeded in taking the hostile city of
Babylon for his master, but was wound
ed and badly disfigured in the enter-
prise, uanus saitl, "I would not have
had Zopyrus maimed to gain a hun
dred lsabylons. While friendship is
valuable for its ofEccs, letus not forget
that it is invaluable for itself. It is
tho .choicest exercise of our best
powers. After all is said, "a friend
is the masterpiece of nature," and en
joyment of him the chief ingredient
m the purest happiness of the world.
How ol ten have we felt that our days
would be filled and run over with un
speakable peace and satisfaction, if we
could but realize as complete a friend
ship as wc dreamed of in the reveries
of the heart, and languished for when
listening, afloat, in the wizard sphere
of music! Is it not so with all: Can
not everyone sympathise with the
spirit, of the young Arab a - reply to
King Cyrus: His horse had won the
victory for him in a great race, and
Cyrus asked if he would sell him for a
kingdom. The youth, fondly stroking
the beloved barb's neck with his cheek,
answered, "No, -but I would give him
with all my heartto find a true friend."
Though we were in paradise, yet it
were not good to be there deserted and
alone. As some one has said, incriti
ci.m of Zimmerman, even in those
peculiar seasons when solitude is sweet,
"still let me have a friend to whom
LET G3 ALL THE AHCH02S.
There are some very good people
who will not sustain this or that be
nevolent enterprise i)f the Church, be
cause they regard it as less important
than some other. They will not do
any thing for foreign missions, because
they think .our own ; country should
first be evangelized."' They will not
sustain church extension, because they
deem the education of the ministry a
paramount-. duty, lhey withhold sup
port from the -superannuated servants
of God, because thev -csnxrinc it will
do more good to scatter abroad tracts
and books.; 1 "'
Such Christians would do well to
imitate the skillful mariner, whose ship
the fierce winds are dashing on a lee
shore. He lets go all anchors. If
the kedge will not hold the best bower
may. If both these fail the sheet
anchor mav arrest the drifting vessel.
If no one of these alone will suffice
they altogether may save his life. So
it is with the benevolent enterprises
of our Church. They are all needed.
Th'ey brace and stay each other in
the great work of arresting souls drift
ing to ruin, and anchoring them safe
by the throne of God Each may be
instrumental in saving some who would
be lost if it were wanting. Every
church edifice erected tends to raise
up missionaries and colporteurs and
theological students. Every chbrh
freed from debt is enabled to contri
bute more liberally for the support of
all that is good.
Grain must be treated like infants;
when the head bends it must be cradled;
and thrashing is resorted . to, to fit it
for use.
Tares are most found with the smaller
grains which require sowing.
Great indulgence in fruit is danger
ous and too free a use of melons pro
duces a meloncolic effect.
Old maids are fond of pairs but
cannot endure any reference to dates.
Sailors are attached to bays; oyster-
men to beeches; love-sick maidens, to
pine. Yankee Jo(ion8.k , , . ,'.
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PATIENCE WITH CHTLDBEIL
One of the requisites for the suc
cessful training of children at home,
or in the school-room, is "patience."
Every teacher, whether the mother or
a hireling, will find her labors made
easy by the constant exercise of this
cardinal virtue. If they "let patience
have its perfect work" in their own
hearts, it will be visible in .all their
conduct, and exert a salutary influence
upon the minds of the young, in whose
future well-being they feel ' a deep
interest. :
There may be hours when, perplex
ed with care and ; worn out with undue
labor, the mother may feel the risings
of impatience in her heart; but nip it
in the bud, before the fruits become
visible in acts of which she may after
in
house in
writes
his
sits nuietlv down i . ;
the north-west r n
sermons, which ( '..ly c
pulpit into a bat a: 1
every Sabbath by a n.c .1 t!.: . ,-!
storm. - Private as pctilcncc r :.;:,:.
another, five-years later, into Lond:r.,
and his wild cry, lonely, at first, as
that of John's in the desert, at last
startles the press, the Parliament, the
country without, the throne within, and
it is felt that one man has conquered
tho two millions. Nay, wa3 there not,
two thou"Snnd years rc-o, . frci i" an
obscure -""mount in GalUce, heard a
voice, saying, "Blessed .arc the poor
in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven?" And has not that voice,
though clouded by opposition, choked
in blood, crushed under the gravestone,
at length commanded the attention, if
not yet the obedience, of the world?
Let no one say in despair, "I am but
one;" in his unity, as in the unity of a
sword, lies his might if his metal be
true, his singleness is strength he
may be multiplied, indeed, but he can
not be divided. Minorities, and minor
ities of one, generally do tho real
work of mankind. Bards of the Bible.
Straps.
YOUTH WASTED.
When Coleridge, in his younger days,
was offered a share in the well-known
I London Journal, by which he could
ward bitterly repent. Let no unkind j havo made two thousand pounds a year,
ANECDOTES OF GENERAL ETHAN ALLEN.
At East Manville, on Grand river,
some twenty miles below Grand Rapids,
Michigan, lives a family by the name
of Hopkins and here, m the posses
sion of an aged lady, niece of General
Ethan Allen, is his sword.
Aware, savs our informant, who saw
it two years since, that the leaders of
the revolutionary struggle were often
selected for their weight and metal, as
well as other military accomplishments,
wc were not surprised to find their
arms of a similar temper. The sword
m question was without ornament, and
might be a hundred years old by its
appearance; very. heavy, with an iron
hilt, on which is engraved in rude
characters, as if (Tut with a jack knife,
the name "Ethan Allen;" the blade,
long, straight and single-edged, in the
style of the Damascus steel.
Though the strong rust spots were
word or hasty blow be given in anger,
lest the rembrance of it should prove
a poisoned arrow to their bleeding
heart, when those loving eyes are
closed in death, and the head which
nestles on her bosom is pillowed in the
grave. Children are won by kind
words; but cross looks and harsh tones
deter them from seeking our sympathy
or giving us their confidence. The
mother or teacher should regard the
sports of childhood as a blessing, join
in their innocent amusements, and
draw from thence some useful lesson
for their future consideration. They
should learn to look up to her as a
friend ' in whom they could confide,
who will bear patiently with their
childish follies, and in kindness seek
to improve whatever may be amiss in
their manners or morals.
But should they turn a deaf ear to
her teachings, and scorn her instruc
tions, seeming inclined to follow the
evil promptings of a sinful and perverse
heart, she has then need of a double
portion of patience to support her in
- j
A western poet, says the Knicker
I : c: c "-rcscd the following in just
c.r..i L:::;-ly rr "Connecticut clock.
Tlicre cr i ' i - c; :rer while there is
so t.i-'.h rlrliT' ia l.: c wintry:
What ! bui il.! j
An' go to lru'..i::'
Just for a thundcriw
Emmancipatcd rn:
The.earrlecf Amer:';:?,
Ihat llow across tho seas,
An throwed the bloody, British lion
ller-slump upon her knees,
Say shall we rend him lim' from lira
Wun wing wuh way, an wun tothcr.
And every sepperitt pin feather,
A flym at the other?
It can't be did! i
I -'ycit".:
DAY & MATLACK, Wholesale
Dry Gols Eo. 57 Pearl street, be
nut and me, Cincinnati, Cht?.
Dealers
tween Wal
pi-oof that a long term of peace is un- this great trial, and enable her at last
congenial to weapons of war, this to "overcome evil wim good, and
relic of the olden time seemed to bring them, by the force of precept
possess in pent-up silence all the fire ard example, to walk in wisdom's
that flashed, from its surface when pleasant ways. " Be kind, be firm and
waving in triumph over the gates of patient, and hope on till the desired
Tieonderao-o. result is obtained.
One of our company intimated to
the owner that if fifty dollars would
be any object, he would like to present
the sword to his father, an early friend
and adviser of Gen. . Allen, with the
assurance that it should descend, an
heir-loom of great valuchrough suc
cessive generations.
The lady, casting a glance at the
luge logs of which the house was
built, with a flash of tle eye said to
be peculiar to the General and his
family, quietly remarked: "There are
.i .t.
some inings in tins nouse tnat money
will not purchase this is one of them.
may soy J 'Solitude is sweet" XoriJi
American Review for July.
In life we shall 1 find many men that
are great, and some men that are good;
but tew that are both great and good
Colfon. - '
CAPTAIN
VEGETABLE
PSIEST ON THE
KINGDOM."
The term vegetable sometimes pro
nounced wegetable is probably de
rived from the peculiar long and pointed
form of this description of esculents,
hence originally called wedgceatables,
then wegetables, and now refined into
the present term.
Annual flowering plants resemble
whales, as they come up to blow.
Jb lowers are very warlike in their
disposition, and are ever armed with
pistils.
As the human family, the lower
portion of all plants arc radicles.
They arc migratory in their habits,
for wherever they may winter, thev are
sure to leave in the spring; moyt'of
them very polite and full of booths.
Like dandies, the coating of many
trees is their most valuable portion.
Cork trees and boot trees for instance.
Grain and seeds are not considered
dangerous except when about to shoot.
Several trees, like watch dogs, are
valued mostly for their bark.
A little bark will make a rope, but
it takes a large pile of wood to make
a cord. '
Though there are no vegetable beaux
there are a number of spruce tree3.
Most trees are respectable, but a
variety of locusses may be found among
them.
It is considered only right and pro
per to ax trees before you fell them.
Fruit trees have military character
istics; when, young they are trained;
. MOSSES ON BOCKS. '
I never had time to examine and
throw into classes the varieties of .the
mosses which grow on the two kinds
of rock, nor have I been able to ascer
tain whether there are really numerous
differences between the species, or
whether they only grow more luxun
antly on the crystallines than on the
coherents. But this is certain, that
on the broken rocks of the foreground
I in the crystalline groups, the mosses
seem to set themselves conscntiully
and deliberately to the task of pro
lucing the most exquisite harmonies
of color in their power. They will
not conceal the form of the rock, but
will gather over it in little brown
mosses, like small cushions of velvet
made of mixed threads of dark ruby
silk and gold, rounded over more sub
provided ne would devote his tunc
seriously to their interest, he declined,
making tho reply, so often praised for
its disinterestedness, "I will not give
up the country and the lazy reading of
old folios for two thousand times two
thousand pounds. In short, beyond
three hundred and fifty pounds a year,
I consider money a real evil." . . . .
"lazy reading of folios" led to laziness,
the indolent gratification of mind and
sense. Degenerating into an opium
eater, and a mere purposeless theorizer,
Coleridge wasted time, talents, and
health; came to depend, in old age, on
the charity of others; and died, at
last, with every one regretting even
his friends that he had done nothing
worthy of his genius. The world is
full of men having Coleridge's faults,
without Coleridge's abilities; men who
can not, or will not, sec beyond the
present;' who arc too lazy to work for
more than a temporary subsistence;
and who squander, in pleasure or idle
ness, energy and health which ought
to lay up a capital for old age. Most
persons, who arc guilty of this neglect,
instead of asserting, a3 they think,
their independence, only betray how
strong a hold indolence or sensual
gratification has upon them. Better,
far better, had Coleridge worked when
he was young, than lived to be what
he became, a dependent, if not a
begger. Philadelphia Ledger.
dued films of white and gray, with
lightly-crisped and curled edges like
hoar-frost or fallen leaves, and minute
clusters of upright orange stalks .with
pointed caps, and fibers of deep green
and gold and faint purple passing into
black all woven together, and follow
ing with unimaginable fineness of
gentle grawth the undulation of the
stone they cherish, till it is charged j
with color so that it can receive no
and instead ol looking ragged
. Domesticity is the tap-root which cr- tney have many kernels;' and their
ables the nation to branch wide andhigh. shoots aro straight
mnrp
,
or cold or stern, as any thing that a
rock is held to be at heart, it seems to
bo clothed with a soft, dark leopard
skin, embroidered with arabesque of
purple and silver. But in tho lower
ranges this is not so. Tho mosses
grow in more independent spots, not
in such a clinging and tender way over
the whole surface; the litchens are far
poorer and fewer; and the color of the
stone is seen more frequently; altered,
if at all, only a little chiller gray than
when it is freshly broken: RusJcui's
"Modern Painters," Vol. IV.
"WHAT CAN 03TB D 01
As the figure one is to the cipher,
few or many, which range after.it, so
is the hero, the saint, the poet, the
prophet, and the sage, to their species.
One man enters, thirty-four ycars-ago,
the western metropolis of" Scotland,
THE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF HEAT.
It is a remarkable fact, that countries
lying within " the samo degrees of
latitude differ greatly in the ranges
of their temperature. On the west
coast of Europe the wintcr3 are com
paratively warm and the summers
equally cool, while on the eastern
coasts of America the reverse of this
is true. Thus, in countries lying 16
degrees further north in western
Europe than New York, the average
temperature in January ;3 30 degrees,
and that of July 60 degrees a rane
of only 30 degrees. In New York the
range of variation often amounts to
nearly 100 degrees.
In January last, the thermometer.
in New York, stood from 5 to 7 degrees
below zero, for some days; while it
ranged from 95 to 93 degrees above
it, for some days last week. But
although the ranges of temperature
differ greatly in different countries, the
actual amount of heat, annually, is
according to tho position of countries
in relation of the poles of the equator.
In Europe, by long observation, it
has been found that the mean temper
ature of a place remains nearly the
same. The. winter may be unusually
cold, and the summer unusually hot,
while the mean temperature has not
varied one degree; a very cold winter
is generally succeeded by a very warm
summer, and vica versa. This has also
been found to be the case with our own
climate the relative distribution of
heat over summer and winter under
goes comparatively small variations.
A cold winter is generally succeeded
by a warm summer. We have noticed
an exception, and only one, to this
rule; that was the summer of 1836,
which was wet and cold, and succeed
ed a very long ami C3ld winter. This
A person who tries to raise himself
by scandelizing others, might as well
sit down on a wheelbarrow, and try to
wheel himself.
Why i3 the common sense of pro
fane yonn men like the waste-water
of mill-ponds? Because it escapes
through their damns.
t How youth makes its wishes hope?,
and ita hopes certainties! Hope is the
prophet of youth. Young eye3 alway3
look forward.
An editor out West boasts that he
had a talk with a woman and got the
last word.
Idleness. What is it? A public .
mint, where various kinds of mischief
are coined and extensively circulated
among the most despicable of the human
race.
Sincerity. Sincerity is to speak
as we think, to do as pretend and pro
fess, to perform and make good what
wc promise, and really to be what wo
would seem and appear to be.
Pleasure. Whenever wc drink too
deeply of pleasure, we find a sediment
at the bottom which pollutes and em
bitters what wc realized at first.
"Julius, was you ever in business?"
"In course I was." "What Vasiness?"
"A sugar planter." "When was dat, ,
ray colored friend?" "Der day I buried !
dat old sweetheart of mine.
An old author quaintly remarks:
"Avoid arguments with ladies. In
spinning yams among silks a.d satins
a man is sure to be worsted and hcisted, '
he may consider himself tcound vp" '
It i3 stated that there is at Saratoga
a fine looking Indian girl, only fourteen
years of age, who has a child three
years old. There s "Young America"
native, too!
A Schenectady editor, describing
the effects of a squall upon a canal
boat, says, "when the.gale was at it
highest, the unfortunate craft keeled
to larboard, and the captain and another
cask of whisky rolled overboard."
The man who, when there is a do
mcstic storm, steps in between man
and wife, is as bad as he who, when it
is rainning violently, walks between
two dripping umbrellas, for he -gets
protected neither by the one nor tho
other, but on the contrary catches it
from both sides.
An Unfortunate Man. Friend
What on earth is the matter with you,
Jack? Jack Why, darn it, there's a
new girl come out, with twenty thou-
a year, and 1 went vcsterrTav.
r ' 1 m
sand
like a fool, and engaged myself to .
Fanny, who's got only fifteen thousand.
Epidemic amoxg Silk Worms. Tho
Ecoddla. Borsa of Milan, says that tho
epidemic which has raged a"mong tho'
silk worms this year, in Lombardy,has
caused a loss to that province of thirty
millions francs.
A gentleman observed to a lady, that
a mutual friend, since a late illness,
had spoken like a puppy. "No doubt
of it' she replied, "for his physician
ha3 since- ordered him to bark thrco
timc3aday."
A traveler in a rather slow coach,
enquired of his next neighbor its name,
who replied, "I think, sir, it is called
the Regulator, for I observe all other
coaches go by it.
A nabob in a severe fit of the gout,
told his physician .that ho suffered the
pains of the damned. Tho doctor
coolly answered, "What, already?"
lWO girls Of fashion prttrnd
an
was accounted for by three very large !f?,s., V
dark spots on the sun's disk, which!", ' Eu
wnro soon VHctrvTr. -;l t..iln-la mode
were seen distinctly with the nak-Pil
eye for at least an entire week. "
mouc going
"I sav, Mr. Printer, do von tnkr Tn,
money.'" "En o." "
diana
the
reason
Can't
; What's
rojator mizzled.
get it!" Inicr-
assembly-room, at the moment a citi-
fat wife was iust emitting it.
1 one of them, "there's hcot
out." "Yes," said
the fat lauVj "and game coming in."
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ,
In lit!! s trades more cheat and lying
An tucd in selling, than in buying.
Rut ia the g'-e.it, uiira utjust d'ilin
h in bayin , thin in s I In j.
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