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BROWNVILLE,, NEBKASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH, 29, 1866 NO. 7 NEBRASKA ADVERTISER GEO. V7. ZXXLL : CO,, AdTertierB:ock,IlAla S't Between 1st 2d I V. ... r i I 1f I ''''. , ' " : . ' ."LIBERTY ND UNION, ONE AND INSEPARABLE NOW AND FOREVER." ' - " - j . i -T . i , , M . . . i i i . . - i- BUSINESS CARDS. Dr. Henry J. Churchman, KB SIGI I. S.I0L t t Graduate of the 5Icdlcal Depart ments of the-University or Tat and Jefferson Sled. Collfgrc, riilla., I'a. T'Moen bl nfesiocll Serried to ibe eiticens cf BrornTlile and Tlcinlty. OFFICE AT THE BUOWNVILLE HOUSE. : FRANZ HELMER, OPPOSITE DEUSER'S TIN-SHOP, XjROTT.yriLLt:, Nebraska. WAOON8, BUGGIES, PLOWS, CUIiTI VITO ES. fcc. , Repaired on abort notice, at tow rate, aad warranted to five aatUfactlnn. i-ll-fn.ua C. F. STEWART, MD. , A. S. DOLL AD AY, MD. - PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. opners Sooth Eact corner of Mala and First S treat BROWXT1LLE, NEBRASKA. Ornci IIocrb 7 to 9 a. K.aad 1 to 2 aad to .BrownTille, Nebraska, May 5th, 1865 No 34,lj: EDWARD W. THOMAS, . ATTORNEY d AT LAW, SOLICITOR INDCIIANCEIIY, ' Office corner of lfaln and Firt Streets. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. AHEBICAII HOUSE L. D. IlOniXSOX, PROPRIETOR, FcootSrreet,' between Main and Water, BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. io.ir llks. ill. ltXjcmctt, Hillinery & Fancy Goods 0TOIU!. Kaia Street one door west of the Post Office . DROIVJVVI LLC, KEURASKA. -- A anperior tock of Fail aon Wiater Good JutreceiTed. Ererything ia tb MiUioery line ' kapteoniUntly n hand. Drefi-Making, Boanet Raacbicr and Trimming done to order. G. 31. UEXDERS03T, OEKXKAL DKALia I STAPLE AMD FANCY DRY GOODS BOOTS & SHOES Main Street between First and Second, Drowxivllle, Teto. 11 - J. B. JOHNSON", OFFICE WITH L. HOADLEY, Corner Main and First Streets, imOTTSVIULE, NEBRASKA. v9-41-it-54 MARSH & QO., tCCCESSOKS TO MARSH & ZOOK, General News Agents and Stationers, Post OHcc Building, BROWNVILLE. NEBRASKA Ha hare on hand aad are oonitantly receiring frath luppliea of Booka, reriodicala, Stationary, '"aotograi.h Albumf, School Booka; alio Confec tionary, Cigafa, Tobacco, and a choice selection of Fancy tiroceriea generally, to which they inrite the wtention of the citiiena of Nofiiaha aoonty, and tbfjhopeb, atrict attention to business, and fair vlaliDg, to merit abare of the public patronage. J..P,VaR;itg, pli-lj J.W. BLISS. " C. W. WnEEMRT" CABINET-MAKER AND n CARPENTER. . UsTing opene4 p permanently on OSuZaItl Street, door abovo the Baltimore Clothing Store, Is Fnred to do all kinds of work in bis line ia the "ry beat and st jla. Particular attentjone giTtn to J. A. IIEWES. ATTORNEY . AT LAW, AND , .Solicitor in Cbancery. XiXD AND COLLECIXG AGE5TS. fBBOWNTILLE N. T. rca tb.ly. 3HOT7IIVILLE HOUSE; ' COR. MAIN AND 1NDSTS, BromiYlllc. Nebraska. V7. PEDICORD, Propxietor, t and r v vjv u nitfi uurucu sou inn; Prorri rnii,leii under iu present aterprisisg jamJ T . r'.wh ?nrrantees satisfaction to ail who Zlinullouse. . -S-ly . "STITCH 15 TIHZ SATES TtlKZV 1... v LOris ALDTER, mil, il W y?t( re4d7 to Perform ail work.pa "'Utobubnaiaeis. Latc .i "S" Pnr,glatlng,and paper hang "ttort aoLt na tjie jpo?t arproTed in.c.H MaSUeet. tut f Ali;rniv'iCLih- wre, jry elaprpared to do all xx c ' 1.5.1:. GO LOR IU I .te,i epeat style for ca ; f'wnnUe, April 7, ly. - : E23 era i lOlKWfiLIEC, Honsc-SIgn & Ornamental ; Glazier, Gilfor, Grainer, ; . ' - All work done ia a workman liie manner, and on strickly TERMS. oki nooa wist or aaowiTiua boss r - - . - V." CSI C3IC2S BICHARD F. BARRET mm p hit, AKD DEALER IX LAND WARRANTS & LAND SCRIPT, Ptrional attention given to maling Location!, Office in J. Ia. Carson's Banking House. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. X'14-ly fr-nn JAMES MEDFOItD, CABINET - MAKER a HT Corner 2nd and Main Streets, BBOWimLLE, N. T Is crepared to do all kinds of work in his line on hort notice and reasonable terms. 1-fim RESTA.URANT oyster'salgon. WILLIAM ROSSELL takes this method cf informing the public that he has just oponadfOo Main street, between 1st and 2nd, BROWKVILLE, NEBRASKA. a Restaurant end Oyster Saloon. Also, Conjectionaries, Canned Fruit, Dried Fruit. gpes W all kinds. Tea, Coffee, 8orar- Tobacco. Potatoes, sweet I'otatoes and ererything nsnally kept In a retain grocery store. t-MEALS SERVED AT ALL nOURS.El FRESH OYSTERS-x-15-ly CLOCK, WATCHES, AXD JOSEPH SIIUTZ lias jnst received and will constantly keep oa hand a large and well selected stock of genuine ar ticles in is Ijne. ' ' One Door west of Grant's Store, Btovxi- vtlle, Jftbraska. Of Clocks; Watches and Jewelry done on the short est Notice. WORK WARRANTED. BrownvtUe, Keb.. Karch 16th. 186. IO-15-ly CHOICE LIGTJOES. Wholesale and Retail Evan "Wortlung, OF THE BROWNVILLE, Has Jnat Received the larjrest and best ttock ot Liquors and Cigars ever offered In this market, and 111 sell them as low as any House in ue Territory. VTHITXEir'S BLOCK, Slain Street, Erowa-ille Fea.4,'4yly. Have just opened a splendid Stock of (GEIOCIHIHIIIBS, COKSISTTKO OF Sugars, Teas, Coffee, Rice, Tobacco Cigars, Soap, Dried Fruit of all kinds, Nuts, Candies, Molasses, Salt, Wooden Ware of all kinds, Canned Fruit, Oys ters, Pickles, and eyery Article usually kept in a first class Grocery' Store jri v WniiKEY's Block, Main Street Erownyille Nebraska, Invites the public to call and exam ine their Stock, beforo purchasing elsewhere as they are coiupident, August 3 1st 1865."., 'o Affui: Cure. .TIPTON & HEWETT, 0 at a BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, March 1st, 'G3. ly. , electing or School Examiners. Notice Is hereby giren that the Board of Schoo Examiners of Nemaha County, Nebraska, will hold meetings for the Examination of Teachers for sail Coaaty, at the office of E. W. Thomas, la EroWnilie,ctttbe 1st Saturday In erery month, between the hoars of one and 3 P. M, Applicants for certLfieates are required to be present at one o'clock, precisely, or they will not be examined. no person need apply at any other time. By order of the Board , " ' E. W. THOMAS, Clerk. April 1st, -yjy G RAN TVS CAEAP CASH STORE. JJain Strut between First and Second. BROWXWILLE, N. T. baveln store a large and well selected stock of Boots and Shoes, Finest Quality of Winter Stock, WHICH HB OFFERS FOB SALE CHEAP FOR CASH Groceries of Every Kind, Sugar, Coffee, tea, Soda, Allspice, Pepper, Candles, Tobacco, Matches, Starch, &c.,&c.,&c. All of which be offers at the lowert prices, deter mined not to be undersold. - GRANT. BrewnTlIle, Keb.. ' ' ' lx-.6m.7,50 Bffl JIM !!! We have jalt receired our first lot of fresh Seed and eaa furnish it by the pound or bushel, at the lowest market price. Woo Id advise those in want to correspond with oa before purchasing of other parties PLANT & BROTHER, .2 ms. - ST. LOUIS, Mo. JACOB MAIiOHN, DE1EIMIT TAILOR. BRO VTNVILLE, ....... NEBRASKA Cat la the attention of Gentlemen desiring new, neat ervlcabte and f aabionable - - WEARING APPAREL to nts NEW STO K OF GOODS. JUST' RECEIVED, BROAD CLOTHS, CASSIXSKS, VESTIKGS, c.. OF THE VERY LATEST STYLE jS Which he will sell r make up. to order, at unnrece dented low prices. Having on hand one of SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES, he Is able to do Custom work at rates that defy compe I warrant my work, Hand as well as Machine Work. Those wishing any thing in his line will do well to pall aad examine his stock before investing, aa be pledges himself to hold out peculiarly favorable In ducement i January 1st 1665 p'd to Oct. 16th 1865. The anderBigned keap oa haad large asscstaeai SATTII1ET&C SSIMERE SUITS For Men and Bo' wear. Also, a large stock f HATS AND C-A.P8 IDJBD & WOBLEIJ SMIS BOOTS AND SHOES. Ruhbe r Cots, Lcgglns & Blankets, Tzruzxlsjgi aoxc3. Valises, UMBRELLAS AND CARPET BAGS. Gent's FnrmsMng Goods, . Of all kinds which we will sell CHEAP FOR CASH. We purchased our goods since the d dine in the Markets and will sell at lov figures. 1 ATKINSON & CO. April 13th, 1SC5, -30-ly Lyon's Periodical Drops. THE GREAT FEMALE REME DY FOR IRREGULARITIES. . a these Drops are a scientifically compounded fluid preparation, and better that any Pills, Powders, or Kastrums. Being liquid, their action is direct and positive, rendering them a reliable, speedy and cer- tala spectuc ror me care oi aw ooairacuous ami np preaaloaa of nature. Their popu lartty Is Indicated by the fact that over 100.000 bottles are annnally sold and ponsnmed by the ladies ot the United States, eve. ry ana ot whom speak in the strongest terms of praise of their great merits. They are rapidly taking the place ot every other Female Remedy, and are consid ered by all who know aught of them, aa the surest, aa f est. and most inf all labia preparation in the world. for the cure of all female complaints, the removal of all obstructlona or nature, au4 the promotion of health regularity and strength. Explicit dejections stating when they may be used, and explaining when and why they ahould not, nor could not be ud without produ cing effects contrary tonature'a chosen laws, will be fonad carefully folded around each bottle,- with the yritjen signature ot JOHH I. Lyon, without which on are genuine. Prepared by Dr. JOHN L. LTON, 195 Chapel Street, New HavenConn., whocan be consulted either per aonally, or by mall. enclosing stamp ) concerning all private dteeasea and famala weakness. Price &l,oo perbottia. Sold by Druggists everywhere .. C. G. CLARK fitCO-, Gen' I Agents for U. 8. aad Canada "OLUH8 Baos. St. Louis. I Wholfale L'u.xatFjCH&Fwi.LSa Chicago. J AgenU December 7th 1666. ly. lo-U-U-IJ ld,nn, isw iLyer Ciieriy Pectora m STICK FAST. I goes home one night, and Mrs. Burge that's our nex'room neighbor shows me something wrapped up in flannel, all pink and "creasy, and very snunly, a3 though it rranted jts nose blowing ; which ..... " . . . couldn t be expected, for U hadn't got any. to signify. ' 1 "Ain't it a little beauty?" she says. Well.I coulda't see as u was1; but I didn't like to say so, for I know my wife Polly had been rather reckoning on what she said we ought to have had more'n a year ago j so I didn't like to disappoint her, for I knew she lay liitenin' in the nex room. JoJly always said there nerer was such a baby as that one ; and somehow it teas taking to see how how her face used to light up all over smiles when she thought I warn't looking ; and I knew it was all on accoun't of the little un. She never said she felt dull now; and when at home of a night I used to think how my mates would laugh to see me a handling the little thing that .'was alius being pushed into my face! to kiss ; when I'm bleset if ever I see such & voracious un in my life : it would hang on to you nose,- lip, any where ia a minute. One day, when it was : about nine months old, it was taken all cf a sudden like with a fit. Polly screamed to me to run for the doctor ; for it happened that I was on the club that week, and at home with a bad hand.' I run for him and he soon came ; and then there was a warm bath and medicine ; but after ward, when I saw the little thing, lying on Polly's lap so still and quiet, and with a dull film forming over its eyes, I felt that something ' was coming, though I dared not tell her ; and about twelve o'clock, the little thing suddenly started, stared wildly an instant, and then it was all over. ' i - My hand warn't bad any wore that week ; for it took all my time to try and cheer my poor heart-broken lass. She did take on dreadful, night and day, night and day, till we buried it ; and then she seemed to take quite a change, and begged of W3 to forgive what she called her shelnshness, and wiped her eyes once for all, as she said, and talked about all being for tho best. Bat she didn't know that I lay awake of a night, feeling her cry silently till the pillow was soaked with tears. We buried the little one on Sunday, and on the Monday morning 1 was clap ped on to a job that I didn't much relish for it was the rebricking of a sewer that ran down one of the main streets, quite fifty feet underground. After two years in" London I'd seen some change, but this was my first visit to the bowels of the earth. I'd worked on drains down in the country, but not in such a concern as-this : why a Life guard might have walked down it easy ; so that there was plenty of room to work. But then, mind you. it ain't pleasant work: there you go,' down ladder after ladderpast gas-pipes and waiher-pipes,. and down and down, till you got to the stage stretched across the part you are at work on with the daylight so high up, as seen through boards,and scaffbled.and ladders, that it's no use to you who are working by the light of flaring gas. There in front of you is the dark black arch ; and there behind you is another ; while under your feet the foul rushing water hurries along, sending up a smell as turns your silver watch, and every sixpence and shilling you have in your pocket, black as the water . that swirls bubbling along. Every word you speak sounds hollow and echoing, while it goes whispering and rumbling along the'dark arch till you think it has gone, when all at ence yon hear it again quite plain, in a way as would make you jump as much as when half a biick or a bit o' hard mortar dropped into water. . But talk about 'jumping, nothing made me jump more than when a bit o' soil, or a stone, was loosened up above and came rattling down. I've seen more than one chap change color; and I know it's been from the thought that, suppose the earth caved in, where should we be? ' No doubt the first crush in would do it, and there 4 be an end "of workmen and fore - , ...... ; man! but there seemed something werry awful in the idea o' being buried alive. Big as the opening was, when T went to work it made me shudder ; there was the earth thrown out; there was the rope at the side ; there was the boarding round; there Jt was for all the world like a big: grave, same as I'd stood by on a little scale the day before ; and fue ling a bit low spirited, it almost seemed as though I was going into my own, nev er to come cp any more. 1 Werry stupid and foolish ideas, says you far-fetched ideas. .: Werry likely, but that's what I . thought ; and there are times when men has werry strange ideas ; and I'll tell you a fact that some thing struck crswpvhea I went 'down .that hole as I "shouldn't, comeup . it . again i and I didn't; neither. I Why: the werry feel o' the cold damp place made' you think o', being hurried, and when a few bits of earth came and rattled down upon the stage above my h3ad, as soon as the first Etart was over it teemed to me so like the rattling o' the earth but a few hours before upon a little . coffin, that something fell with a pat upon my bright trowel, which, if it had been left, would ha' been a spot o' rust. Nothing like work to put a fellow , to rights and I soon found that I was feeling better, and the strokes, o' ray trowel went ringing away down the sew er as I cut the bricks in half; and after a bit I almost felt inclined to whistle.but I didn't, for I kept on thinking of that solitary face at home the face that al ways brightened up when I went back, and had made such a man or, me as I felt I was, for it was enough to make any man vain to be thought so much of. And then I thought how dull she'd be and fond she'd be o'. looking at the drawer where all the little ; things were kept ; and then I well, I aint ashamed of it, if I: ant a great hulking fellow 1 7 took that nobody saw. what I was doing, while I had a look at a little bit of a shoe' as I had in my pocket. . I didn't go home to dinner, for it was too far off; so I had my snack, and then went to it again directly along with two more, for we wa3 on the piece. We had. some beer sent down to us, and at it we -went till it was time to leave off ; and I must soy as I was glad of it, and ' did not much envy'the fresh gang coming on to work all night, though it might just as well have been night with us. I was last down; and had jest put my foot on the first round of the ladder, when I heard something falling as it hit and jarred the boards up'ards ; and them directly after what seemed to be a brick caught me on the head, and, before I knew where I was, I was off the little platform, splash down in the cold rush ing water that took me off and away yards before I got my head above it; and then I was so confused and half- stunned that I let it go under again, and. had been carried ever so far, half drown ed, I gained my legs and leaned, panting and blinded, up against the slimy wall. There I stood for at least ten minutes I should suppose, shuddering and hor ried, with the thick darknessall around, the slimy, muddy bricks against my hands, the cold, rushing water beneath me1, and my mind in that confused btate for a. few minutes longer I didn't ;know what I was going to do next, and wanted to persuade , myself that it was all a dreamj and I should wake up directly. , All at once, I gave a jump, and instead o' being cold with the waterv dripping from me.I turned all hot and burning.and then again cold and shudder, and then close against my bare neck, when I gave the jump, and heard close by .me a light splash in the water a splash which ech oed through the hollow place, while.half to frighten the beast that I fancied must be in swarms around me, half wrung from me as a cry of fear and- agony, I yelled out. "Rats!" Rats they were ; far above the hollow wash-wash, : hurry-hurry, wash-wash, hurry-hurry", of .the .water, I : could hear little splashes and a'.'scafling : by me along the sides, o' the brick-work. You may laugh at people's hair atan ding on end, but I know then that there was a creeping, tingling sensation in the roots o' mine, as' though sand was trickling among it; a loud seemed . to come over my ouiid, and for a few mo ments,! believe I vas mad mad with fear; and it was only by settingray teeth hard and clenching my fists that I kept from shrieking- However, I was soon better, and ready to laugh at myself a recollected that I could only ba a little way from th8 spot where the men work ed ; so I began to wade long the water here about up to ray .middle All at I stopped, and thought about where I was a t work. . , Which tcay did the vater rvnV1 . My head turned hot and my temples throbbed with the thought. - If I went the wrong way I ihould be lost lost in this horrible darkness to sink at last into the foul, black stream, to be drowued and devoured by the rats, or elss to be ehoked by the foul gases that must lo lurking down here in thesa dark reces ses. .. Again the horror of . thick darkness come upon me ; I shrieked pi;t wildly, and the cry went J. echoing through the sewer, sounding hollow and - wild till it faded away. ,'Butcsco more. I gcij the belter of it, and .'persuaded myself thai I had only cried. aloud to scare the rat. What would I not have given for stout stick as a defense against 'attack. as I groped my way en, feeling convinced that I should be right if I crawled.down stream, when a little refiectioa would, have told me. that up stream mujt be the right way, for I must have been borne down by the water. . Eat I could notreflect, for my brain .seemed; in a state cf fever, and now and then my teeth chattered as though I had the ague. : I groped on for quite a quarter of an hour, when the horrid thought come up on me that I was going wrong, and again I tried to lean up against the wali,which seemed to 'cause' my .feet to lip from under me. I felt no cold, for the perspira tion dropped from me as I frantically turned , back and tried to retrace my steps, guiding myself by running- hand against the wall, where every now and then it entered ' the - mouth - of. a small drain, when so. sure as it did,' there was a scuffle and rush, and more than once I touched the. cold, sligpexy body of a ra t a touch that made me :art -kack 'as tough shot J i---1 On I went, and on, and still no scaffold and no gleam - of gaslight. J Thought after thought gave fresh horror : to: my situation, as uow I felt- certain that in my frantic haste I hod taken some wrong turn, or. entered a branch of the main place; and at last, completely bewilder ed, I rushed head' long on, stumbling falling twice over, so'-that -I "was half choked in the black water. : But. it had its good effect ; for it put a' stop to my w'ld struggles, which must soon have ended in my falling insensible into what was certain -death. The water' cooled head, and now, feeling completely lost knowing that I must have been nearly two hours in the sewer I made up my mind to follow the strem to its mouth in the Thames,where, if the tide was down I could get from the mud on to tho wharf or bank, . a ence more I struggled on, follow ing the stream slowly for what - seemed to be hours, till at last, raising my hand I f o und I could not touch the roof, and by that knewj that I was in a larger sewer, and therefore, not -very far froa the mouth. But here-there' was a new ter ror 'creeping up me, so to speak, for from my waist the water now' touched my chest, and soon after my arm-pits ; when I stopped, not daring to trust my- self'lo 'swim, perhaps a mile,- when 1 felt that weak I could not have gone a hund red yards. ' : ; I knew in my disapointmenl I gave a howl like a wild beast, and turned again to have a hard fight to breast the rush ing water, which nearly took my legs. But ' the fear of death lent me help, and I got on and on again till I felt my self in a turning which I soon knew was a smaller sewer,' and from tience I reached another, where I had to stop; but the water was shallower, not above my knees, and at last, much les3 than that.: .. '...! Here I klelt down to rest, j and the position brought something else from my heart ; and, after a while, still stooping I went on, till having passed dozens upon dozens of drains, I determined to creap up one, and I did. . P'raps you won't think it strangs ; as I dream and groan in be ecmetiaei, when I tell you what followed,: I crawled on .and on, in the hepes that the place I was in would lead under one of the street gratings, and I kept star ing. ahead in the hopes of catching a gleam o! light, till at last the place seemed so tight that I dared go no fur ther for fear of being fixed in. So I be gan to back very slowly for a rest. It was quite dry here, but, scuffling on in front, I kept hearing the rats I had driven before me ; and now that I stopped and was quite stilly half a dozen cf them made a ru3h to get past me, and the little fight which followed even now give me the horrors. I'd hardly room to move ; but I killed one by squeezing him, when the others backed off, but not till my face was running with blood. . At las!, half dead, I tri;-J to back cut, for the place seemed to sliflU me ; and I pushed mysslf back a liula way, and then I was stepped, fqr -the skirts cf ray jacket filled up what lhila spce Jnd been left, and I felt that I was wsdjsd in, stack fast. :; f 7' - -- Now came the hcrror3 again 'wcrsa ever. The hot blood ssc.tied tg gush into my 'eyes'; ' I felt half-suffocated ; and to add , to my.saiTeri a ra felt it3e!f as it were panned up, fastened upon my Jip. It was its last lite, how ever, for half mad f I felt then, my teeth had-closed in a .mcmsnt upon the vicious beast, and it -wa3 dead. -1 made on more struggle, but could move, I was so-knocked up ; anj then I fainted. - x 7 It must have been some time jbe'ers I come ts myself ; but when I did, the first sound 1 heard- was a regular tramp of some one walking, over my head, and I gave a long yell for help ; when, to my great joy, the step halted, and I shrieked again,' and the sweetest sound X have ever heard in my' life came l?ck. It was a voice shtjc?, "Hallo !" Stuck fast in the drain !" I shouted, with all the 'strength I had left ; and then I sweccgd off once morer to -wake upa .weelc afterward, out of a brain-' feever sleep, in a hospital. It seemed I had got within a' few yards of a grating which which was an end othe drain, 'and the close'-quarters made the rat3 to fierce. The policeman heard, my hr:ek,;and had: listened at the" grating, and then got help ;" but he waa only laughed at, for they could' get no further answer out o'ms. It was then about half past three on a summer's morning; and though the graie was got opa they were about to give it up,'say inj the policeman had.besa humbugged ; when a couple o' sweeps came up, 'and the little un offered to go down back'ards and he 'did, and came cut direckly after saying that he could fssi a man's hsad with his toes. - That rolieeman haa h.irl mnnv n rrlsaa - : z j..r at my expense .since, and I, hope he'll have as many more ; and when he telis me a story, which I like to hear but . always lake care shail be when Polly'j away he says he knows I should have jiked to see how they tore that drain up in time. To which there's alwys tuch an echo in my heart that it ccrafi quite naturhl to, say, "You're right, my boy!" ' ' , a The domestic editor of an exchange gives'- the following hint of the way to keep babies1 quiet: Smear their fingeM with molasses aad give them two or three feathers to pick over. , Rev. Mr. Stebbins, having been hiu-, ed at a public meeting in San Francisco, turned upon his, assailant with, 4,I hear a hiss ; did ever a word cf truth drop into the vortex of hell without sending up a hiss ?'...... What is the difference between me and a new novel ?" inquired a highly rouged damsel of her beau. "It i3 this,' said he, 'a novel is read because it is in teresting; you are interesting becausa you are red.,' A Shoemaker in Leeds, England, ua dertoeki lately, for a wager, to eat aa uncocked rabbit fur, skin and all. Ha succeeded, but immediately went into convulsions, ; which ' continued for aa htMsr, when he died. - - - At what hour did ' the devil make his appearance in the Gsrden of Eden? Some time during the night. He; cer tainly came after Eve. ,.If you have acough.dcn't go to church to disturb the rest of of the congregation. ' ThV editor wn9 "did not mind hit stops introduced some verses thu3 : The poem - published this week was composed by an esteemed friend who has lain iahis grave many y ear3 for his own amn3ement. Th.8. pawnbroker's favorite time .cf year the ieasan of Lent. . A man in Cincinnati adopted an orig inal way of reducing household expenses. One morning,1 when he ..knew hts wife would see him,, he kissed the . servant girl. The household expenses were in stantly reduced twelve dollars permonih. The young gentleman who new into a passion has' had his wings clipped. Can r man keep hU fot dry when h9 has a creak ia his boot3 ?
