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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1872.
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STIIACT OF TITLES l-TUXIMIilO.
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f' V of Titlj c-.f nil jn;).Tt v in Enj:i'i)e
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with m:tt cure. We will practice in the
ttiif -rent (Jousts of tl.e Stat. Special at
tention driven to t'ne eolk-cliuu cf all i l.iims
tit at may bo plucoil in our iiaudti. Ler;il
Teii.lers liouiit aid sold. se:Stt
JOIIX Al. DACOX,
Inisiorter and Dealer in
Liil i'jd
STATlO.SKilV. PKilKUMH'.lY, &c, &e.,
Oregon CHij, Orcijon.
At Charih.th- ir,.rur- old d, !--i,-ty oe
V'D'if'i by Ark--rin.tn, l tin s'ttf.
lot!"
JOHN FLEMING,
DEALER IN
IX JIVE US' FI I.'E-l'ROOF BRICK,
M. ix STiir.KT, oucnn:,- city, orccox.
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of First and ALL r Sin i ts, J'oitland.
The KitriHi.i;; oi tho-e desiring suin-rior
op jr.it 10 is is iu special rt-quest. Nitronsux
id tor the painless exl faction of teeth.
vAi tiiiei.U teeth "better than the best,'
an I .11 r 'i, t ,is ill-' (( t (!.
Will ii 111 Oregon Citvon Satnrdajs.
Nov. ;;.:U"
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The ji itionae of those desiring r tmi dats
Oj .'.', is respect tui'y solicited.
Satisfaction in all vase.-, aaranieed.
N. 1. Xi'i-'i'i-t Oxyi'i administered fur the
I'amiess Extriction of Teeth.
Ofkich In Wcijjant's new bnildirir, west
ide f First slii'i'i, i eiwf-en Alder and Jlor
isotr streets, I'ortlaud, tJreun.
Y ,H- W ATKINS, M. D ,
t)FFC:-()a.1 F. Lows' Temple, corner
Virst and VI der -.t, et ts Iteshlcuce corner of
MFtii and Seve ntii .-t reels.
Estildi-he,? since ltn.nt the old stand,
M lin S'reef, Oct gnu- Ci.'y . On r:m .
An Assortment of Watehes, Jcw
1 !?3X '"'lrv- Seth Thomas- wri-ht
'-'-Zi Clo.-k-i. ah of whi -h are warr;uned
-J to he si- rv;--resented.
tf--yf-!L'Mi;h:,'s ilne on sliort notice,
ind t h.mkfnl for past favors.
Ovtv City J)rayi;ian,
S2if2S OUEGOX CITY.
t3m All orders for the delivery of niechar.-di-e
or packages an l freight of whatever dfs
cription.to any part of the city, will be t-xe-u
c ed p-ompt'3" and with cai'e.
JEVr YORK IIOTKL,
Oe-ufehes (Lifi!.;i!i?.1
No. IT Fr.-irit St: eet, .j.j:-tp the Mail steam
shio la idin-, Portland. Oregon.
PROPRIETORS.
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P-iJ 1 on
Another ITcn-Passivi
A late immber of the Sonoma
Democrat contains an excellent
article on tl;e subject of Passivism,
from which we make the following
extract :
"There are things to be con:d
(red before a conscientious Demo
crat can qIvc his assent to tliis nro-
jeet.
Viiie
j
1 nsi is it to involve a sac-
01 Dnncinle? Are Demo
crats to be asked to support men
for thejiiirhest ojlices in the Union,
whose political prineipb-s are tb
noxious to them ? Who can at
this day answer these questions
satisfactorily? Then the next
tiling that suggests itself to the
minds ;f Democrats is, what is to
be gained by this surrender? For
it will be a surrender as complete
as w.-s Lee's at Appomattox. If
by uniting with Ket-ublieans we
succeed m electing their men to
oilice, in what respect will the
country or the Democracy be ben
efited ? "Ye will, after all, have a
Republican administration which
may -rove as objectionable as
Grant's. Then there is something
humiliating, it' not dishonoralle,in
voluntarily accepting a back seat
in an off-hoot of the J'epubliean
party and admitting that Demo
crats are not worthy the confidence
of the people. Ye confess that
this second new departure is ex
ceedingly distasteful to us and
tl
i;u, unless we can be convmced
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that it is so absolutely necessary
and will redound to the best inter
ests 01 the com
rv, we
cannot be
a party to it. Xor do we believe
that such an alliance no it is not
an alliance; it is a surrender will
be successful. There are hand reds
of thousands of Democrats who
will refuse to lie bound by it, and
either refuse to go to the polls or
vote the straight Republican ticket
to punish their leaders for their
perfidy and to show them that
they will not permit themselves to
be bartered oil' by the wholesale.
Wo are unable to account for the
desire of leading Democrats to
abandon the contest. The dis
asters to the party are no greater
than it has suffered repeatedly
heretofore, nor is it an unusual
thing for parties to carry Presiden
tial elections that were unsuccessful
the previous year. The policy
they are pursuing is certainly cal
culated to demoralize and render
powerless the party, and there is
no assurance that their plans, if
accepted by their own party friends
will not be rejected by conserva
tive Republicans. We should oc
cupy ; most humiliating spectacle
if, after getting down in the dirt
1 lickim
the lioots of these con
servative Republicans, they should
kick us in the face and spurn our
advances. We repeat, we do not
like this movement. It would
have been much better for the
Democratic party if the advocates
ot this policy had goneoverto the
Republicans, or severed their con
nections with the Democracy and
established a third party. While we
are willing to accord to them hon
esty of intention, with the li'-hts
beiore us, we can see no irood to
result from their proposed inactiv
ity, but we can see a great deal
of harm. We can see that it will,
it carried out utterly demoralize
ami destroy the Democratic party
and
only oe
o
ni ficial to a lot ol
sore-headed and broken-down Re
publicans. The better plan is for
the Democracy to mantain its or
ganization, put its regular candi
dates in the iield and give them a
cordial support. If defeated it
will preserve its integrity, com
mand the respect of its members
and be in condition to fight again.
It this cannot be done why not
disband at once an leave the held
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It is a great mistake to suppose
that the more one eats, the strong
er he becomes. Gourmands are
not giants. We gain in strength
iu proportion as the food eaten is
digested, assimilated, and convert
ed into new and perfect material.
Intemperance in eating is not only
more common than intemperance
in drinking, but, according to the
Latin proverb" Pi urea l-nnmhr,
qwmi jh.!hx" "Gluttony kills
more than the sword."
x i-..M i-'iuuls 1 rotessional pi
anists, we have noticed, use chairs
instead of stools, at their nerform-
S 1 ools Professional
ance:
A chair, when properly ad-
jusieu 10 me
; . 1 1
iieigut ol the player,
i mucn less tiresom
m practicing
tlian a piano stool, which does not
support the back. Delicate child
ren should sit m
mcr.
a chair while play
A little girl not far from Schen-
CCtadV, alter nOtieimr Vv nn,r
the glittering gold filing in
tint's iront teeth, exclaimed r
her
"A
Aunt -uP.rv. 1 Wish I had eormpv.
toeu let
etn, like yours !
, IT"
Bostonians -are indignant that
slv. jKirion snoma come to their he couldn't find a word in his dic
cuy to rmpnre: Who are the tionary, because " the blasted thing
u'Sar - ; hadn t got an index."
ior Impeachment cf
President.
the
S. F. Examiner.
It is not because an impeach
ment of the present incumbent of
the Presidential oilice would be
groundless, nor because his scan
dalous degradation of the H.ecu
tive oilice should not be redressed
or arrested, remarks the Washing
ton ldriot, that we recently dis
countenanced the mere sensation
alism of a New York journal on a
subject so grave. Were a move
ment in good faith essayed for the
recovery lor the chief magistracy
of its constitutional and tradi
tional dignity, of which but the
vestiges remain, by the displace
ment of Grant, rather than by the
more promising method ofelecting
a statesman to succeed him, who
needs more than a suggestion to
perceive the manifold accusations,
any one of which under the legal
principle so strenuously denied
against Johnson, that to be im
peachable the olfeiise must be
antilogous to a crime or misde
meanor at common law, or by
statute, could be established
against the present despicable suc
cessor of Jackson and Washington?
lie conspired with degraded
demagogues of foreign countries,
with whom no colorable treaty re
lations existed, for the use of the
ships, arms, and men of the United
States navy, in furtherance of
schemes of personal ambition and
private plunder.
He conspired with the same par
ties for the spoliation, arrest, mock
trial, imprisonment, and oppres
sion of Davis I latch, "an American
citizen, and others, in a foreign
country, for communicating with
the American press.
lie instituted war with a foreign
nation, with which this country
was at perfect amity, in violation
not only of the Constitution, which
disables tho President for making
war, but of subsisting treaty stipu
lations with that Power.
He negotiated with a body of
Dominican usurpers, led bT Haez,
and carried into ehect a compact
between the two nations, notwith
standing the United States, through
the rejection of the proposed
treaty by the Senate, had render
ed it criminal for him to do any
act under it.
He misappropriated 1,500,000
in gold, by paying it over to his
profligate Dominican accomplices
in pursuance of a treaty not yet
binding or in any sense valid, and
which was afterwards actually
made null and void.
He violated the statute regulat
ing the pay and duties of the
private secretary of the President,
which offense is aggravated bT the
establishment of a military "ring"
at the Executive Mansion.
He violated, as a boon to his
own son, the statute regulating the
privilege of leaves of absence ol
officers of the army.
lie accepted lands goods and
money iu consideration of appoint
ments to oilice, and aggravating
the abuse by habitually aecoptin:
all manlier of presents and favors,
to the great scandal of the public
service.
He violated conspicuously, in
the case of General Sickles, the
law which forbids the holding of
both a civil and a military oilice,
by making that oilicer, without re
quiring him to resign his military
commission, a diplomatic repre
sent at i'-e.
lie has illegally suspended the
writ of habeas corpus, thereby
violating all the laws en the statute
book, in furtherance of the civil
supremacy, and particularly the
act of 1790, providing punishment
for obstructing the process of the
courts.
Conors Pact. A - curious fact
is related of the Maine woodchop
pers, who in the winter months,
while telling trees amid siow and
ice, cannot wear close-fitting boots,
but very large ones, to alio w their
feet to slip to and fro, thus causing
friction and warmth. But from
this they have their feet completely
incrnsted with corns. In the spring
when they raft down their logs,
they do not change their clothing,
or boots, for weeks, until their ar
rival at the sawmills. All the
while their feet have been saturat
ed in water, and when the boots
are removed, the corns fall oil like
nutshells from the kernel.
The Xew -York Tribune is re
sponsible for the following tall
story : It describes a buffalo "lick"
in Kansas, as a hole sixty feet deep
and a mile souaro. the we.nlo rf
which has been licked away from
tlin m.nr.nl Li-ol tlwi 1
! ing couutry by buffaloes. We
I " want to know"" how mnnv ImiF,.
, Iocs wnrbnil mi tlii-i nrmtr"t
; - - ' - ..t.L illlLl
how long.
A Wisconsin man reported that
Grounds
is Perils cf Teaching Grammar.
"I have been sendin my darter
Xaucy to skool to a skoolmaster
in this neighborhood. Last Fri
day I went over tu the skool to see
how Xancy was gettin' along and
I seed things 1 didn't like by no
means. The schoolmaster -was
larnin' her things entirely out of
the line of eddycashun, and, as I
think, improper. 1 set a while in
the skool house, an' heerd one class
say their lesson. She said it very
spry. I was shok't, and she would
leave that skool. I heerd that
grammar was an uncommon line
study, but I don't want any more
grammar about my house". The
lesson that Xancy sed was nuthin'
but the fulishest kind of talk ;
the rediclist word she sed was, 'I
love.' I looked at her hard for be
in' so improper, but she went right
on an said, 'Thou lovest and he
loves.' And I reckon you never
heerd such rigermarole in your
life love, love, love, and nuthin'
but love. She sed one time, kI did
love.' Sez I. What did you love'?'
The scholars lailed, but I wasn't to
be put oil", and sed, 'Who did you
love, Xancy T The skoolmaster,
Mr. McQuil lister, put in, he sed he
would explain when Xancy finish
ed the lesson. This sorter pacyiied
me, and X"ancy went on with her
awfal love talk. It got' Wus and
wus every word. She sed, 'I
might, could, or would love.' I
stopped her again, and sed I reck
on I would see about that, and
told her to walk out of that house.
The skool master tried to interfere,
but I would not let him say a word.
He sed I was a fool, ami 1 nok't,
him down, and made him holler in
short order. I talked the strate
thing to him. I told him I'd show
him how he'de learn my darter
grammar. I got the neighbors to
gether and we sent Mr. MeQuillis
ter oil' in a hurry, and I reckon
thard be no-more grammar teachin'
in these parts soon. If 3-011 know
of any other oldish man in your
region that don't teach grammar,
we would be glad if you would
send him up. But in future we'll
be keerlul how we employ men.
Young skool masters won't do es
pecially if they teach grammar.
It is a bad thing for morals.
Pooi;-; South Carolina. We
clip thceiollowing from the Charles
ton JW-irs, jnst received at this of
fice. What is thesenseof govern
ing a country in that way ?
The court houses in the upper
counties are thronged "with idling
vagabonds who have been support
ed by the Radical politicians, and
are now the paid spies of the Gov
ernment. As witnesses they can
earn two dollars a day and no
questions asktid. Xo tale is too
wildly absurd to be believed.
The best men of the country are
arrested and subjected to nameless
indignities upon the bare affidavit
of a greedy or malicious negro.
There is no redress. For the un
fortunate who is thrown iu jail
there is no hope of escape. And
they who are purest in life and
character run the most risk, be
cause the Government officials de
sire "to make examples of those
whom the people trust and respect.
It is not surprising, then that hun
dreds of men, concious of their in
nocence, should abandon their
hearths and seek safety in other
States.
Woclt) r.K Sustained. Govern
or Palmer, of Illinois, in his manly
protest against the tyranny oi
martial law, has found that his
only support comes from the Dem
ocratic press. He therefore re
marked to a reporter for the Chi
cago lff, that "the Bepublican
press, in its zeal for party, had
forgotten government." We sin
cerely believe, remarks an ex
change, that if Grant were to put
the whole United States under
martial law and proclaim himself
a Dict ator Emperor, he would be
sustained by a majority of that
press, mis-called Republican.
.
Tkue to tiik Rioiit. Don Piatt
says in the Capita?, that when the
last day shall come and the nations
of the earth come to judgment,
the Democratic party will rush to
the bar of God, as to the polls,
shouting ior the ticket, the whole
ticket, and nothing but the ticket,
impelled by a firm determination
in each Democratic bosom to have
a wdiite man's government or none.
Gen. Cameron states that the
yield of beets in Colorado is 175
tons per acre, and of cabbages, 30
tons, which sell at five cents per
pound. Here is tho Eldorado of
marke t gardeners, where cabbages
produce '$3,000 per acre, no ma
nure being required water is the
ouly thing necessary.
The whole land grant of the
Xorthern Pacific Hailroad in the
State of Minnesota, exclusive of
the St. Paul and the Pacific, is
3,200,000 acres.
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What He Found in Wife's Closet.
Cedar Rapids has had a jealous
husband sensation. A rich resi
dent of that ambitious city, who
has a pretty and sweet young wife,
has for some time been the victim
of suspicions. lie laid a plan. lie
announced that he was going East
to stay at a water-cure for a month.
And he did go. But he came back
on the next train, reaching his
home as it slumbered in the peace
of drowsy midnight. If there was
anything wrong, lie knew he had
it by the ear. The only light was
m h;s wife's bed-room. lie linger
ed under the window to hear the
murmur of low voices. He heard
it ! How his wrath raged. With
pistols in one hand, and night-key'
in the other, he bounced up the
steps, through the outer door. On
l eaching the bed-room door he dis
covered that it was locked. His
wife had heard the footsteps, and,
in terror, wanted to know " who
was there?" Ho replied he be
lieved it was her husband. She
would open the door in a minute.
This was the straw that made the
irate husband irater. With heavv
and wrathful foot he banged upon
the door, and the door yielded.
The OJcrcer tells the rest: This
bombardment was greeted with a
shriek from the wife, and the infu
riated husband rushed in just in
time to see the door of a closet
closing. Xow he had him ! Xow
(and he ground his teeth in an te
stacy of rage) how he would rend
the destroyer of his domestic hap
piness. His wife placed herself in
front of the closet door, and en
treated him not to open it. This
only added fuel to the ilame of
jealousy that was raging like a vol
cano within the "pent up Utica"
of his breast. lie thrust her away,
and jerked open the door and
saw cu lcisha?tl??e- Miss. , a
neighboring lady friend, who had
been invited to stay with her dur
ing his absence.
A Cure for Small-Pox. A
correspondent of the Stoetou(Cal.)
1 for aid gives the following as a
sure cure for small-pox, and as that
loathsome disease is performing
its horrible work in our country,
we give place to the article, which
may be of benefit to suiierers : I
herewith append a receipt which
has been used to my knowledge in
hundreds of cases. It will prevent
or cure the small-pox, even though
the pittiugs are filling. When
.Jenner discovered the cow-pox
in England the world of science
hurled an avalanche of fame at his
head ; but when the most scientif
ic school of medicine in the world 1
that of Paris published this re
ceipt as a panacea for small-pox, it
passed unheeded ; it is as unfail
ing as fate, and conquers in every j
instance. It is harmless when tak
en by a well person. It will also
cure "scarlet fever. Here is the re
ceipt as I have used it and cured
many children of the scarlet fever:
here it is as I have used it to cure
the small-pox, when learned physi
cians said the patient must die :
"Sulphate of zinc, one grain ; fox
glove (digitalis), one grain ; half
a teaspoonful of sugar ; mix with
two tablespoonfuls of water."
When the above has been thor
oughly mixed, add four ounces of
water." Take a spoonful every hour.
Either disease will disappear -in
twelve hours. For a child, small
er doses, according to age. If
counties would compel physicians
to use this, there would be no. need
of pest houses. If you value ad
vice and experience, use this for
that terrible and dreaded scourge.
A Dissatisfied Farmer. Says
the Marysville Appart of Friday:
"Yesterday we saw a farmer who
had come into town just to see
how the water was. We congrat
ulated him on the fact that the
farmers need not now complain of
the drought, as enough water had
fallen to permit of the plows being
run on any land which ever was or
would lie tillable. 'Run the plows,'
said he, and his face was as long
and uninteresting as a charity ser
mon, as he continued ; 'Run the
plows, be d d ; that is all you
know about it. I'd like to know
how a man can plow in such weath
er as this ? Why it will take a
week for the ground to get dry
enough for a plow to run at a'd, but
by that time it will rain again; it
always does rain when it gets start
ed this way. ' "
The late Franco-Prussian war
cost the lives of 101 German sur
geons. Six died on the battle-field,
sixty-six from gunshot wounds,
two irom wounds received in con
sequence of imprudence, and twenty-five
from various diseases con
traded in the service.
It may not be an easy thing to
set a river on lire, but a young
lady in Xew Orleans nearly lost
her life, the other day, by a confla
gration in her waterfall.
The Spoils of a Wrecker A Ghastly
Sight
From the Boston Post.
A strange story, worthy of nov
elistic treatment at the hands of
a Marayatt, comes from New
foundland. In Chance X'ook, a
secluded nook in that somewhat
secluded island, dwell a little com
pany of fishermen, one of whom,
who rejoiced in the name of Bar
nacle Bill, has long been an object
of suspicion on account of his un
sociable and hermit-like- life. His
hut was situated remote from the
others, upon a peak overlooking a
dangerous reef called Gillicuddy
Breakers. These circumstances
combined to fasten upon Barnacle
Bill the suspicion that he had a
penchant for wrecking operations,
and after the recent loss on the
schooner Albion, none of the crew
of which were subsequently' dis
covered, dead or .alive, it was de
termined to search the aforemen
tioned hut. Accordingly, a de
tective having been procured, to
gether with the requisite legal
papers, a large deputation made an
early call upon Barnacle Bill, and
found that worthy in bed. Inas
much as he declined to get up and
open the door for his surprise
party, they let themselves into the
house, when an appalling sight
met their
gaze1.
Fin
?ers, wrists
and ears, cut and torn from the
bodies of women, evidently to
procure the rings and other jew
elry, were strewn around. In all
there were nine corpses, only one
of which has been, as yet, identi
fied. The inhuman wrecker, after
being taken into custody, confessed
that he took the bodies from the
wreck of the Albion, and con
veyed them on a fish-barrow to
his cliff before dawn. The news
has created the greatest excite
ment in St Johns, where most of
the ill fated sailors resided.
Feather mens are "luxuries in
the eyes of our tariil makers, but
necessary to the comfort of every
person, rich or poor black or white,
who lives north of th latitude of
Virginia. Live-Geese feathers,
which sold before the war for 40 to
50 cents a pound, and which are
now worth in Gemany only- 35 cents,
fetch in our wholesale markets 70
to 75 cents a pound. The home
supply is and must continue far
less than the demand; the deficien
cy has to be made by importation,
and the duty of 30 per cent., and
gold premium, and all, are con
sequently' laid upon the price of
feathers sold in the United States.
The imported feathers pay Govern
ment revenue of $10,000. but the
people of the country, consuming
annually over 20,000,000 pounds
of feathers, arc taxed -$5,000,000
on their beds.
Railway Alarm. A Michigan
railroad company has attached to
thirty-four of its locomotives a
new style of alarm-bell. The bell
is so attached that when the en
gine goes the bell rings, being
struck by the hammer once at each
revolution of the driving wdieels.
Being placed directly in front of
the boiler, the sound of the bell is
seldom heard by the engineer or
fireman on the engine, and cannot
be heard on the train ; consequent
ly it is no annoyance to passengers,
while, it is claimed, its position
causes the sound to be thrown for
ward, and conducted by the earth
and the railroad track or rails, so
that it can be heard a considerable
distance in advance of the train,
thus giving timely warning.
Senator Casserly and the
"Passive Policy." The report
that Senator Casserly had given in
his adhesion to "the passive policy,"
as advocated by Montgomery
Blair, appears to have been found
ed in error. AYe never attached
any credit to the statement, deem
ing it absurd as inconsistent with
the Senator's life-long principles
and fixed convictions. A Wash
ington letter writer says that "Mr.
Casserly thinks it will be time
enough to go for that or any other
unusual policy, when it is shown
that it gives us the only or the
best chance of success in over
throwing the revolutionary despot
ism ot I rant ami his adherents.
Thus far, lie thinks, nothing of the
kind has been shown." Examiner.
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Saecastic.-A Baltimore preach
er says he converted 17,000 little
children, Iat year. An irreverent
exchange sarcastically asks: To
what did you convert them? In
their natural condition we arc told
"Of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven!"
The patron saint of small Xew
York counterfeiters Cent Xickel
us. X. B. The above joke, with
small change, may find currency
in our exchanges.
It is believed that the first one
who supplied the navy with salt
provisions was Xoah, when he took
Ham into the ark.
Fact and Fancy
Beauty without kindness dies tin
enjoyed and undelighted.
A Texas paper publishes mar
riage notices under the head of
" Lost."
Punch says : " Do you wish to
get up with the lark? " Go to bed G
without it."
Incivility is the extreme of .
pride; it is built on the contempt
of mankind.
In marriage yon tie a knot with
your tongue that you cannot undo
with your teeth.
A Xew Albany belle is bellicose
because she was jilted. She put so
the sum at 25,000.
Men may judge us by the suc
cess of our efforts; God looks at
the eftoits themselves. . o
Oranges and lemons are worth
from six to eight cents a bushel in
the Brazilian markets. 0
Repentance without amendment
is like continual pumping in a sship
without topping the leaks.
A truly intestate man is one who
leaves nothing but the world, and
he generally goes without a will.
What is that whiJi Adam never
saw, never possessed, and yet gave
to each of his children ? Parents.
The man who sat down on an
open paper of carpet tacks says
they reminded him of the income
tax.
The memory is a treasurer to
whom we must give funds if we
would draw the assistance that we
need.
The Grand Duke wore no orders,
but General Dix reeeiveds him on
board the Powell with a deck-oration,
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What is the difference between
a pill and a hill ? One is hard to
get up and the other is hard to get
down.
Why does 1? precede C in the
alphabet? Because you must be
before you can see. Do you ob
serve ?
A doctor was asked to dance the
"Lancers." He declined, but ex
pressed a wiilingffess to lance the
dancers.
An experienced gentleman says
that all that is necessary in the en
joyment of love or sausages, is
confidence.
John Simball, of Iowa, was re
cently tarred and feathered for
marrying the next day after his
wife was buried.
Do you see anything ridiculous
in this wig? said a brother barris
ter to Curran. Nothing but tho
head, he replied.
" I believe in going to the bot- 0
torn of things," as the schoobna'm
said when she laid a refractory pu
pil over her knee.
The last remark made by a man
while separating-under the inilu
ence of nitro-glvceriue was, "Let ,
me collect myself."
It is not until we have passed
through the furnace that we aro 0
made to know how much dross was
in our composition.
What did that young lady mean
when she said to her lo9tr : "You
may be too late for the cars, but
you can take a 'buss."
A lady in Peoria has contracted
for her coffin, and bad tickets of
invitation to her funeral printed
and sent to her friends.
In the economy of the world,
said the Scotch geologist Hurton,
I can find no trace of a beginning
and no prospect of an ending.
" The
world,"
greatest
organ in the
says an old bachelor, "is
the organ of speech in woman, be
cause it is an organ without stops."
The Spaniards have a saying:
At 18, marry your daughter to her
superior; at 20, to her equal; at
30, to anybody that will have her.
Massachusetts tobacco chewers
don't appear to enjoy many privi
leges. A Taunton man was lined
six dollars for spitting on a church
carpet.
The great question of the day is
whether is it more difficult for a
girl of the period to get her clothes
into her trunk, or her trunk 111 her
clothes.
One Klime, in Johnson county,
fed his cattle by candle-hght, a few
nights ago. He had to climb to
save hinisclf. Loss, 2,000, and no
insurance.
The electric telegraph has now
reached Yardoe, a little town in 0
the northeastern extremity of Nor
way, probably the northernmost
town on the globe.
Knott and Shott fought a duel.
The result was they changed con
ditions. Knott was shot, aiil
Shott was not. It was better to
be Shott than Knott.
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