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-A N D
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DES AUO, ARKANSAS.
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i ARC, ARKANSAS,
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rk street, where he is prepared to
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jN, wheelbarrows, repairing, &c., done on
ffhort notice.
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JOHN McNAMEE,’
T . J I It OR,
in e s Arc, Arkansas.
IQHOP ON BUENA VISTA STREET—
W opposite the “Nucleus House”—where he
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«ty 27, 1859—[tf] _
HI. Gil E ENSLAD E7
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rp B. KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc,
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T E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at
,J . Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie, Ar
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis. Jackson, White.
Conwav, and Pope. Will investigate Land
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LEVIN HARRISON,
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Toreign and Domestit
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING, HARDWARE, HATS
Boots, Shoes, &c.,
DES ARC, ARK.
Is in receipt of his supply of String &- Sim
mer Goods, consisting of all articles usual,
found in Pry Goods Houses. His-stock lia
been selected with care, and expressly to sui
the trade of Des Arc. As to prices, lie uni;
wishes dealers to call, ami he will satisf;
them that he can SELL AS CHEAP and fur
nish as good articles as any other store in tlii
section of country.
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and a determination to please all, to merit
continuance of the liberal custom which th
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JUST RECEIVED
• Ten Dozen Hals—assorted
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Mr. Breckinridge's Letter of Acceptance.
New York, July 10.
The following letter from the lion. Ca
leb Cushing, President of the Baltimore
Convention, informing the Hon John C.
Breckinridge of his nomination for Presi
dent of the United States, and the reply
of the latter, accepting the nomination
were published this morning:
Democratic National Convention, ^
Baltimore, Mu., June 23, 1800. ^
Sir: I am directed by a vote of the Demo
cratic National Convention to inform you that
you have this day been unanimously nomina
ted by it as the candidate of the Democratic
party for the office of President of the United
States, and in their behalf to request you to
accept the nomination. I beg leave, at the
same time, to enclose you a copy of the reso
lutions adopted by the Convention as their po
litical platform on which the party stands.
1 have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
CALEB CUSHING, Pres’t.
Hon. J. C. Breckinridge.
Washington City, July 0, 1800.
Dear Sir: I have your letter of the
23d ultimo, by which I am officially in
formed of my nomination for the office of
President of the United Slates by the Dem
ocratic National Convention, lately assem
bled at Baltimore.
The circumstances of this nomination
will justify me in referring to its personal
aspect.
I have not sought nor desired to be
placed before the country for the office of
President. When my name was present
ed to the convention at Charleston, it was
withdrawn by a friend in obedience to my
expressed wishes. My views had not
changed when the convention re-assem
bled at Baltimore, and when 1 heard of
the differences which occurred there, my
indisposition to be connected prominently
with the canvass was confirmed, and ex
pressed to maoy friends.
Without discussing the occurrences
which preceded the nominations, and
which are or soon will be well understood
by the country, I have only to say that I
approved, as just and necessary to the pre
servation of the national organization and
the sacred right of representation, the ac
tion of the convention overwh'ch you con
__: J „ . it
and-having.resolved to sustain it, I feel.
that it does not become me to select the
position I shall occupy, nor to shrink from
the responsibilities of the post to which I
have been assigned. Accordingly I ac
cept the nomination from a sense of pub
lic duty, and, as 1 think, uninfluenced
in any degree by the allurements of am
bition.
I avail myself of this occasion to say
that the confidence in my personal and
public character, implied by the action of
the convention, will always be gratefully
remembered; and it is but just also to my
own feelings to express my gratification at
the association of my name with that of
my friend General Lane, a patriot and a
soldier, whose great services in the field
aud in council, entitle him to the gratitude
and confidence of his countrymen.
The resolutions adopted by the conven
tion have my cordial approval. They are
just to all parts of the Union—to all our
citizens, native and naturalized—and they
form a noble policy for any administra
tion.
The question touching the rights of per
sons and property, which have of late been
much discussed, find in these resolutions a
constitutional solution. Our Union is a
confederacy of equal sovereign Stales, for
the purpose enumerated in the Federal
Constitution. Whatever the common gov
ernment holds in trust for all the States,
must be enjoyed equally by each. It con
trols the Territories in trust for all the
States. Nothing less than sovereignty can
destroy or impair the rights of persons or
property. The Territorial governments
are subordinate and temporary, and not
sovereign; hence they cannot destroy or
impair the rights of persons or property.
While they continue to be Territories they
tn‘d nnHpr the rontrnl of Congress. but the
Constitution.nowhere confers on any branch
of the Federal Government the power to
discriminate against the rights of the States
or the property of their citizens in the Ter
ritories. It follows that the citizens of all
the Stales may enter the Territories of the
Union with their property, of whatever
kind, and enjoy it during the Territorial
condition without let or hindrance, either
by Congress or by the subordinate Terri
torial governments.
These principles flow directly from the
absence of sovereignly in the Territorial
. governments and from the equality of the
States. Indeed, they are essential to that
equality which is, and ever has been, the
vital principle of our Constitutional Uniou.
Th°y l' IVH been allied legislatively—seU
I tied judicially—and are sustained by right
reason. They rest on the rock of the
constitution. They will preserve the con
, stitution—they will preserve the Union.
It is idle to attempt to smother these
great issues, or to misrepresent them by
the use of partizan phrases, which are
■ misleading and delusive. The people will
■ | look beneath such expressions as “Inter
! vontion,” “Congressional slave code,” and
. i the like, and will penetrate to the rea
• j questions involved. The friends of consti
i tutional equality do not nor never did de'
I rnand a “Congressional slave code,” not
> I any other code in regard to property in the
II Territories. They hold the doctrine o
s' non-intervention by Congress or by aTer
| ritorial Legislature either to establish o
| prohibit slavery ; but they assert (fortifier
, I by the highest judicial tribunal in thi
,- Union) the plain duty of the Federal Gov
eminent in all its departments, to secure
j when necessary, to the citizens of all lh<
' States, the enjoyment of their property ii
■ 1 the common Territories. The only logi
j cal answer to this would seein to be it
claim sovereign power in the Territories,
or to deny that the constitution recog
nizes property in the services of negro
slaves, or to deny that such property can
exist.
Inexorable logic, which works its steady
way through clouds and passion, compels
the country to meet the issue. There is
no evasive middle ground. Already the
signs multiply of a fanatical and growing
party which denies that under the consti
tution, or by any other law, slave property
can exist; and ultimately the struggle
must come between this party and the
National Democracy, sustained by all the
other conservative elements of the Union.
I think it will be impossible for a can
did mind to discover hostility to the Union
or a taint of sectionalism in the resolu
tions adopted by the convention. The
constitution and the Union repose on the
equality of the Slates, which lies like a
broad foundation underneath our whole
political structure. As I construe them,
the resolutions simply assert this equality.
They demand nothing for any State or
section that is not cheerfully conceded to
all the rest. It is well to remember that
the chief disorders which have afflicted
our country have grown out of the viola
tion of State equality, and that as long as
this great principle has been respected,
we have been blessed with harmony and
peace. Nor will it be easy to persuade
the country that resolutions are sectional
which command the support of a majority
of the States, and are approved by the
bone and body of the old Democracy, and
by a vast mass of conservative opinion ev
erywhere without regard to party.
It has been necessary more than once
in our history to pause and solemnly assert
the true character of this Government. A
memorable instance occurred in the strug
gle which ended the civil revolution of
1800. The Republicans of that day, like
the Democrats of this, were stigmatized
as disunionists, but they nobly conducted
the contest under the constitution, and
saved our political system. By a like
constitutional struggle it is intended now
to assert and establish the equality of the
States as the only basis of Union and
peace. When this object, so national, so
oeftstiiutiona!, so just, shall be accomphsh
ed, the last cloud will disappear from the
American sky, and with common hands
and hearts, the States and the people will
unite to develop the resources of the whole
country, to bind it together with the bonds
of intercourse and biotherhood. and to im
pel it onward in its career. The consti
tution and the equality of the States!
These are symbols of everlastinging Union.
Let these be the rallying cries of the peo
ple.
I trust that this canvass will be conduct
ed without rancor,and lhat’temperate argu
ments will take the place of hot words and
passionate accusations. Above all, I ven
ture humbly to hope that Divine Provi
dence, to whom we owe our origin, our
growth, and all our prosperity, will con
tinue to protect our beloved country against
all danger, foreign and domestic.
I am, with great respect, your friend,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
Hon. G. Cushing, Pres’t Dein. Con.
Joe Lane's Letter of Acceptance.
Bat-timore, June 23, 1800.
Hon. Joseph Lane :
Dear Sir: I am directed by a vote of the
National Democratic party to inform you that
you have this day been nominated by it as the
candidate for Vice President of the United
States, and in their behalf to request you to
accept the same. I beg leave at the same time
to inclose you a copy of the resolutions adopt
ed by the Convention as the political platform
on which the party stands.
I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
[Signed.] C. GUSHING, Pres’t.
Washington, June 30, 1860.
Hon. C. Cushing, President:
I have the honor 10 acknowledge the re
ceipt of a communication you make in be
half of the Democratic National Conven
tion, at which, you inform me, that ou the
23d 1 was unanimously nominated by that
body for the office of Vice President of the
United States, with the request that I
should accept the nomination. The plat
form adopted, and of which you inclose me
a copy, meets my hearty approval, as it
embodies what I have been contending for
as the only means of stopping sectional
agitation by securing to all equality and
constitutional rights, the denial of which
has led to the present unhappy condition
of public affairs. Compromise of consti
tutional principles are ever dangerous, and
I am rejoiced that tbe Democracy bas seer
fit to plant a firm fool on the rock of truth
and to give the people an opportunity tc
- vindicate their-love of justico and—1 inter
nal regard for each other’s rights. Non
intervention on the subject ot slavery, I
may emphatically say, is the cardinal max
irn of the Democracy. Non-interventior
by Congress and non-intervention by Ter
ritorial Legislatures is fully stated in th*
first resolution of tbe adopted platform.—
| In vain would we declare the former with
i out insisting upon the letter', because, t<
permit Territorial Legislatures to prohibi
.such slavery or by unfriendly legislationti
invalidate property would be grantinf
powers to the creature or agent which it i
admitted do not appertain to the principa
or power that creates; besides which, i
' would be fostering an element of agitatioi
! in tbe Territories that must necessarily ex
1 tend to Congress and the people of all th
States—the right of every citizen to ente
:! ih'e common territory with whatever pro
I perty he legally possesses. Itnecessaril
, i devolves upon the Federal Government th
- duty to protect this right of the citize
i j whenever and wherever a'sailedor infrin
-1 ged upon. The democratic party honestl
i' meets this agitating question, which i
threatening to sever and destroy this bro
therhood of States. It does not propose
,to legislate for the extension of slavery,
nor for its restriction, but to give to each
State and to every citizen all that our
forefathers proposed to give, viz : Perfect
equality of rights, and then to commit to
the people and to the climate nnd soil the
determination as to the kind of institutions
best fitted to their requirements in their
constitutional limits, and declaring ns a
fundamental maxim that the people of a
territory can only establish or prohibit
slavery when they come to form a consti
tution, preparatory to their admission as a
Stale into the Union. If happily our prin
ciples shall prevail, an era of peace nnd
harmony will be restored to our distracted
country, and no more shall we be troubled
with the agitation of this dangerous ques
tion, because it will be removed, as well
from the Territorial Legislatures as from
the halls of Congress, when we shall be
free to turn cur attention to more useful
issues. Our Union must be preserved ;
but this can only be done by maintaining
the Constitution inviolate in all its pro
visions and guarantees. The judicial au
thority, as provided by the Constitution,
must be maintained and its decisions im
plicitly obeyed, as well in regard to the
rights of property in the Territories as in
all our other matters. Hoping for success,
and trusting in the truth nnd justice of the
principles of our party, and in that Divine
Providence that has watched over us and
made us one of the greatest nations of the
earth, and that we may continue to merit
Divine protection, I cheerfully accept the
nomination so unanimously conferred on
me, and I cordially indorse the platform
adopted by the convention.
I have the honor to he, Sir,
With much respect,
Your friend and obedient servant,
JOSEPH LANE.
--
Bottom of the Ocean.—Mr. Green,
the famous diver, tells singular stories of
his adventures, when making search in the
deep waters of the ocean. He gives some
sketches of what he saw on the Silver
Banks, near Hayti :
1-,n<11 ro of corn 1 nn tv U if'Vt mu Hiv.
ings, narrated in the previous chapter,
were made, are about forty miles in length
and from ten to twenty in breadth.
On this bank of coral is presented to tbe
diver one of the most beautiful and sub
lime scenes the eye ever beheld. The
water varies from ten to one hundred feel
in depth, and so clear that the diver can
see from two to three hundred feet, while
submerged, with little obstruction to tbe
sight.
The bottom of the ocean in many places
on these banks is as Brnooth as a marble
floor; in others it is studded with coral
columns, from ten to one hundred (eel in
high'., and from one to eight feet in di
ameter. Tbe tops of those more lofty
support a myriad of pyramidical pendants,
each forming a myriad more ; giving the
reality to tbe imaginary abode of some
water nymph. In other places, the pen
dants form arch after arch, and as the di
ver stands on the bottom of the ocean, and
grazes through these into the deep wind
ing avenue, he feels that they (ill him with
as sacred an awe as if he were in some
old cathedral, which had long been buried
beneath "old ocean’s wave.” Here and
there, the coral extends even to the sur
face of the water, as if those loftier col
umns were towers belonging to these
stately temples now in ruins.
There were countless varieties of di
minutive trees, shrubs and plants in every
crevice of the corals, where the water had
deposited the earth. They were all of a
faint hue, owing to the pale light they re
ceived, although of every shade, and en
tirely different from plants I am familiar
with that vegetate upon dry land. One in
narlienlar ntirnpiorl 111V llltpnlinh ' it 1*P.
sembled a sea fan of immense size, of
variegated colors, and of the most brilliant
hue.
The fish which inhabited those silver
banks, I found as different in kind as the
scenery was varied. They were of all
forms, colors and sizes, from the symmet
rical goby to the globe like sunfish, from
those of the dullest hue to the changeable
dolphin, from the spots of the leopard to
the hues of the sunbeam, from the harm
less minnow to the voracious shark.—
Some had heads like squirrelr, others like
cats and dogs; one of a small size resem
bled the bull terrier. Some darted througf
the water like meteors, while others could
scarcely be £een toMrove.
The Theory or the Brick.—A boj
hearing his father say ’twas a poor rult
--thai wouldn’t work both wavs, said, “,i
father applies this rule about ins work, 1
will test it in play."
' So setting up a row of bricks, he tippec
over the first, which striking the seconc
caused it to fall on the third, which ever
turned the fourth, and so on, until all tht
bricks lay prostrate.
j “Well,” said the little hoy, “each bricl
• j lias knocked down his neighbor, f on!]
i; tipped one. Now I will raise one and sei
i! if he will raise his neighbor.” He lookec
; in vain to see them rise. “Here, father,’
i said the boy, “it is a poor rule will no
1 work both ways. They knocked eacl
t other down, but will not raise each othe
i i up.”
“My son, bricks and mankind are afik<
j made of clay, active in knocking eacl
r other down, but not disposed to help eacl
- other up.”
I "Father,” said the boy, “does the firs
i brick represent the first Adam?"
i The father replied : “When men fal
- they love company, but when they ris
f they love to stand alone, like yonder bricl
s and see others prostrate before them.”
•
Taking a Man to Pieces.
Captain Evans was an old naval veteran
of sixty-seven; he had lost an arm and an
eye years and years before at Navanna,
which last action unsettled his understand
ing, both legs being carried off by a chain
shot. Cork legs were coining into fashion.
Capt. E. had a pair of the first quality
made for him; lie had a false arm and
li’and ; into the latter he could screw a fork
or a book, ns occasion required, and being
gloved, the deficiency was not easily per
ceived. As increasing years rendered him
infirm, his valets took advantage of him, so
that he wrote to his brother, a Somerset
shire squire, to send him up some tenant’s
son as body servant.
"No matter how stupid if but honest and
faithful,” he wrote.
His brother was absent, and sent to his
steward to select a lad. This the steward
did, but merely mentioned that Captain
Evans was infirm, notapprizing the lump
kin of his new master’s deficiencies, and
sent him to London at once, where the
captain lived.
At ten nt night he arrived and was im
mediately shown to Captaim Evans’s sit
ting room.
"What is your name ?”
"My name be John, zur.”
"Well, John, my rascally valet is absent
again without lenve ; help mo to bed, as it
is late, and then you can go down to your!
supper.”
Adjourning to the bed room, the old gen
tleman said:
"John, unscrew iny leg.”
"Zur,” said John.
"Unscrew my leg ; this way see.”
John did so tremblingly.
"John, unscrew my other leg.”
"Zur,” said John.
"Uuscrew the other leg, sir."
John did so, now in a state of bewilder
ment.
"John, unscrew this arm.”
Trembling still more, to the captain’s
great amusement, he obeyed.
"John, put ibis eye on the table.”
John look hold of it us if it would have
bitten him.
"Now, John—no, I won’t lake the other
eve out—lift me into bed.”
This done, the waggish captain contin
ued.
"John, beat up the pillow, it is not com
fortable.”
It was done.
"Beat it up again, sir, it is quite hard."
John again shook the pillow.
“That won’t do, John, I can’t get my
head comfortable, D—u it, John, unscrew
my head !"
I "No, by thunder, I’ll unscrew no more;"
| and John fled from the room to the kitch
en, swearing his master was the d—I, ta
king himself to pieces like a clock.
An Excitino Scene with Mr. Ra
rev.—The most exciting scene we ever
witnessed, was what we may fairly cull a
mortal combat between man and the horse.
A powerful and most beautiful thorough
bred stallion was introduced into the alrena.
The horse looked around the uudience,
stood ou his hind legs, plowed up the
ground, and presented the most vivid pic
ture of a wild and irreclaimable beast.—
IIo literally roared in fury, and kicked out
of pure viciousness. He snapped at the
groom and Mr. lturey, and actually bit his
own flesh severely in his passion* He tore
to pieces every strap which was placed
upon him, hurling* the groom, who had
come to Mr. Rarey’s assistance, ignomin
iously the whole length of the arena. At
one time the horse broke clear away from
all, and stood for a yioment as a conscious
victor in the midst of the excited audience.
Mr. Dycer and Mr. Ferrel both came to
Mr. Rarey’s help, but they were utterly
unable to hold the animal. He scattered
every man unu everyunug tuuuuu mm imc
chaff. He was bathed in a while foam,
and sending up rolling clouds of vapor
from his body. At one moment he tossed
up the straw wildly, at another he sent the
strong barriers Hying in all directions, and
for some time he stood the complete per
sonification of diablerie in the arena, roar
ing furiously, and tearing at the barriers
with his teeth.
Mr. Itarey having washed his hands
and rested for a few minutes, again ven
turned to approach him. Then began a
contest such as no one who witnessed it
can ever forget. It was a struggle of art
and tact against overwhelming strength.
Whoever saw that combat could never be
skeptical as to the wonderful power of Mr.
Itarey. For full an hour the battle, for ii
was nothing else, continued ; now the mar
hrid gained the victory, now the horse ; and
the animal, touching the earth, seemed to
^ derive fresh strength from every fall. Ai
last Mr. llarey extemporised a strap fron:
the fragments of the broken bridle,'and
had gained bis first step to conquest; stil
the horse fought furiously, rising in th<
air, plunging in all directions, endeavor
ing to bi'e his assailant or trample bin
down. It gave some idea of the nnimu
ting scenes of the Roman amphitheater l<
see a compact, slight, but sinewy man con
fronting so furious and so vicious an am
rnal. A long struggle ensued, but even
tually the horse was fairly beaten out, am
lay down panting and thoroughly subdued
! —[Irish Tunes.
| —Sylvius bail three ways of proving a mai
a fool. He is a fool who seeks that he canno
find; he is a fool who seeks that which, i
l found, would do him more harm than good
he is a fool who, having several ways to brio
1 him to his journey’s end, selects the wors
one.
t -A farmer out West, importuned to tak
shares in some stock company, said plowshare
and Devon stock were the only ones that th
• farmer should meddle with.
1 -“Rladam, your shawl is dragging in th
i mud.” “ Well, what if it is, ain’t it th
■ fashion?”
_- - -■——mi —■■ urn
Death.—The article on "Death” in the
New Cyclopedia has the following:
As life approaches extinction, insensi
bility supervenes—a numbness and dispo
sition to repose, wbicti do not admit ef the
idea of suffering. Even in those cases
where the activity of the mind remains to
the last, and where nervous sensibility
would seem to continue, it is surprising
how ofteu there bus been observed a state
of happy feeling on the approach of death.
"If I had strength enough to hold a pen I
would write how easy and delightful it is
to die,” were the last words of the cele
brated Win. Hunter during bis last mo
ments. Montaigne, in one of his essays,
describes an incident which left him so
senseless that he was taken up for dead.
On being restored, however, he says:—
“Methought my life only hung upon iny
lips; and I shut my eyes to help to thrust it
out, and took a pleasure in languishing
and letting tnyself go.” A writer in the
Quarterly Review records that a gentle
man who had been rescued from drowning
declared that he had not experienced the
slightest feeling of suffocation. The strenm
was transparent, the day -brilliant, and as
he stood upright lie could see the sun shin
ing through the water with a dreamy con
sciousness that his eyes were about to be •
closed on it forever. Yet he neither fear
ed his fate nor wished to avert it. A slee
py sensation, which soothed and gratified
iiitn, made a luxurious bed of a watery
grave."
Cuke for Scratches.—Tuke sugar of
lead and hog's lard, and mnke a salve.—
Wash off the legs of the horse clean and
when perfectly dry, rub in the salve.—
Keep the horse out of the mud for a few
days, using the salve occnsisnally, and it
will soon effect a cure. It appears to mo
absurd, to think of putting anything down
the throat of a horse to cure scratches.—
Only think of it, men; if you were to go
in mud nearly,knee deep, without boots or
stockings, and let the mud dry on your
legs at night, and continue so day after
day, don’t you think you would soon have
fever in yuur legs and feet, and scratches,
too? Think, man, think! Put yourself
(,in your miua s eye; in me piace oi me
badly used.bjuios, and you will almost *1- ,.
ways do what is l ight hy them.
Before 1 got my yards mude perfectly,
[ was greatly tumbled with the scratches
in the legs of my cattle, in soft weather,
in fall or early winter. I have had a dozen
or more at once, with swelled legs and
scratches a hot fever, and greatly luine.
Washing and fomenting the legs with hot
water, using the sugar of lead and lard
salve, and keeping in a dry place, soon
effected u cure. Wash off the mud Iroin
the horse’s legs, when he comes in the sta
ble, never let it dry on, and a fig for
scratches. Prevention is better than cure.
An OnTiiooiiAimic Snahe by Rufus
Choate.—One day, when some nice
questions in philology were being discuss
ed by a select pally of Boston humorists,
Rufus Choate asked each of them to write
down the following sentence. To the sur
prise of all, except tiie proposer, no two
copies were alike in orthography. We
have tried the same experiment, and ns
yet have been unable to find any one able
to write it correctly. Please read the
words aloud to some of your learned friends
and compare their written copies with any
standard dictionary:
‘‘Preferring the carnelian hues, and
separating the innuendoes, I do declare
that the peddler’s gray pony ate a potato
out of the cobbler’s wagon which the sybil
had guaged.’’__
_ MISCELLANEOUS items.
-A ligly who had read of the extensive
manufacture of (utioineters to tell how far a
_kau.. run ahn wiuhpri tmtnn
Connecticut genius would invent an instru
ment to tell how far husbands had been in the
evening when they “just step down to the of
fice,” or went out to attend a caucus.”
miThe following answer to the over-curl ■
ous about matters relating purely to God’s own
prerogative would often be in place: Saint
Augustine was once asked by some one,
“What the Lord was doing before the creation
of the world V” to which the great Doctor re
plied, “He was creating a hell for inquisitive
people.”
-An old toper chanced to drink a glass
of water one day for want of something strong
er. Smacking his lips and hiring to one of
his companions, he remarked, *‘why. it don’t
taste badly. I have no doubt ’tis wholesome
for females and tender children.
-The man of mediocre education and po
sition is, generally, the most particular about
the education and accomplishments of his
wife. A man of literary habits often seeks
little more than sense and affection.
-“Hello! 1 sav. what did you say your
medicine will cure?” “Oh, it will cure every
thing, heal everything.” **Well. I’ll take a
- -bottle, ■r.-.yt'i. iii'n heal my boots—they need_
it bad enough.”
Is it So?—A lady remarked the other to
our friend Jenks, “that talking to a woman
in jest about marrying her is very much like
snapping a pistol at one’s head for amuse
ment.”
i _What is that which goes when a wag
on goes, stops when a wagon stops is of no
, use to the wagon, and yet the wagon can’t go
without it ?” The noise, to be sure.
-Some one says that human heads are
like hogsheads ; the less they contain the lou
! der the report lliey give themselves.
• | -The first confidence woman—Eve. She
j played the hall game with an apple, on a
gentleman from the rural districts, named
Adam.
1 -If you want to have a man for your
• friend, don’t get the ill-will of his wile. Pub
f lie opinion is made up of the average prejudi
> co9 of womanki nd.
: I _—Four things come not back : the broken
1 ! word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the
j neglected opportunity.
^ I Graceful Correction-.—“The pi oper study
.. ! of mankind is woman.”
| _Children are earthly idols that hold us
p : from the stars.—[Jerrold.
s | _He is a first rate collector who can up
I on ail occasions, collect his wits.