Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-06-14

amounting in one year to S5o.oO,
some three cigars, after each meal,
counting up in the course of the year to
$54.45 keep big dog, which will con-
sumo at least SIS worth of provis-
ions, and cat, $5 more. Altogether
this amounts to the snug little sum Of
110.95-sufficien to buy six barrels
of flour, one hundred bushels of coal a
sack of coffee, good coat, a respecta-
BILE dress, besides frock for the baby,
and half dozen pairs of shoes, more
or less Just think Of it!
To Mend Broken Earthenware.--
Moisten each edge with white paint
(white lead )press it firmly together and
fasten it with cord. Let it remain
in dry place a month when it may be
used. have a tureen which l have
used for more than year with various
kinds Of hot liquids and meats for the
table, which, to all appearance, is as
sound as ever, and the seam just as
delicate; whereas the cement hawked
about by peddlers makes dirty look
ing seam, and will not stand.
BRIGHT HOURS AND aIOoMY.--Ah! this
beautiful world. Indeed | know not
what to think of it. Sometimes it is all
gladness and sunshine and heaven it.
selfis not far off. And then it changes
suddenly and is dark and sorrowful,
and the clouds shut out the sky. In
the lives of the sadest of us, there are
bright days like this, when we feel as
if we could take the great world in our
arms. Then come the gloomy hours
when the fire will neither burn in our
hearts or on our hearts nor our hearths;
and allwithout and within is dismal cold
and dark. Believe me every heart
has its secret sorrows, which the world
knows not; and oftentimes we call a
man cold when he is only sad.-Long-
tello~.
Steamer Ohma Sunk.-Tho steam
er Olivia, capt Baldwin, struck snag
near Portsmouth on Monday evening
and was sunk. No lives were lost, and
the probability is that the boat will be
saved in very damaged condition.
Loss estimated at about 5000 dollars
no insurance.
A dutchman being called upon for a
toast said. Here is to der heroes who
fit, pleed and died NIT der battles of
Punker hills, of which I am one.
Drank standing.
"Wonderful things are done now-a-
days. said Mr. Timmins, "the doctor
has given MIR. Flack's boy new lip
from his cheek" Abb" said his lady.
"many's the time I have known pain
of lips taken from mine, and it was nc
very painful operation either"
Shakespear says, a rose by any 9th.
er name would smell just as sweet.
This may be true of roses, but it is not
at all APPLICABLE to other people.-Hat
Frank Pierce's name been Jededial
Skeesicks, he would never have got
above orderly sergeant to a cotton mil
in a lifetime.
A Full Medium,' says that the spiri
ofDaniel Webster made the following
dignifed communications am tick
led to death at PirceS election!"
QUITE CoRREcT.-A college studen
being examined in Locke where h
speaks of our relation to the Deity
was asked, >What relations do we mos
neglect?' He answered with muc
simplicity, poor relations, sir"
>. GO in lemons and get squeezed
now rendered, ENTER, asciduous trop
cal fruit, aud submit to powerfi
pressure
Now Patrick, said judge, wh'
have you to say to the charge; are yo
guiltp or not guilty?'
Faith but that's difficult for yer hol
or to tell, let alone meself. Wait till
hear the evidence.
1t has been discovered that where
lot Of bOarpers are fed on sausages e,
clusively, they begin to GRowL.
'DOn't count your chickens befo
they are hatched," is now rendere
OvariOus combinations, undertake.
antecedaneously to active incubati'
are very apt to prove aborative.
SUETT's JoKE.--" The candles you SC
me last were very bad said," Suett to
tallOw chandler.
~Indeed sir, ! am sorry for thai
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