Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-10-26

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COLE M'CREA.
TIC Tuos. RArTRAY, Dubuque, Iowa.
How to make Folks Happy.
If you want TO make young buck feel
as if be we're walking on thrones. tell him
that Julia called him the handsomest man
in town that Clara adores his moustache;
and that Aunabella says that-well-she
hadn't ought to-ah-ah but she really
thinks he's irresistible ClamJaHk Regts-
ter.
If you want to rejoice the internal soul
Of a reporter, tell him that six women and
seven children have just been torn asuuder
liu.b from limb in house around the next
corncr-tba, blood is gushing from all the
windows and doors-that a steamboat has
Just bust killing all on board-that tue
Rev. Dr. Exegesis has cut his own throat
and tha, all awful and impenetrable
mystery surrounds everything .-Alibama
.Skeeter.
If you want to rej,ice an editor, tell
him that his last great article on the cross
cut and tip and sitter question has been
copied and severely commented on in the
London Times, and greatly praised in the
AHgen,eiae Zsituay, If you add that a
club has been made UP in your ward to
take his paper, and that YOU heard that a
new patcn, medicine man recently inqlir-
ed his al lress, you will greatly add to the
eHect.-N T. Times
YOU wan: to delight young matron,
tell her that her child is perfection, that
her johnny cakes are angelic and that her
husband must live iu duck-pond of bliss.
If this don't fetch her, ncthin' won't
Puritan Recorder.
If you want to make the foodtide Of
bliss mel, over lady's head, give her a
dozen of Alcxandre's gloves, two canary
birds, half 4 dozen moonbeams, twelve
yards Of silk, an ice cream, rose bud, a
squeeze Of the hand, aud the promise of a
rev bonnet If she don't melt it will te
because she can't-INIiae Water Lily.
THE Loss OF A WIFE.-In comparison
with the loss of wife, all other bereave
ments are trihing. The wife she who
busted herself SO unweariedly for the pre-
cious ones around her; bitter the tears
that fall upon ter old clay. You stand
beside her coffin and think of the past. 1t
seems an amber colored pathway, where
the sun shone on beautiful flowers, or the
stars glttercd overhead. lain would the
soul ilDger there. No tLorns are rememb-
cred, save those your hand may unwilling
ly have planted. Her noble, tender heart,
is open to your inmost sight. You think
of her now as all gentleness, all beauty ,ail
purity. But she is dead The dear head
that laid upon your bosom, rests In the
still! darkness upon pillow of clay. The
hand that have ninisiered SO antiringly,
are folded, white and cold, beneath the
gloomy portal. The heart, whose every
beat measured an eternity of love, lies un
der your feet The fowers she bent over
with smiles, bend now over her in tears,
shaking the dew from the petals that the
verdure around her may be Kept green aud
beautiful. There is so strange u hush in
every room, no ght footsteps moving
around, no smile to greet you at nightfall.
Aud the old clock ticks, and strikes, and
ticks it was music when she could hear
it. Now it seems knell on the hours
through which you watched the shadows
of death upon her face. Aud every day
the clock repeats tha: Old story Many
another tale it telletb, too-of beautiful
words and deeds that are registered above.
You feel-Oh, how often-that the grave
can not keep hcr !!
ELECTIONS TO Contradictions are TO
take place in louisiana on Monday, No
vember 5, for State officers aud five Repre-
senta.ives to Congress. Mississippi, Mon
day, November ), State officers aud five
REPRESENTATIVES to Congress. New York,
Tuesday, November 6, State officers, but
no Governor aud Lieutenant Governor.
New Jersey, Members Of Assembly and
County officers. Wisconsin, Tuesday, No
vember 6, State officers. Maryland, We'd
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