Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-04-30
FACT, FUN, AND FANCY.

Be thrifty to yourselves, that you may be
liberal towards others.
In private, we must watch our thoughts;
in tie family our tempers; in company, our
tongsaes.
People are all the summer busy learning
to leave the door open, and all the winter
learning to- close it.
The young woman that was lost in
thought, after wandering in her mind, found
hersslf at last in her lovers arms.
AIyoung man, who has recently taken a
wif5ksays he did not find it half so hard to
get Married as he did to get furniture.
There is a man in Cincinnati, in possess
sidaaof a powerful memory. He is employ
ed BY Jhe humane society to remember the
poo1o
can marry any girl I please" said a
young man, boastingly. every true, re-
piled his waggish companion; ''for you
can't please anyp'
Keep thysef at distance from those who
are incorrig gible in bad habits; and hold no
intercourse with that man who is insensible
of kindness.
A loving friends rebuke sinks into the
heart, and convinces the judgment; an ene-
my's Or strangers rebuke is invective, and
irritates, not converts.
''Pat, buy you trunk, to put your clothes
in" said his Yankee companion. ssWhat,
an 90 naked this cowld weather :" asked the
honest spalpeen Of Killarney.
Every man has in his own life follies
enough: in his own mind, trouble enough;
in his own fortunes, evil enough, without
being curious after the affairs of others.
A Jersey farmer, who had city friend
come to visit him, called his boy, and told
him to take out the horse from his friends
wagon, and give him plenty of corn-cobs
Gin an undertone).
Mrs. Smith, hearing strange sounds, in
quired of her new servant if she snored in
her sleep. Il don't know, marm," replied
Becky, quite innocently, 'Inever lay awake
long enough to diskiver."
An Irishman, meeting countryman, in
quired his name: sEWalsh," said the gen.
tleman. "Walsh, responded Paddy; care
ye from Dublin? [ knew two ould maids
there of that name; was either of 'em your
mother?'
A conceited prima donna, at the rehearsal
Of new opera, said tactly to the leader of
the orchestra ''The band play so loud,
sir, that it is impossible to hear me-" "All
The better for you, marin p cody replied the
conductor.
A clergyman was rebuked by brother
Of the cloth few days ago, for smoking
The culprit replied that he used the weed
in moderation. ''What do you call modera-
Jon p inquired the other. "Why, sir"
said the offender, zone cigar at a time"
'.Mike, can you account for the extraor-
binary curve in that horses back ?" "Sure,
an it's jist myself can tell ye, sir. Ye see,
sir, before the baste was your property, he
was backed agin an Irish boss that bate her
hollow, and she niver got straight agin."
''How very provoking, my dear fellow!
Ii you had but come yesterday, you might
have had the money! How true this is
through life j! Whenever we ask for any
thing, the only yes we receive is in yes-ter-
lay. In begging favors, to-day always
means day too late
Freemasonry was first known in England,
in 674, and was forbidden in 1924; tolerat-
ed in 1900, and communicated by the
Pope in 1888. The Charity for Freema-
sons was established in 1888. The Grand
Lodge Of England was founded in 1927; of
Ireland, in 1920. Freemasons' Hall, Great
Queen street, was. built in 1775, and open
ad IN Nav 1776