Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-12-10
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a MORAL REFoRM MOVEMENT. An
organization has been formed in Penn.
sylvania, whose object appears to be to
effect moral reform, by two-fold
movement.
! To provide attractive schools for
destitute and neglected children; and
2. To establish reform school for erin
inals.
The aim in both cases is the same. It
recognizes industry and intelligence as
the foundation stones of moral culture,
and education as the proper means to
prevent crime before it has been commit
ted, and also the only means by which a
reformation eau be effected where per-
sons have already been led into vicious
habits. A school has already been es-
tablished in the city Of Erie.
Too TRuE.-A person whose vocation
requires him to travel all over this great
country, has been amusing himself by
gathering statistics of politeness and of
boorIshness among men and women ira
yelling by cars and steamboats,. OF TWEEN
ty-three men whom he helped to cigar
light, or loaned a newspaper, twenty
said, Thank you, SIR" OF nineteen
women to whom he paid a courtesy
such as giving up his seat, picking up a
dropped veil, shawl, or the like--only
seven said, Thank YOU" and two Of
these were 'furriners.
A VocATIoN.-A gentleman loafer,
recently arrested in Cincinnati, being
questioned by the officer as to his voca-
ton, replied:
Sir, | am doctor-I have cured a
pain in the head of navigation, and have
drawn teeth from the mouth of the Mis-
sissippl | have anatomical the size of
a mountain, blistered the foot of a hill,
felt the pulse of an arm of the sea, plas-
tered cut on the hand of nature, and
cured felon on the finger of scorn."
WICKED WAGs.-Some irreyerent wag
declares that the ladies' hoops are 'the
outskirts of civilization" Another in
sists that they have made revolution
IN the English language, and that those
celebrated articles of female apparel
called petticoats are now, by reason of
their tremendous circumference, become
great-coats.
Re- The deacon of church, over
whom new pastor had been settled, was
praising his many good qualities to the
deacon of a neighboring church. He
declared that the new minister had but
one fault in the world, and that was a
propensity to become little quarrelsome
when ne was drunk
re-" "Pa, what is the interest of a
kiss 7" asked sweet sixteen of her sire.
"Well, really, don't know. Why do
you ask 2" because George borrowed
kiss from me last night, and said he
would pay it back with interest after are
acre married t''
re- +" Here, you little rascal, walk up
here and give an account of yourself
where have you beenY' After the
girls, father" "Did you ever know me
to do so when I was boy? ?" "No, sir,
but mother did" "My son, you had
better go to bed
ES- One of our Western editors,
speaking of large and fat cotemporary
remarked that if all flesh is grass, he
must be load of hay.
81 suspect I am" said tho fat man,
from the way the asses are nibbling at
me-"
Es" A WOMAN has sued for divorce
in Indiana, on the ground that her hus-
bands feet were so cold it distressed her.
A case of clear insompatibility of tenn
permanent and Of soul.
re-" A DRUYEEN fellow carried BIZ
BILE to exchange fora pint of gin. The
grocer would not take it. "What the
devil, " said the fellow, will neither nv
word nor the word of God pass current
with your"
Iy- 1t is said that the word would"
in Rufus Cheats hand writing, resem-
bles small grid-iron struck by lightning.
E5- AN exchange informs us that
man IN the Detroit Jail wishes he had the
smallpox, SO that he could break out.
Eg- A lazy fellow lying down on the
grass: ooh, how do wish that this was
called work, and well paid for"
Re- A sermon in four words on the
vanity of earthly possessions Shrouds
have no pockets p
GsT While shame keeps its watch,
virtue is not wholly extinguished from
the heart.
Es- The anxiety that man feels for
the want Of funds, is called capital pun
ishment.
ES APPRECIATION is a greater enemy
TO the face than the smallpox.
ES- A man in Vermont was so dirty
that the assessors taxed him as real estate.