Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-12-07
Git@its

Ny-In what ship have tie greatest
number of men been wrecked? CourCship.
nEThe anxiety that a man feels for the
want of funds is called capital punishment.
y-"Scull-d -duddery'' is the elegant
term in use in Kansas to signify political
trickery.
RERefrain from bitter words; there is
only the difference of letter between
words and swords.
EH-It is better to have clear con
science and be threatened, than to have
bad one and be fiattered.
RF-A corset maker advertises that she
is selling her stock at a "sacrifice."
Guess she means-of health and life.
RE-.How would you divide drachm ?
asked one printer of another.
Why replied the other, 1 would drink
one-half.'
EE-To admonish a man in the hight
of passion, is just the hight OF folly. II
is fike counselling soldier in .hc midst of
battle.
EE The pebbles in our path weary us
and make no footscore more than the rocks,
Wnlcn OIly teduAt0 q OOAiOAN 0HNA' ~ go
mount them.
Eg-An insult is very humiliating to
him who utters it, when it does not sue
cced in humiliating the person to whom II
is directed. .5f.s,
E4TA An editor out West, who served
four days on jury, says that he is SO full
of law that it is hard for him to keep
from cheating somebody.
EEL would rather dwell in the dim
fog of superstition, than i'll air rarehed to
nothing by the pump OF unbelief, in which
the painting breast expires, vainly and con-
vulsively gasping for breath.
GEPrentice, Charlottesville Journal"
thus hits the fashion of low-neck dresses
1T is supposed that angels do not wear
dresses. Our fashionable ladies are get
ting more and more angelic every year.
R%-"I declare, mother, - said a petted
little girl in pettish little way, "tis too
bad, mother; you always send me to bed
when l am not sleepy, and you always
make me get up when am sleepy"
GE-Wanted-a thin man who has been
used to the busines of collectng--to crawl
through keyholes, and find debtors who
are never at home. Salary-nothing the
first year, to be doubled each year after
wards.
EE-'I say, Pete. in gowing roun' de
worl' trabblers tell us dat you lose one
'hole day
Dad amn't muffin. Sam, when you can
make 'em up agin.'
How you gwoine to make it up; tell me
dat?'
why, jis turn roun' and so back agin.'
EEThe Roman dress, or blouse,
which was but partially patronised on its
first appearance. is now high in favor with
those ladies of rank who may be said to
lead the fashions. Just SO is life---the
newly conceived truism of to-day is spl,
upon, crucifed-on the morrow, idolized,
deiied!
EN-A young lady who had weathered
many summers at the seaside, Was ac
cused of dyeng her hair, which is of
rich raven black She declared in the
most indignant manner that there was
not the slightest truth in the accusation.
More than this, she generously offered to
let any one examine her hair, to see how
false it WAS.
THE ABsENT.-Before we speak of a
person in their absence, let us ask our
selves these three questions: is it TRUE?
is it KIND? is it NEcKssARY?-If we were
more in the habit of practicing this eau
ton, how many unkind and uncharitable
comments would our neighbors be spared,
and how much less mischief and ill-will
would be promulgated.