Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-03-29

EI-It is strange how soon, when a
great man dies, his place is filled, says
Longfellow.
EB-A newspaper is sermon for the
thoughtful, library for the poor, and
blessing to everybody.
EE-The superior faculty old women
have Of telling good story, is easily ex-
plieable-they are yarning all the time!
E The cloak of religon--says an ex
change, is 10 be known sometimes by the
fine nap il has during sermon time.
Eg-"If you are lost in a fog, Brown,
what are you most likely to be?' Mist,
of course" said Brown, and vanished.
H- Prentice says Of an editor who said
he '.smelt rat" that if he did, and the
rat smelt him the poor rat had the worst
oft
EyA fool in high station is like man
on the top of monument everybody ap-
pears small to him, and he appears small
TO everybody.
Eg-A woman with no friends can't be
expected to sit down and enjoy "A comtora-
Bile smoke, for she hasn't got any back
her.
R-"Oh. she was a jewel of q wife,
said Pat, mourning over the loss of his
better-half; "she always struck me with the
soft end Of the mop"
E-"Halloo, Sam what you doin' dsr?"
"Fishin." well, what dat you got in
your mout?"
"Nothin' but some wo'ms for bait
EgA piece of copperas, dissolved in
warm water, Is a sure remedy for frozen
limbs, DC, soak the fingers or feet, or rub
well on the nose or face.
LEA French bishop said lately in a
sermon: LET woman remember, that
while putting on their profuse and expen
sive attire, how narrow ale the gales of
Paradise"
LEA teetotaler, the other day, asked
a neighbor il lie was not Inclined TO tenn
peiance societies, and he replied, eyes,
for when he saw liquor his mouth wa
tered"
SMr. James Hogg was married to
Mss Ella Beane, lately. What can be
more natural than the union of pork and
beans? But this union seems all one sided
--or!y one bean to a whole hog.
EE-"How very seldom it happens"
said one friend to apother, chat We find
editors WHO are bred 10 tleir business
VERY well, replied tie other; land hSve
you not remarked how seldom the busi
ness is bread to the eGitors?"
EYr A husband and wife while travel
ing through The woods in hasle, met with
melancholy accident, which Is recorded
in the following telicitous strain:
And while rctreatipg through the woods,
And thro ugh the tangled fern,
He tore his mustn't mention cm's,
And had to pGl ON herh'
A QUESTION ANSWERED The Louis
vile Journal few days ago, contains
a string Of verses, addressed "to Geo. d.
Plent:ce." The concluding one inquiries
whether he will not come to her "when
balmy sleep" has wrapt her spirit ''in a
dream OF Jliss,'' and holy angels are
watching her, and press upon her lips "a
sweet klss?"
Prentice eplies--''We empbatioallya an
swer, We WILL
A FfGHTING CLERGYMAN A CANDIDATE
FOR MAYoR.--The Toledo Times fur
uishes the following Recommendation OF a
candidate at the coming election:
A number of the friends Of the Rev. =.
D Shaffer--our candidate for Mayor
offer to stake $500 that he can whip any
man in this city, in II fair stand up fight.
Our opinion is, that any man who has Tie
hardihood to try the thing on, would fnd
that business was business, when coming
10 the scratch.
TIT FoR TAT.--"Sambo, Use got con
numdbus to promulgate to you"
"Propel, darkey."
"Well. den. why am you ike tree?"
"Wby am like tree? Igib dat up"
"The reason why you am like Tree. is
because you am an cher green! Yahi yah
ysh!"
Julius, Use got a.connumdbus to pro-
pound TO you"
Expaliate den, Sambo."
"Well. den, why am you like a tree"
IL gibs dat up for sartir. darkey"
Den. darkey, l can demonstrate the
fact. De reason you am like tree, is be-
cause you am a low -cuss."
"Good bye. darkey; I exchange no
more salutations wild you"