Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-07-12
NLWs AND OTHER, TTENTs.

ASS ~ VIZ W. AIN oINiN Ai'O tAliNS
wRs an urchin's construction OF the pro-
verb. Urchin was right.
Ey In pursuit of happiness, how often
sorrow, like a robber in ambush, uneXpec-
teddy waylays US.
Esy-Punch gives a Whole homily when
he says "Scaunal is a visitor who never
calls without bringing her knitting with
her"
Ey-Nolhing is more odious than the
face that smiles abroad, but flashes fury
amid the caresses Of q tender wife and
children.
GS-The grnsshoppers in certain parts
Of Virg mia have taken to chewing tobacco.
They lave also commenced depredations
upon the wheat, corn, &c.
REE-At an exhibition of fire. works at
Charl' st ,wn, Mass, on Saturday evening.
on Bunker Hill. Mrs. Oliver Frost was
struck by a rocket stick and fatally in
jured.
RS"The Clarissa Harlowe HeaG-lless
is the latest invention Of II French c~oiileur.
II is formed Of corn, flags and Jassamine
bells, libbons, featI ers, and ii tortoise-shell
comb, and looks ''like a book"
REy-A governess, advertising for a sit
nation, says, "She is n perfect mis- tress Of
her own tongue" "Did you ever!'' ex-
clAimed an I'D fogy bachelor upon reading
1t, "ray, don't believe it though she'd
swear tot! Never heard of such a thing"
R7-"John l saw your cousin Isaac a
few weeks ago.. and lie had just received
II fall. which cut a most horrible cash in
his arm
"Ah, poor fellow; what did he fall on?"
"Well, really, [ forget now; but it
rather strikes me he fell on Tuesday
morning"
Ey-Nathanicl Ray Greene, the last
surviving son Of Major General Greene, Of
the Revolution, died Mt his residence in
Middleton, Connecticut, on the 18th ult.
lie was seventy-nine years of age. The
only surviving child of General Greene is
Mrs. Litlleficld, who now resides in Mis-
sissippi.
SoAPsUDs.-There is nothing better
''about the house, as a manure for flow
ers. Buy a barrel to throw your suds in
for USE; do not throw them away; it is the
secret of the vigor of growth and perfect
ness of bloom OF a great many flower pets
of the housewife. And then grape vines
have a special thirst for just such drink
Prairie Farmer.
BONES FOR FRUIT TREEs.-There is
nothing like decaying bones for all sorts
of fruit trees. They are perhaps best for
pear trees, next for apples, and then for
ounces; but are good iorany kind Of fruit
unless it lie c1anberries. which seem to
live and grow on little but air and water.
If 1t is not convenient to reduce the bones
in ~su}phuric acid, break them up small
and place them about the roots of the tree.
Ry" Brown says, il you want your boy
to behave well, give him good clothes.
Dress him like II gentleman, and he will
he more likely to carry himself in a gen
tlemauly manner Let him dress like a
clown, and you may 6e pretty sure he
will behave like a blockhead. Dress and
address have a closer connection than
many people imagine. Brown is a philos-
opher.
Busy TIMES IN OxFoRD, IND.-The Ok
ford Mail of June 22. says:
a large number of our citizens, men and
boys-old and young-in order to pass
away their leisure hours, engaged them
selves in playing alley ball at the west end
of the Courthouse; while others busy
in playing marbles and pitch
ing horse-shoes. a pleasant and perhaps
profitable way of Willing away ones lei
sure hours.
BS~A correspondent of the Nashville
6 Banner" writing from Grand Bluff
County, Texas, gives rather a novel list OF
names of villages and sentiments in
that neighborhood, as follows:
EAST of our vicinity, are Black-snort,
Doe-b leat. and Lick skillet. North, Nip
and-Tuck. West, Black-ankle. Scace-of-
'~Possum-trot, Slip-up- aDd-snatch-it,
Step-up-apd-fetch-it, GUurd-neck-valley,
Rake-pocket."
RE-A bachelor savs:-fA woman will
to the chosen of her heart like a fly
% a 'Catch-em alive and you can't sep
her without swapping strings no art
mend, and leaving a portion Of her
on the upper leather of your
soul. She will sometimes see something
o lov where others see nothing to ad-
nire; and when fondness is once fastened 5
On a fellow, it sticks like a penny-stamp 10 :
in envelope, or a taX-gatl.erer to your
lousc door.
He FLATTERED HIMsELF.-An old ,
Elder in Vermont had Il habit Of
,aying Il fla ter myself" and was a strong !
believer in he doctrine Of predestination r
)ne day while talking with a good old lady
n the subject Of predestination, she asked $
i'm what proportion Of mankind he [
bought would be saved. "Well," said Z
le, Il fatter myself that not more than "
ne-eighth part of mankind will be finally Il
"Why, deu tell" said the old r
,dy. :
TIE SUNDAY LAW IN New YoRH.-The
bserIance of the Sunday Law yesterday "