Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1860-05-17
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of them by their faith. He SAYS that one
pious gentleman composed a feryant pray
er to the Almighty. wrote If nnt legioly,
and affixed the manuscript 70 his bed-posl.
Then, on n.eold nights, he merely pointed
TO the document, and wilh the words, sOl,
Lord, those are my sentiments blew out
the light, and nsslled amid the blankets.
In the Senate Of Maine, there are
seven men who are six feet and two in.
ches high; nine that are six feet high;
fifteen that are five seet ten inches high,
and the shortest is five feet seven inches.
This is undoubtedly the highest Senate
ever convened in the State.
During the tight over the Capitol ques-
tion in this Territory, we had, at one.
time, the highest Legislature ever known!
Mr.. Whatsyou-eall-hlm says his wife
told him that she had been Informed that
Mr.. Stck-in-the-mud's 5 wife's cousin, had
heard how that Mrs. Tattle guessed she
saw somebody go into Dabbten house,
when nobody could have been there but
Mrs. Daubtenl We hardly credit the
report, bat feel it our duty 70 circulate it.
So don't tell anybody.
No local application 10 be made Of this.
"There is a gloom il deep love, as in
deep water there is a silence in it that
suspends the foot and the folded arms
and the detected head are the images they
reflect" Il may hence be inferred that
suspended foot" is a sign Of deeplove.
Hardly; sometimes, when the foot is
suspended on comming in contact with
the IS at of war it indicates an ire.
pressibIe conflict
A woman is either worth a good deal,
or nothing. If good for nothing, she is
not worth getting Jealous for; if she be
true woman, she viii give no cause for
Jealousy. A man is brute to be Jealous
of a good woman, fool to be jealous of
q worthless ones but s. q double fool %
cai hs lhroas for either og hea Ffl
A man from The country. w wife
had eloped, and carried 81 tha her
bed, was IN Louisville, IN search q them
mot that he cared about the wife, ''but
the feathers" said he, "lhem's worth
forty-eight cents a pound"
De Quincy, being asked why there were
more women than men7 replied ST is
in conformity with the arrangement Of
nature-we are to see more Of heaven
than earth"
The other place, which he omitted to
mention, is better ''kept before the peO-
pie" we think. than heaven. Itmay be
because there are no fires to make below.
Nicaragua and the United States are
two very unfortunate countries The
former has had her President Kidnapped
and the latter hasn't. We don't know
which is entitlsd to the most coincidence.
Lucky Nicaragua g!
A young lady reprimanded her shoe
maker for not following her directions
respecting a pair Of shoes which she had
ordered, and, among others, insisted that
they were not fellows. Crispin replied
that he purposely made them so in order
TO oblige her, well knowing the modesly
of her disposition, and that she was not
fond Of teIlOlcs.
No doubt lady may be expected 10
make great noise in the world when
her dress is covered with bugles.
In horn
A sailor being brought before magis-
trate for beating his wife. the Justice at
tempted to reason with him and so reach
his heart. "Why, this is not Ike a true
] Eearted sailor, to beat his wife besides,
you ought 10 know that she, as the scrip
tires say. is the weaker vesseI.''
Thunder" cried Jack, ,ken she
ought not to carry so much sail p
''Sir," said an enraged lady 10 one Of
her bOarders, 'why do you call this union
butter?" Because in union there is
strength"
A sailor called upon a gold.broker
recently and asked what might be the
value Of an ingot Of gold as big as your
arm. After inviting him into the back
room and printing Kim with grog, the
broker asked TO see the ingoi, ooh"
said Jack. Il have not got It yet; but I'm
going TO Pixies Peak, and would like to
know the value Of such a lump before 1
start" a +.
What's that a picture on ?' said a
countrymen, pointing a picture; sthai,
sir" said the dealer, ''is Joshua COM
manding the sun to stand sull.n "Du
tell Well, which is Josh and which IS
his son."
Mrs. Partingion told Bemus, the other
day. IN confidence, that a young man had
committed infanticide by blowing up his
brains up in slate Of delirium tremend-
Gus. and the corner was holding a con-
quest over his remains,
i A miserable old bachelor thinks chill
dren's gan es are becoming popular with
older persons, now a days, as he has
recently seen several f6ll-srow-a men
chasing hoops through the strset'
It has been satisfactorily ascertainet
mat ducks enter the 81 ter for diesr
reasons, aa4 come 0O, p. sun-dry motives