Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-02-07

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North Anusricaa thinks 'sthe day may
yet come when men are propelled by
steam power, the boilers being placed in
their coat tail pockets 2! y s ! - s+S-5
Settling Aeeounts. iIlf I3ft
"Mr. Jenkins, will it suit you to settle
that Old account Of yours?"
mo, sir, you are mistaken in the man.
I am not one of the old settlers.
In want OF Model.
Incipient .Artist-Ma,, get down on
ger hands and knees m mute, please
Mother-Why, what on earth shall
Dc that for, pet2 r.a. e: 20 o~9 hai
Artist-Gausc I warnt to drawr mel
ephantl II nE3Iz91 MA 70 ~ l9Tc /
pr..tv c.,d2 stz 1is a.a.l4
The following toast was given at the
Printers festival in Boston, ON the birth
day of Franklin. 4s.laa .faag +. ..s
"Woman's Rights. If she cannot be
Captain of a big Ship, may she always
command an almighty SMACK"
The cr.ssnd6 Of 1mp.taenee.
:. a village dame was thus heard call
ing from her cottage door to q child,
playing in the distance, and hearing but
not needing its mother. "Lizzie, luv!
Liz--a--Buth! E--Liz--er--Buth
Bess, you young Hussie!" n g fs,s@.' ..s'
nA-A rocky mountain correspondent
of the New York Evening Post, who
writes himself "Henry F. Land I" de-
seribes Oregon as the most delightful
country in the world! Our citizens, il
they choose, can go out there and see
ho,o this Land kes. .4gg..}.,,...ftas
s6The widow of celebrated musi
clan had inscribed upon his monument,
"He is gone where only his music can be
exceIed;" the widow Of a pyrotechnist
saw this, and had inscribed on her hus.
bands tomb, ;"He is gone where only
his fre-1corks can be excelled.' t'9~ -
nA- We heard good story, the other
night of two persons engaged in duel
After the first FIRE, the second proposed
that they should shake hands and make
up. The other second said he. saw nc
particular necessity for ethat, for their
hands had been shaking ever since they
. began. hne tas5a iafTFEf n asnf.f1E7 ri
where they 20 to. g at,t's.l .ios.,lsd5
A confirmed old bachelor upon being
interrogateE aat0 where all. the pins
and needles go, . madeanswer as follows:
'sThat it was beyond the power Of man
to tell, but that if woman could only be
induced to make a clean breast of the
matter, the halo of mystery which en-
velopes this oft repeated inquiry would
soon be dissipated. ~ 81
s@"If ever You thinko marrying a
widow" said an anxious partner to his
heir, ,"select one whose, first husband was
hung, for that is the only way to prevent
her from throwingihis memory. into your
face, and making annoying compari-
sons" Given that won't prevent it, F"
exclaimed crusty. old bachelor; .'she'll
then praise him BY saying that hanging
would be oogood foF you." ~ nT
s@A clergyman from a neighboring
town and one Of its elderly parishioners
were walking home from church one icy
day last winter, whenrthe old gentleman
slipped and fell fat on his back. The
minister looking at him a moment, and
being assured he was not much hurt said
to him: "Friend, sinners stand on slip
pe4y places The old gentleman
iooied up,, as if to assure himself Of the
Act, and said: 'HI:s see they do, but I
can't Z. ET - {:
9 A fashionable doctor lately an
formed his friends in a large company
that he had been passing eight days in
the country. e ayes" said one of the
,,arty cit has been announced in one of
the iournals.''ts "Ah," said the doctor,
stretching out his neck very important,
apray in what term2' Why, as well as
I can remember,it is nearly in the fol-
lowing. There were last week seventy