Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-04-25

hs~ mRch Il easou turks in crinoline.
D6s> Don't marry an attorney; it must
be sad thing to be hung to limb of
the law.
B@ Why is a loafer in a printing
Office like shade tree? Because we are
glad when he leaves.
swPoverty frequently imposes a
species of meanness upon men, more
disgusting to themselves even than it is
TO others.
bW An old hunter has discovered
that washing the hands and face with
lemon juice keeps off the mosquitoes.
The acid is offensive to them.
BgNothing can be had in this world
without paying its price. The foolish
mother fears to let her son pursue the
natural sports beftting his age. lest he
should be run over or drowned. She
viii not pay the price Of bravery and
manliness, and therefore her child
grows up cowardly BOBBY Emer-
son.
Bog An Iowa regiment has rule
that any man who utters an oath shall
read chapter in the Bible. Several
have got nearly through the Old Testa-
smeut. 1t is understood that imme-
diately after it became kHowa that Gen.
Jim Lane was not to bc permitted to
lead the southwestern expedition, a
good many Of the men found it neces-
sary to read whole books of the Bible
Mt single sitting.
Beg 4 star actor was once called be-
fore the curtain, after the performance
was over. In responding, he said that
language could not express the feelings
that overwhelmed him: and he only
wished that there was window in his
breast so that his friends might see the
atrue emotions of his heart Here a
bad boy in the gallery interrupted with:
IL say, mister, wouldn't a pane in your
belly do as well?" The poor actor
gfainted, aud had to be carried out.
sIander.
Against slaader there is no defense
Hell cannot boast Of so foul fiend, nor
man deplore so foul foe. 1t stabs
with smile. 1t is pestilence walk
iag in darkness, spreading contagion
far aud wide, which the most wary
traveller cannot avoid. 1t is the heart
searching dagger of the assassin. 1t is
the poisoned arrow whose wound is in
curable. 1t is as fatal as the sting of
the most deadly asp-murder in its en-
ployment, innocence its prey, and ruin
its sport.
Opposites IN Love.
Love is made up Of contraries; fair
woman, they say, best loves dark man.;
a tall man generally selects little wo-
man for wife; and the portly dame ad-
mires to tuck a pigmy spouse beneath
her sheltering arm; the mild and timid
girl turns with delight to the bold and
sparkling lover; the ancient sighs for
the blooming youth; and the wisest seek
in the society fthe weakest the pleasing
relaxatioa from the austere duties fthe
bar, and other professions.
sg-At one of our railroad stations is
a very polite attendant, who has very
little supposed sympathy with publicans
and sinners. AS passengers come up,
he directs them to the appropriate cars.
The other day, as he was saying to this
one-"First car to New Y ork West
boro"-yes, ma'am, third car" &C.. a
rather seedy looking and inebriated in
dividual staggered up. "Where do you
want to go?" said our friend. "Want
to go TO h" was the drunken reply.
"Last car, sir, and get out at Natica, y
was the official answer.
Old ideas Exploded.
The Scientific american says:
"Tbe impenetrability of the rhinoce-
ross hide is stated by recent English
hunters to be fable, which arose solely
from the fact that walking sticks and
xhipstocks that are as hard as bone are
prepared from it by tedious process
among the natives of the countries
which the animal inhabits. A common
buekshot will in reality go through the
hide with perfect ease. The same in
vulnerability has been asserted of the
alligator, and it has been disprored by
killing the monster with charge of
of bird shot fred into his right SIDE,
through the heart.