Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-02-21
sR-A wife's farewell to a husband

pR-A wife's farewell to a husband
every morning-buy-buy.
rar Misery loves company, and 80
does manageable young lady.
sA- Make your company rarity, and
people will value it. Men despise what
they can easily have.
erLadies are like violets; the more
modest and retiring they appear, the
more you love them
nA- The editor of the Louisville jour
nal advises young ladies to RENE mber
that oranges arc not apt to be priced af-
ter being squeezed few times.
bD The cheerful are the busy; when
trouble knocks at your door or rings
the bell, he will generally retire if you
send him word that you are engaged"
pAl. An old bachelor, seeing the
words ''families supplied" over the
door of shop, stepped in and said he
would take wife and two children
E0- When the hay day of life is over,
old age may be sunny and chirping;
merry heart may be nestled in totter.
ing frame, like swallow that builds in
y ruined chimney. Z
D@- Why do printers not succeed as
well as brewers2 Because printers work
for the head and brewers for the ,stou.
sch; and where twenty -four men hays
stomachs only one has brains. ~
sG-A sleepy churchwarden, W.
sometimes engages in pepalar gaes
hearing the minister use the wordsi
''shud1e off this mortal coil" started Up,
rubbed his eyes, and exclaimed, "Stope
stop! it's my deal
nea- Where see house we'll fur1
nished with books and papers, there I
see intelligent and we'll informed chill
dren; but if there are no books or pa pers,
the children are ignorant, if not profit
Sate.-FrankHn. .
D1r"I can bear" said a sufferer, Il
can bear the squealing of pig, the roar
ing of thunder, or ehe squali of ten
thousand cats; but the voice of dun is
like the crack of doom--and when hear
q dun, | am done out and out.
s8-A Frenchman, soliciting relief,
said very grayely to his fair hcarer,
"Maamselle' never beg, but dat have
Won wife wild several small family dat is
growing very larg, and messing to make
deir bread out of, but de Precipitation of
my own eyebrows"
@-A German landlord undertoLk to
fire a rocket. de describes his success
thus: II sets her 6re-den she pulls
den pulls--den she pulls again.
Den de spangle bug flies all over me and
purns me; and den de tarn ting pursts
and hits me all over de het."
@-"As for sleeping on a picket"
said Mrs. Partington to the three months
volunteer who had dropped in to see
her, 81 don't see how they can do it
without hurting 'em Sleeping on
post would be good deal more sensi-
BILE unless there's nail in it, which
might be prejudicous for the uniform.
Every one to his taste, and such things
as whore man shall sleep is at his own
auction"
a Sensible Question.
Mamma" said little child, "my
Sabbath school teacher tells me that
this world is only place in which God
lets US live awhile that we may prepare
for better world. But, mother, do
not see anybody preparing. I see you
preparing to go into the country, and
Aunt Eliza is preparing to come here.
But do not see any one preparing to
go there; sod9 dontfhey try to getveady."
g~A polite omnibus agent was 90.
ing through the ladies' car checking
baggage, he asked very pretty lady if
she had any baggage she wished taken
to the hotel.
"No, SIR" was the reply.
The agent then asked her if she de-
e;-:od a "bus3"
She instantly gave him very SWEET
smile, and replied:
'No, sir, am not in bussing hu-
NOR this evening, :
Paddy's Blessing. .s
A poor old Irish cripple sat begging
at a bridge, urging his appeal to the
charity of passengers, with the eager
versatile eloquence of his country; a.
gentleman and lady-young, gay and
handsome, with that peculiar look Of
grati6ed and complacent consciousness
which indicates the first few weeks Of
married life-crossed the bridge. They
regarded not the petitions of the beg
gar; so just as they passed he exclaimed,
"May the blessing of the Lord, which
brings love aud joy and wealth, and a
fine family, follow you all the days of
your life." A pause; the couple passed
heedlessly On, and the beggar, with a
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