Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-02-12
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WHEN may wise man be deemed
=" fiat ?" Ans.-When he's aboard.
WHY is a Iady's heart ike boil
cd cabbage? Ans.-Because it is not
much cared for, If cold.
John Browns daughter is teach
ing freedmen at Fortress Monroe.
The bill to conscript negroes in
the South includes all between lS and 80
years of age.
a Paris surgeon has made new
tongue to replace one lost by cancer
The man who uses it talks, tastes, and
swallows perfectly.
BE willing to be taught by all
Sir Walter Scott used to say, that even
the poorest shoemaker could teach him
something.
WHY is lawyer like crow ?
Ans.-Becausc he wishes his caws to be
heard. Since giving vent to the above,
the author has become ravlng mad.
-There are women who, without the
gift Of genius, fill our vase with wine and
roses to the brlm, so that the wine runs
over and the house is liiIel with perfume.
- Tommy, what does b-e-n-c.h
spell ?" :. Don't know. ma am "What
you little mum bskull, what are you sitting
on - Tommy looking sheepish y"
don't like to toll'."
RtcnEs.-Misery assails riches, as
Lightning does the highest towers; or as a
tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks
its own boughs, so do riches destroy the
virtue of their possessor.
-Daniel Wcbster's library ha, been
selling at auction in Boston for the last
two days. The books went low as a
general thing, though many brought good
prices for the sake of the associations con-
ncctcd with them,
y crusty old bucheor not liking a
way his lanllady's daughter had Of APP
'priatins his hair oil. filled the bottle with
Spading's glue the day before a ball to
which the girl was invited, and she staid
at home in consequence. 1t was iiendish
revenge.
TO make a young lady six faith
oms deep in happiness, give her two can
ary birds, half dozen moonbeams,
twelve yards Of silk, an ice-cream, sew
era rosebuds. squeeze Of the hand, and
the promise OF new bonct. If sic
don't melt, it will be because she can't.
1t is stated that the sale OF con-
liscated estates being made at Beaufort,
$. c., is carried on from the yerandah of
the Edmund Rhctt House, where the re-
belIon was broolcd over by the very men
whose estates now pass under the hahn
mer.
Il Mr.. Tisdale has an invention by
which cars may run on yariously gauged
roads. The wheels are so placed upon
the axle that they are almost seH-adJust-
ing when different gauge is cdcounter-
ed. a car, by this arrangement, recently
went all the way from Boston to Chicago
by the Grand Trunk and Michigan roads.
THE old printing press at which
Benjamin Franklin worked in Boston in
l720, has just been given to the Mas
saohusetts Charitable Mechanic associa-
tons, by John B. Murray of New York.
This relic comes back after a laps OF
more than hundred and thirty years to
the very place where Franklin WORKED 1t.
1t is not often that we como in con-
tact with an article that we feel justified
in recommending to our numerous read
ers, but the article of Family Dye Col
ors, manufactured by Howe 4 Stevens,
advertised in this days paper, we feel we
can heartily commend to all who may
have use for dyes of any colors. For
sale by all druggists.
GoLD IN BRITIsH AMERIcA.-We e
have crcumstantial accounts. says the
Toronto Globe of the discovery IF gold
in large quantities on this side OF the
Rocky Mountains, within British terri
tory. 1t was discovered by Am erican
minors, who fockins to the locality
Bow riyer-iu large numbers. Bow rlv-
er is tributary Of the south branch of
the Saskatchewan. The country is fer
tie AMI the climate mill.
"LEr Her Go. was" said a
reverend gentleman, " attending divine
service in Norfolk. several years ago,
during season of excitement. While
the officiating clergyman was in the midst
of q most interesting discussion, an old
lady among the congregation arose and
clappcd her hands and exclaimed: : Mer-
citul Father, if dad one more feather
in my wing of faith would fly to glory"
The worthy old gentleman. thus inter-
rupted, Immediately replied. Good
Lord stick it in and let her go, she's but
a trouble here" That quilted the old
lady"
DISCOVERING THE SMALL Pox IN ITS
FIRST SrAGEs.-The Eclectic Journal
cautions physicians not to decide that any
eruptive disorder is small pox till the
following diagnostic system is proved
" Now we offer this secret to the pro-
fession-so soon as the eruption appear