, 1864-08-05
Facts and Fancies.

clasped her tiny hand in mine; clasped her
beauteous form; vowed to shield her from the
wind, and from the worlds cold storm She set
her beauteous eyes on me, the tears did wildly
flow; and with her little lips she said, "Con-
found you let me 60"
thought her mine thought the world shone
forth with joy for me; l didn't dream in after
years its folly should see. But so it proved. l
sought her hand Il really thought I'd get herr
but oh alas her answer came Her mother
wouldn't let her.
WOMEN often fancy themselves in love when
they are not. The love of being loved, fond
ness of fattery, the pleasure of giving pain to
rival, and passion for novelty and excite
ment-are frequently mistaken for something
far better and holier, till marriage disenchants
the fair self-deceiver, and leaves her astonished
at her own Indifference and the evaporation of
her romantic fancies To make things square,
we may as well say that precisely the same
thing happens to men, andjust as often.
THIS is the right counsel where so much de-
pends on persistence
"Never give up, it is wiser and better
Always to hope than once to despair;
Fling off the load of doubts cankering fetter
And break the dark spell of tyrannical care;
Never give up, or the burden may sink you
Providence wisely has mingled the cup,
And in all trials troubles bethink you,
The watchwOrd of life must be never give up
ONE who is ''up' on the subject utters God
blessing on laborers' wives, because they are
not given to scandal and never trouble the
courts for divorces. He says that those social
Injuries are left to the "higher classes" of So
ciety, where pretence creeps in, and men and
women marry unsuitably-where wives often
fail to see their duties so clearly, or practice
them so faithfully and so gladly, and where hus-
bands and wives agree to disagree.
~,
H1ie65ef paper5iIa It -fe9tarS7i5i rSal5Aowing;
General Frederick Steele comes stealing along
Stealing our hogs and stealing our corn,
Stealing our sheep and stealing our cows,
And stealing our steel from off ourplows.
Steal on, General Steele; ere long you may fee
The blighting effects of very cold steel"
A FRESoHMAN's EXCUSE FOR STEALING Pic
see Won leetle peeg, and say him. SAL
take you away home with me, my leetle peea
-omi or non? And zen pull re tail of re lee
tie fellow, and he sing out Oui! oui our il
re best of French And so l take him at his
word, and make him into one great beeg pork
pie"
At fancy dress ball in Paris, France, recent
1y, lady was seen in a very low-necked dress
while floating and waving an abundance o
green gauze. She was politely asked by &
gentleman what she personated. ''The sea
Monsieur" At low tide, then, Madame.
A Clergyman, who was consoling lady
upon the death of her husband, spoke in a very
serious tone, remarking that % He was one O.
the few. You cannot find his equal you know.
To which the sobbng fair one replied, with ar
almost broken heart g don't know, but III
try"
. clergyman writes a note to the Green Bay
Advocate asking the use of two or three col
umns of that paper for the purpose of 'proving
fha nviet n cr1ph MIA hall
and adds, that making such proof 90 would cause
me great deal of pleasure"
A captain being questioned by the Court as tc
whether he had ever been extensively engaged
in the hotel business answered that he rather
thought he had, as he once "boarded frigatt
and two sloops-of-war"
'Who was David ~ asked Government In
spector, examining school not not many miles
from Canterbury. "The son of Jesse, and King
of Israel, replied the boy. "Who was Jesse ~
"The flower of Dumblame"
A man in Orange county was found one night
in fulling MILL trying to climb the overshot
wheel. When asked what he was doing he said
he was trying to get to bed but somehow oil
other the stairs wouldn't hold still.
lawyer in one of the Western courts lately
threw a book at another's head The court re-
quired him to apologize. He did so and added
While am about it, may as well apologize
beforehand for throwing another book at him
the first chance l get"
skeptic once said to DR.. Parr, "That he
would not believe anything he could not under.
stand" To which the Doctor replied, "Theu
sir, your creed will be the shortest of any mans
l know"
During the recent furlough of the Iowa caval-
ry tloo hundred marriages took place in the regi-
ment, there being twenty-nine marriages in one
company alone,
An exchange recording the fall of a person
into the river says: % 1t is a wonder he escaped
with his life. Prentice says: ''Would not it
have been still greater wonder if he had escaped
without it,
Official records show that upwards of $50 fe-
male recruits have been discovered, and made
to resume the garments of their sex. Quite a
proof of female patriotism.
Nature is poetry-when reflected on the retina
of the poet; thence shown to the world 1t is
in this showing that the success of the poet
lies.
John, said schoolmaster "what is the
singular of men ?" "Those who pay their debts
without being asked dozen times,' replied
John.
When man sWears he loves a young lady
better than any thing else in the world there is
room for doubling his faith we'll as his gram