East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-11-29
ALL SORTS.

EEWith only half the courage Of
jeff. Davis his Democratic followers in
the North come up only to half of his
reputation. lie preached and effected
the reputation of the Mississippi
bonds.
The above, from tho New York
Tribune must have been put out before
the theory, that "a lie well stuck to is
as good as tho truth" MrDavis had
nothing to do with the reputation Of
the Mississippi bonds. This has been
shown over and over again, but, like
tho kindred falsehood about Judge
Taney's remarks that the negro had
norights which white man was bound
to respect it is still kept in circulation
by unprincipled patisans.
EEA well-dressed fellow walked
into room where they were talking
politics, and stretching himself up to
his full height, exclaimed in a loud
voice: "Whero is a radical2 Show
me a radical, gentlemen, and I'll
show you q liarw In an instant a
man exclaimed, 81 am a radical, sir"
"YOu are % eyes sir, / an l"-
"Well, just step around the corner
with me and Ill shOw you fellow
who said / couldn't find radical in
the ward. Amt he a liar, / should
like to know ?"
There is only one thing worse than
ignorance and that is conceit. You
may make idiots philosophers-you
may coax donkies to forego thistles-
but don't ever think Of driving COM
mon sense into tho heads of conceited
persons. They are as impregnable to
argument as Gibralter is to apple
dumplings.
A GENTLE HNT--A congregation
who were offended at their preacher,
yet who did not wish to take the re-
sponsibility dismissing him immedi-
ately, sent him a note, requesting him
to leave at the end of six months, and
in the mean time to preach as little as
possible
Coleridge was acknowledged to be a
bad rider. One day, riding through
street.-the Yves acoosted by a would-be
wit: 81 say do you know what hap
bened to BALKAN 2" Came the an
swer sharp and quick: "The same
rs happened TO me. An ass spoke to
him ~
"Man proposes, but God disposes,"
said pious aunt to her over-conf-
dent niece.
"Let a man propose to me- if he
dare" was the response, "and / will
dispose of him according to my views,
as he suits me-"
ORIGIN OF THE TERM "FENIAN."-
The term Fenian is derived from the
Gaelic word Fiann. In the antigua.
ted Gaelic it is written Fmand. i
was name given to an order or class
of professional soldiers among tn,
Pagan Irish, long before the Christian
era. In ordinary times the Fianr
consisted of three legions, in each le
gion wero 5000 men, but in war there
were usually seven legions.
TT Exclusive of all Government
expenditures for the soldiers of the
Union army, the people have givel
1912, 100000 and over. OF this pro
digious sum about s25, 100000 was
given by individuals and associations
$lS7 100000 by States and corpora
tons, and the balance was from mis-
cellanoouS eourcaa
Josh Billings says that if man pro
fesses TO serve the lord, he likes TO Sc,
him do il as we'll when he measre
onions as when he hollers glory halle
luya.
We suppose that there is quite q
large an amount of craft upon the Ian,
as thore is upon the water.
Many woman would rather hav,
n foul ulcer in her soul than pimpl,
on her nose.
On German railroads, in the las
thirty years, only two passengers hav
been injured, and neither Of these "a
tally.