The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-06-07
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How does Hamlet resemble the deyi!7
Because be could tale (tail) unfold.
Why are authors perfect beings 7. Be.
cause they do nothing but right (write.)
A regularly organized band of robbers
are inetsting Center county.
In China if a man is not married at
the age of twenty, he is drummed out Of
town.
A canter will give you ruddy cheeks,
but decantcr will give you rudy nose.
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all
possible objections must first be overcome.
Dishonest Petroleum stock dealers are
being hauled up in Philadelphia.
Judge Patterson, son in law of Presi.
dent johnson, has been elected US SEN
ator from Tennessee.
Plain honesty is the very best kind of
politeness, and. temperance is the very
best physician.
Provoking-to dream you have lots Of
money, and then wake up and find your.
self an editor.
An advertiser in ore of the papers says
ne has cottage to let containing eight
rooms aud an acre of land
A woman applied for free ride on the
railroad near Troy NY, on the ground
that she had three husbands in the army.
The first man killed in this war was
Daniel Howe,o New York, at Fort Snm.
ter, in 1861, by the premature discharge
of gun.
The Baltimore american denies the
story about the breaking open of ex Gov
|ernor Hicks tomb.
Small silver change is making it's ap.
pearance again. The Old stockings ae
being opened.
The Mayor of Boston has vetoed the
Act of the City Councils allowing the
public library to be opened on Sunday
afternoons.
Prince Arthur, of England has just
passed his fifteenth birthday. The event
was duly celebrated at Windsor.
The Rebel Gen Lee aud family arc
now living 10 Richmond on government
rations, regularly served out to them.
The total number of schools in Califor.
MIA, is eight hundred and thirty-two.-
The number ofWhite children attending
is 20,S47.
Brig. Gen. Pennypacker of Chester
county, who was wounded at the storm.
ing of Fort Fisher, is still very feeble
One leg remains entirely helpless.
In the book of Revelations, Death is
represented as riding white horse, but
in these days he rides an iron horse-the
locomotive.
Since Barnum got into the Connccti-
cut Legislature, unusual sensitiveness has
been manifested by its members. They
are afraid he will show them up.
Why is it natural that young lady
having seven lovers should desire to add
another to the list Because all ladies
wish to fasten eight (fascinate.)
"Madame," said a gentleman to his
wife "let me tell you facts are stubborn
things" "Dearie me, you don't say So"
quOth the lady: 'What fact you must
be-"
The FIRST to "strike lie" it now appears
was Job, who says: "When I washed my
steps with butter. and the rocks poured
me ont rivers of oil."-Job %; 6.
Maj. Gen. Terry has been rewarded
with the honor of brigadiership in the
regular army, being the only volunteer
thus distinguished.
Passenger trains are now running thro'
to Lock Haven from Tyrone, connecting
the Pennsylvania Central with the Phila-
delphia & Eric.
A Remove correspondent of the Clinton
Democrat, calls the Methodist preacher
at that place, "a red haired blood hound
of Zion" because he wants rebels pun
ished.
1t is understood that the Secretary of
War places very high value upon tho
female apparel 10 which JEFF. Davis was
captured, as a relic of the last shift of the
Confederacy.
Confucius, the great Chinese philoso-
pier, said that he who caused one blade
of grass TO grow where before none grew
was greater benefactor than he who
made ten thousand prayers.
Brigandage is reviving in the Papal
States. The whole country is in state
Of terror, and no mau dare go into the
country, or, for that matter,far
from Rome except upon the paroled
roads.
JEFF. Davis was captured disguised as
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