Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-02-17
Melrs and 0ttler stenls.

hurting them ?-Sunbeams.
When ID hen most likely to hatch when she
is in earnest (her nest
What was Pharaoh's objection to Moses? He
found him, more plague than prophet.
Marriage" said an unfortunate husband, lis
the ehurehyard of love" And you men replied his
wife. are the grave-diggers
Everybody sees the cloud on the horizon but who
thinks of the clear blue sky above him?
Strive to make everybody happy, aud you win
make at least one so-yourseK
If you would know man, mark his gait; most
men step to the tune of their thoughts.
He has good income who has but few occasions
of spending not he who has great rents and great
vents.
Men Of the noblest disposition always consider
themselves happiest when others share their happi
ness with them.
We paint our lives in fresco. The soft and facile
plaster of the moment haFdens under every stroke
of the brush into eternal rock.
One of the saddest things about human nature is,
that man may guide others in the path of life,
without walking in it himself, that he may be pi-
lot, and yet a castaway.
Under the effect of the progress of the Union
cause, the rebel Cotton Loan, in the hands of the
British neutrals fell ten per cent in one week The
neutrality of John Bull is likely to prove expensive
In the beginning of the month of September last,
Sheridan was simply Captain in the 18th Regular
Infantry. Twenty days later he became Briga
der and in less than two months time Major
General in the regular service. Such are the re-
wards of gallantry and skill.
1t has recently been determined by the Prussan
authorities that marriages concluded simply by Dis.
senting cergymen, and not by ministers of the
Evangelical or Catholic church, have no official va
hdity. All the children of such marriages are de-
clared ilegitimate.
The Kenturky Legislature has appointed COM
mittee, with authority to contract with competent
artist for portrait of Henry Clay to be placed in
the Senate Chamber in Frankfort. The picture is
to be seven feet by eleven full length, life size and
completed by May 1st, 1866.
It is said that the rose of Florida, the most beau
tifl of flowers, emits no fragrance; the bird Of
Paradise, the most beautiful of birds, gives no
songs; the cypress of Greece, the finest of trees,
yields no fruit dandies, the shiniest of men, have
no sense and ballroom bellies, the loveliest
lures in the world, are very often ditto-only more
so and politicians have no-scruples temperance
men-no drains.
a FAcErIoUs 0FFlcER.-A Cincinnati paper in
speaking of the overthrow of the rebels at Atlanta
says that just before the Federal troops entered the
town, an Indiana company, almost out with
the march, struggling along with very little re-
gard to order. Hurrying up his men, the Captain
shouted: "Close up, close up IF the enemy were
to FIRE when you're struggling along that way they
couldn't hit cussed one of yeu!" The boys closed
up Immediately.
To be woman of fashion is one of the easiest
things in the world A late writer thus describes
it: Buy everything you don't want, and pay for
nothing you get smile on all mankind but your
husband; be happy everywhere but at home; neg
lect your children and lapdogs go 20 church
every time you get a new dress
TABLE EToUETTE.-In the town of w. Oneid;
county, New York, resides wealthy but ignoran
and eccentric farmer, named Wilcox Mr.. Bill
ings from the neighborng city of Utica, called t.
see him one day on business, and was invited t.
stay to dinner. The substantial portion of thu
meal having been discussed, piece of pie wa
placed before each person at the table. Taking hi
fork in hand, Mr.. B. essayed to eat according Il
etquette but his proceedings attracted the at
tentiop of the host, who was industriously shovel
ing up the contents of his own plate with knife
''Mary,'' shouted the hospitable farmer, 'swh,
don't you bring Mr.. Billings knife p Here he i
ryin' to eat his pie with fork And by the wa,
if it was two-pronged steel fork las is probable
he had a difficult undertaking
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ga mechanic among others at work on hous
erecting but little way from my Office, who alway
appeared to be in a merry humor, who had kin
word and cheerful smile for every one he meet
Let the day be ever so cold gloomy or sunless,
happy smile danced like sunbeam on his cheerfr
countenace. Meeting him, one morning. aske
him to tell me the secret of his happy Aow of spirit
E'My secret, doctor,n he replied, lis that / hav
got one of the best wives, and when go to wor
she always has kind word of encouragement fo
me, and when / go home she meets me with smil
and kiss and then tea is to be ready, and sh
has done SO many little things through the day t
please me that cannot find it in my heart to spea
an unkind worn to any body What an infuenc
then, hath woman over the heart of man. to softe
it and make it the fountain of cheerful and pur
emotions Speak gentle, then happy smile an
kind word of greeting, after the tolls of the da
are over, cost nothing, and 60 far towards making
home happy and peaceful"
How AN 0HcwELL is BoRED.In selecting a spc
for well, the Artisan driller raises derrick abor
ITO feet in hight, bringing up steam engine
about six-horse power, and then after driving dow
an iron pipe about six inches in diameter thyoug
the earth and gravel some fifty feet to the first strs
ia of rock, introduces a drill of about two-and-s
half inches in diameter attached to temper-screv
and thence to the ''walking BEAM and engine
with which he bores now at the rate of eight or te
feet per day into the solid slate and soap stone,
one hundred feet; he then comes to the first STRAIT
of sand stone, which may be ten or twelve feet i
thickness and boring through this comes again to
slate and soap stone Of blush cast, and workin