The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-04-05

towards.
Anthracite coal has been discovered 10
Iowa.
American silver is discounted rs per
cent. in Canada.
Gov Blaisdell of Nevada, ia six feet
four inches high.
If four quarters make yard, how many
will make garden?
Any fool may start a humbug, but IL
takes genius to carry one on.
The ashes of cigar are little thought
of-those of man scarcely more.
VI s>-~- --;i,:-- uuws III tue worIu the
United States has two million.
Twenty six per cent. of the soldiers
from Ohio have left families at home
If a quack would become famous, he mus.
surely quack as loud as possible.
In Philadelphia there are $50 miles of
water pipe and 595 miles of gass pipe.
The mos powerful men sometimes doubt
their power The feebest never.
Grammar is learned from language moro
easily than language from grammar.
He is brave man who dares to wear
old clothes until he is able to pay fer new.
Be not the first by whom the new is
tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside
"Never despair" says Prentice, 'sif the
stream of yourlife freezes, put on skates"
A picket is chap who 10 sent out to
borrow tobacco of the enemy for the off,
GERS.
1t takes $4,000 to get into the New
York brokers' board. High priced boald
that
Two girls who have each served three
years in the 59th Ohio, were discovered
at Cincinnati last week.
The rebel spy, who is to be hung in
Cincinnati is the man who murdered Gen.
McCook.
If woman be truely beautiful, let not
her beauty be made dim by the fash of
diamonds.
In saloon in Providence recently, q
man won ten dollars by swallowing FIVE
dozen eggs.
The woman who sweers she will never
love, or that she will love forever, knows
not what she says.
According to its voting population,
San Francisco appears to be the sixth
city in size, in the Union.
Don't con6de your money, your secrets,
or your wite,to friend evidently anxious
for the trust.
He that gets angry in a discussion
while his opponent keeps cool, holds the
hot end of the poker.
If a man from Lapland is a Laplander,
then man from Michigan is Mchigand.
er. Is not woman Michigoose.
Love is not preserved by gifts and sac.
rifces, whose influence soon disappears,
but by words and looks of love.
There is now about 115,000 miles of
railway in the world There have been
consumed 100000 tons of iron.
Louis Napoleon is good skater Eu.
gene skates tolerabe we'll when she has a
fellow on each side to hold her up.
Civil engineers report that the volume
of water which passes over the Falls of
Niagara is ninety millions of tuns per
hour.
A child born recently in San Francisco
had no opening for its eyes. Cuts were
made and pair of bright eyes found un-
derneatb.
The landing of the american end Of
the Atlantic cable will be at Hearts Con-
tent, one hundred miles from Placentia,
New Foundland.
While only FIVE revolutionary pension
ers are alive, there are fourteen hundred
and eighteen widows of such pensioners
alive, and drawing pensions.
IF a man should drink FIVE or six tum-
blers of WhiSkey, made good, hot and
strong, it would depend upon his head
whether he was temperate man or not.
A correspondent with Gen Sherman,
asserts that floor, with wet overeoa,s for
coverlids and a log for pillow can be
called bed. This is aquestion for a de.
batting society.
Two ingenious citizens of Springfield
Mass, have got patent for an apparatus
by which the street lamps of whole city
can be lighted instantaneously by means
of an electric battery.