Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-04-12
COLUMN.

EVERY man thinks he has more trouble
than his neighbor, more religion too.
TIE first object of woman's desire, is a
man, the next, a mansion, and then a
manson.
Those who decline drinking anything
stronger than tea, merit the appropriate
title of tea totaIlers.
GREAT excitement is said to prevail in
Hanover county, Virginia. in consequence
of the discovery Of rich silver mines in that
country.
TIE editor of a New York paper re-
quests those Of his subscribers who never
intend TO pay, to give him notice as soon
as possible.
ONE hundred and fifty young men were
arrested on Sunday last in Philadelphia
for lounging on street corners and in front
Of the churches.
An eastern editor asks his subscribers
to pay up, that he may play similar
''Joke" upon his creditors We like to
see a good joke 20 round.
Alexander II. Stephens is in Washing
some Of the Southern Senators relative to
affairs generlly in the Southern States.
TIE Reno Times says the failure of
''Culver Penn q Co, is not a t5al,a'e, but
"a mere suspension and that the financial
bottom has not fallen out of the house Of
G. T. & Co"
Ar a recent fire at Matches, MISSISSIPPI
pi, gangs Of negro soldiers refused to help
to cxtinguish the flames, but were busy
stealing, and threatened to shoot any one
who interfcred with them.
eg~ \ NEGRO Boz was driving a mule
when the animal suddenly stopped and re-
fused to bulge. ''Won't 90, hey ?" said
the boy, ''Geel grand, do you | suppose
you forget your father was a .jackass." "
@-A schooIboy having good naturedIy
helped another in a difficult cyphering
lesson, was angrily questioned by the dom
inie, " Why did you work the lesson :"
''To lessen the work. replied the young
stcr.
y certain preacher at Appleton,
Wisconsin, in a sermon, made the follow
ing comparison in dissecting a miser ::
''The soul Of a miser is so shriveled that
it would have more room to play in a
grain Of mustard seed than a bull frog in
Lake Michigan"
ezg" \ woman has been arrested at
Newburyport, Massachusetts, for having
three husbands, all Of them now living
and respectable men. Her last husband
Is man Of considerable property, who
has a wife who had left him.
GA man in New Hampshire had the
misfortune recently to lose his wife Over
the grave he caused stone to be placed,
on which, in the depth of his grief, he had
ordered to be observation-disclosures can
not restore her, therefore | weep"
GA gentleman at a hotel table asked
the person sitting next to him if he would
please pass the mustard
'Sir," sir said the man, edo you mis-
take me for a waiter p
go, no, SIR was the reply, 81 mis-
took you for a gentleman"
ez~Thc Baptist Chronicle says: '.At an
examination ofgirls for the rite of confirm
alton in the Episcopal Church, in answer
to the question, ''What Is the outward and
visible sign and form in baptis.n2' the re-
ply Of bright little thcologian was "sthe
baby, sir
GLOW DO you like the character of St.
Paul p asked person of his land lady
one day. "Ah! he was a good. clever
old soul, | know, for he once said. you
know, that we must cat what is set before
us, and ask no questions for conscience.
sake. l always thought l should like him
toI a boarder
IT IS said that a Yankee has invented a
machine for corking up daylight, which
viii eventually supercede gas. He covers
the interior Of a flour barrel with shoe
makers wax, holds it open to the sun and
then suddenl, heads up the barrel. The
lights sticks TO the wax, and at night
1t can be cut and sold in lots to suit pur-
chasers p
e. y man named AIolloy, living in ST
Louis, obtained a divorce from his wife.
and then followed her from place to place.
threatening TO kill her. She sought ref
uge in the Village of Lake Station. forty
three miles from Chicago where she re-
mained unmolested in a hotel kept by her
sisters husband. On Wednesday night
Molloy burst in to the room whilst two of
her sisters children were kneeling before
her saying their prayers, fired at her, but
missed, and then cut her throat Moloy
fled, and has not been found