Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-08-02

who once from earth hath passed away;
1t seems that times erasive blot
Falls on him ere his corpse decay.
1t seems as if the closing tomb,
Which darkly hides him from the view,
Within its deep and governed gloom,
Hath power to clasp his memory, too
A young lady having purchased an as
sortment of music store, returning to her
carriage, recollected piece she had ne
elected to buy 'sSir,'' said she, on re-
entering the store, there is one thing
which have forgotten, and which I must
now request you to give me-" s'And
what is that 2" asked the young Music sell
= Lore It is, sir, One Kind Kiss Before
art. She meant the song of that
name. The gay youth, vaulting simulta-
neously over the counter, saulted the fair
stranger. He lost his heart and his situa-
ton.
A jealous husband being absent from
home, went to clairvoyant in London to
know what his wife was doing. "Ah,"
cried the clairvoyant, II see her she ex-
poets some one; the door opens; he comes:
she caresses him fondly; he lays his head
on her lap, and, !" husband mad with RAGE
-''he ways his tail" 1t was the dog
The husband was Gained.
A printer not long since having been
lung by his sweetheart, went to the Of
flee to commit suicide with the shooting
stick The thing wouldn't 90 off. The
devil, wishing to pacify him, told him to
ago into the sanctum, where the editor was
writing duns to delinquent Subscribers
lie says that picture of despair reconciled
him to his fate.
PRETTY Women. Of all other views
man may, IN time, grow tired; but in the
countenance Of women there is variety
Which sets WEAKNESS at defiance. The
divine right of beauty" says Junius, lis
the only divine right man can acknowl-
edge, and pretty woman the only tyrant
he is not authorized to resist
A wife's love is the golden chain which
unltes her to her husband; it has thous
and delicate links, forged by sympathy;
self-respect and mutual confidence sever
but one OF them and the chain is complete
ly broken as though d hundred Mctc ue-
stroyed.,
A California editor, participating in
debate as to the best method of building
certain bridge, objected to a coffer-dam
for making the pier. He said he early
formed prejudice against the thing; his
uncle once had a cow choked with a tur-
nip, and for long time it was thought she
would cooter dam head off,
Take string that will reach twice
round the neck Of young lady, let her
hold the ends in her mouth then if the
moose will slip over her head to the back
of her neck, it is a certain indication that
she is married or wants to be-
A clergyman lately travelling in the oil
regions saw a child stumbling and falling.
He kindly picked her up saying: Poor
little dear, are you hurt p When she
cried out, Il amt poor; dad has done
struck ile?''
The latest case Of Incidence is related of
man named John Hole, who was so lazy
that in writing his name he used simply
the letter j and then punched hole
through the paper.
If VIC are loved by those around us we
can bear the hostility Of all the rest of the
world; just as if we were before warm
fire we need not care for all the ice in the
Polar regions.
If you had gone half crazy at not hav-
ing won your sweetheart as wife, remem-
Der you might have gone the other half if
you had succeeded.
Dear Laura, when we were counting,
you were very dear to me; but now you're
my wife, and I'm paying your bills,
you seem to get dearer and dearer.'
The tears we shed for those we love are
the streams which water the garden Of
the heart, and without them it would be
dry, and barren, and the gentle flowers Of
affection would perish.
The damsel who is accused of breaking
young mans heart has been bound over
in the bonds Of matrinony to keep the
pieces.
A young lady in California broke her
neck in resisting the attempt of young
man to kiss her. What an unusual occur
renee!
An Irish editor, in speaking of the mis-
cries of Ireland, says: 'sThe cup of
misery has been for ages overlooking, and
as not get fuH.'
A young lady out West was charged
with putin on airs" because she refused
to go to ball barefoot.
The Cause Of IA story is told of
man in Indiana who had been declining