The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-02-20

We are told of fastidious Milesian who
sold his last sAirs for soap with which TO
wash it.
"No pains will be spared" as the quack
said when saving off poor fellows leg to
cure him of the rheumatism.
| Eighty thousand well to do Germans emil
grated to this country during the past year,
according to the London Times
The expense of lighting up the Hall of Rep
resentatives at Washington with gas is S so
a night, and the cost of heating is $25 ad-
dItional.
! The War Department has published, in
circular form, the constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery in the United States, for
the benefit of the army.
A collection embracing all the different
varieties of projectles used during the war of
the rebellion, has been made at the United
States Arsenal at Washington, and systemat-
| ically arranged for visitors.
a woman being enioined to try the effects
of kindness on her husband, and being told
that it would heap Goals of fire on his head
replied that she had tried boiling water, and
| it didn't DO bit of good"
/
/ previously to grinding by striking them upon
stones, ram-rods and gun barrels. They
may even be struck violently upon wheel
tires, or heavy pieces of iron, without injury
to the hammered edge.
A noted spiritualist, Dr.. Randolph, says
now that after an experience of FIVE years as
a medium, it is his candid opinion that spirit
|ualism is one-thied imposture, one-third
/ insanity and one-third dabolism, and that
insanity is the usual fate Of trance mediums
A Washington correspondent says IA
/ formidable movement is on foot for an alter
alton of the Constitution creating but one
Presidential term, and dispensing with the
machinery of Electoral Colleges, so that the
people vote directly for the Chief Magistrate,
Keep out Of debt Pay as you go. Buy
nothing except the money is in your pocket.
! Have no account current at the grocer's or
| butchers. Go without new clothes until you
can pay for them. Give your note of hand
/ to nobody. Eschew credit. Deal for cash
only.
! The Lu2erne UuS0n reports several cases Of
spotted fever in that county.
| A bill has been read in the House by Mr..
| Bemus, of Crawford, to incorporate the city
of Meadyille.
A man named Levi Haney was froze to
death, some ten days since, near Phillips
/ burg, Centre county.
| A set of furniture is to be made from the
wreck of the rebel ram Merrimac, for Mr.
Welles, Secretary Of the Navy.
At donation to the pastor of church in
Copneautyille lately, one of the party carried
off the minister's silver spoons, valued at $40.
The Luzerne Union tells of breach of
| promise case in which a lady % years of age
obtained verdict of $4,000 against a repu-
dating lover Of 60.
The sum of SI5, coo has been raised in
! New York City for the erection of Lincoln
monument.
! A waiter girl at a hotel in Syracuse Ny,
broke plate over the head Of one Of the
/ boarder5 tor insulting her while she was
waiting on the table.
Tiffany Il Co. lately offered a reward of
$4,000, and no questions a sloed, for the resto-
ration of some jewels taken from house on
! Fifth Avenue.
! a little boy in Brooklyn Sunday School
was asked lately to say which was the most
beautiful verse in the Bible. After some hes
itation he replied, b!usringly. "If any man
pulls down the American flag, shoot him on
the spot"
A man was chased by ca:amount in Brs-
tol, Vt, lately, which so frightened him that
his hair turned white.
A manufactory in New England of wooden
screws have, during the past year. netted
over four hundred per cent. on their capital.
family in Portland reioices in the pos
session of twenty-four year old hen. She
performs her egg-laying duties regularly.
The fremont Theatre in Boston has been
transformed into a carpet warehouse, and
public report says one of the others will soon
be altered into permanent circus.
There is woman in Charlestown. n. H..
who has a collection of tame toadS in her
yard. They know their mistress, follow her,
and bop in her lap 10 be fed, ana are tendcrly
cared ror
One of the most novel sights to Be seen in
New London. Conn, now-a- days. is the
marching through the streets of the appren-
tees of the frigate Sabine, under charge of
Ensighs, in classes of about fifty, with pair
of skates hanging TO the side of each. regu-
larry and with the utmost care AID precision,
to the skating ponds for few hours sport
There is child in Detroit with two per-
fectly formed noses-one Roman and the
other Grecian.
An Oregon paper says enough liquor has
been sent across the mountains to keep every
matt In Montana drunk all winter.
Chicago has something new to boast of
1t now claims the possession o 1.-THE most
noble palatial eating house on the continent"
A Chicago Justice recently fined man
SO for stealing a dead body from grave
AS the man could sell the body for S25, he
did good business at that,
An Oberlin (Ohio) paper says that town
has ceased to be station on the 'under-
ground railroad" since Grant and Sherman
hecarnc nnndtctnr On that rnntal