Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1866-06-15
VARIOUS ITEMS.


Mature at this season is out in full
force-cat-birds and young ladies.
-Chastened sorrow leads us to prayer,
but inordinate grief binders devotion.
Try to let everybody's faults be for
gotten, as you would wish yours to be.
- The best capital to begin life on, is
capital wife.
The "hippollosiculum is on the
rampage among the Green Mountains.
1t is very easy to look down on
others; to look down on ourselves is the
difficulty.
TO abandon friend for single err
ror evinces cold heart and weak judg-
ment.
The confessions of husbands and
wives to each other are defined by Mr..
Prentice as home truths.
There were 800 divorces in Ohio
last year. A good many for Union
State.
Riches do not often confer much
happiness; heavy hearts frequently ride
in splendid equipages, whilst the pious
laborer can return with sweet peace of
mind, and rest comfortably on his pillow
this is life's blessing.
A Southern paper says the only diff
ference between q white ottache Of the
Preedmen's Bureau and negro, is, ma
ture has given the negro black COM
plexion, and villany has blackened the
soul Of the albine limbs Of this worth
less piece of furniture
"A farmer being asked if his horses
matched, replied: e Yes, they are
matched first rate; one Of them is will
ling to do all the work, and the other is
willing he should
"a poor hishman who had applied
for license to sell ardent spirits, being
questioned as to his raoral fitness for the
trust, replied, "Ah sure, it's not much
Of a character man needs to sell
rumW
"A wag, speaking Of the cruel treat
ment of child by his mother, says |:
1.-The child should at least have the
careful attention Of some one, or it will
be prematurely added to the kingdom of
Heaven. and thus, perhaps, permanently
separated from his kindred
"A fellow out West being asked
whether the liquor he was drinking was
. good article, replied: "Well, l don't
know, guess SO. There is only one
queer thing about it; whenever wipe
my mort, | burn hole in my shirt"
IL Contemporary wants to know why
editors are not blessed with donation Wis
its, as clergymen; for editors, it is we'll
known, are proverhial for their kindness
Of heart, works of benevolence and ex-
cessively tender disposition to anybody
and everybody who has an awful dull
axe grind.
The very last new thing is SPRING
held {Mass. patent paper shi'rt-cost
twenty-five cents, warranted perspiration
proof, and to wear three weeks without
washing. Please progress, Mr.. Reming-
ton, and get out all the other 'sfixins"
say full suit for about So 10.
Two boys were convcrsing about
Elijah's ascent in the chariot of fire.
Said one, I" Would you not be afraid to
ride in such chariot p mo" was
the reply, " not if God drove" Might
not many old Christians learn o lesson
Of faith from the above?
Hon PACED KISSING. in Indiana,
Haus Swackhammer was fined seven dol
lars for kissing Mrs. Katrina Sweihock-
en-, the other day. The deed was com
mitted in the presence Of DIETRICH Swell
hocken, her husband, who said, ~ was
so mad as | never pes" The affair led
TO the preparation of some horrible DO
etry, of (which this is specimen:
Mister spare mine yrowl
Touch not her pootv cheek
For if>you kiss her now
l hits you init mine stick ~
An EDITOR IN HEAyEN.-Under the
above caption an exchange gives long
obituary notice Of a deceased brother
editor, from which we have room only
to extract the following paragraph:
Should we not then rejoice that our
late friend of the scissors and quill is in
heaven2 In that paradise the cry of
more copy will never again fall upon
his disturbed ears. There his enjoy
ments will no more be interrupted by the
growls of unreasonable subscribers. or
the duns of the paper maker. There he
will enjoy entire freedom from the de-
fractions and Misrepresentation Of DO
ktical opponents, and the caresses of am
bilious political aspirants, In that blest
abode he is no more to be troubled with
illegible manuscript or abomiuable DO
etry. No rival editors will there steal
his thunder, or his items, and typographi-