The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-01-30
CLIPPINGS ani ScribblingS.

Eka5" 10 remove stalnS lTom tuo eh"i"Nss'
get rich. M
RkE% Died-a lady aged loe years, at ST..
Louis. last week.
aS-Kiiled By the plague-forty thousand
cattle, in England.
RSFTin, silver and golden weddings are
benefit nights for married beggars.
HsSrIssued-by the War Departmental or
der, to muster out ,O22 general officers.
aay~Most bachelors are smart, but it is only
husbands who are now shrew'd.
RsSP~I.oye in a cottage is all very well when
you own the cottage, and have plenty of non-
ey at interest. ~ an
Mlg~There are but two survivors of all
those who participated in the Revolutionary
war. 4. .I.zs g.#e. -#+ eHe -. t.s-
nR%Beware of pretended friends They
make much of you, to make good deal out
of you. - .rre esq f.,...t .I
nEggnIn one of the letters opened at the
dead letter Office in Washington were $4,000
in bonds. -r. .,
nGy~Being ,asked-a wag-what kind Of
,rood be supposed the Freedmen's Bureau was
made Of replied, Ebony.
na~The hardest thing to hold in the world
is an unruly tongue 1t beats hot smoothing
iron and kicking horse.
nea. The young lady who tainted away has
been told by her family that it would he more
delicate for her to faint at home.
nE- He that cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass himself,
for every man has need to be forgiven.
E9~ Sambo, which race has the harder
scull the white or black? Guess de white
race, cause many of 'em are copperheads
sEPut on a new dress the Pittsburg
Gazette last week 1t is the oldest, and one
of the best papers in Western Pennsylvania.
n~A Connecticut lady sent forty-eight
pound turkey to President Johnson for New
Years gift. as
RSpP Prentice: says 'Tt is not enough thal
you are praised bv the good you have failed
somewhere ir your duty if you are not cursed
BY the baG." ..-.. -E .-.... ~.
nEap Forbidden to sell anything but stale
bresd-the bakers in Quebec; the medical
faculty having decided that new bread pro-
notes cholera.
Expresses the opinion-"Fal Journal
of Health" that buckwheat cakes contain
more nourishment for less monty than any
other article of food.
ggy Some people are never abreast of the
age. They dive into the stream of the past
and don't come up again their heads stick
in the mud at the bottom.
! L ~ -
ing in a church yard with his sister, and read
! ing epitaphs, said to her, ''Mary, where's all
the naughty people buried ?"
Es7gW We see eggs of "Pharoah' sserphents' are
! for sale at some of our business places. Our
devil thinks if these 'sarpentS" are any con-
nection of the copperhcad breed the eggs
should be destroyed.-E1.
'esa-A fact-bad men are never completely
happy, although possessed of everything that
this world can bestow and good men are
navar T>I~.IJ I4iIo0tdDIc, nI-L--e,l- Ianriv-
ed of everything that the world can take
away. .-f
! Rgly" A greek maid, being asked what for
tune she would bring her husband, replied
Il will bring him what gold cannot purchase
! "a heart unspotted a virtue without stain.
which is all that decends to me from my par.
ents" - .t .-r-r srn 7-r
Rsg~ ~A-hem "A man, in stopping his pa
per recently, wrote "Ithink folks doant ort
to spend thare munney on papers, my father
never did AN evry boldly scd he was the smartest
in the kouGtree, and had got the intellygent-
est family of buoys that ever dugg taters."
ES5y@The rebellions South are now kicking
at the doors Of Congress and begging to come
! in That il will be opened no doubt. But il
should be remembered that then thenaselpe,
! closed the door unceremoneously in 1861
They fought hard for four years to keep il
closed Suppose we now. insist npon four
/ years of praying Would it not be fair2
SLIPPERY WALKs.-Toper's SolaoqDy-
! ... Leaves have their time to fall,
/ And 40 likewise have
/ The reason too, = the same
| Both comes of getting dry.
But here's the d ference twixt you and me-
! .. j falls more harder and more frequently.
/ Sober men Have their time to fall'' these
cy times, as well as leaves and toperS, and
the best thing to do is to insure in the TRAy-
ELERs OF HARTFORD, at the Journal Office.
BaE~ Another counterfeit greenback $40 bill
has made its appearance. The signatures Of
| Spinner and Chttendou are good but the por-
J trait of Mr.. Lincoln is coarse, and the bill
generally much heavier in appearance than
the gepuine. nr
pea- The interior Department has just issued
| to the State of Iowa swamp land patent OF
upward of 90, 800 acres. The Land Office is
actively engaged in bringing the work to a
close for that State.
nca, The Louisville Democrat, the organ of
the pro- slavery men of Kentucky, says that
no race of men conld have behave butter than
the negroes during the trying scenes of the
white mems insurrection.
BSg= Dr. R. B. Bradford, democrat who
has held the Office of Public administrators in
New York for several years, confesses to hav-
lag used from thirty-five to forty thousand