Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-05-03

neaQ OF nef SOn-anQ the voice OF
prayer going to their guardian for
His mercy in thwarting the pan
theirs leap.
TAKE care of your health and
take plenty Of sleep. Let no one
work in pain or weariness. When
a man is tired he should lie down
until he is fully rested, when, with
renovated strength the work viii be
better done, done sooner and with
self sustained alacrity. The time
taken from seven to eight hours
sleep out Of each twentv-four Is time
not gained, but much more than
lost ; we can cheat ourselves, but
we cannot cheat nature. \ certain
amount Of food is necessary for a
healthy body, but if less than the
amount be furnished, decay COM
menccs the very hour. 1t Is the
same with sleep; any one who per
sists in allowing himself less than
nature requires will only hasten him
self to the mad house or to the grave.
g. 4 scholar, a bald man, Tand a
barber, travelling together, agreed
each to watch four hours at night
in turn, for the sake Of security.
The BARRIERS lot came first, who
shaved the scholars head when d
sleep, then walked him when his
turn came. The scholar scratching
his head, and feeling it bald, ex-
claimed: 'Gou wretch Of a barber,
YOU have walked the bald man III
stead Of me =
WHEN signing the Declaration Of
Independence, Hancock said there
must be no discord or pulling differ
! ent ways; we must all haGg to-
gether.'
If we don't hang together, said
Franklin, we shall be hanged sepa-
ratelv.'
/ II appears to me, said a small
apple-faced man, that they make
a great deal Of fuss about this man
! Shakespeare I'd Just like to know
what it is all about, Why, if it
wasn't for his writings he never
would have been heard Of !!
Y0U CAN DO IT WITH EASE (ees).
The following ingenious little en-
igma is inscribed under the com
mandments, in the chanccl Of an old
church in England:
PRSyRYPRFCTMNvRKP
Only one letter is wanting to make
good English of it.
g. Hoop-skirts, like gun-barreIs,
are not dangerous unless they have
something in them. But when the
former are chargcd--powdered.
wadded, and Observation-Disclosures
should be handled with the greatest
caution. In many instances it IS
dangerous to even look at them.
az- y fashionable but ignorant
lady, desirous Of purchasing q watch
was shown very beautiful one, the
shop-keeper remarking that it went
thirty-siX hours: What, III one
day., she asked.
CUFFY said he'd rather die in
railroad smash-up than steamboat
bust-up, for this reason: If YOU
gifts off and smashed up, dar YOU is.
but if You gifts blowed on the boat,
war is youY'
o. Mrs. Partington asks very in
dignantly, if the bills before Con-
gress are not counterfeit, why there
should be SO much difficulty in pass
ing them?
"a a true picture Of despair IS a
pig reaching through Il hole in the
fence to get cabbage that lies a few
inches beyond his reach.
THERE is now railroad communi-
cation from the Northern cities to
Memphis, Nicksbure, Mobile and
New Orleans.
eg~ \ Western paper suggests as
an improvement in Bibles, the pre-
paration Of leaf or two in the
family record for divorces.
JAw-BREAKERs. - Welsh-S SLAM
favipwllgwyngyll. F'rench-I.arob-
heiaquelein- Welsh has it.
WHEN is snow like truth ? When
it does not lie.