Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1866-06-01
VARIOUS ITEMS.

--Phrenologists allow that the organ
of drunkenness is barrel organ.
The right man in the right place
A husband at home in the evening.
-"Did you ever see dead duck ?"
i" Yes, sir, an Occasional one Prem
tice.
Motto for the Republican parity
WEAK on principle, but strong on a
dodge"
The man who can be Aattsred is not
necessarily a fool, but you can always
make one Of him.
When may man be said to break
fast before be gets up? When he takes
o roll in bed.
Cardinal Wiseman's dying words
were: :" Well, here am at last, like a
child from school, going home for the
holidays"
"A young widow who edits paper
in neighboring State says: &c We do
not look SO we'll as usual to-day, on ac-
count Of the non-arrival of the males"
Rejected communications are not re-
turned by editors any more than reject
ed addresses are returned by young Ia
dies. All. ought to understand that.
- The reason why people know not
their duty on great occasions, is that
they will not take the trouble of doing
their duty on little occasions.
Red noses are lighthouses to warn
voyagers on the sea of life off the coast
Of Malaga, Jamaica, Santa Cruz, and
Holland.
Somewhere in the Old Testament it
is stated that the Jewish women were
once punished for adjoining false calf.
The lesson has its warning.
Why is the suspension of the habeas
corpus act in ireland beneficial to the
Fenians Because it quickens their ap-
prehension.
An exchange comes to us with no.
tice that Truth is crowded out of the
issue. This is almost as bad as the up
country editor, who said. For the evil
effects Of intoxicating drinks, see our
outside"
One part Of Alabama is rapidly ELL
ing up, and that is the penitentiary. The
Wetumpka Standard says its occupants
% this time are twenty-four white men,
one hundred and eighteen freedmen, and
five freedwomen.
-" Manhood Suffrage" is the genteel
name by which the Abolition papers de-
siguate negro voting. White suffrage is
still simply called voting, but negro at
the polls presents the sublime spectacle
of manhood suffrage"
"A certain colonel was asked by some
ladies if it was not worse for the gentle
men to drink than for the ladies to use
snuff? The colonel replied that both
were very bad; and that should his wife
ever take snuff, he'd ticker, certain.
There is boy down East, who is
so accustomed to 60 out on railroad
track and initiate steam whistle so per-
fectly as to deceive the officer at the sta
ton. His last attempt proved eminent
y successful; the depot master came
out and switched" him of.
-" Pray. said Judge. angrily, to
blunt old Quaker, from whom no direct
answer could be obtained, ''do you
know what we sit here for 2" q Yes,
verify. l do" said the Quaker, {" three
Of you for four dallars each day, and the
fat one in the middle for four thousand
year."
"A learned young lady, the other
evening, astonished the company by ask
ing for the loan of diminutive, argen-
teous, truncated como, convex on its
summit, and perforated with SYM
netrical indentation. She wanted thin
bic.
"A girl, on being asked to unite her
self in the silken tie, tenderly limited that
May was an unlucky month for marry
ing. Well, make it June, then" re-
piled the swain, anxious to accommodate.
The damsel paused moment. hesitated
cast down Der eyes, and with modest