The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-10-11
H u M O Il O u s

Bistnark handles his cards queerly
he plays the deuce with king.
He is a great simpleton VINO ilnagiues
| that the chief power OF wealth Is to
| supply wants. In ninety-nine cases ont
of hundred it creates more wants thau
it supplies.
We know q girl, says Pmach, SO in
| dustrlous that when she has nothing
| else to Go she knits her brow.
y warning needed at all fashionable
assemblages: Look out for paint.
Pray often because thou sinnest
| always; repent quickly, lest thou die
suddenly.
The definition of love is-"A prodigal
desire on the part of a young man to
pay tor some young woman's board.''
Old, but good.
The wise man is happy when he gains
his own appreciation, the fool when he
gains that of others.
| Slander is like 6. salad, which every
one will season to his own taste, or the
taste Of those to whom he offers it.
America has presented to England q
fair Field for future intercourse.
Jaell, the pianist, is about to marry 4
lady pianist.
The accord between America and
England is perfect.
The Empress Carlotta's visit to Paris
is to institute car-lottery.
There has been another revolution II
Paris-in the skirts of ladies' dresses.
A French window blinds maker has
over his shop door: "a. Othello, Fab
rique de Jalousies."
Monroe, o., has been blown away by
a hurricane. Any one finding such 4
town will please return it.
The cable makes bed of the Atlantic
ocean and pillows of two continents.
The 1Mississippiaae says a gentleman il
Jackson recently wrote a letter twenty
two feet long to his sweetheart.
Much unhappiness might be avoided
if every time the victim saw the word
Blackguard did not consider it a perso-
nal diffusion.
The cable telegraphs six words a
minute, and the electricians say it is
eating its own head off, the batteries are
so heavy.
The new bonnet is called "oblit." It
is very diminutive chapeau indeed,
| nothing but round of goffered straw,
edged with violets, lilacs, hearteases, or
any other flower.
An indiscreet man confided a secret
| to another, and begged him not to re-
peat it. (" It's all right" was the reply;
~ will be as close as you were."
A young man advertised for wife,
and received eighteen hundred answers
from husbands saying he could have
theirs. This shows the value of adver-
Using.
An old offender was recently intro
duced to new country justice as John
Simmons alias Jones, alias Smith. "I'n
try the two women first" said the
justice bring in Alice JONES'"
Cholera, it is said, seldom attacks
boys. Their minds are so constantly en-
gagged in robbing orchards, playing chow
many miles" and other IMPORTANT
amusements, and they have no time to
| talk nor think about it.
| A gentleman presented a lace collar
to the object of his alteration, and, in q
jocular way said, DO not let any one
else rumple it,"
"No, DEAR" said the lady, " I'll take
| it Off"
81 wonder where those clouds are
going ?" sighed Flora, pensively, as she
pointed with her delicate finger to the
heavy masses that fioated in the sky.
81 think they are going to thunder"
said her brother.
| What is the difference between an
editor and a wife? One sets articles to
| right, and the other writes articles to
| set.
| THE Radical "Drake' constitution
of Missouri, contains a provision for
taxing graveyards and cemeteries, and
requiring that they be returned to the
collector and sold by auction in case Of
nom aNmellt of Such taxes No other