Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-12-20

/ A happy mother and wife,
/ Who loitered there in pensive mood. ii't4
| Around her fell the autumn leaves;
/ The meadow brook was almost dry, s4f
And in the harvest fields hard by h.fs
The reapers found the years last sheaves.
! Once more beside the brook she stands
Tie willow branches round her there
| Hang leaf rs in the winter air
| An aged dame with folded hands.
Old memories h r thoughts engage,
Whose every link she cannot trace :
Aud, frozen Yer, the brooks still face
Is wrinkled like the face of age.
Mrs PARrlSGToN IN THE, LEGIsLA-
TuRE- There he goes again" said Mrs.
F., in the Legislature, as member stood
up for the fifth time to speak on the SAME
question. There he goes like soda
fountain. and just as fluid as water. Now,
isaac, mind him, and see ifyou MT become
a speaker of the house of reprehenslbles
sometime. | declare p continued she, as
i new burst of eloquence reached her ear,
lit does seem as if the mantlepiece OF Dam
lei Webster had fallen onto him, he IS SO
Fright
Hollow HoRS The Rural American
says:-Take quantity Of black ash bark;
steep it strong ana give a pint of the warm
iecoction to IA dose, at the same time bath
iny the loins thoroughly. with the same %
will warrant cure in two days. Ii
.oes not need to be given but once.
Ournorthevn brethern have a terrible
sympathy with all the oppressed people of
the world excerpt those that they Cypress
fhenaSelces. They sympathiae tremen-
.!ousIy with Ireland and M@4co-and IN
Ill lately they used to sympa:hi2e with 70
taul. Ye hypocrites "Ihe Greeks ore
1T rony d0o,s % You have made an Ire
land-think Of tot Virginia Z--dt1srf5'-
| }mtescille Chronide
4 gentleman was one day arranging
nusic for a lacy to whom he was paying
Ills attention
Miss H." what time do you pre-
fer?''
20" she replied carelessly, "any time
will debut the quicker the better"
Beauty is the woinan you love, whatever
she may seem to others
The Maryland Farmer says:-All clay
lands, and we may say all good garden
lands, if dug or powed deeply, and turned
up rough and exposed 10 the winter $
trosts, will Improve III quality full as much
AS the covering of enc coat OF manure 81
ven and worked in in the spring. az
Old lady to hackman But these
hacks are dangerous You never know
who rides in them We might get the
smallpox" Coachy- you're no cause
to be ateared of my coach, mum. for I've
ad the hind wheels waccinated, and 1t
took beautiful.
A down east Yankee, seeing an alliga-
tor for the first time on the Mlsslppl RIVER
with his mouth open. exclaimed, "Wel'
ee amt what YOU call a hadsum erltter,
but he has deal of openness when he
smiles"
Love, that has nothing but beauty to
keep it in good health. is short lived. 1t
| must be sustained ~ an exhibition OF the
nobler qualities Of the mind and heart
There is said to be girl in Texas whose
lbs ale 50 sweet that they stick together ev-
ery morning by the honey they distlll, and
| she cannot open her mouth until she has
pared her lips with silver knife.
The London Times says that New York
is the handsomest and will some day be the
largest city i'll the world
| Bonnets in Paris are now mere leaf.
Birds nlumage are used to trim dresses,
and waists are short as husbands pockets
4 Mr.. Bates, of Kentucky, aged twen-
tx. is seven feet eleven inches high, and
still growing lie is the ''babs'' OF elev-
en- children.
A savings bank out South, established
/ BY the negroes, collapsed the other day IN
cons quence of the depositors withdrawing
all the funds to attend circus.
Speaking Of the influence of female socl-
ETY., Thackeray says: "All men who avoid
female society have dull perceptions, and
are stupid or have gross tastes, and revolt
against what is pure.
One is much less sensible Of cold on a
bright day than on cloudy one; thus the
sunshine of cheelfulness and hope will
tighten every trouble.
We lick the stamps that the tyrants of
this day have imposed upon us Our ia
Tiers licked the ,yrants who sought to lm-