Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1866-05-25
VARIOUS ITEMS.

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Other goods may have declined,
but the rise in hoop skirts on the street
is at times quite startling.
The man that thinks himself happi-
est, 10 really SO; but he that thinks him
self wisest is the greatest fool
- The S.iletto is the name Of a paper
IN Iowa. The editors defend the afro
cious title by saying that many papers
had failed, and they wanted one to stick
-"And the colored troops fought
pobly." "A colored woman at Fairfax
@. r., Va, on Thursday, May Sd, gave
birth to four children, all alive and per-
feet, three girls and one boy.
"A quack doctor advertises to cure,
among other incurable diseases, Marco
hommzzaris, Abdelkader Hippopotomas,
Potato Rot, Hydrostatico, Inflammation
of the Accountable Religniuns, Ager.
Fits, Shaken Visits, all kinds Of Ami
versaries.
twill you give me that ring
said village dandy to lady, "for it re-.
sembles my love for you; it has no end"
"Excusc me sir" was the reply, II
choose to keep it as being emblematic Of
mine for you-it has no beginning"
During the war an excited orator on
che stump said that the women of the
country could churn out the public debt
IN few years. An exchange thinks,
judging from the price of butter, they
have commenced upon the business al
ready.
The question, does getting drunk
advance ones happiness, would seem to
be put to rest by the Irishman who went
counting when drunk, and was asked
what pleasure he found in whiskey. "Oh
Nelly, it's trate intirely, to see two Of
your swate purity faces instead ofone?
- "Pa, didn't you whip me for biting
Tommy ?" "Yes, my child, you hurt
him very much" "Well then, pa.
you ought to whip mammals music teach
or, too, for he bit mamma right on her
mouth, and I knew it hurt her, because
she put her arms around his neck and
tried to choke him."
- An editor says 10 recent letter to
friend: "At present am in the coun-
try, recovering from fourteen years edi-
torial life-bad eyes, crooked back and
broken nerves, with little to show for
it," Any one would think the three ar
ticles enumerated were quito enough to
show for it,
HraH FAMILY.-A person was boast
ing that he was sprung from high fam
lily in Ireland. Yes" said bystan-
der, II have seen some Of the same
family so high that their feet could not
touch the ground"
LOYALTY DEFrNEp.--Some Of our
"loyal' friends hereabouts will appreci.
ate the following squib from the Louis
vile Journal. The witty editor of that
paper, Prentice, speaks of brawling
kentuckian, who was Dragging about
how loyal he felt, and who. being asked
what he meant by it, replied II feel as
i'll sh'd like to shoot sumbody and steal
sumthin"
Knowledge, planted by the hand
of affection in the hallowed sanctuary of
home, is wont to take deeper root than
seed sown by the wayside." Parents
who write, with their own pencils, lines
Of Heaven upon the fresh tablets of their
children's hearts-who trust not to the
hand of hirelings their frst hottest,
most indellible impressions-will usu-
ally find less than others to blot out
when the scroll is finished, and to mourn
for when they read it in eternity.
= An editor of Western paper,
while taking snooze after darn. travel
ling IN railway carriage, had his pock-
ct picked. The thief next day forward
ed the pocket book by express to the
editors Office, with the following note -
"Yeou mizerabel skunk, hears yer peck.
n-book. l don't keep SIGH. For a man
dressed as we'll as yeou was, to 90 round
with wallit and nuthin in il but lot
of moose paper scraps, and ivry tuth
cumb, too moose paper stamps, aud a
pass from railrode directur, is a con.
tempterable inapersition on the publick
<Ac L hCet yOdA CuituIy TeVurn Vel
trash-I never robs any. only gentle
men,"
PRINTERS AND DocroRs An Easter
paper very justly comments on newspa
per and medical credits: it is notoriou
fact that doctors bills and newspape
bills are the last accounts in the sum {
every mau's Indebtedness which he think
Of paying. Whatever may be his abil
ty to pay. no difference if his chests
6lled with old rusty dollars, he think
some indefinite time will do to settle th
aforesaid accounts. People someho
have a Evolutionary notion that the prat
tice of physician and the publishing
newspaper are mere amateur profe,
sions. followed for amusement's SAX,
and for the cost of which little or notl
ing is expended. Yet thoro is not in Il
whole round Of business. as far as v