The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-11-26

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pets are - le worn larger this winter,
Foua men cleared over Eve ihuas-
and dollars from = mining claim ~ Gold
Ran. California. IN twenty four days
II Is aa extraordinary fact when
people come q What il called high
words, they generally use low language.
Henry Ward Beecher defended
novel writing last SUNDAY evening ON
the ground that tho parAblea ot the Sa-
ylour were hitlo novelettss
The British post-oficc keeps a.,
600 persons at work constantly. Wa
gss fidicnlousiy low
No man should complain Of being
poor, or 81 hard times, Who can afford
10 use rum aud tobacco.
Labors Of the body free us from
pam q The mind, That is What consti-
ltutes the happiness Of the poor,
-Couuudram for married men,
Why is wife like newspaper Be-
cause every man should have one With.
ont borrowing has nes9hbors."
A Pitis6eld Mass pastor aston
ished his audience last Sunday by ro-
marking that most OF the people were
asleep part Of them in the house Of
God, aud the rest at home.
A man over ninety is q great com
fort 70 al his elderly neighbors. says
Holmes, he is picket guard At the ex-
treme Outpost, and young iolks of six
~ or seventy feel that tae enemy must
get him before be can come near their
camp.
Il enjoy a good laff -ono that rush-
es out oy man soul like the breaking
mp ov q Sunday School, but a laif that
comes to the surface ~ the hiokups oy
n chicken ehoked with chunk Of half
wet doe, utterly lament
A Pennsylvania youth put lot Of
gunpowder, and 4 bunch Of matches in
the same pocket, aud then went ont 10
play The result need not be stated.
rhe statistics Of the corset trade in
Boston seem 10 show that one woman
out Of every three over the ago OF six
teen uses these straight Jackets
Mark Twain, lecturing on tho oSand-
wich Islands, offered TO show how the
oannibals eat their food, il some lady
would hand him baby The lecture
was not illustrated.
I'm reply to a paper which called
Gen. Sherman 'the coming man,
Georgia journal pettishly says il hopes
he is not coming that way again.
T Highway robbers in Montana arc
known as road agents, and their
sworn enemies are the "Vigilantes, who
J hang them summary when caught.
1t is suggested by Pennsylvania
paper that church pews be placed on
piyots, so that the occupants may not
be obliged to strain their necks every
time somebody comes into tho church.
! Mrs. Pratt and her daughter. Of
} Springfield, are spiritualists. and in obe-
} dience to the spirits sought to smother
a little girl, for which exploit they have
J been sent TO the insane asylum.
! Some one tells story OF a
steamboat passenger watching revolv-
! ing light Of lighthouse on the coast,
aud erclaiming, Gosh, the wind blows
that light out az fast as the man can
] strike it.
The fastest time in American rail
roading was that Of directors train
on Tho New York Central Railroad, the
other day, from Hamburg TO Buffalo,
ten miles in eight minutes, or at the
} rate rate OF seventy eight miles an hour.
"A lady in Wisconsin plunged into
mill-pond to save two boys from
, drowning, Her crinoline hoated her,
+ and elinging TO that, tho boys were kept
above water, and the whole party drift
ed safely to the shore.
) WHO'S there 2" said Robinson, ono
cold winter night, disturbed in his re-
pose by some one knocking at the
street door "A friend, was the answer.
What do you want?' Want TO stay
all night" Queer tasto amt it?" But
| stay there by all means" was the ben
! eyolent reply.
: An Irish Judge tried two most no.
, torious fellows for highway robbery
to the astonishment Of the court, as well
as of the prisoners themselves, they
, were found not guilty As they were
I being removed from the bar, the Judge,
! addressing the jailor said Mr. Muir
ply, y0n would greatly ease my mind
il You wonld keep these two respecta-
!. BILE gentlemen until seven or half past
! seven o'clock, for ] mean TO set out for
z Dublin at five, and / should like to
have at least two hours start Of them. Z"
Judge ------- OF Baltimore, il All able
Judge and pious man. He knows for
what the island Of Jamaica is chiefly
celebrated, and thinks with Lord By
ron that '|I'he two things most consala~
:, tory TO fallen man are rum and true re-
{ ligion."
: Disdaining to imbibe perpendicularly
in bar rooms, he keeps demijohn of
/, conceded Otard in his Office. and there
" slakes his thirst as inclination prompts.
: The Judge has son who knows his
: fathers habits, and emulates them with
. iilial assiduity. On Sunday morning
" the Judge would say:
"WeIl, Rufus going to the First Pres
beyterian with me this morningf'
!. "No, father; / reckon I'll go down TO
2 the Second Methodist"
9 . But on his way 10 that edifce Rufus
u uniformly stopped at the Office, unlock
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