The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-05-14
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In the United States, during the past
year, twenty tons of postage stamps have
been used.
Several white women recently married
negroes in Guilford County, North Caro-
lima.
If you would look Spruce" in your old
age, you must not spine" in your youth.
Mrs. Darlington has come to the con-
cluslon that there is no use trying to catch
soft water when it rains so hard
A wealthy widow, advertising for an
agent, was overwhelmed with applications.
The printer had made it gent!
The new Methodist Church, to be built
in Washington, will be an elegant Gothic
editice, costing 100000.
If a blackguard complains to you that
you don't seem to know how to take him,
take him by the nose.
The song of the rcpentant husband af-
ter knocking his wife down-"Come rest
IN this bosom, my own stricken dear"
A young Neapolitan princess, whose bri-
DIAL toilet is just completed, has sixteen
lace dresses of the finest quality.
A young lady in England found papa
had put check for $4,000 under her
wedding breakfast plate. Dear papa.
A great brute of husband advertised
in the morning paper for a strong able
bodied man to hold his wife's tongue.
A man who wanted to rent out lodgings
to early risors, at Danbury, Conn.,, adver-
tised that Cochin China fowls of unusual
vocal powers were kept on the adjoining
premises.
tits said that it makes 10 difference
whether the spring is early or late, on the
10Th of June by that time, one year with
another, vegetation has made about the
same progress.
The four largest States in the Union
are Texas, 274, 1855 square miles; Califor-
mia, lSS,98l square miles; Nevada, 49,
$50 square miles and Colorado, lu4,5O
square miles.
There are now three hundred women
at the Broadway theatres who can kick
mans hat off, though he be six feet high.
There ought to be no moro cant against
the elevating tendency Of art.
Without sorrow, life would be no better
than dream. Grief is reality, and though
bitter as wormwood, mortals love it, for it
makes them feel themselves, and know the
value of each other.
A man who has sweetheart named
Lie is not to be believed in anything,
for he's always telling Lie about every
thing.
The funniest incident that has lately
is the case of doting mother,
who, being satisfied that her child merited
a fogging, first had him placed under the
influence of chloroform.
A married lady lately found her two
sons quarreling, and in the hope of put
ting an end to the difference, uttered the
following threat ''You young rascals, if
you don't stop directly l will tell both of
your fathers p
"My son, would you suppose that the
Lords Praper could be engraved in the
space of the area of nickel cent % eyes,
father, if a cent is as big in everybody's
eyes as it is in yours L don't think there
would be any difficulty in putting it on
about four times"
A oroo,, ono ,ybo boJ oron.oJ IL. A.
antic Ocean tells a tale of storm where
he rain poured down in such torrents that
he ocean rose ten inches. '.There's no
mistake about it," said he; "besides, the
captain kept mark on the side of the
7essel."
Dryden, on the night that one of his
days was damned, was walking from the
heatre when he was met by a coxcomb
acquaintance, who said: "Dryden, my
BOY, | feel for you! Can there be any
hing more shocking to a poets feelings
han damnedplay? eyes, sir, damn
ID fool" replied the poet.
1t is indeed rare thing to seeall of one
mind in house if they coincide in opin-
on, they too often differ in temper and in
practice. 1t is only in that home where
Jesus waits to receive us that the need
will cease of bearing one another's burd,
ms, Of being pitiful, being courteous, and
If remembering ourselves lest we also be
.empted.
1t is little remarkable that the book
whose contents are more generally inter-
,sting than any other has meyer, been
printed. The curiosity of the intelligent
'eader will be allayed when we state that
he book alluded to is the pocket-book.