The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-03-13
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Never waste argument on o man who docs
not know logic from logwOod, which is the case
with halfthe people who have disputation.
--paddy's description of q fiddle cannot be
beat' ut was the shape Of turkey, the size of
goose; he turned it over Oh it's belly, and rub
bed Its backbone with stick, and och, by the
howly Saint Patrick, how it did squall!"
The new volume of poems by Adah Menken,
just issued in Paris, Is dedicated to ''my friend
Charles Dickens"
--Telegraphic operators are beginning to style
themselves "Telegramers," and very bad gram
mars they sometimes are.
--LOngwoOd, the st. Helena residence Of Ma
poeon, is now owned by Chicago lady.
Alfred Tennyson has lately written several
brief poems. They will be gwen to the Amer
lean reader through the pages of the Atbntic
Monthly.
DIR. Hall says: "To be great orator, a
peerless beauty, or the star Of the social circles,
whether man or woman, is the next door to be-
ing lost"
-"Nephilipenotrasecom is the name
given to new musical instrument, on the other
side Of the Atlantic.
81 hope, my little daughter" said one
morning, "that you will be able to control your
little temper to-day" Eyes mammal; and
hope you will be able to control your big tenn
per-"
Some stupid person wants to know how this
can be the land Of the free, with its ice-bound
coasts and mountain chains.
The engineer who planned the great tunnel
at Chicago has been presented with $1,000
worth of water bonds by the city,
Aquatic Sports-A race between two milk.
carts.
A country cattle-tender insists Shakespeare
wrote: "Conscience makes cowherds Of US ALL"
Dickens brings "Grost Expectations" to
America, and will take back american Notes.
to England.
Why 10 a sooJe like a eow's tuils DoOau,s
they both grow down.
Docs corn whisky necessarily make mans
throat husky!
An unknown historic hero---Cantharid
who has always made the Spanish fly.
A little boy, whose mother had promised him
present, was saying his prayers preparatory
to going to bed, but his mind running on horse,
he began as follows; "0ur Father, who art in
Heayen-ma, won't You give me horse-thy
kingdom come-with string to its"
People seldom improve when they have no
other model but themselves to copy after.
The bridge of the Knoxville and Charleston
Railroad, across the Holston is nearly compile
ted.
One thousand unmarried women are wan.
ted in Colorado.
A young woman is walking from New Lis.
hon, Ohio, to Pittsburg for $500 and husband.
It's a long way to travel on foot for so little.
--Sleighest is the last word coined. En- suite
will follow, grocist, gasist, breadist. milkist
and writist. It needs only one more to finish
up this absurd attempt at humor. Foolist.
The girls in the braid mills at Norwich,
Connecticut, work Is hours per day.
The Cretans, backed covertly by Russia,
are thrashing the Turks rather vigorously.-
Russia wants slice of Turkey badly.
A belief is prevalent. among the Turks that
the Empire is to end with the present Sultan.
And the Cinamcn have prophecy in circula-
ton that Tarter rule is to end in the Celestrial
Empire with the present occupant of the throne.
t-They have now come to the point in the
West of timing divorce suits. One has been
granted In Terre Hauts, Ind, in minute from
the time the trial began-the best time yet made.
hundred Indians, armed each with two six
shooters and Spencer rifle, recently made q
descent on the little town of Gatesyillc, on the
northwestern frontier Of Texas, killing ten per-
sons and taking off several captiyes. Among
the latter was woman who was stripped Of her
clothing, whipped, and otherwise shockingly
abused.
/ There are one thousand six hundred so
called Indians in Massachusetts,, but probably
not one Of unmixed blood. A century ago they
numbered three thousand six hundred.
GREAT Feat IN TELEGRApHY.- Ten thousand
Niles IN Three Minutes. The weather Friday
being unusually favorabl efor telegraphing, m
experiment was made, according to previous ar