The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-02-11

tbt btAt tulhN - kife NoRf fhehit
s forgiveness 10 your opponent, talor-
ance 70 . friend ypur heart. 30 your
I child gooi example: 70 father, def
+ ercncoi 20 y0ur mother, conduct that
viii make Der proud oi you. 10 yourself
respect % All men, charity,
Tho Emperor Napoleon always en-
dtayors to combine instruction with the
I pleasure q The Prince Imperial On
New Years day be gave the boy MIN
iature railway, With engine aud cars,
the track five hundred yards long, being
laid on the terrace. running along the
reserved gardens of the Tuilorics. An
engineer is in attendance 20 explain the
engine aud run special trains for tho
Princes accommodation.
"A clergyman passing boy weep
ing bitterly, halted and asked. what
is the matter, my little follow Y Tho
hoy replied. before we could hardly
set enough to eat Of anything. and now
What shall We do2 For there's anoth.
er one come. Hush thy mourning.
and wipe OF those tears, said the
clergyman, and remember that Ho
never sends mouths without lie sends
yictuals to put into them.' Il know
that, said the boy, "but thon He sends
all the mouths to our house, and tho
victuals 10 your house.
The New Orleans OF '56 and the
New Orleans OF 6S present wide con-
trast. A correspondent says; In be,
~ N 90
in New Orleans; now they are not easi-
" counted. Then poor-house was
unknown in Louisiana, and a beggar
never seen on the streets, now ono-half
q the city is obliged to assist the other
half to live. New Orleans OF 1858 was
the gayest city of the States. full of life,
plenty Of money; in iact a second Pa
fis. To-day she is poverty-strieken,
dull, sorrowing, an immense poor
house Louisiana the 'poor-farm.
"A lady residing ON Hemlock Side,
went out shopping, promising her httle
son she would get him cocoa NUT
She procured one with the husk ON, in
which state he had never seen ono. On
arriving at home, she gave il 90 the boy
who looked and Gu rionsly smiled, and
laid it down. Presently he lac said .---
Mother, where's my cocaa nut n II
just gave il to you she replied TAX
ing IL mp again, he viewed II contempt
uously for moment, and exclaimeds--
"That thing cocoa nut thought it
was waterfall" A very natural mis-
take.
"A terrible tragedy has occurred in
California. A gentleman made n lady
present Of a pair of pistols and after
several trials of skill they concluded to
90 through the forms Of duel. They
took their positions, fred at the word,
and to the terror Of the lady the gem
tleman fell. She threw herself frantic
ally upon the corpse, embracing and
kissing it with every emotion of endear-
ment. Under such magical influences
the gentleman revived, and rose unhurt
from the ground, and-and--and they
are to be married
DR. Abernethy rarely met his match.
but on one occasion lac fairly owned that
he had. He was sent for by the inn
keeper who had had quarrel with his
wife, who had SCARED his face with her
nails, SO that the poor man was bleed
ipg and puch disfgured, Abernothy
thought This an opportunity n6t to bo'
lost for admonishing the offender, and
said, Madame, are you not ashamed Of
yourself to treat your husband thus
the husband who is the head Of all
your head, madame, in fact 2" "Well,
DOCTOR fiercely returned the virago,
"and may | not scratch my own head 2"
Some time ago a little daughter Of
a Mr.. Brown nysteriously disappeared
from Sandusky, Ohio, and was supposed
to hayo been stolen by gipsies Since
then the father and mother Of the child
have been constantly searching for the
lost one, but without success. They
have once or twice obtained traces of
the gipsy family, travelling with mule
team, and having with them a white
child. but have not been able to over.
take them. The mother writes:--"We
| have found five or six little children
that are supposed to have been stolen
and we must find ours, although it is
long, dreary waiting"
"A "long- lost brother" romance has
| Just occurred in Cleveland The chap
with the strawberry mark on his left
arm was stolen from Mormon emf
grant party, more than twenty years
ago, by the Indians He escaped few
years ago, served in the Confederate
army, and at last turned up at Cleye-
! land, 0. His brother who had mean
time grown up into Mormon elder
and was on East in search Of converts,
met him in drinking saloon, and inn
mediateiy recognizing him by his nice
taste for whiskey, !ell into his arms,
embracing him and straightway carried
| him off TO Utah
John Chinaman has alys had hard
time in California; having been knock
! ed from pillar TO post numerically. Ho
| is a pretty hard customer, when corner
4 ed, however. John CANDLES ike a very
German and don't like 10 have his lit
tie games interrupted by the pohce.--
i The "hells" are usually located in Sc
/ cluded apartment, the only access to
which is by long, winding passage,
with noG and then sentry, whose du-
\ ty is TO "shriek they come, they come
! One evening three valiant knights Of the
/ locust took upon themselves 10 enter