Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1870-01-06
TREEEES.

Arc angels-our girls with the Gre
clan bend.
To be seen for nothing-the play of
the features.
When a maiden gets married she
ends miss-spent life.
If love is blind, how can there be
love at first sight?
The flowers of speech spring from
the roots of the tongue.
Eighteen ladies are announced as
public lecturers this year.
The life of the French Empress is
insured in the sum of $4,000.
An exchange advertises for "girls
for cooking" We prefer ours raw.
East and West, about ten women
are consumed each week by kerosene
fires.
Prize fights at Promontory Point
take place under a paviliOn-admis-
sion, $l.50-front seats reserved for
the ladies.
1t is proposed, now that anniversa-
ries are becoming so common, that we
celebrate the next anniversary of the
creation.
The Cincinnati Gazette tells us how
young man was 'kill in a bad
place." By the way, where is a good
place to be killed?
Don't trouble yourself to stretch
your mouth any WIDER" said a dem
tist to his patient; 81 intend to stand
outside to draw your TOOTH"
To do the thing properly in New
York at a wedding, the bride must
have eight bridesmaids, and a hum
dred dollar poodle besides the one she
marries.
A bluff old farmer says: "If q man
processes to serve the Lord, I like to
see him do it when he measures on
ions as we'll as when he hollers glory
halleluyar."
Hon. John V. Farwell, of Chicago,
has made the nine Bishops of the
Methodist Church, and also himself,
life-members of the Evangelical Ad-
vertising Association.
The whole of Eastern Kentucky is
reported to be Overrun with horse
thieves, whose operations are on such
a bold and extended scale that hardly
any citizen dares attempt to own or
keep horse.
New Hampshire may be called Old
Folks State. The Concord States
man gives a list of eighty-five wo-
men and fifty-one men who have died
in New Hampshire eone-hundred years
old and upward.
The Cincinnati Times says an old
man was lodged in the station house a
few nights since as q vagrant, who ten
years ago was one of the heaviest
wholesale merchants of that city.
Strong drink tells the story.
Henry Ward Beecher compares the
different religious denominations to
the different pockets in a suit of
clothes, and says it is of little conse-
Quence whether one goes to heaven in
an inside or an outside pocket.
The Oxford-Harvard race has stim-
ulated two South Carolina ladies of
color to a cOttOn-picking match. One
picked four hundred punds during the
day, and.the other four hundred and
one and half pounds, and took the
stakes, five dollars.
Somebody says: "There are only
two persons in the country who have
not communicated their views on the
Byron question to the newspapers,
and they are citizens of Cape Cod who
went off mackerel fishing six weeks
ago, and haven't returned yet.
A vein of excellent coal, extending
northward, has been struck on the
line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad,
east of Denver. This shows that the
workable coal beds of the Rocky
Mountain base extends miles eastward
in the great plains. This discovery is
of the greatest Importance.
Not long ago Syracuse was much
excited over the supposed discovery
of fossil man, eXhumed in digging
well. 1t turns out to be statue in
limestone which an amateur sculpt or
had cut, and which wassuch wretch
ed caricature of man that the artist
in his shame and disgust, buried it
and left the city.
Few probably are aware of the fate
of ByrOn's heart. After his death at
MissolOnghi in 1922 his body was en-
balmed and sent to England, but the
heart was begged and obtained by the
Greeks, who enclosed it in a silver
case. Four years later, after the PrO-
tracted siege of MissOlOnghi, a sally
ing party, carrying the relic with
them, cut away with great sacrifice of
life through the Turkish lines; but
the heart was lost in crossing the
marshes.
On passing from dry goods store
to her carriage, a wealthy lady in st.
Louis recognized in a wretched look
ing woman in tattered garb her young
er sister, of whom she had heard
nothing for many years. The poor
creature had been passed free over the
railroad from Kansas, where she had
been widowed and left penniless.
The meeting was sympathetic, and
the fearful sisters rode off together.