The Lincoln County herald., 1870-06-09
TERMS or ADlERIIsiNG.

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Anna Dickinsons $ reported quarrel with
her intended is styled private rehearsai
of "Breskera Ahead" ''.1'1a
An Indiana lawyer recently charged
client $40 for collecting 80, but said nc
would not press him to pay the other
dollar for week or two II not conycu
ent. t.. ........ ...
Drowning men will catch q, straws.
So will drinking men in the summer Sine.
Washington has sign bearing the words
"Dressmaker to Her Honor the Psesi-
; dentess."
Judge Jessie Lambert, of Rome Geor.
gia, has married two thousand seven
hundred couples ia his day, and escaped
day, when Miss Langston lassocd him.
In q recent lecture, Anna Dickinson
demanded, why was l born ?" A
thrill, and the question was repeated,
when horrid 10y ia tho gallery sung
out, II give it up"
Josh Billings says that "the lyon and
the lamb may possibly sumtime lay down
in this world together for q fu minutes,
but when the hour comes to git up, the
lamb will be missing 0..'..
A smart boy Of Bcllefoutainc, after
eating q green apple, exclaimed "Uh
dear! I've chewed an Odd Fellow -
IAN Odd Fellow !" raid his mother.
Yes; he's given me the grip" a.e~
An intolerable bore met Douglas Jor.
rold, who knew the character of tho man
who was approaching him. "Well, Jer.
rold, what is gong on p II am" said
Jerrold, and he did.
Hereafter, according to the laws of
Mississippi, any person sending or ac.
cepting a challenge, or second carrying
challenge, or my person going out Of
the State to fight duel, will be forevee
disfranchised.
Somebody who writes over the sigma.
ture Of "Hoosier Girl, sends letter to a
Boston paper warning Yankee girls not
to come West for husbands, as "there
are not enough here to supply the homo
demand"
At a wedding at Oskosh, Wis, where
chewing gum is the only usemcnt, the
bride and groom, to show their implicit
faith 10 each other, put their arms around
each others waist, aud swappsd cuds Of
gum. No cards.
"The fact is, said an elderly wiie, "a
man does not know how to straighten up
things. He does not know where to
commence. don't WONDER" she contiu-
ued, "that when God made Adam be
went right to work aud made woman to
tell him what to do."
The census takers get two cents for
every name taken, ten cents for every
farm, fifteen cents for every productive
establishment Of industry, two per cent
for every deceased person and two Der
cent Of the whole amount for names emu.
merated for sociai statistics, and ten
cents per mile for travel.
"a bottle of salt water, taken from
the end Of Long Wharf, Boston, ia to be
carried to Calitarnia by some excurf ionists
and poured into the bay of San Fran
icisco, with due honor" Numerous
other bottles will also be taken along,
which will be emptied with due honor
but not into the Bay ef San Francisco.
Envious people should not always
trust to first impressions. A venerable
lady Of rather credulons turn of mind
and poor stretch Of vision, saw q pair
Of grays dash BY her window one day
last week, and in an agony Of envy, sho
shook her fist at the establish ment and
cried out: "Ride, dsrn ye; it will be
my turn by and.by" The handsome
srays were attached 10 hearse.
The other day Molsculo propounded
the following to Atom "A boy said 10
a gentleman, MY father and mother have
daughter, but sho 10 not my sister,
Now how do you explain that p Atom
reflected, but all in vain. 10 bis every
suggestion, Molccule replied by decided
negative. At length Atom was forced to
give it up. "Why, it's simple enough"
said Molecule, with IN exasperatiug smile,
"she boy lied to the geutlomau!" .,
A bill has been introduced is the Con.
necticut Legislature, and will probably
pass. providing that married woueu
shall bave exclusive control OF al prop.
erty ofany description belonging to them.
and OF oil the rents, u'erest, aud income
accruing therefrom. They are to be re.
sponsible for all contracts entered into by
them, aud, should woman die, her hus.
band surviving, he is to be entitled to a
life estate in one third part of her real
and personal estate. i 81.
Some Utica ladies heard that white
Radical young lady was going TO marry
niger, SO they coaAed her not to do il,
got her q sitaation in New York, and
furnished her an outfit and money TO EN-.
lgrate, and put stop to miscegenation in
Utica. What did that bad girl do but
60 as fur an Albany, aud then telegraphed
ior hcr niger to come on and marry her.