Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-12-10
FACT AND FANCY.
A heeting Shows travelling circus


VirtlouS stagger.
The oil of sunAower is now worked over into
delicious perfume.
Men are content to be laughed at for their
wit, but none for their folly.
About 81 900 worth of stamps are sold az the
Chicago Post Office weekly.
The claim of Oriental women for their rights
will doubtless be without 4 veil.
The Cincinnati mode Of getting rid of mothers
in-law is greasing the cellar stairs.
Postage stamps to the amount Of SIC, 500, ,COG
were sold during the last fiscal year
Ideness is like the nightmare-the moment
you begin to stir yourself you shake it OIL
Why are types like criminals? because it is
not proper to lock them up without taking proof.
A frst-class horse" formerly the property
of Count Lagrange, is advertised at Paris res
taurant.
certain spectacle works in New Haven is
the largest in the world, turning out 100000
pairs per year.
revenue collector in Missouri recently tried
to collect fifty cents Il head in a ball room-;hc
tax on hops.
FIJI Shu is the name of one of the oldest
Chinese deites. His name got mixed up in
coming across.
Anna Dckinsons elder sister, Susie, is said
to be one of the most fertile sources of that lee
turers inspiration.
man in Wayne county, Mississippi, is feed
ing his COW on Juniper berries in hopes to get
her to give gin and milk.
A young lady Of sixteen, who had worn short
dresses all her life, positively told her mamma
she would wear them no loager
An epidemic Of sore throat is said to be pre-
valent in Alsace, in consequence of the names OF
the places being changed from French to Ger
man.
That was a very grim humor Of the deacon
who remarked to his newly-setted minister,
"The Lord keep you humble, and we will keep
you poor"
An unsuccessful lover was asked by what
means he lost his inamorata: "Alas !" cried
he, {" lattcrcd her until she became too proud
to speak to me-"
The first day little boy went to school the
teacher asked him if he could spell. @ es
sir" ".Well, how do you spell boyY' Oh,
just as other folks do"
A Wisconsin editor was called out of bed one
night to receive Il subscription After that he
set up nights for week, but the offence
wasn't repeated.
"Recollect, sir, said tavern-keepcr to q
gentleman who was leaving his house without
paying his bill "recolect, sir, that if you should
lose your purse you didn't pull it out here"
person being asked what he meant by the
81 realities Of lie," answered " Real estate,
real money, and real good dinner, none of
which could be realized without real hard work. -
young man who odicates in restaurant
went to sleep in Syracuse church the other
Sunday, and suddenly astonished the congregr-
ton by calling out, g Ham and eggs for two -
The following touching epitaph is to be found
on the tombstone of II Colo RADIO deacon: I" When
circumstances rendered it impossible for him
to attend the stated preaching Of the gospel, he
made it a sacred rule to kill an Indian every
Sabbath"
A young man was recently arrested in Georgia
for lasifying the census return of Liberty cOun-
ty. As he was to be paid so much per hundred
he thought he should make good stroke Of
business by setting down the population at just
double what it really is.
The Boston Journal Of Chemistry reports as
among its subscribers DIR. Slaughter, DR.. Death,
DR.. Dye, DR.. Coffin, DR.. Toombs, and DR.. Graves.
This sombre list is lighted up by DR.. Life, DR..
Strength aud DR.. JOY DR.. Drinkwater balances
DIR. Rumm on the liquor question.
A man who had been arrested as a vagrant
protested he had n regular trade and calling
to wit: smoking glasses for total eclpses of the
sun and these only occur a few times in a
century, he was not to blame for being out of
employment good deal.
A town in Wisconsin recently held a meeting
and decided that it could not afford 81 300 to
"A IL
circus company went there and took away So,
900. The local paper remarked that the people
were circus-going community, and not an en-
gine-buying one.
A western traveller, having secured half n bed
in order to prevent encroachments buckled a
spur on his heel before retiring. His unfortun-
ate sleeping pardner after several severe thrusts
of the sharp reminder, roared out: 90 Say,
stranger, if you gentleman, you ought at
least cut VOur tOe-nails' -
Chicago has introduced into its fre-engne
houses ingenious device, by which the first
man ont of bed, when the alarm strikes, pnlls a
rope which simultaneously unhitches the horses
in their stalls and rings little bell, at the sound
of which the trained animals rush to their places
in front of the engines. 1t saves minute and a
half in getting started.
One of the marshals in Iowa reports to the
Census Bureau family consisting of father,
mother, and nineteen children, the latter all
born within period Of seven years, and all liv-
ing. At the first birth the wife presented her
husband with four chcrubs, and at each of three
successive deliveries FIVE more making nine
teen within the sIS cfed time.
man in Arkansas has been sentenced to be
hanged, but none ofthe carpenters in the neigh
borhood will build his scaiiold. He is himself
carpenter by trade, and the Sheriff proposed
that he would put up the galows. He swore
however, that it is asking too much of him, anc
that he won't do it-that he'll go unhanged 6
thousand years first.
Conversation between enquiring stranger and
steamboat pilot: That is Black mountainY 2
"Yes sir highest mountain about lake George.
Any story or legend connected with that
mountain p Lots of 'em Two lovers once
went up that mountain and never came back
again" " Indeed; wing what became of them p
"Went down on the other side"
The citizens of Danzig have a joke on the
French officers who quartered there as pris-
oners of war. They say that the Frenchmeu are
repeatedly asking is this 0anzig?" and
that when assured of the fact they refuse to be
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