Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-01-28
NUMBER 4.
FACT AND FANCY.

The man who owed something to his country,
did not pay his taxes
What is a smile ~ asked man of little
girl, " The whisper of laugh" she said
There comes time when one sweet child
face is more to us than all the world besides.
To get a brown ragout of veal-take the rag
blythe corner and pull it out quietly but firmly.
Why is the earth like ablackboard Because
the children ofmen multiply upon the face Of it,
He is our friend who helps us to one new
thought or who inspires us to one noble action
model surgical operation-to take the cheek
oat of a young man and the jaw out of woman.
Artemus Ward said that he thought it rather
improved comic paper to print joke now and
then.
Women have actually no rights A Troy
Judge has decided that a woman cannot steal
from her husband.
In booksellers catalogue appears the follow
ing article ''Memoirs of Charles L. with a
head eapitally executed"
The Stepuey Lyceum is trying its teeth on tho
problem Which is the oldest battle cry
Erin Go Bragh or lndi Go Blue2'
A Skowhegan, Maine dressmaker has been
obliged by court OF justice to pay customer
ten dollars damages for an ill-ftting sack.
New York is said to have a beggar who offers
to make change in silver" when the charita-
bic say they have nothing less that dollar bill
Don't go back on your newspaper. A sub
scriber to an Iowa paper recently stopped his
paper, and the next week he was nearly kicked
to death by horse.
Since the invention of the immense cases in
which ladies' wnrdrobes are transported all the
railroads in the country are calling themselves
Grand Trunk Line"
A physician said of a quacl " he was such an
ignoramus that, if he could take lantern aud
go down inside his patient, he couldn't find out
what the matter was"
Since the cold weather came on, it has been
found necessary to raise the salary of the nd-
ana schoomarms, as they have been compelled
to again wear shoes and stockings.
sea captain relating the fact that his daugh-
ter could eat pound of cheese at single meal,
IA wag thought it not at all strange that a skip
perS child should be fond of that article
" Mstortuues never como single"
Aud SO, like birds Of II feather,
The marriages aud the deaths
Are always printed together,
This remark was made by a young lady of
st. Louis Z" 1t Is wisely ordained that the
same wind that sweeps our dresses aside also
fills the eyes of naughty young men with dust"
Geo. w Bryant, editor of the Buffalo Post,
has tukeu to temperance lecturing. 1t it is no.
table that an editor takes to this how much
Is "
Democrat.
young man at La Crosse, Wisconsin, looked
| through the keyhole of a girls bedroom and
ever since the doctors have been trying to get Il
knitting needle out Of the place where his eye
used to be-
There is much food for reflection in the fol-
| lowing questions aud answers: /" Who hits q
woman when she is down." "Why, another
woman" Who keeps her downW "Why,
another woman"
An individual who was puzzled to know where
all the Smiths came from, has at last solved the
mystery At Waterbury, Connecticut on long
brick factory sign appears inscribed " Smith
Manufacturing Company"
A dutful son in Detroit has killed sixty-seven
of his neighbors cats to get money to buy his
mother set Of false teeth. lie has made u
quiet neghborhood where once was bowling
wilderness, and the old women can now eat
heartily.
An agent soliciting subscribers Cor a book
showed the prospectus to man who, after read
ing " One dollar in boards, and one dollar and
twenty-five cents in sheep, declined subscribe
ing, AS he might not have boards or sheep on
hand when called upon for payment.
An Ohio man who passed around a plate at
religious meeting for contributions for the heath
en-, and then pockeed the money has been ac-
Quilted of stealing by u jury of yicinage on the
knew, and therefor Justify entitled to se money.
An urchin of six or seven years ent into
barber shop in Racine, Wisconsin, a ordered
the barber to cut his hair close as the shears
would do it. lie was asked if his mother or
dered it that way. mo" said he, - but school
commences next week, and we've got a school
marin that pulls hair, and am bound to fix her
this term, you bet"
There is at present in Montreal widow of %,
tyh IN ia flq ulni nt M oI,f
married at l3, and before her | 7th birthday
presented her lord with twins the following
year she produced at one birth three boys the
next year she had twins, and repeated the per-
formance the following yoar-makng nine chill
dren the Oldest being barely four. The chill
dren are all living and doing well.
A lady and gentleman ofsSGoy, New York,
whose connubial bliss is perlecNn everything,
save the presence of children aroI I'd the domes-
tic fseside, were examining st1e illuminated
mottos in a bookstore the other day, when the
wife picked out one bearing these words " God
bless our home" The husband thought that
very good, but not exactly what they wanted.
Looking a little farther, he picked up this one ;
@ Suffer little children to come unto me-
In California, when the dggings were paying
well, Sgnor Btz visited gulch, and before a
large audience exhibited his egerdemain Dur
ing the performance, he took out his handker-
chief, threw it into the air, caught it again,
when he took a twenty-dollar piece ont of it
asking the boys if they could do that. Old
Pete, " forty-nineri" who had never changed
his mining shirt since he came into the diggings,
Immediately went upon the platform, took off
his shirt dipped the tail of it in bucket of wa
ter held it up and wrung out $50 so in gold
dust, including fifteen pounds of subsol. Bltz
took the next mule train
The TRINITY Journal has commenced its six
ha is I'D IL
and best papers in the State, and we are glad to
see it in so aourishing condition. Treks