Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-02-22
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The error of a moment may be the
cause of sorrow for a life.
Ifdogs are properly vaccinated with
buckshot they never take hydropho-
bia on .s-t
Strange to say, no matter how we'll
paid a dentist is, he always looks down
in the mouth.
Affliction is very commonly the
means ofmaking US aware of the mer-
cies we enjoy. .ef.
Let every minister while he is
preaching, remember that God makes
one of his hearers.
To some men it is indispensable to
be worth money, for without it, they
would be worth nothing.
Next to busy bees, boot blacks fur
nish the brightest, example of improv-
ing the shining hours" +"
An Illinois young woman cuts four
loads of wood per day in order to raise
money, to get ''them furs."
Among the warmest friends of the
one term principle are Horace Gree
ley and the conVicts in Sing Sing
The most beautiful may be the most
admired and caressed, but they are not
always the most esteemed and loved.
On a gate post out West is sign,
'''Take warnin: No tracs nor life in
surans, nor soin masheens wanted
heer"
Monkeys in Buenos Ayres suffered
more by the recent yellow fever than
man-aRother vindicatiOn of the Dar-
winTan theory. 49,.
A veteran sbop-keeper says that al
though the clerks are very talkatiye
during the day, they are always ready
to shut up at night. -..
We hear a great deal about labor re-
form, but there seems to be a greater
need of reforming some of those fel-
lows who don't labor.
If you like practical joking, just in
troduce two strangers, previously in
forming each that the other is deaf =
but don't stand around. ~-.
A man out West has just returned
from an Indiana camp-meeting. He
says that the right spirit prevailed-hs
tasted it out of black jug.
If good people would but make
goodness agreeable, and smile instead
of frowning in their virtue, how nsny
would they win to the good cause.
OF all acts of cowardice, the mears
est is that which leads US to abandon
a good cause because it is weak, and
join bad cause because it is strong.
It is not true that Brigham Young
has expressed q desire to have Theo-
dore Tilton and George Francis Train
4 added to his harem. He has trouble
enough now.
A Newburyport @(Mass) woman
lately. became the happy mother of
triplets, one of which has black hair,
one red, and the other white. She
won't have to tie pieces of ribbon on
them to know them apart.
In French court, recently, as
witness was about TO give his testi-
mony, the advocate remarked al
wish to remark to the court that this
witness is entitled to entire confidence
as be has not had time to consult his
) lawyer"
A friend of ours courted a lady for
twenty-eight years, and then married
her. She turned out to be perfect
virago, but died in few days after the
wedding. g.z-ssNow," said our friend, In
a self fcongratulating tone, "see what
[ have escaped by long courtship.'
A Boston minister says he once
preached on 'sThe Recognition of
Friends in the Future" and was told
after service by a hearer that it would
be more to the point to preach about
the recognition of friends here. as he
had been in the church twenty years
and didn't know any of its members.
An old traveller tell a pretty tough
story about being lost In the woods
with his dog, where he could find Roth-
ing to eat, and had to cut off the dogs
tail. which he boiled for himself, and
afterward gave the dog the bone! We
would rather borrow a hundred dol
lars than believe that story. H's too
thin!
A young lady at Council Bluffs be-
ing informed by her ''feller" that he
intended to cease his attentions, cow
hided him around the room, and as he
sprung through the open window,
told with a parting kick, that would
teach him TO be more careful for the
future not to trife with gentle and
loving heart.
Just as a traveller was writing his
name on the register of a Leavenworth
hotel, bedding appeared and took its
way across the page. The man paused
and remarked: I've been bled by St.
Joe feas, bitten by Kansas City spi-
ders, and interviewed by Fort Scott
graybacks, but I'll be shot if / was
ever in place before where the bed
bugs looked over the hotel register to
find out where your room was!"
= Somebody thinks the marriage
ceremony should read thus:
Clerggm0R-"Will you take this
stone mansion, this carriage and pair,
: and these diamonds for thy welded
husband 7" eyes. ''Win you take this
unpaid milliner's bill, this high cEignou
of foreign hair, these affected accom-
: plishments and feeble constitution fer
thy welded wife ?'' Yes" "Then
what man has had joined together let
the next best man run away with, so
that the first divorce Court may tear
them assunder."
The Titusville Herald says: "The
War Department, in addition TO its
weather signal system, is about to es-
tabliSh an alactric social svsfem oF