The Placer herald., 1873-12-27

sweet potato III ICS ONCE Blk rect ana Two
inches in length.
The San Bernardino, Gala, Guardiah
reports the capture Of two-headed snake
in that vicinity.
On week days you buy your music BY tho
sheet; on Sundays you can have it by chof
for nothing.
The obituary notice Of Kentucky ladt
includes the fact that her hair was six keet
three inches long.
A man who is eulogized as an energetic
citizen, was run over by a funeral in ProvS
idence, r. l., last week.
A fash Of lightning went through thG
Erie. Pa, Dispatch Office on the ehaftmS
and knocked the "devh' down the CELLAR
A Canadian paper refuses to publish the
valuable pro oluctions of one of its contrib
utors at less than seven cents line.
Mrs. Sarah Newcomb, Of Illinois, re-
Gently ru ned handsome bed d-post by DASH
ing out the brains of her husband with il.
Before bus.les came into fashion there was
chance for newspapers to display entet<
prise; but now all OF them are behind II
their makeup.
Why is a big advertiser like a sore finger
Because he is more thought of than Bis
neighbors. No; it is because be is always
"on hand.
An eastern editor says he knows ID
about growing hay and grain, but docsn't
understand hemp at all. He may get the
hang of it yet.
A Tennessee paper tells of the prescnta<
ton to citizen Of Nashville Of the "ink1
stand used by Gen. jackson at the battle Of
New Orleans" "
One day when Mrs. Partington heard the
minister say there would be nave in the
new church, she observed that "she knew
who the party was"
An active bachelor in Maine claims to BE-
one hundred and two years old; but hs
"makes his own bed, according to Q lueat
paper, $50 he must lie."
An editor once wrote: 1--WE have fe<
ceived a basket Of straw berries from Mr..
Smith, for which he will receive our COM
pliments, some Of which are four inches in
circumference.
A postal card was received Mt Portlahd<
Me-. recently, having dollar bill sewed on
one side of it, and directly above the bin
was written: "lf this is stolen It will Be- sf1
ter it leaves the Kittery post-ofice."
"1'homas," said farmer to bis scs,
don't let that girl make fool Of yon.
Remember the adage that love is very
blind" go, that adge won't wash. TGIk
about love being blind! Why, I see teh
times as much in that girl as you do"
A drunken husband, at Galena, Illinois,
came home to give his wife beating for
hiding his bottle. She threw him into pro-
found astonishment and wash tub. and
proceeded to pommel hiM into psrmanans
sobriety.
A restauranteur of Terre Haute h giving
the printers of that city oyster SUPP ers, tax.
ing the offices seriatim. In thus casting
away the bivalves, he chershes the hope Of
return before many days.
The Danbury Ne,cs man states that the
panic has so far abated as to permit an Es@
sex street man to return to ten cent cigars.
and he hopes in another month"; if the bright
ness continues to increase, to get his boys
boots half soled.
The editor of Minnesota paper has &
buffalo robe which was once the property Of
Sioux Chief, whereon are pictured all bis
battles, his scalps and other trophies. He
is going to use it as means to frightet De.
linquent subscribers.
AT hotel table one boarder remarked 70
his neighbor, 'this must be healthy piacs
for chickens" "Why ?" asked the other.
"Because never see any dead ones here.
abouts."
An I,isLman thus defined nothing 10 BE-
ga footless stocking without legs" A de-
scrption by her Emeralder is better.
"W hat is nothing p he was asked. "Shut
your eyes and you'll see it" said Pat.
"Well, Tom. does your gal continue Ia
love you ?"
"Yes, more than ever. Why, che makes
me presents"
''What has she given you htoiyr'
"Oh, she made ME present Of my
picture which paid five dollars for beforsI
gave it to her"
An imaginative ftishman gave utterancs
to this lamentations: 81 returned to the halls
of my fathers by night, and found them 10
ruins! l cried alond, My fathers! where
are they?' An echo answered, is that you
Patrick McCarthy?"
Trying to do business without advertk.
ing is like winking at pretty girl through
pair of green goggles. You know what
you are doing but nobody else does.