The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-23

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ties, public forum, to be used for meet
incs of citizens. \ wealthy citizen pro-
poses to build it on a public square in
front of the new post Office, at cost of
half a million dollars. The rostra, or
speakers stand, is to be of marble.
4 It. Louis clerk tried to get upa cor
ner in the chicken market one day last
week. He has been driving half the
clerks on the thoroughfare wild with
envy by magnificent cluster diamond
ring. one morning, while at Lucas
market. his hand reposed on chicken
coop. and curious cackler went for his
ring. plucked out and swallowed the
largest gem in the cluster. 1t is unne-
cessary to say that he bought that coop
of chickens at the dealers price. He
saws he will have that diamond if the
family is compelled to eat chickens all
summer.
The Jackson (Tenn. Wing and Tri-
b,t1e tells of a woman who sent her hus-
band to buy a jug of molasses. He got
drunk and fetched home the jug filed
with whiskey. She took it up, smelt it,
set it back and then squaring herself.
arms akimbo and eyes flashing, she eX-
claimed. "Whar's them molasses?"
The old man smiled and winked plea
sanity and waving his left hand propiti-
atinglv, exclaimed, "Them's they"
He is now convalescent. but the jug IS
hopelessly deranged.
One of the editors Of the Cincinnati
ERq1drer recently saved the cook of a
canal boat from drowning and has re-
ceived letter from the girls father,
saving: You have saved the girl and
she's your'n." No cards; no editor.
Walter Savage Landor related how he
once met Napoleon walking in the gar
den of the Tuileries and added, in cha
racteristic Landor style: The fellow
looked at me so insolently that if l had
not had lady on my arm I should have
knocked him down"
''HOW does your husband get alOng?"
inquired a friend of an undertaker's
wife. Nothing to complain of, thank
the Lord; he had twelve funerals yes
terday.''
The editor Of Pennsylvania paper
having failed to get pass, congratu-
lates himself on the fact that Tom. Scott
can't control the through route to
heaven.
suh for damages for breaking the
leg Of a child seven years old was on tri-
al recently in the Superior Court, Bos-
ton. Preliminary to the testimony Of
the child, his counsel asked him: 'What
viii be the consequences if you testify
falsely" The child answered: Il shall
be punished with everlasting fire :"
VERY well, . responded the attorney,
you know more about it than | do. "
The child was permitted to proceed and
narrated the circumstances very naive
ly and intclligently.
The average salary of the sixty-one
thousand Protestant clergymen in the
United States is computed at 500 an
nually. Probably more than one-third
Of the whole number receive no more
than $500.
4 clergyman in Davenport, Iowa, eX-
changed pulpits with a pastor in not
distant city Il few Sundays ago and
meeting at the railroad crossing they
had briefchat together. They carried
satchels just alike and when the car-bell
rang each caught up one and started for
the train, to find on reaching their des-
tinations that they had exchanged satch-
els and sermons.
SIS Mike McCloskey in the ranks?"
army stood in line of battle. Here,
Gineral, said Mike, stepping forward.
"Then let the engagement begin, " said
the General, This is the way Mike tells
the story.
A young man in a suburban town sent
off his first postal card on Thursday
morning. After writing a message on
the back he enclosed it in an envelope,
clapped on a tlmee-cent stamp and drop
ped it into the post-office, remarking
that it was very handy arrangement
and should have been introduced years
ago.
4 staid citizen of indianapolis, while
recently on a business visit to New
York, was asked to escort a charming
young widow hence to her home in
Western New York! He complied, of
course; but when on reaching the place
of her residence, all her friends began
congratulating her and him on what
they supposed to be her new alliance, it
became aggravating and embarrassing
and he was compelled to explain that
he had wife at home, to whom he had
been married for sixteen years.
4 man in a neighboring town who
married a widow has invented device
. TO cure her Of 'etenally' praising her
former husband. Whenever she begins