The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-10-08

Hartford, after repeated calls for
young lady operator in another office,
at last got response, and then he
telegraphed back to her, 81 have been
trying to get you for the last half
hour!' In a moment the following
spicy reply came tripping over the
wires from the telegraphic maiden:
'sThat's nothing. There is a young
man here been trying to do the same
thing for the last two years and he
hasn't got me yet"
TWAS Sheridan Knowles who first
said sits too thin!"
THE cholera has superseded the
German army in France, and the
people are better content.
SCIENTISTS are claiming that in
stead of being cold, the moon is in
reality red hot; so much so that no
living thing known to our world
could exist there. This spoils the
''green cheese" theory.
SEVERAL passengers on the Missis-
sippi were attracted by the alligators
basking in the sunshine. "Are they
amphibious, Captain?" asked look
er OF. "Amphibious? thunder!" an
swered the enthusiastic officer,
they'll eat a hog a minute"
A MAN in the rural districts of
Ohio wrote the editor of his horticul-
tural paper, and asked, ''What are
the most advantageous additions to
dried grasses for winter ornament?"
The editor replied "Acroclinium rose
um, A. alba, Gomphrena globsola
and G. globosa carnea." When the
rural man read this he fairly boiled
with rage-thOugh wenever saw man
"boil' with rage-and Immediately
sent a note to the editor of the paper
ordering his paper discontinued. He
said no editor who swore that way,
just because he was asked a simple
question, should have his support.
VOLTA1RE once praised another
writer very heartily to a third per-
son. "It is very strange" was the
reply, "for he says you are charla-
tan" 'Oh," replied Voltaire, Il
think it very likely that both Of us
are mistaken"
\ CLERGYMAN who left notice in
his pulpit to be read by the preacher
who exchanged with him, neglected
to denote carefully private post
script, and the congregation were as
tonished to hear the stranger wind
up saying: "You will please come
to dine with me at the parsonage" )"
\ HARD-sHELL Baptist minister
over in Indiana, who married fort
night after his wife's death, made the
following satisfactory explanation IN
the pulpit the Sunday following
Il searched the scriptures from Gen
isees to Revelations and found plen-
ty Of promises to the wider but nary
one to the widerer. And so | took
it that the good Lord didn't waste
sympathy on a man when it was in
his power to comfort himself, and
having tirst-rate chance to marry
in the Lord | did so, and would do
50 again. Besides, brethren, con-
sidered poor Patsy was just as dead
as she ever would be-"
"ON TO Washington " was the
cry of the New York bulls and bears,
but they did not succeed in captur-
ing the Capital. General Grant was
'too many guns" for them.-Boston
Journal.
THIS engine won't work." said a
fireman 10 the chief of the fire denart-
ment.
NO WONDER" was the reply, " it
was made to play"
"WILL you have some strawber-
ries?" asked lady of her guest
"Yes, madam, yes; | eat strawber-
ries with great enthusiasm" "Do
you? Well, we haven't anything but
cream and sugar for 'em this even
ing" said the matter-offact hostess.
One Sunday recently, during high
mass at twelve, in the village of
Glentariff, Ireland, three ladies of
the Protestant faith were obliged to
take shelter from one of the heavy
showers which frequently occur in
the south Of Ireland. The officiating