Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-01

A million dollars worth of forged New
York central certificates are said to be
in circulation and large number OF
them have been seized.
Equality" says French writer,
"means desire to be equal to your
superior, and superior to your equal. )"
Rural journalists are complaining
that the long daylight of this time OF
year induces ruinous scarcity of kerr
osene items.
A Wabash editor returns thanks for a
centipede sent him by mail from Texas,
being the first cent OF any kind he had
seen for a month.
Boston has been preserving "Gen.
Lafayette's camp table, for these fifty
years, and has just found out that it be-
longed to colonel unknown to fame
In an advertisement of bakers bust
ness for sale, the following appears
"Death, the sole reason for leaving"
1t would be difficult to find better
The Danbury News says: "The use
of tobacco is a disgusting habit. 1t
weakens the frame, benumbs the facul-
ties, and what is far worse, keeps up
the price.
| A local geologist of Terra Haute says
that any person having taste for gold
mining can clear from forty to sixty
cents day almost anywhere in Vigo
county, Ind.
An editor once wrote: "We have
received basket of strawberries from
Mr.. Smith. for which he will receive
our compliments, some of which are
four inches in circumference.
The Oswego Palladium exclaims
Poor pent up Utica, you have been
praying for water with horse race on
your hands, and if signs do not fail you
were deluged this morning"
Here is the inscription on tombstone
in Pennsylvania In memary of Tab
itha, beloved wife of Joseph Wright,
Thomas Andrews, Eben Halsted, Ed
ward Murray, and Charles Dean, by hel
devoted husband, Cyrus Morgan.
A youth stretched prone upon the
ground,
Half buried in the dust was found,
An empty bottle still he grasped,
And in low, mournful tones, he gasped d,
LISTED p
A correspondent attended the Ameri-
can chapel at Vienna one Sunday in
July, and noted the fact that, while
there must have been over thousand
Americans in the city, there were but
| eleven persons present when the minis
ter came to the desk.
Ekonomy IL a savings bank, into
which men drop pennies, and git dol
dollars in return. Avarice liz like a
grave yard it takes all that it kan git
and gives nothing back. Error will slip
thru a crack, while truth will git stuck
in door-way.-IJosh Billings.
Scene in a Fort Wayne dry goods
store Lady" How much for this
print ?" Gentlemanly and obliging clerk
=" Nine cents, num-" Lady" Nine
teen cents I'll give you eighteen. "
Clerk" Nine cents mum you mis-
understood me-" Lady" Oh nine
cents I'll give you eight"
A Detroit boy stood an umbrella
with cord tied to it, in public door
way. Eleven persons thought that UNI
brella was theirs and carried it with
them the length of the string. They
then suddenly dropped it and went off
without once looking back or stopping
to pick it up again.
Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb,
Zone day told me that he considered
Shakespeare greatly overrated. There
is, said he, ian immensely of trick in
all Shakespeare wrote, and people are
taken by it. Now, if 1 had mind ]
could write exactly like Shakespeare.
So you see" proceeded Charles Lamb,
quietly, sit was only the mind that was
wanting"
Responses to prayers and sermons
may be good if they come in at the
right place. Not so, however, came in
a response, recently, to q minister in al
African church. He had come dowr
from the pulpit to invite stranger in
one OF the pews to preach for him, but
was unsuccessful. Brethren" said he,
"I invited Brother s. to preach
but he Declines" "Glory be to God 7
roared out man from the middle of the
church.