The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-01-14

A DUTCH Congressman remarked.
"Ven l vas elected thought would
find all Solomons dow here; but |
found dere was some as pick fools
here as vas mineself."
THE daughter of an Indiana Con-
gresham eloped recently, taking the
old gentleman's back pay along with
her.
WHAT is the difference between
sailor and beer drinker? One puts
his sail up and the other puts his ale
down.
SYDNEY Smith being i'll his physi-
cIan advised him to take a walk upon
an empty stomach. "Whose stom-
ach?" asked the wit.
PIANo-FOBTEs were invented in
Dresden in l7I7. FREDERICK, an or
gan-builder Of Saxony, made the first
square piano in 1853.
THE TREATY providing for the in
terchange of postal cards between
the United States and Germany went
into effect on Monday.
THE old church at Longmeadow.
Mass, has held Thanksgiving ser
vices more than 100 years, it first hav-
ing responded to the governors pro-
clamation in 1867, and the gallery
for the choir is the same as when the
singers took their keynote from the
ancient chorister's pitch-pipc.
\ NEGRO preacher holding forth to
his congregation upon the subject OF
obeying the command of God, seys:
"Bredren, whatever God tells me to
do in dis book (holding up the Bi-
ble), dat I'm gwine to do. If | see
in it dat | must jump troo a stun
wall, I'm gwine to jump at it. Co
ing troo it longs to God, jumpin' at
it longs to me-"
AT BLACKBURN, England, a few
days ago, an inquest was had on the
body of John Eatwistle, who had
died from drinking four gilIs of sher-
ry. An analytical chemist, Mr. Rail
ton, proved that the liquid had been
adulterated to the extent Of eighty
per cent. The jury returned a verdict
in accordance with the evidence, and
the Liverpool dealers who sold the
sherry are to be prosecuted.
"Now is the time,' says the Bos-
ton Traveller, to practice economy,
not alone preach it. SO Winks
thought. Winks isn't poor; but on
looking at the pasteboard advertise
ments which hang in the street cars,
he thought that the backs of them
would make excellent false shirt-bo-
SONS. He procured some Of the cards
and cut them up the right shape for
use. The first day he put his econom-
ical plan into use it was a success;
but the next morning, having arisen
before light, he got his pasteboard
shirt-bosom on wrong side out, and
astonished his fellows at the office by
walking about with portions of sign
intimating that DIR. So-and-so will
lecture next Sunday evening at Har-
mony Hall on the subject of Spirit
ualism. Tickets 10 cents, to defray
expenses"
The magnet was employed 5000
years ago to guide travellers across
the plains of Tartary, and about 1900
years since it was used by the Chi
nese to navigate vessels in the Indian
seas. Yet the magnetic compass has
been in use by Europeans only about
800 years.
The highest inhabited spot in the
world is the Buddhist cloister of
Hanle (Thibbet), where twenty
priests live, at the enormous height
of l6,500 feet. There are other clois-
ters at nearly equal height, which
are inhabited all the year round, in
the province of Guari Khorsum, up
on the banks Of Lakes Monsaraour
and Bakous.
THE table Of interest is the dinner
table.