West-Jersey pioneer., 1876-05-11
NOTES, QUERIES, &C.

No, young man our advice to you is,
don't go within thousand miles of the
Black Hills. Better stay at home with the
old folks, and become bank president or a
sewing machine agent. "There all the
| honor lies."
And soon the delicious strawberry will
tickle the palate and traverse the esophagus.
Dom Pedro will be provided with twenty
two rooms in Washington. On account of
its circumscribed limits he declines visiting
| Rhode Island.
An old edition of Morse's Geography
says: Albany has 400 dwelling houses
and 240O inhabitants, all standing with their
gable ends to the street. ''-Phs1a. Ledqer.
| Birds twitter sweetly upon the trees,
whose tender foliage is just responding to
the warm kisses of spring the small boys
kite hangs gracefully in the air; the festive
| angle-worm tickles the nose of the confding
sucker and entices him into his rest in the
frying-pan the anxious public will soon be
let into the Centennial, and the greates+
moral circus in the world comes anon
Verify there is much to live for. and the
small boy waxeth fat.
A postal card was received at the Roches
ter post office the other day, with the fol-
lowing address in German ssTo nv cousin
who lives miles from Rochester on farm
OF 4O acres, the cars run through his land.
and he has ten rod ba;fo,c
Connecticut will send to the Centennial
the gun with which old Put shot the wolf
The grip with which he took the wolf bv
the ears has not, alas been handed down
to us.
An interesting incident occurred at Balti-
more recently at concert given by Mile.
lltlens. In response to an encore she sang
Kathleen Mavourneen, to the great de-
light and applause of the audience. One
gentleman was particularly affected. and
he afterward went round to congratulate
the Prinaa donna. He announced himself
as Captain Crouch, the composer of the
song, statement which was at first re.
ceived with great incredulity, Crouch being
supposed to have died several wears aoo
After an interview with Mr. Mapleson, how
ever, his identity was fully established.
Captain Crouch, it appears, served in the
Northern army during the rebellion. He
has promised to write companion song to
Kathleen Mavourneen,' and to dedicate
it to Mile. Titiens.
Imagine our great G. Washington writing
thus to some one Whether it be the
fault of the tailor or of the measure sent. I
cannot say, but certain it is my clothes have
never fitted me WELL" Who would have
thought it Thought his time was wholly
given up to the performance of paternal
duties, this Father of his country!
Dewitt Talmage preached telling SER
mon last Sunday week, going to show that
money was valueless, closing it with the
memorable words 'By the way, want
$15, 900, and it's.got to come"
Jeff. Davis proposes to write history of
the war, and certain nervous democrats are
profoundly impressed with the conviction
that it will come out just in time to spoil
whatever slight chances the democrats may
have.
The per centage of the school population
| in regular attendance is Z: In Boston, SO
IN New York, "a in Chicago, 81 ; and in
St. Louis, 81 ~<
Joseph Silver of Philadelphia, has gone
to jail for beating his wife !; but the bill lust
signed by the President will probably put
him in circulation again.
As an offset to the slang expressions used
by the boys" Pull down your vest''-
the dear girls have gotten up one for their
own use, which is, 'Oh, buckle YOUR belt"
We've suspected for sometime past that
measures would have to be taken to check
| the ala,mingly rapid growth of the Smith
family. And here now, sure enough,
Pennsylvania man proposes to exhibit at
| the Centennial ''Smith roller and crusher.''
N. 7. Paper.
Girard College at Philadelphia, which is
more properly an orphan school of poly
technic character, taking boys from to 10
years OF age, and training them up for
| trades and mercantile career, is about to
divide up its $50 youth into families of 80,
| by which their training in every respect
will be improved. 1t is also intended to in
| crease the capacity of the institution to
2OOO.-Sprinafeld Republican. ...t
The poem beginning
1.-The tattoo beats, the lights are gone,''
was not written by Stonewall Jackson, but
| by Judge Henry R. Jackson of Savannah,
Ga. 1t is fine poem, but this statement
will spoil half its merits
London has decided not to name a street
| after George Washington. And that's hu-
man nature. Would you honor a man who
had pounded you half to death, say?
Anna Dickinson, whom Bridgetonians
have heard lecture, will make her long-an-
| ticipated debut, at the Globe theatre, Bos
ton, ON the sth of May, in play of her own
composition, entitled GA Crown of Thorns."
The play is founded upon scenes and incl
| dents in the life of Anna Boleyn, one of
Henry VIIPs hapless wives.
A bar of soap, weighing 1900 lbs, and
having inscriptions and ornamental work
elaborately carved upon it, is prominent
feature in one Of the exposition buildings.
In America there are so towns, $50 parks,
300 streets and 1,100 hotels and saloons
named after George Washington. Shake
speare: "What's in name?''
Charles Dudley Warner, who wrote that
charming book, "My Summer in a Gar
den,' has recently written another entitled
Mummies and Moslems,'' and describes
his recent experience in Egypt. &
Rev. Mr.. Murray says: sHeaven is not
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