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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
A FABMEB’B 80HG.
Wt envy not the princely man,
In city or in town,
Who wonders whether pumpkin vine*
Ron up the hill or down;
We' care not for his marble halls,
Nor yet his heaps of gold,
We would not own his sordid heart
For all his wealth thrice told.
We are the favored ones of earth,
We breathe pure air each morn,
We sow—we reap the golden grain—
We gather in the corn ;
We toil—wc live on what we earn,
And more than this we do—
We hear of starving millions round,
And gladly feed them too.
The lawyer lives on princely feet,
Yet drags a wean’ life,
He never knows a peaceful hour—
His atmosphere is strife.
The merchant thumbs his yardstick o'er,
Grows ragged at his toil—
He’s not the man God meant him for —
Why don’t you till the soil ?
The doctor plods through storm and cold,
Plods at his patient’s will,
W hen dead and gone he plods again
To get his lengthy bill.
The printer (bless his noble soul!)
He grasps the mighty earth,
And stamps it on our weekly sheet,
To cheer the farmer’s hearth.
We sing the honor of the plow,
And honor to the press,
Two noble instruments of toil,
With each a power to bless.
The bone—the nerve of this fast age
True wealth of human kind—
One tills the ever generous earth,
The other tills the mind.
BLACK-AND-TAN.
Chalk and ivory ! heels and shins I
Fain bo’s glory now begins!
Go ’way, white man, you don’t know
How to wote right—dat is so.
Yaw, yaw, yaw, yaw, yaw, yaw!
De happiest day I eber saw !
Whar’s de tickets? fotch ’em straight!
I wotes early—l wotes late!
I wotes often—l wotes right!
I’se no ignoramus white 1
Man and brudder —equal born 1
Oe Maker’s image (in a horn)!
T>e glory ub de rLsin’ day!
De cullud cuss from Africa!
Oh! kinky, minky, stinky, oh!
If dis ain’t glory, tell me so!
THE MAD STONE.
In Mississippi, there is, it is alleged, a
certain cure for hydrophobia called a
“ mad stone.” The stone is about half
the size of a hen’s egg, an irregular roun
ded cube of whitish gray color, marked
with small radiated discs like rough coral
or resembling pits of small-pox. Under
the microscope the stone discover a
.great number of minute pores, and has
nothing iike the weight or solidity of
coral. It is broken into five pieces
which are bound together with wire. It
was brought from China about seventy
years ago by a Dr. Parker, and purcha
sed from him by Mr. Milman, the father
of its present possessor, and two other
gentlemen, Mr. Milman afterwards be
coming its sole proprietor. Eleven hun
dred applications of the stone have been
made to mad dog and snake wounds
without a single failure. Two hundred
and fifty of these applications have been
made by Mr. Benjamin Milman, to
whom the stone was bequeathed by his
late father. The latest cure the stone
has effected is that of a Dr. Hudgins, of
whose case there is a long report in the
Winona Advance. Dr. Hudgins was bit
ten on the 20th of May last by a mad
dog while attempting to destroy it, and
received a slight wound in the left wrist.
He was some months later seized with
hydrophobia, and the case appearing
hopeicss, Mr. Milman was telegraphed
for on the 11th ult., and shortly after
wards appeared with the “ mad stoae.”
The wound had cicatrized, but the skin
was pared by Drs. Holman and Trotter,
and the stone bound on. After an hour
the bandage was removed and the stone
firmly adhered, so that considerable
pressure was required to disengage it.
The application was made at eight p.
m., and the stone dropped off at four a.
m. It was immersed in hot w ater for an
hoar, dried and again applied. Three
Applications were made, and Dr. Hud
gins is now perfectly well, and not only
free from any symptoms of hydrophobia,
but also from the terrible fear and anx
iety' which before oppressed him.
“ The Doors Have Been Open.”—
When the Rev. Mr. Hallock was settled
in Plainfield it was his custom to col
lect his own salary', for w’hieh every vo
ter in the town was assessed. Calling
upon Mr. D., the blacksmith, one day, he
tad,- “I have a small bill against you.”
"And for what?” ‘For preaching,”
said Mr. D. "I ha- e heard none of your
preaching.” “ The fault is your own,”
raid Mr. H., “ the doors have been open
and you might have come’in.’* Not long
after, as Mr. H. was one day passing the
blacksmith shop, Mr. D., hailing him,
said: “ I have a small bill against you.”
"And for what?” said Mr. H. “For
shoeing your horse T* u l have had no
horse shod here,” said Mr. HL “ The
fault is your own,” replied Mr. D.; “ the
'eiTT. been open, and you might
Mr. H. paid ths hill.
THE FAIR SEX.
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Gentlemen arc requested not to read
this column.
Miss-construction—Whale-bone, paint
and wadding.
The greatest object of curiosity to a
woman is the dress of another woman.
The old-fashioned women’s crusade—
A boy’s head and a fine-toothed comb.
Why is a ship designated as she ? Be
cause she always keeps a man on the look-out.
The young lady whose feelings were
“ all worked up,” has ordered a fresh supply.
An Ohio housewife suicided the other
day because her kettle of soft soap wouldn’t
make.
We give the women nothing to think
about but dress, and abuse them for thinking
of that.
He went back on his own true love,
because she ate onions, and the jury gave her
$3,200 damages.
A Greene county girl lias just rejected
a suiter because his arms wasn’t long enough
to go around her.
A man in New Orleans warned his
wife not to light the (ire with kerosene. Her
clothes fit his second wife remarkably well.
Nevada is proud of a woman resident
who, when the stealthy savage approached
her, just pulled olf her hair and gave it to him.
The lady who remarked that the Prince
of Wales was born with a crown on his head
was not aware that all children were so born.
A New Hampshire woman, when dy
ing, made her husband swear on the Bible
that he would never marry a woman with a
sharp nose.
Western mothers are grumbling be
cause the fairs don’t give twelve months’ notice
when they are going to offer a premium for
the finest baby.
An Athens young lady entered a drug
store and wanted to see the papers for a week
back, and George Tilley showed her a roll of
sticking plaster.
An exchange says that a Michigan
man dreamed recently that his aunt was dead.
He tried the same dream on his mother-in
law, but it didn’t work.
A Delaware man thrashed his wife
almost to death because their baby didn’t get
a prize at a baby show, and then offered to
trade the baby for a pig.
A lady in a circus being asked why
she so closely scanned the elephant through
her glasses, replied that she was “ looking for
the keyhole of his trunk.”
A widower compares marriage to a be
sieged fortress. Those who are outside would
like to be within, and those who are inside
would like to be without.
“ Woman is a delusion, madam!” ex
claimed a crasty old bachelor to a witty young
lady. ** And man is always hugging some de
lusion or other,” was the quick retort.
To deny women the elective franchise
because they cannot bear arms would not be
one whit more unreasonable than to deny men
the ballot because they cannot bear children.
Athens thought she had a case wherein
a young girl died of a broken heart, but it
turned out that her corset-strings were too
tight, and one stroke of a jack-knife revived
her.
An old lady in Augusta recently re
fused a gift of wood struck by lightning,
through fear that some of the fluid might re
main in the wood and cause disaster to her
stove.
A Crawford lady was reproved by her
husband, who requested her to keep her
tongue in her mouth. “My dear,” she said,
“ it’s against the law to carry concealed
weapons.
“Fifteen cents per gal!” exclaimed
Mrs. Partington, looking over the price cur
rent. “ Why, bless me! what is the world
coming to when the gals are valued at only
fifteen cent* ?”
A lady, who painted very highly, in
quired of a gentleman, under plea of indiepo
eition, how he thought she looked. “ I really
cannot tell madtime,” he replied, “ unless you
uncover your face.”
A young lady, recently married to a
farmer, otto day visited the cow-house, when
she thus interrogated the milkmaid: “ By
the-by, Mary, which of these cows is if that
gives the buttermilk ?”
“ They say a woman can’t keep a se
cret,'” remarked a Lexington woman to her
husband, “ but Mary told me in confi
dence last night that she is going to he mar
ried soon, and 1 haven’t even told you.”
A romantic Elbert county girl thought
to Maud Mullerize and “rake the meadows
sweet with hay.” She stood over a yellow
jacket’s nest as she swung her little rake.
First jump from score, U feet. Distance to
the house, half a mile. Time, 2 minutes.
Not many years ago a Hartford man
was drowned, and friends brought home the
dead body to Kmi afflicted wife. As they eauie
to the front door with the corpse, die new
made widow appeared and sadly remarked :
“ I guess you had better take kina around to
the hack d00r,%0 he won’t drip on the ear
pets.”
A voting lady in this village put a
piece of wedding cake under her pillow, and
went to bed with the happy belief that she
would dream of seeiug her future husband.
That evening, however, she had eaten two
plates of ice cream, about a pint of strawber
ries, several sweet cakes, and two large pick
les. She now says she had rather remain
angle all her life than marry the man she
saw in her dream.
A newspaper has been started in Idaho
called the Idaho Vindicator. It is edited by
two female*, and it advocates woman’s rights
With a vewpeaaeiti. la the salntatory it says :
“We shall have a fellow feeling in our bo
soms for all struggling and oppressed human
ity everywhere.” This assurance will be
hopefully and gratefully received, but we are
dying to know who-the thunder the “ fellow”
will be.
BURIED ALIVE.
A Bride that Awoke in the Tomb—Seconds
that Were Centuries.
Two years since a family in Marseilles
married their daughter, who kad just
turned sixteen, to a young man in Salon, J
u town not far from their residence.
Alter the wedding festivities, the bridal !
pair set out for Salon, which they made
their home. In the usual course of time, a
child made its appearance. The moth
er seemed in a lair way of recovery,
when a violent hemorrhage supervened.
A physician could not be immediately
procured. The loss of blood had produ
ced a swoon. When the doctor did at
last come, lie could only declare that the
patient had passed away beyond pro
fessional skill. These incidents hap
pened in August. The weather was un
usually sultry, even for that month and
latitude. The medical men urged the
family to have the body interred as
speedily as possible. Six hours after her
death, the young mother was laid in her
grave.
Recently, the widower acquainted his
mother-in-law and her family, that he
proposed to marry again. JShe insisted
that her daughter’s body be delivered to
her, to be buried at Marseilles. He con
sented. The mother-in-law came over
to Salon, to superintend personally, the
exhumation. When the door of the
family vault at Salon was opened, a
heart-rending spectacle was seen. Her
daughter’s corpse lay in the middle of
of the vault. The coffin’s top had been
wrenched off; top and coffin lay on one
side of the vault floor. The floor of the
vault was strewn with the hair of the
corpse, the grave clothes torn to shreds,
the hands half eaten. The unhappy
young mother had been buried alive, had
recovered consciousness in the vault, had
burst the coffin lid, and made superhu
man efforts to escape from hgr fearful
prison, or to attract attention to her.
All of them had failed, and she had died
of terror, of starvation, of exhaustion, a
living death, whose seconds seemed cen
turies. The mother has been a raving
maniac ever since.
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times
gives to the curator of the Battle Creek
High School Museum the credit of tell
ing a very remarkable story about a re
cent discovery of human remains in
Barry couuty, Mich. Last fall a Mr.
Cartwright was breaking up anew piece
of land for wheat, and was somewhat
surprised in turning a furrow to see
seven skeletons decapitated by his plow,
and the seven ghastly skulls rolling be
fore him. Mr. Cartwright at once began
digging on the spot of his unexpected
discovery, and succeeded in unearthing
twenty-two skeletons, sitting upright,
face to face, in a circle. A number of
arrow heads, stone pipes, and hatchets
were found with the skeletons; also, a
silver breast plate covered with curious
inscriptions. This plate was sold for
$lO to a young man who has moved away
and has never since been heard from.
The most remarkable part of the story is
the assertion that all the skeletons were
those of giants, averaging from seven to
eight feet in height. Unfortunately they
have been buried again, but they are to
be exhumed shortly, and if they are
found to be the remains of persons as
large as represented, they will possess
great interest for ethnologists, while
“ the silver breast plate covered- with
curious inscriptions” will be*fi treasure
if it can only be found. The Inman
mounds which abound in the West were
frequently, if not always, places of sepul
ture, and there is nothing wonderful in
the discovery of skeletons. It is the size
of the bones —or the story—which is cal
culated to excite wonder.
DISAPPOINTED IN CALIFORNIA.
At a meeting of the Western Farmers 1
Club, 3d of June last, a Mr. Culvert,
who had been travelling extensively in
that Btate, was called upon to give his
impressions of California.
Mr. Culvert stated that he was really
disappointed iu California. It was not
so much of a farming State as he had
lieen led to suppose, and it was very
poorly adapted to grazing. Not one acre
in twenty is tillable. One crop of wheat
in lour fails. They raise no crops with
out irrigation. They give their flocks
and herds great range. It takes Leu
acres to keep a cow. Grass will grow
only by irrigation. Thicks there is
more, grass in 100 acres in New York
State than on 10,000 in California.
Have dry rivers, only filled with the
snow, always visible on the mountain
tops, melts and flows down into the val
leys. When a farmer can dam up this
snow water, and keep it for irrigation, he
raises large crops. Some of the valley*
are very rieh. Had seen where they
were washed out to the dejffh of sixteen
feet, and the black mould extended to
that depth. They plow thert l with gang
plows, and only to the depth of about
three inches. But very little timber, and
that in the northern part. California
wine is flat, and, like Caii&rnu fruits,
lacks flavor.
Everybody subscribe for the Ogle- j
thorpe Echo.
A PORTRAIT OF MY LANDLADY.
BY M. QUAD.
I board now, and I think I have one
of the kindest landladies in the world.
She seems to think a great deal of me,
and I sometimes almost decide that 1
should weep if any harm came to her.
She is very particular about her
boarders. Before she would take me in
I was compelled to get a certificate
from three clergymen, two bankers and
a lawyer, stating that I had never been
hung for murder or sent to State prison
for horse stealing. I bargained for a
front room looking out on the campus
martius, and it was understood that I
was to have the room alone. On the
third night I went home and found a
stranger in bed, and when I began to
raise a row, Mrs. Dolby caught my arm
and whispered :
“ There now', be a good, dear man,
and say no more. He’s a preacher, and,
as he is going away on to-morrow I
thought you wouldn’t mind just one
night.”
At the end of the w’eck she beckoned
me aside, and smiling like a load of
fresh hay, she wanted to know if I would
i do hei a favor which would place her un
der many obligations to me. I replied
that I would die for her, and then she
asked me to give up the room looking
out upou the grand square and take one
looking out upon the grand alley, full of
ash barrels and oyster cans. She had a
new' boarder coming who was awful par
ticular, and she knew’ that I would do
anything to accommodate her.
I made the change, and the grateful
look she gave me was enough to melt a
vest button. I had only got fairiy set
tled when I was told that she wanted to
see me in the parlor after dinner. I
found her in tears. She said a very nice
man and his very nice wife wanted to
come and board with her, but she had no
room, and it grieved her to think that
she must turn them away when she
wuvs so hard pushed to get along.
I told her that If I had a hundred
lives I would lay them all down for her
and then borrow a hundred more and
add to the pile, and she seized my hand
and said that heaven would surely re
ward me for being good to a fatherless
orphan. I moved into the garret, and
the awful particular man moved into my
room, and the very nice man and his
very nice Wife moved into the front
room.
In another week Mrs. Dolby whis
pered to me and wanted to know if 1 had
a snake in my stomach. She said that
she had observed that I was a very
hearty eater, and she didn’t know but I
had a snake. I set her right, and when
I promised to take free lunches down
towm and urge all the other boarders to
do the same, she put her hand on my
shoulder and remarked that Heaven had
a place for me.
That night my bed was made without
sheets, and when I went to raise a row
she took me by the hand and said that
her experience went to show that it was
healthier to sleep without sheets. I was
going to argue the question, when tears
came to her eyes, and she hoped I
wouldn’t say anything to hurt a poor,
lone widow, whose life had been one
long struggle with poverty. The next
night the feather bed and one of the pil
lows went, but I didn’t sav anything.
Then she wanted to borrow my tooth
brush for a boarder who hadn’t any, and
she took my stove to use in the lower
hall. I didn’t say a word until :he wan
ted to know if I couldn’t spare the old
rag carpet off the floor, and if I wouldn’t
set the other hoarders an example by
drinking nothing but water, and not
take the second biscuit. Then I told
her that I was going to leave the house
and try to tear her image from my
heart.
She seized both my hands, tears rolled
down her cheeks, and asked:
“ Mr. Quad, will you deliberately plot
to kill a lonesome widow, who is working
her life out to make your position here
comfortable, happy and luxurious?”
I couldn’t go. Pm there yet. I sleep
on the floor, put up with cold bites, and
use the bootjack for a chair when I have
company. I wish I wasn’t so tender
hearted, hut I can’t bear to think of
hurting Mrs. Dolby’s feelings by looking
up another place.
Artificial Incubation.— A lady re
siding in Patterson, N. Y., kept a half
dozen or more hens, and has been aston
ished at the manner in which a nest full
of eggs were hatched. A quantity of
manure had been thrown from the sta
ble, and lately the children heard young
ehickens in this pile. They at ouee
called the attention of their mother to
the fact, who, to solve the mystery,
directed that the heap be pulled down.
When this was done, a short distance
from the surface a cavity was discovered,
in which were nine little ehicks. The
hen had managed to make her neat in
a cavity in the heap, and after laying
eleven eggs, the opening had been closed
by the stable-man. piling on more of the
cleaning* from the stable. "The warmth
generated in the heap had incubated the
eggs, and nine of the eleven had hatched
out. This may be a discovery which
| come one may turn to account.
VALUABLE RECIPES.
How to Do Dp Bhirt Boaoms.
Wc have often been requested by lady
correspondents to state how the process
; on new linens, shirt bosoms, etc., is pro-
I duced, and in order to gratify them, we
j subjoin the following recipe : Take two
ounces of fine white gum arabic powder;
put it in a pitch and pour on a pint or
more ot boiling water, according to the
degree of strength you desire, and then,
having covered it, let it stand all night,
i In the morning pour carefully from the
dregs into a clean bottle, cork and keep
! it tor use. A table spoonful of gum
water stirred in a pint of starch made iu
the usual manner will give to the lawn,
either white or printed, a look of new
ness, when nothing else can restore them
after they had been washed.
Yeast.
Grate twelve large potatoes, pour over
them three quarts of boiling water, let it
stand on the stove until thoroughly
scalded, stir to prevent burning, boil a
handful hops in a pint of water, strain
into the above, when taken from the
stove add two-thirds of a cup of salt, two
tliirds of a cup of sugar, one tablespoon
ful of ginger; when nearly cool put in
some yeast to raise it, let it stand where
it is warm until it is light, then put it in
a stone jar and place it in the cellar; stir
well before taking out to use. This
yeast will keep good four or five weeks
in the summer.
How to Get Bid of Bats and Mioe.
We get rid of rats by putting potash in
their holes and runs. The poor wretches
get it on their feet, and over their fur,
then they lick it, and don’t like the taste
of it; it burns them somewhat, and the
more they see of it, the less they like it;
so they clear out almost as soon as the
application is made. To get rid of mice,
we use tart arm iinnth mingled with any
favorite food; they take it, take sick,
and take their leave.
Cure for Toothache.
A correspondent writes to the Scien
entific American that the worst toothache
or neuralgia coming from the teeth, may
be speedily and delightfully ended by
the application of a small bit of clean
cotton, saturated in a strong solution of
ammonia, to the defective teeth. Some
times the late sufferer is prompted to
momentary nervous laughter by the ap
plication, buftke pain has disappeared.
To Boil Eggs.
When you select eggs for boiling, test
their freshness by putting them in a pan
of cold water. Those that sink are the
best. Always let the water boil before
putting your eggs in. Three minutes
will boil them soft; four minutes the
whites will be completely done, and in
six minutes they will be sufficiently hard
for garnishing salads and dishes requir
ing them.
Cura for Felons and Boils.
The London Lancet tells how to cure a
felon. As soon as the disease is felt,
put directly over the spot a fly-blister
about the size of your thumb-nail, and
let it remain for six hours, at the expi
ration of which time, directly under the
surface of the blister, can be. seen the
felon, which can be instantly taken out
with the point of a needle or a lancet.
For Making Black Ink.
Take a clean kettle and put in it five
quarts of rain water; put it on the fire
and let it come to a boil; then add three
ounces extract of logwood; stir it till it
dissolves; then add one-eighth of an
ounce of the bichromate of potash; when
it is dissolved it is fit for use.
Soot.
Soot is a most valuable mauure either
for grass or for turnips, as it quickly
forces the plants into leaf, and, if scat
tered over young plants, it prevents the j
fly from committing its ravages. It is j
also excellent for destroying the grub in ■
onion beds.
Pickled Cucumbers.
Take small cucumbers; soak in salt
water over night beat the brine and j
pour over; then drain it off; soak the ,
pickles in fresh water if too salt; put [
into vinegar with spices, and heat thor- j
ougbly. Put into jars and seal tight.
To Keep Butter Sweet
No better plan has ever been devised
than to put it into elean jars and cover
it with strong brine. No kind of vessel,
catflr or tub will answer as weH as the
sweet for twelve months.
Fnrit Cake.
One eup of butter, 2 of sugar, 3* lbs.
of flour, white of three eggs, the whole of
one, 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoonful of soda,
2 of cream of tartar, over one enp of
raisins. . j
New Bern Calm.
If new-born calves are troubled with
bleed mg at the naval, it may generally
be Mopped by fastening a string around
the eord which hangs suspended from it.
Bloody Milk im Gows.
Give one tablespoonful of sulphur in
a little bran once a day. If a very bad
case, give twice a day; indtv bran, of i
course. t
j A House Full of Rattlesnakes.
j A recent number of the Athens
! (Tennessee) Post relates a story in ref
i erence to a man named Jones, of Shnokv
' Mountain, who for some years past has
| been doing an illicit business in whiskey
! manufacturing. He had been hunted
from place to place until finally he loca
ted securely in a mountain recess four
; miles from his residence, visiting his
family once a fortnight. Overstaying
: the time of his periodical visit, his wife,
! with some of his neighbors, visited tho
secret locality of his distillery. On
reaching the building the door was found
| bolted, and no sign of Jones or any one
could be seen. But upon attempting to
force an entrance they were greeted with
those peculiar notes of warning which
the ear of the East Tennessee moun
taineer never fails to recognize. The
door was at once broken down, and a
sight met them that caused all to start
with fright and horror. The form of the
! distiller lay upon the floor, with eyes
| starting from their sockets, the features
; horribly distorted, and body swollen to
| twice its usual 1 proportions, while the
| whole interior of the building was alive.
| with rattlesnakes, some in coil and ready
| for battle, but the larger proportion stu
pid and inert, as though they had
been imbibing liberally of the illicit
fruit of the still. As it was impossible
to rescue the body of Jones without in
curring fearful risk, it was determined to
reclose the entrance and other aper
tures, and lire the building, which was
done.
A Docile Bull.— A Cornwall farm
er told us his cattle were so gentle and
kind that they followed him all over the
farm, and in passing a hay-stack they
| would often call him, upon which he ob
ligingly gave each one a lock of hay.
The traits referred to are not uncommon
among domesticated animals. Wc were
visiting a family last week in the vicin
ity of Goshen, and, having occasion to
cross a field where a male cow was gra
zing, when he followed us to the gate
| with an eager expression, and, lifting
j the gate off its hinges, he took after us at
full s]>ced. No doubt he would have
called when we passed a haystack, but
the folks were waiting dinner for us and
we couldn’t stop. So we left nur coat
tail and a portion of our pants on the
gentle creature’s horns, and wetlt into
the house.
An Editor Tight. —We believe it h
rare that editors indulge in a drop, but
when they do their readers are sure to
find them out. A Syracuse (N. Y.) co
temporary was called upon to record a
melancholy event At a time when his
head was heavy, and did it up after tho
following manner: “ Yesterday morn
ing, at 4 o’clock p. m., a man with a heel
in the hole of his stocking, committed
arsenic by swallowing a dose of suicide.
The inquest of a verdict returned a jury
that the deceased came to the fact, in ae
cordance with his death. He leaves a
child and six small wives to lament tho
end of his untimely loss. *ln death wc
are in the midst of life !’ ”
A Dangerous Seminary.—There is
! in Liverpool a building well knowu to
the police, occupied by thieves and rob
bers, which is a thieves’ college, where
thieves of both sexes arc systematically
trained in all the various arts of thiev
ing. The teachers attend daily at the
the police courts, whose proceedings and
decisions they watch with the most st
rive interest, to see how they and their
pupils may be able to escape the clutches
of the law.
Voices from Texas. —First voice—
“ Don’t come to Texas unless you have
money.” Second voice—“lf you have
money and want to keep it, don’t come
to Texas. Texas is a mighty bad place
to keep money in, or rather no place at
all, for you can’t keep money here.”
A Pig Sucks a Cow.— A pig belong
ing to Mr. Robert Bern', a tenant on the
farm of Rev. R. C. Walker, of this coun
ty, sucks his cow. At first tho pig
could only do so when the cow was lying
down, but it now tears up and sucks the
cow whilst standing.— Spectator.
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Change of Diet. — A Georgia church
has sent two lady missionaries to the
Fejee Islands. This is very considerate.
No doubt the cannibals will prefer this
sort to the tough old gentlemen who arc
usually thrust upon the market.
Size of Wagon Wheels.—Experi
ments recently made in England indi
cate that wagons are most easily drawn,
on all kinds of roads, when the fore and
hind wheels are of the same size, and
when the pole lies lower than the axle.
He Accepts.— “ Mike, will you come
in and take a drink ?” Mike looked at
the nan for the space of a half a minute,
and then rolling his eyes upward, very
softly said : "I thought it was an angel
sphaking to me.”
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Engaging Candor.— “ And pray, sir,
what do you intend to settle on my
daughter, and how do yon mean to live?”
“Intend! I intend, sir, to settle myself
your daughter, and to live on you
Make home happy by taking the Echo.