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WE EKL Y REGISTER
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY.
At 12D Bay Street.
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.
Supper is the full dress meal at Sara
toga.
Chinese maxim: never rub your eyes
except with your elbows.
A contemporary defines the waltz as
“hugging set to music." The definition
is new, if the idea is not.
A Washington belle speaks five dif
ferent languages,but cannot bake a loaf
of bread to save her life.
Greenville, S. C., is erecting several
new brick stores. The News is crow
ing about it.
A Baptist church in New Orleans
was recently offered the benefit of a
horse race to cancel its debt.
A confident lady lately asked at a
book store for “the Apothecary that
had the book of wisdom in it."
A curious German epitaph :
Here lies the body of Poter Grace,
Who died from eating Swoitzer kase ;
He finished six platters, commenced the
seven,
And exploded. Of such is the kingdom of
Heaven.
Andrew Johnson, Jr., son of ex-
President Johnson, and Thomas Ma
loney, have commenced a newspaper
at Greenville, Tenn., called the Intel
ligencer.
A young married woman, having
heard of the invention of a stove that
consumes its own smoke, hopes that
something of the same kind will be in
vented to consume tobacco smoke.
A Western editor wants “an assist
ant who can write to please everbody,
and a foreman who can put each ad
vertisement conspicuously at the head
of a column."
Some ingenious scamp out west has
invented a machine to make a man
rise early in the morning. Our devil
says a six-months-old baby can beat 4
to death.
“ What is the matter with the tea?"
said a lady to a newly imported maid.
“Is it the tay ye mane, mam ; share
an’ I thought the colly and tay too
wake intirely, so 1 mixed 'em togither
to make ’em strong, me lady.”
A Frenchman having heard the word
press made use of to signify persua
sion—as, “Press that gentlemen to take
something to eat” —took occasion one
evening at a party to use a term which
he thought synonymous, and begged a
friend to squeeze a } r oung lady to sing.
A bright little boy, hearing his father
say that a man ought to “stick to his
business,” emptied a bottle of mucil
age in the old gentleman’s office chair.
The old man says he has not been stuck
so badly since 1857, and rewarded his
offspring by taking him on a whaling
trip to the hack cellar.
IF.
If you want the best and handsomest musi
cal magazine published in the United States
—if you want ono dollar's worth of choice
music monthly—if you want an &800 Piano
for one dollar, then subscribe for the South
ern Musical Journal, only 81 a year.—
Every new subscriber gets a free chance in
in the superb SBOO piano to be rallied among
Jou-knal subscribers. Call and sco the
Piano. LUDDEN & BATES,
Publishers, Savannah, Ga.
P, S.—Don't forget your dollar,
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S. J. M. BAKER,
•Book tii|d Job Bripter,
129 BAY STREET,
(OveT lu'etwell & j\ r Ll\olß,)
SAVANNAH, G A .
I would respectfully inform the public that I am pre
pared to execute all work in my line* and feel assured
that I can give satisfaction.
I make a specialty of
Bill fleadA
Letter tie ad A
CaidA
Market Be ports,
/
difdulkfj,
>BtateiT(Ci|ts',
'iVogLurintes
With a good stock of material, and all necessary ap
pliances for filling orders promptly, I respectfully solicit a
share of patronage.
g. j. ]vi- Ba k eil.
129 Bay Street, Second Floor.
PALMER &. DEPPISH:
Hardware.
AGRICULTURAL TOOLS, i
|
PISmiSTG- TACKLE.
GUNS,
Breech and Muzzle Loading.
148 and 15-0 Congress,
149 and 151 St. Julian Sts.
seps-3m
13. 0. Flannagan. | W. W. Flannngan.
A. P. Abell. | R. S. Morgan.
Flannagan, Abeil & Cos,, •
128 BAr STREET, SAVANNAH,
COTTON F A CTO ITS,
AND
Commission Merchants.
Liberal cash advances made on consign
ments,
Promptest attention rendered to all busi
ness committed to them, and proceeds of
sales remitted by Express when ordered.
Bagging and Ties sold and advanced on
crops.
English Stonewall Fertilizer and English
Dissolved Bone furnished. scps-'3m
WffOILESAIJE
. BOOTS, SHOES,
AND
X-I -A-TS.
Brunner & Faxon,
The only exclusively
Wholesale Boot, Shoe and Hat
Concern in Savannah.
141 CONGRESS STREET.
CASH and PROMPT time buyers are in
vited to examine our stock before purchas
ing. scps-2m
Carpenters and Builders.
The undersigned, thankfulf.>r past pot vill
age, beg leave to inform the citizens of Sa
vannah, and the public generally, that they
still continue to
E S TI 3MC ATE
on anything in their line of business.
Plans drawn when required and jobbing
attended to.
Address by note,which will receive prompt
attention,
WARD &SNEDEKEH.
seps-3m cor. Barnard and Duffy sts.
A. J. HILLER & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail
Furniture Dealers,
150 BROUGHTON ST,,
Savannah, Ga.
Strict, attention paid to Mattress making
and Upholstering. Country orders carefully
packed. Parties desiring to purchase would
do well to give us a call and examine our
stock. sepn-tf