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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, eps-lm 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