MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 69, 27 May 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Railway to Success.—Merchants think nothing of paying £5 for one sign, with nothing bat their name oil it. Well, what do yon tiiink of having 5000 signs a week in a newspaper? In it you. can show your wholo establishment to the public every week. It you are wise, just rub your eye 3, anj go to work and advertise.

"All persons are hereby not only warned, but absolutely forbid to give ine credit on any pretence whatsoever, as from this day forward I shall not pay any debts contracted by raself.— John Hewitt.' Nashville Journal.'

A newly-arrived family were were lately gazing a; a shop window in Reckforn, Illinois. Littlo Girl: s: Oh, mamma, is that a 'en ?" Mamma: jSo my child, that is a howl." Father "No my wife and child that is neither a 'en nor a howl, but its a. heagle, the hemblem ot this blarsted country!'' Matrimoxy Defined. —A priest the other day, examining a confirmation class in the south of Ireland, asked the question—" \V hat i 3 the sacrament of matrimony ?" A little girl at the head of the class answered, " 'Tis a state of torment into which sowla enter to pre pare them for another world." " J3e« said the priest, "the answer for purgatory." " Put her down," says the curate, " put her down to the foot of- the class." " Leave her alone," said the priest, " for any thin' yoa or I know to the contrary she may be parfitly right."

Aii Irish editor, iii speakm* of'.the miseries of Ireland, says, " Her cap of misery has been for ages overflowing, and is not yet full." . ° A minister at Winterset, Xowa, r©' cently stated iu his saivaou that " the Bible was the most - important work that had yet 'been published in tlie United States."