VARIETIES.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 116, 30 January 1872, Page 6

VARIETIES.

Why is att oM cent like an iron kettle ? Be- hj i cause it represents hard wear. l un } Bleeding from the Nosh.—Put a piece I clean paper in your mouth, and chew it ra-. rv i pidly, and it will stop your nose from bleeding. j u n j I This remedy has been tried frequently, it is j the ! stated, and always with success. It is at all j gnu events worth trying. A A dyspeptic reid that by sending a dollar by ' mail he would receive a cure for dyspepsia, lie . . v . I ten I sent for the money, and received a slip of paper i .1 s with the following printed on it: —" .Stop drink- \ ;in( i in,' and hoe in the garden." The man was mad j \[ c j at first, then laughed, and finally went hoeing, j proi stopped drinking, and is as well as ever. j fori ; A presiding elder of the United Brethren'. A ! Church was preaching in Minnesota, and was l ]\ much annoyed by persons talking and laughing. ,-' I lie pausel, looked at the disturoers, and said :[ :• " "I am always afraid to rebuke those who mis- j a*,? [behave in church. In the early part of my j C;W 1 ministry 1 made a great mistake. As I was' tat< I preaching, a young man who sat before, roe was is s I I constantly laughing, talking, and making un- siir 1 conth grimaces. I paused and administered a 1 ? I : severe rebuke. After the close of the service, I mu I one of the official members came and said to mc, ■■ re? i ' Brother, you made a great mistake,—that \ ~ 1 • • i- i. > cln voung man whom you reprove I 15 an idiot. T '' ■ ■ 1 T 1 - ■ POS I Since then I have always boon airaid to reprove j ' j those who misbehave in church lest 1 should re- c -. ( f peat that mistake, an I reprove another iliot." | lo , 1 ! During the rest of Hut service, at least, there lov i was good order, as