Potter's American Monthly Volume 8-9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...taught her attendants that Battery ind servile attention were the price of her gracious smile. TV Crown Prince spread his wrap before his wife I'rum genuine motive of respect and affection. How much m proud she had a right to be, walking over it, than had, who trod the same sort of tapestry three centuries ign'. Are blacksmiths who make a living by forging, or carr-t tcrs who do a little counterfeiting, any worse than men - sell iron and steal for a living? "I don't see how you can have been working all day He a horse," exclaimed the wife of a lawyer, her huibonil having declared he had been thus working. "Well, It? dear," he replied, " I've been drawing a conveyance all day. anyhow." The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown on it, and U will in turn look surly upon you; laugh at it, and with it, ud It is a jolly, kind companion. The great English gun is pronounced cracked, the i being that it was not thoroughly bored. If it had bm placed in an American ncwsapcr ufficc the result miul ruie been very different. Josh Billings says-"The muwl is a larger bird than ike guse or turkey. It has two legs to walk with, and twi morr to kick with, and wears its wings on the side of its hoi." Jeffries.--Judge Jeffries, of notorious memory, pointing to a man with his cane, who was about to I tried, said, "There is a great rogue at the end of my cMie." The man to whom he pointed, looking at him, said, " Which end, my lord?" Homeless.--All men are not boneless, but are home less than others. CIVIC AND SCENIC NEW ENGLAND.--NEWPORT IN 1877. By Oramel S. Senter. Last year Philadelphia was the grand wateringplace of America. Once, for a wonder, all the r...