Show FACTS AND FICTIONS an army correspondent writes from before vicksburg that the rebel officers the other day invited invited gen grant admiral porter and other high officers to attend a grand grani ball in vicksburg assuring them of a cordial reception and a safe escort back they declined the honor in paris a german docter recently comi bitted suicide and in a letter left behind belld he declares that he poisoned while acting aa as their physician six girls with whom be he had illicit intercourse it is believed by the jurists and police of europe that poisoning poi pol Boning especially of women by medical attendants ia is excessively ces common everywhere in europe an arkansas traveler says that he knew a yo young ung fellow down south who wasso wasso ford of a girl that he rubbed his nose ot off kissing her ber shadow on the wall A recent writer thus hits the pu pug 0 nosed ra race ce of people A man with a pug nose ia is a cre creature aure despised by gods goda and h his i a f ellow fellow men be he may be a counter jumper he may maybe be a dandy he be will never command in the field or in the council but a woman with a pug nose consider did you ever know such ouch a one that did not in everything have her own way that did not rule her husband her children her servants her house bouse her shop keep f ers erb raj ray and her whole world at a friends sunday school in new york a bright looking little fellow was asked what is 18 conscience he answered very properly an inward monitor montor and what is i a moni moli to toi 10 0 one of the iron dads 2 A lady in speaking of the gathering ec of lawyers to dedicate a new courthouse court house said she supposed they had gone to view the ground where they must shortly liet lie lle dobbs who has haa been married a month i sa bays says ys milliners would make splendid dragoons they charge so why is a ho hog the most extraordinary animal in cr atlon because you first kill and afterwards cure him if a man who makes a deposition is a depositor Ze does it necessarily follow that the man who makes an allegation is an alligator A down east editor says that be he has seen the contrivance vance that lawyers use to warin waria U up P w with ith the subject ile he says it ia is a glass glaga concern and holds about a pint in boston during durin 9 the year a r 1862 there g were six cases where a white e woman was married to a colored many mans man but not oue cue of a marriage between a white man and a colored woman at murt muri treet boro tenn contrabands contra bands are coming in in great numbers within the federal lines gangs of fifteen and twenty varying ing in in years from the grandfather to the nursing babe in arms are to be seen wending their way ino iwo the town in search of 0 shelter and food fred doulass douglass says that since the uttering in I 1 of the proclamation be has grown frown taller felt whiter and can comb his hair with much less difficulty recently published statistics show that nearly one third of the amer of england never marry and that three millions of females are there dependent solely upon their own exertions for sup sop support port the following appeared on a letter from a soldier addressed to a young oung lady soldiers Sold lers letter and nary balry red I 1 hard 1 ard tack in place or of bread postmaster shove this through avel na nary I 1 r y stamp but seven months due A rebel letter boasts that braggs army by drill and discipline has become a perfect machine and prentice says rosecrans Kose eose crans crana must go and run that machine THE TIM K KNOT OT TIE TIED WITH WITTI A WIRE the syracuse standard states that A marriage by telegraph took place not a great hiie while hile since between a oung young lady in one of the principal princ i pal villages on the oswego railroad and an artillery a idler on duty near washington the chaplain of the bridegrooms bride grooms regiment telegraphed the material question of the marriage ceremony to the ther lady viz do you take to tobe toba be your our hubband hatband hue hut band directing her to answer 1 11 I Z do 11 and to authorize him to propose a like question to the gentleman in two houra hours after the lady received the chaplains first message she received a second announcing that the soldier and she were man and wife this telegram is her marriage certificate it is understood misunderstood that the parents parent sot got of fie tle lidy 1 dy were opposed to the union and that thia method was taken to outwit them the time for the ceremony had been fixed by correspondence before beforehand hard bard and the lady was in waiting when the first message was peeved rec ived at the telegraph office |