Turners North Carolina Almanac For The Year Of Our Lord 1864

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ISBN 13 : 9780364015735
Total Pages : 70 pages
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Download or read book Turner's North Carolina Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1893, Vol. 9 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Turner's North Carolina Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1893, Vol. 9: Being the First After Bissextile, or Leap Year, and Until July 4th the 117th Year of Our American Independence The religion that proposes to sell oyster soup by the dish whenever the church wants money, is not the kind the devil is afraid oi. - Ram's Horn. A heavy collection. While I was in Arran, said Mr. Spurgeon, I heard of a minister who preached in a certain church, and at the close of the service was strongly urged to promise for a future supply, the collection after his sermon having been un usually large. 'dear me, ' said the minis ter, with becoming pride, 'what might your ordinary collections amount to 2' 'last Sunday it was two-pence half-penny.' 'what is it to-da, then?' asked the minis ter, expecting to hear a large sum. 'eight pence half penny, ' was the reply. 'woe is me, groaned the minister, 'for I gave the Sixpence myself.' equal To the occasion. - He had never seen a telephone, and his friend was show ing him how it worked. He called up his house, and his wife came to the telephone. My dear, Mr. Jones is here, and I have asked him to come up to dinner. Then he turned to Mr. Jones and said - Put your ear to that and you will hear the answer. He did, and this was his answer - Now, John, I told you I would never have that disagreeable wretch in my house again. What was that? Spoke out Mr. Jones. Women are quick. She took in the situa tion in a second when she heard the strange voice, and quick as a flash came back the sweetest kind of a voice - Why, Mr. Jones, how do you do? I thought my husband meant another Mr. J ones. Do come up to dinner; I shall be so glad to see you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.