The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

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ALL SORTS OF PARAG

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eetim tind other characteristie Iragmen
trate the American newspapers.
A ONE-SIDED FENCE.—The New

scribes a fence made of such crooked ,latvrta
time a pig crawled through it came out on thVkirme
side.

A PARBOILED ACTOR.—The Charleston S. C. Mer-
cury, in speaking of a player at the theatre there, says
—" He does not wear his characters like a garment
but they run in his blood, and he is steeped in them
from the topmost hair to the extremest toe."
MODESTY.—A gentleman bathing in the Mississippi
river drowned himself to avoid being discovered by
some ladies who were approaching near where be was.
" GETTING A DRIVE OUT OF A BULL."—Everybody
has heard this phrase, but we never knew it so literally
illustrated as it recently has been, not a thousand miles
from Albion, Orleans county, A Whig in that vicinity
had an ugly unmanageable bull, which he sold to a
loco-foco neighbour for thirty dollars, payable when
General Harrison is elected President, the purchaser to
drive the bull hone,. The loco, after a few days'
ownership, finding the brute a troublesome piece of
property, drove him to a Whig neighbour's, and then
sold him for a note of thirty dollars, payable when Van
Buren was re-elected President. The upshot of the
matter is, that our loco-faco friend is under obligations
to pay thirty dollars, without any thing to show for it,
except two drives out of the hull.—Buffalo Commercial.
The New Orleans Crescent, in alluding to the prac-
tice of training there on Sundays, says—" Nothing
strikes more harshly upon the strings of the soul than
the clangor of martial notes."
MODEST.—We find the following in the New Orleans
Crescent—" The gentleman who left his penkeife upon
our table is requested to call and sharpen it."
THE WORLD COMING TO AN END.—Yesterday two
brothers were seen shaking hands together in the street.
A. LAWYER'S SIMILE.—" The witness, my Lord,
stood plump opposite the defendant—plump, my Lord—
plump as a partridge." _

UNLAwFin. MARRIAGL.—A. man named James
Eueu, aged 84 years, was married, in Philadelphia, on
Monday last, by Alderman Campbell, to a young
uornan named Emma Haines, aged about twenty. A
few hours atter the ceremony was performed, a gentle-
ma❑ called on Alderman C. and informed him that he
had married a grandfather to hisgrand-daughter. This
turned out to be true ; for shortly the old man made
his appearance, requesting the Alderman to take back
the certificate, and stating that he had not been aware,
until he was just informed, that both the law of the
land and of the church of which he was a member pro-
hibited such marriages. He must be a knowing child
of his age.

APROPOS OF ELECTIONS.—Said a clergyman to a
bride, " What do you think of the connubial stale r
" I think it will go for Harrison," was the reply.
ADVICE.—In entering a printing-office in cold wea-

ther, always walk in boldly, and shut the door after you.
EXPERIENCE.—No man is ever satisfied with another
man's reading a newspaper to him ; but the moment it
is laid down lie takes it up and reads it over again.
" Recollect, Sir," said a tavern-keeper to a gentle-
man who was about leaving his house without paying,
the reckoning, "recollect, Sir, if you lose your purse,
you did'nt pull it out here."

ROMANTIC.—Miss Mary Ann Prettyman, quite a

pretty-looking girl too, was arrested in Philadelphia a
few days sincQ, and committed to prison, for stealing five
sucking pigs.,
ELECTION JOKIi..—At the late election in this city,
an old and well-known gentleman presented himself at
the windwo where he had voted for 20 years. His vote
was challenged by a young whipper-snapper, who offi-
ciate 3, and who knew that the old gentleman differed
in polities with him. "It is necessary for you to swear
that you have lived in this ward more tha❑ ten days,"
said the challenger. " Why
.you know that I have," re-
plied the voter, " for more than a year ago you came to
my shop and purchased that hat you have on, and have
never paid for it yet !"—Saturday Courier.

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