Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-08-27
DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN.

! DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN.
The Philadelphia Transcript gives US the
definition Of a gentleman, derived from a dr.
alogue between two policemen:
| Firf PO1eeMm-My opinion is. that mans q
| gentleman what behaves as SIGH.
Second P-why, what do you mean by behaves
as SIGH?
| F. P|I mean what tips up as man when he
gets any call for US.
SP.-Whv, YOU woudn't take brioe; remem-
Der you policeman.
FP-I know il, and bribe I'D soon. But
what's bride, that's the question! 10 answer
that. takes man what kno.s. NO" 'ne genera
sefflsiou of knowledge done no more for you
than nothing. I'll demonstrate to you logically.
that we may receive money from gentleman, and
not be bribed either.
S. Pas how?
EP.-Suppose, now in the discharge Of our
duty, we comes across gentleman who has sus-
picious appearance; and many a man has susP'-
ci0us appearance, and IS a real gentleman TOO.
Suppose he convinces Of our mistake, and says,
"My homes, lads you're little out here; Pm not
dissactly the You took FOL, but no hani2osi-
tics, what will you take to drinkf" What would
you do in this casef
S. P.-Weil I'd take a gin-rover.
f. P--Woud that be bribe, saye
S. P-Certainly not, it would be drink.
F.P.-But suppose the gentleman was to say,
'sI've got little business that calls me another
wav, my lads, but here's the money, get drinks tor
YOURSELF Now l argu6es that's precisely the
same thing.
s. P-Well, as i, is to get drinks with, I can't
say hut thinks i; is.
F. P.-So f we should meet any gentleman to
night, who should offer money
S. P.-To get drinks with
F. P-We'll take il.
S.P.-We WILL
.P-Although, as policemen, we'd scorn brl-
s. P-Your logical demonstration has convicted
ne.
"TnE Far WEsr".The Dubuque Visitor
pirited journal commenced at Dubuque, on the :
xtreme north western part Of frontier in Wis
onsin territory, confesses his total inability to fix
he locality oftna, ignis fatsss Of the wandering
migrant, usually denomina,ed the "Far West"
s'Some OF our eastern brethren suggest that The
'rontier" would have been appropriate title fov
ur journal. Not bad idea. But then. either
ur "local kabieation, or our name." must have
ean changed even before this time. The frontier
already SO far beyond that we know not G
Iorth was in Mr.. Popc's days:
ask where's the North at York I'll. on the Tweed:
In Scotland at the Orcades; and there C
At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.'
None o:ths fraternity will be safe in arogating I
ny suc, title, till they set up their banner within
ZACH Of the tde-waie Of the Pacific" n
PRIDE OF OUR FoREMoTHERs.- in his j,
istory Of Massachusetts, for 200 years. relates E
at in 1853, on the anniversary of the society for
omoting industry, three hundred females Of Bos-
n assembled on the common with spinning wheels! :.
hey were neatly attired in clothes Of their own T
n nj ofovs<,
d 10 witness the scene :,
There is not, probably, SO many now in Boston, y !.
ho could use the spinning rhecI, if they had it;
I'd as for the number there OF here, clothed in u
cir own manufacture,
Ut wheels were then things TO be proud of; and Il
oh spinsters as these, it was, who Graded the o.
,thers of the Revolution! II
The following is one Of the many good things Il
I'm the drollest Of eastern papers, the News lps "a
ch News gafhercr: ii
heard of a chap once who was tongue-tied in ~
childhood, and his mother the doctor, il is q,
material which, cut it 50 far that it played al
til ends-he would Of course gable like = regi-
mt Of turkeys. There was another whose
,gue was thick that he could not speak the III
It'll; pretty much in the prcdicamen: of one Ben "a
|, of England, who relates the story Of a man IN
wing invented a shaving machine which will shave tn
lozen at a time The lather is shot from mus 20
they stand in line, and fastened on all their D.
n= at the sane time, and shaved in the twinkling 81
an icicle. The razor is described; but il is 20
to be sort Of perpendicular locomotive circu0,.
,dIious handsaw, and will shave ten men, boy,
} pig quicker than you can say-Good NOR de-
g, sir! fro
Owe OF MARRIED LrrE.-The affection -.
Il iinAs toseu'e, man ana whe, IS lar no re-;
ana more enduring passion IMAM the en- va
slasm OF young love. II may want Its cei
geousness-t may want Its imaginative dol
lracter. but it is richer in holy trusting at Mr.
,utes. Talk not to us of the absence Of wh
e in wedlock! What! because a man has win
sed TO "sigh like furnace we are to be- ter
-e that the fire is extinct! No, it burns
h steady and brilliant flame; shedding Al