Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-05-21
sWhat?'
'Labor ipsc roluntas.'


signify, (as my Lord Coke would says
Labor is Of itself 4 pleasure
There is no contending against
} such authorities
you give up. then, do your said
Eugene laughing.
But stop said Rosalie; because
Scott became Lord Chancellor, and
; sherman Chief Justice, it does not
follow that you are to be-
i lord Chancellor, or Chief Justice.
Not at all, my dear. But it does
follow, ! apprehend, that with indus
try and good fortune, may. in the
'Far West provide for myself and
Resale home and livelihood. So,
Good bye!-don't cry, now. God
bless you my dear girl"
! BORROWING THE ENTIRE AMIN AL.-I7e
scarcely take up newspaper bat We see
some articles on the fruitful subject Of
borrowing. "WiIl you be so good as to
lend ma slice Of but,,erf' says ONE
"Marm wants to know If you wont lend
her a cup Of Coffee" says another. 'If
you can losn rae half loaf Of bread till nv
husband goes TO mill, l should like it,
says a third But the general topic is
newspaper borrowers. Oficn,imes before
the D. per is unE,lded, a neghbor will come
into the house Of one who takes and pnye
for his paper, and will say, "Oh! that's
your paper, is it! what is there in it? just
let ME look, wont detain you a minute p
The paper is thus unceremoneously taken
from the owner, and he has to bite his
neither lip in sad disappointment. But.
after all. these vexs tiOns are insignificant,
when compared with one which we shall
n1r:ate.
A philosophical gentleman who had
pure hased him a new microscope, wished
for some minute animal to put within it
to try its magn,fying power. He said to
his son in iocose manner, Tommy, you
havn't lous,. in your head suppose have
|you" No, father, l havn'.,' said the
youth, sbnt can borrow one for YOU at
Trofal,er's. they've 60, lots Of 'em.' No
sooner said than he hurried off to their
ne, ghbor's, who were well stocked with
vermin, and inquired Of the dame, will
you please to lend father one Of your lice,
few minutes to try his microscope? I'll
bring it right back again.
Mrs Trofatter catched the tong., and
after him with all vengeance; the boy
making his exit much more rapidly than
he did his entrance. borrowing losse!
A blockhead-he might have known Ire
gnod woman wouldn't lend an article of
tina, kind much sooner than she would her
breath.-[NoRFoLk ADVERTISER.
Dr.. FRANKLIN said, that he made it
a rule, wine never in his power, 10 avoid be-
coming the draughtsm-n of papers to be
reviewed by public body. 1 took my
lesson, said he. from an incident whc.
will relate: When I was a j,urneym man
printer, one Of my companions, an appren-
lice halter, having served out his time,
was about to open shop for himself. His
first concern was 10 have a handsome sign
hoard with proper inscription. He COM
posed it in these words: "John Thompson,
halter, makes and sells hats FOR ready
money!" with the figure Ola hat suspended.
But he thought he would submit. i, to his
friends for their amendments. The fret
he showed it to, thought the word .!,atter,'
t,u,OlOgols, because followed by these
words 'makes hats which showed he was
"A halter. Ii was struck out. The next
observed, the word makes might as well
b, omitted, because his customers would
no, care who made the hats; If good, and
TO their minds, they would buy, by whom
soevcr made. He struck il out. A third
said, he thought the words for ready mo-
ney,' was useless, as il was cot the custom
of the place to sell on credit: every one
Who purchased expected to pay. They
were parted with. and the inscription now
stood John Thompson sells hats Sells
ha,s?' says his next friend; why nobody
will expect you to give them away. What
then is the use of that wordr 1t was
stricken out, and hats followed il, the
rather, as there was one painted On iheI
board so his inscription was reduced ul-
tmaicly to John Thompson with the
figure Of a bat subjoined.
THE LAND But PASSED IN THE SEN
ArE.-On tie 4th Of May, after Sem
ator Benton concluded an elaborate
haranguc against the Land Bill. the
vote was taken on its final passage.
and stood:
Teas-Messrs. Black, Buchanan
Clay. Clayton. Cristenden, Davis.
Ewing of Ohio, Goldsborough. Hen
bricks, Kent, Knight. Leigh. Nc
Kean. Mangum. Naudain. Nicholas
Porter. Prentiss, Preston, Robbins.
Southland. Swift, TomIinson. Webster,