The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-08-09
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From the Newly ork Sunday Morning Visiter.
Hear how country editor talks about bis
.biddies: "Some COMPOUNDED villain has
been Fobbing our hen-Eoost. Every old bird
gone--he ones and she ones-those with
families and those without leaving some
dozen orphan biddies to pick their way alone
and mammyless through tender and deli
cate chickenhood. o, that the feathers of
the abducted might be forever stuck fast
to the scoundfel, with tar, assafetida, can
tharides, lunar caustic, and melted brim-
stone. Then let him incubate red heated
grape shot "till the cows come home
" How do you make silk Of different col
ors?' inquired young man of stupid gen
ius who was attending cocooner near Burl-
ington. Well, don't know edzeckly, was
the answer, but believe ven they wants
Vits silk, they feeds the worms on Vite null
berry, and ven they wants black, w they
feeds EN- on black mulberry But how do
they get the other colorsr Ooh, the other
colorsg Wy they dies the leaves jist the color
they wants afore the worms is allowed to eat
EN-
It's conceded on all hands that ladies are
fair and that chickens are fosOl-that the
moIey market is tight, that morals are loose,
and morning gowns do. do.
Sally, shall see you hum? NO, Sam,
my, don't want none of your company
q 'doA't mean now, but some stormy night
whenI can't go no where else.'
An exchange in speaking Of thunder
shower says: The sky was black, and dreary
murkl and ominous clouds drove furiously
from the west, and in fifteen minutes it
rained like the everlasting hOkey!'
A Boston paper tells a story Of chap
returning home on foot, who was so essen
tally coTned that he took the canal instead
of thb turnpike road, and waded three miles
.befoB he discovered his mistake.
Ladies cannot expect to have white hands,
unless they keep them clean.
An exchange paper says that many of the
widows who go to Texas, are half married
when they start. What does the man mean
BY this? That't sum we put to them as
can read, write, and sifer.'
A son Of Erin, while hunting for rabbits,
came across jackass in the woods, and shot
him. by ST: Patrick he exclaimed, I've
killed the father Of all rabbits
A Rhode Island editor guesses the dark
ages were those before the invention of
speCtaCles.
A Boston editor uses his nose for a Their
mometer. He can ascertain the tempera-
ture at any time merely by inspecting the
color of its tip! None but a temperate
man could do that.
The tschoolmaster' is again abroad. The
from Kentucky paper: Soil
tary and alone | stand in the corner, an
humbelI candy dit to represent Hardin coun-
ty in the loer house of the neckst kentucky
legislature. Jacob Grimes, the scientific
A proud man is fool in fermentation,
that swells and boils over like porridge pot
The sets out his feathers like an owl, to
swell and seem larger than he is.
A man in Syracuse is putting up build
ing of such immense strength and magni-
Eude, that It will require stone pavement
Of remarkable strength TO support the shadow
only.
In olden times girls used to rake hay.
The chaps do the rGking now-a-days.
In Fulton street, near Broadway, there is
sign which reads, ct. Pecker, wood en-
graver.o He is Of course, a scoOd-Pecker.
There is a wonderful vigor Of constitu-
ion fallacy. When the world has once got
lold Of lie, it is astonishing how very hard
it's to get it out of the world.
aLook hea, Sam Jonsing, you knows
ing or two. Doesn't you tink from de
qualification OBJ de atmosphere dat we'l
lab rain today
eWell, / declar Pete Gumbo, / doesn't
.actly understand astronemity, but / does
ink it looks berry omnibus"
aWell, dat's Jest dis child's orpinion, but
had not de larnology to 'spress it. / neber
tudied skyology. - Picayune.
"A writer Of q love tale, in describing his
eroine, says, @Innocence dwelIs in the rich
urls Of her dark hair.' We should think
hat it would stand pretty good chance
{ being conbed out.
ABSENCE or MTND-THE LATEsT.-A few
avs since, an Office holder remitted the total
mount Of Government funds in his hands
) tho department. at Washing ton, and never
iscovered the mistake until he received
sceipt accompanied By his dismission from
flee for neglect of dry, by RENTING, in
tead Of emigrating with the spoils.
ST Louis BnlLetin.
WELLERISlas.
Take care of the pain, Is the city gals
~ ven fellow goes % kiss 'en.
time IS money! IS The man said ven