Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-21

Those who are on the Levee about clever
o'clock on Friday night, might have seen 4
philosopher. He was not naturally a man
of towering genius, of profound thought
and great analitical powers. He wasted
not the midnight oil in pondering over the
axioms of Locke or of Bacon, nor was his
face
"sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought.'
He was not intuitivey deep thinker, but
he seemed to be intuitively deep drinker--
to have fought fortune many time and oft,
the encounters. Ina word, fate formed him
into philosopher, and considering the ma
teral on which she had to work made tol-
erably decent kind of job of it. He was
saturated with rain, and his torn clothing
hung, or rather stuck upon him, like play
bills on the corners.
"This aint nothing" said our hero, solil-
oquizlng as he moved along, maintaining
with difficulty his equilibrium. "Cuss me
If 7 regard this rain no how. do believe
if had been present when old Noah hud
died every body and every thing into his
Great Western, honestly believe shoult
not have taken berth in her. In the firs
place it must have been very uncomforta
BILE, and in the next place know could
stard out the storm on my own hook. Wa
ter haint no effect on me, and if ] could get
over my prejudices agains the temperance
society and against cold ,oithout, | would
let myself out as a diving bell or submarine
machine. But suppose ! would not sue
ceed even in that line; for I'm blowed if the
locofocos have tried more experiments tc
improve the currency than | have to live
like gentleman; and yet 1t has always
been no 60 with me, have actually failed
oftener than all the banks put together, in
cluding the Wild Cat Institution and tue
Brandon!
al have gone so far as to trv to keep So
Der whole day; and what did it amount
to? Why, I burst out laughing when
found myself as usual in The afternoon"
"sBill,' said Jim Robinson when he met
me on that 'ere mornin-' ELL, is it true you
ba' taken the temperance pledgef" "
"Trle as preaching" said |.
"That's good 'un" said he.
"l'll keep it," said |.
"l'm biowed if you will" said he, ono
how you can fix it,"
"Wel, time will tell" said |, and SO it
did, for Bill caught me that same night as
iully as sailor ashore,
/ tried to be polftician--used to holler
for the Gln'ral and make speeches about
glorious democracy and all that, but as ]
couldn't get no place failed at that. J
went 1t in the Lottery, too, but that wasn't
no go-all blanks, no prizes. | invented a
patent medicine, and felt certain of sueGee-
ding; 1t turned out dead failure, and was
accused of vending poison, and had to slope
to avoid taking part, in character in tte
musical and much admired trio OF Riding
on Rail. was even so perseweTng that
Joined the church and attended camp NEE
tings. But dang mel il l didn't always feel
so anxious to take teddy that | couldn't
keep the anxious seat no time.
Ye. with all my failures don't never get
in no passion. I'm always cool--rm cool
now. Yes, I'm id cool, md only for that
last stiffner took wouldn't be in the worst
kind of fix-T would, there's no mistake
about it. Talk of hfe preservcrs made OF
Indian rubSer It's vulgar error. There
aint no life preserver but the ardent. Bran
dy and water rs goodsand there aint no mis-
take in gin and sugar. speak from expe'
rience, as the Teller said when he made the
same speech the hundredth time.
"Talkipg of gin and sugar." said BILL
"puts me in mind of drinking" and he tot
tied off to the next doggery to repeat the
dose.--.Ma o. Picaysne. e
A SToRY OF INrEREsT. The hverpool
Chronicle gives the following scene which
recently occurred in the Westminster Court
of Requests. Our readers viii find it wei
worth perusal.--M o. Picayaae.
A rotund, fdll-priced Scotch baker, step
ped into the plaintiffs box, papers and ledg'
er in hand, to make good his claim to 25s
for bread supplied to Mr.. John Howard
A tall young woman, wearing handsome
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