Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-08-06

Aestih 1feaFeni -
S|anderers are like flies, they pass over "a
good parts Of man and indulge OH his soreA.
"Petc, are You INTO them swetmeats againi
"Noe ma am, them sweetmeats are into me-
"sVliirtle, and I'll come 10 you my lad" a
the sportsman said, when he wanted TO iin.
the quail"
Why are the ladies' gowns below the wais
like a Camp Meeting Because there Is
great gathering there.
Wonder where ,fatfeliow has mizzled to-
the one who is SO short, he has to go up a
tlghHof stairs 10 wink1
Mr.. Stephen Loci was recently married tt
Miss Lucy Cheeh, in Cincinnati. This was .
decide case Of lockiaw.
A fellow 'sdown East saws thai the times
are sophard he thinks OF leaving this world
md climbing a tree. Poor fellow. .a
4 young lady eloped from q boarding school
to get married, her main object being, as she
afterwards confessed, that she might be at H.
berry TO lie in bed as long as she pleased in
the morning, and have butlered toast for
| breakfast.
am rich enough, and can afford 10 give
away Gl90 a year. | would not craanI upon
The earth without doing a little good. | will
ENJOY the pleasure of what | give, by gtsing ii
ahrc, and seeing another enjoy it. When /
die ! should be ashamed to leave enough for
a monument. if there was a wanting friend
above ground,-Pope.
SOLITUDE swEElENEp- To shut a child
up in The cellar and lei him have free access
to the molasses cask.
DIVERSITY OF K~ATURE~-It ls a curious fact,
that OF the countless leaves OF trees, and
blades OF grass In the world, no two has ever
yet been found precisely alike nor 50 nearly
alike, but that difference is readily p~ercepti-
bic, by means OF a microscope and it is rot
even reasonable to suppose, that since the
creation, any two have CHANGED TO be precise
" alike, III every respect-4merican Mocha
mic. 3
SUBLIME TELoaurseE.-The following is gi-
ven as an extract from a speech, by a member
Of a debating club:
Yes, Mr.. Chairman, and fcllow-citizens Of
Poquetonnock, | repeat the declaration--I do
not believe there is a man, woman, or child,
in this house, who has arrived at the age of
City years, and upwards, but what has felt this
truth numbering through their brains for CEN
turies-I don'ltl"
Toni wish | had all the pastures in the
world"
BoB-'I wish ! had all the cattle in the
world"
Tom-"What would you do with thema'
BoB-"Id turn them into your pasture"
Tom-"No you wouldn't"
BoB-"Yes, | would"
ToA-~No, you you'd NJ"
BoB-"Yes. / mould"
And then the fight coilttnenced-and oh,
how they did lick one another
A FISH sToRY-The following story; inter
esting to the lovers OF eel-pie, is from the
Boston Post.
The late Mr.. E'izzh-a very worthy fish
erman by the name II Gflzzle was drowned
some time since, and all search Of his body
proved unayailing. After it had been in the
water some months however, it was disco
.vered floating upon The surface, and taken to
the shore, wheseupon Mr.. Smith was des-
patched to convey the intelligence to the af-
aicted widow.
Mr.. snith-WeII, Mrs. Grizzie, We have
found Mr.. Grizzlies body.
Mrs. Grizzle-iou don't say sol
Mr.. Sizes We hase--thej jury has sot on
il and found it full of eels.
Mrs, G.-You don't say Mr.. Grizzlies body
is full Of eeis!
Mr.. S.-Yes it is, and We want to know
what you will have done with hima
Mrs. G.-Why, how many eets should YOU
think there is ID him.
Mfr. S-Why, about a bnslel.
Mrs. G-Well, Their, | think you had bet
ter send the GELS up to the house and set him
again.
IMaGisARx IsAER-At the completion Of
another section OF the Long Island Rail Road,
the Directors gave a (faneied} dinner, at
which Col. Stoaes Of the New York CONNER
ciali was a guest. The Col. dresses up an
account of the proceedings in neat style.
Among the toasts invented by the Coils brain
were the following
BIZ the Editor of the Proridence Journal
Governor tor and his New York recruits at
Chepachet.-
r. Hefrg-Jsek; whose se.,,,vs are those
that come after
fdl-Ha, mine.
p. Herg-I did meter sse such pitiful ras-
Gals.
TaL-1.nt, tut, good enough to toss food
for powder, food for powder.
(MUsIc-"See the scampering hero runst'3
ByJ A. Rer, Esp of Queens county -
Cflarpaigne-proved by Father Robbins, of
Rhode Island, the best Greeian in America, to
have teen the nectar of the gods.
fThis toast excited the ire of a teetotaller.
who roses exelaiming, and auitjng the action
to the word-- Intoxicating drink. my
friends is nothing less than h~sll-fire. which
was first compounded in the su!phurous
laboratory of the internal regions, and there
invented by that most dlabolieal of all che
ntsts, po4lzeaub. Stick, then, to water, my
frie nds-sood, cool, Long island water, to-day,
AID C@oton when you get home /; stick to wa
ter as a eobler--I don't mean sherry eobler--
to his last for you have no more ocea-
zion to swallow liquid FIRE and brinsten ne than
a duck las for an umbrella in a rainy day"