The St. Landry whig., 1845-04-03
sCzsArs ii Aps.

LONG MErRE,-The last Bit OF poetry which we have
seen is the following from u languiahing smaiM to his
gentle divinity. Whether the last limo reached her heart
or mott is more than we know-it's long enough to
reach almost any where -
Oh lady, hear thy lover sigh
No truor heart there lie than mine
read compliance in your eye,
I'd Then why not say 1T once. eve kept you wait.
ing along time, and if you'll have patience Till l can
get d wedding dress made. I'll is tiinc.p
PANn-FuL PoerRY, ssThe Boston Post" saws that
they requested one of their poetical Correspondents to
favor them with something sentimental, when they re-
ceivedAhel. ollow ng
Sip Sc a trees long reaching limbs
Dfluld 'gainst a window dash,
lnslb of natures breezy whims,
and knock it oil TO smash
Am a the clattcr and dismay,
VIII I think you would the fragments say2
tFe ministers Of grace defend us'-
Notthat, friend Charles, they'd cry tree mend-us /!
MystSy magnifes danger as fog does the sun the
hand thu warned Belshaszer derived its ~hOrflfying in
fiuence ism the want Of q body.
''rhere is a time for All things said i crusty old
fellow to his wife. 'spll believe an that . said his wife,
IN 9 sharp vinegar voice, when You pay for your news
paper. THAT'S rIgnt-mt NM aguinj good .a~laaa
There is u s~coohimnster in New South WALES, whose
letters nre thus addressed fsMrs. Love, Harmony
house, Concord, near Kissing Point"
An exchange says that u lad Of fifteen, who ~saunters
about rum shops, smokes cigars, chews tobacco, drinks
wine, or falls in love with u lady much older than him
self, is 'rotten before ripe r
"Talken of law says Pompey, 'makes me think of
what de mortal Cato who live mos a tousan' years ago,
once said de law is like a groun' glass winder, dat glib
light enough to light us poor erin mortals in de dark
passages Of dis life but it would trouble de debil him
self to sec troo t."
An attorney about to furnish a bill OF costs, was re.
quested by his client, a hnker,lito make il as light as
he could. 'Ah,' replied the Attorney ; that's what
20 you may az say y. 70 your foreman but y is not the way
"Wllliam'' said a %carpentt 10 his apprentice, "I'm
going away to-day and want Bou 10 grind MI the tools.,'
eyes, SIR The carpenter came home at night
civilian have you ground all the tools right sharp
A but the hahdsatr," said Bill II couldn't get quite
all the gaps out of that y
AQUAKER LErrEn. An English paper gives the fol-
lowing as a letter from a Quaker in the country to a
friend in the city:
Friend John, / desire thee to be so kind as 10 ret one
Of those sinful men IN the flesh called an attorney, and
let him take out an instrument ,cith a seal Gred thsrs-
unto, by means whereof we may seize tho OUTWARD tab
eFHdcte of George Green, and bring him before the
lambskin men (the Judges at Westminster, and teach
him ia do as he mould BE done By, And so / rest thy
friend in the light, n. &.
The Louisville Dime philoaophically remarks, tfat i
Fat man is always tho first to make room for another
in a coach! II Is as true as preaching-a new renarK
land entities the editor to rank, in disoernment, with
Julius Cesar. "Lct me have fat men about me-"
A BuLL.-Two Irishmen were walking through the
Geological Gardens, Dublin, when they stopped to look
at a bear.
Sure enough said one Of them, y should like to
meet half-a dozen of these running after me-
SCENE IN a PRrvriSa 0rrIsE. "Jhn what in the
world arc you doing there on the iioor1"
"Why sir, I've had a shock"
"a shock"
Eyes sir"
"What kind Of a shock r.
"Why, sir, one OF our subscribers came III during
your absence, and offered to pay d years subscription,
which produced such an effect that | have been ~perfects
ly hopeless ever sinces.
''No wonder, jim, but cheer up, II you survive this
you are safe, as there is little prospect OF another such
a catastrophe 10 this office.
We see II stated in The National Mteligcacer,
that a young lady Of Washington was thrown in.
to a mesmeric sleep by Prof. DE Bonneville,
before a large audience, and that whilst in that
condition a tooth was extracted without giving
the patient the least pain. DIR. J. II. Relic, a
representative in Congress from Missouri, and
DIR. j. M. Gibson Of Louisiana, who were pres.
ent and witnessed the operation, have publish
ed a card, in which they declare themselves fol.
ly convinced that ''painful surgical operations
may be performed on patients in a mesmcric
state without pain"