The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-09-22
For the Union.
Crotchets.

Crotchets.
plague upon signing and grief;
Ii puffs man up like badder.-FdistcB.
"what you bout up there-snging ten tunes ~
"No, we aint doing no such thing"
.'WeI continue on, then, and don't crowd the treble
billings on Psalm Siaging.
sswill you ,rins, sir ~
Excuse me, General, have Wound."
Il was The remark of old Isaak Waiton or some other
writer on pscatoal lore that fish, when dipped alive
into hot OIL considered scaty business and were 10
ShaEspsare the sexton Of English Literature and The dry
Of nature, carries out similar idea in his Winters
Night 1asthe precise place where, we have forgotten
and the exact words OF which we never remembered.
We consider the universal whig party to be like Val
tors fish and before they get through with the cooking
which intended for Them we expect to see them crspcd
up upon the blazing Goals OF unhallowed ambition, or
The master spirits OF olden time full OF crochets
and dem quavers. They were always securing
rotten stone were some in those days, and soft solder
them is now, invaluable at court Plato had
vague idea OF something better than moonshne and
harder than smoke And Aristotle after he had made
his celebrated Jewsharp, which Zimr, son OF Nebul,
came all the way from eastern Ethiopia, with two ne
groes, 10 play upon, vainly undertook to make man
without joints and soul without sorrow. The present
cabinet have endeavored to Aristotle Aristotle with
like success. Esop-and he is good authority with the
Second Neutrality-suspicious. the story OF farmer oil
Thraca who had goose that laid egg OF gold every
day but not content however with receiving riches by
insalmens he cut open his priceless bird that he might
get precious haul at grab; when 10 and behold he
found nothing but gzzard and other Ell eeeras las Mon
seur Huedeber. consul TO Lyons, has it, in his adver
tsement cookery in one hand and dead goose in
the other. Meiancthon. when he lost his mistress, un
derook TO pull the hair out OF his head by handfus and
very much asonished when he found that, in the
excess Of his grief. he had pulled his best wig to
pieces There good deal Of hairPallng done By sorry
wrong way TO do thing, always take the latter. We
ecoec old Parson Carver once mounted his apple tree
and sawed OF limb bu, accdeny stood on the part that
he sawed of, and down, he afterwards naivey
expressed IL, ''a in heap, like widow Pauls jelly
poi, when il slid out fthe window" The Irshman, who
was walking with scythe across his neck when he un'
derook TO kill snake the ground with the end OF the
slath cut his own head oil by sheer accident and killed
the snake with the whiskey that was in him. lnqunng
minds, in looking after one thing almost always hnd
another far better than that which first rvetted their
attention. Thus King James, when he endeavored to
make balsam for his bruises discovered ooekaieke
ayo soup famous 10 the days Of the image breakers Of
Scotland; and old monk, in endeavong TO make the
elixir Of life discovered alcohol in one reio and gun
powder in another.
men TO double and il always happens that when
man has got through with the ordinary occupations OF
life, he gets eroioey Then il is that he endeavors
to DO two things at once Then i Is that he spears a.
him unless he finds il forked end dopn.
The present dynasty is erotdety; il has many ways
on soS "a, as 5pss wa
ting everything that il washes, and soing everything
that il rinses One day secs war in knot, and
cries peace, and pates OF keeping soo from the wicked
ways Of quaelling world and at another time il gets
hold Of passing lamb, and mounts it, with the roar OF
real African lioa
Lord, how changeable il isl now in a sweat and now
IN chill; now il cries good Lord, and now good devil
and oy accident IL does what the constitutions common
sense. and the country imperiously require il to do
the Press IRON the Owls Head Advocate to the Squash
Town Banner calls the attention of the world TO the
TACT That the wing dynasty has for once done il
duty and proved TO the satisfaction OF all men that
was not quite 90 bad they expected for Il was
good for something. Like Jonaihans butter IL would
answer for chafed back If il didn't sui particu
larly well for white bread The Regency now they
have got REY and the SECOND WAsHiScros back
are putting airs again Again they hold sweet coun
sells in out-of-tbe way places; and fitting their place,
Of meeting TO their subjects, they have of late taken 10
the outbuidngs Of the Treasury, out Of sight OF old
French minister's case up, they gathered like bees
around certain ouibuding well known TO the depar,
ments as the place of "the Asbury clock" Since then
understand they have changed their way OF swearing
is by Shrewsbury clock" no longer, but by "Asbu
clock = and when they wish TO be very positive they add
l "spous and ALL" Ii is a cunning Regency, and sit
about from hall to cowpastnre like the Continental Con
l gress in the revolutionary The other day, un
derstand met in Oliver Oldschools room, the Lam
Oce, OLIVER in the chair, and JusTUs acting as secre
iay, mark OF special favor The new ticket for III
succession, of "Crenden and Johnson" freely an
iuy discussed, and counter was agreed upon--t
wit; Seward and Ewing Won't the last one get
great many southern votesl II it don't, what will tn
South be thinking about
4 The prohabitv of n war with France was alan de