The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-26

tlemen whose chief aim in life is 10 make pun,
perperate small joke, verbal if possible prac-
cal if necessary. They seem to believe that intel
lectual srfectOn consists in an aptitude of playing
upon a simple word, or Tsrveriing il - some unex-
peced use, twisting sylls BILE into wry position.
On being intro iuced to you, he will seek TO joke
upon your name, an however stupid his effort may
be, you expected to laugh out of courtesy. He
will snap you up in the middle OF sentence, TO
perpetrate some unconsidered lrfe" quite foreign
to the subject that your conversation suggests, and
assail you in your serious moods with atrociOus
puns and silly repartees. He is so fond of joke,
too, that he will sometimes pay good price for an
opportunity Of making one.
We were walking with merry fellow Of this
kind the other day, when, to SURPRISE he dellb-
srately upset an old woman's fruit-sland. While
we stood amazed at his folly he cooly assured the
angry lady that he was willing to re pear the loss,
If she would not ''P5ach" to the police His freak
cost him dollar in cash, to say nothing of the time
spent in concocting it. He had evidently decoyed
US in the direction of our walk for the purpose of
putting his mature idea into practice. We patiently
submitted to be dragged along another half mile,
when arrived at shop with the shutters closed,
and sign over the door bearing the name NJ.
MurdOugh." All 20 said our facetous friend,
pointing exutingy to the closed shop and the name,
" you see Murder will Outn' He is heir 10 a rich
uncle, who is at present very sick. The old man,
who hates relations and is nervous, grumbles at ali
things in general, and the sudd5n change in the
weather especially. Eyes, uncle" said the invet-
crate wag, as Hamlet says, the heir bites
BnTSWQlV bul ILe most GeSpeTdI2 strait TO which
we ever saw the poor fellow reuuced, was upon an
occasion when he had purposely avoided paving
poor shoemaker's bill. The tradesman was an
honest German, who unsuspectingly presented his
account, and was Immediately knocked down with
a violent blow on the eye. '' You see, " said our
jOcular acquaintance, turning triumphanty around,
" how always pay my bills at sight!" The OBJ
tuse German, though he appreciated the force,
could not see the wit of the joke. That joke cost
fifty dollars and we verify believe the little Joker
thought it cheap at the price.
He is the person who advertises for wife in the
daily papers, and moi long since got into sad scrape
through ndulgiDg in this amusement. lady an
swered an advertisement, appointing an interview
He saw her, affected Gmorous raptures, formally
proposed, and was accepted. On the ensuing day
he met her in the street, and deliberately cut her
and was congratuating himself on having perpe-
trated the crowning joke of his life-when shortly
after the brother of the insulted female called him
to account, and finished by numerically beating
him about the face. We visited him in his misfor-
tune, and found him coolly examining himselfin his
glass, and trying to be witty on his bruised and
swollen features. His eyes were black and his
nose was enlarged to twice its natural size. "Ah!'
said he, coaXing up mutilated smile, ought to
have taken the ayes and nses of Judgment on the
safety of that joke before attempting it 70
THE PIN AND THE NEEDLR-We recommend
the following neat fable to political parties. 1t
illustrates their case exactly:
A pin and needle being neghbors in work
basket, and both idle, began to quarrel idle folks
apt to do
81 should like to know" said the pin, "what
you good for, and how do you expect to get
through the world without head ?n
What is the use of your head" replied the
needle, rather sharply, if you have no eye 2"
What's the use of an eye" said the pin, "if
there is always something in it ?"
g am more active, and can go through more
work than you can, said the needle,
Yes, but you will not live long"
"Why not?"
Because you have always stitch in your side,
said the pin,
You poor, crooked creature" said the
needle.
And you proud that you can't bend
without breaking yonr back"
" III pull your head off, if you insult me again.
az IL put your eye out if you touch me remem-
Der your life hangs by single thread i" said the pin
While they were thus conversing, a little girl
entered, and undertaking to sew, she soon broke
off the needle at the eye Then she tied the thread
around the neck of the pin, and attempting to sew
with it. she soon pulled lis head off, and threw it
into the dirt by the side Of the broken needle.
Well, here are" said the needle.
We have nothing to fight about now" said the
pin. 1t seems misfortune has brought us to our
senses"
"A pity we had not come to them sooner" said
the needle. How much we resemble human
beings, who quarrel about their blessings till they
lose them and never find out they are brothers till
they lie down in the dust together, as we do"