The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-01-09
From The albany Dutehman.
Crumbs for All Kinds Of Chickens.

Va aAnVc hVA lhAA MAmuD VI OHAOk0mHe
MaRRIAGE-Aa institution that enables us
to engraft ourselves upon new stems. and
thus transmit our names 10 the latest poster.
ity. While the name of Sourby, the bache
lor, will expire with himself, the name of
Smith the marrying man, will flourish like
green bay tree, till time throws away his
scythe, or breaks his hour-glass. Being the
author OF an epic poem, IS good way to
render your name immortal but being the
author of six healthy boys, is sill better.
The young lady that wouldn't go into a
gun factory, because some of the rifles
hadnt'their breeches on is stopping at Tror.
She was awfully shocked on Wednesday.
1t appears that she had bsen rolling potatos
uneyr her fes. >~;ahe,.,. .,--.l..--~es.
things had eyes. Burnt feathers were
promptly administered, but we regret to say
that her nervous system is so deranged that
there are bu! small hopes entertained of her
recovery.
| 1t is really amusing 10 see the generaIship
that women display to keep themselves in
pockot money and nick.nacks. A hus.
bands inexpressiblcs are very frequently
transmitted into a pair Of flower vases.
while his second best shirt goes into cruci-
Bile as rags, and. comes forth a pair of pie
pans. Our friend Dubois says his wife will
make money enough from her last baby'5
Group, 10 buy herself silk frock and new
bonnet Four times day she would send
up 10 the shop for "nnepence right awaY,D
TO buy paragoric with So much for the
Group. Wien the measles are in the family
she conirives, he says, 10 get up a revenue
OF sixpences rIIat anount ru evrno-.-s del
lars per week,
Smith says that Doneliy would be a pat.
tern of husband, if il was not foi falling
or two he's got. He always comes home
drunk, and when he's drunk, he always
pitches his wife out Of the window, and
sends the tea table after her. With these
slight drawbacks, ho says, he is tas good
man to his family" as you could possibly
desire. This being the case, we hope Mrs.
Donnelly win bear his foibles, and bless the
Lord that he didn't send her a brute for a
husband, like some poor women have got
The effect of commerce on politeness is
srikingly shown at Conslantinople. A CEN
tury since, Turks used Enslishmen for spit
toons. They now attend horse-races togeth.
et, and get drunk and sociable out of the
same punch bowl
Losisa ITS PoErRr.--A late traveller
among the Tonian isles, says the first thing
he met at Athens, was Creek girl selling
"Monison's Pills. Had the pyramids
thrown scmerseis, he would not have been
more astonished.
The first threo months of marriage is gem
orally spent in finding ou: each others bad
qualities-the next three in getting use TO
them. Till you are welded, therefore, d
half year, don't count on being happy AM
gels frequently become devils in that time.
Father Malohey says the only way TO
make punch, is to haxe tho beverage two.
Should this be too strong, You must dilute il
he observes, by throwing in more whiskey.
Dobbs says that the man that kespsa fast
horse and a 6ghung-cock, is just as sure to
60 to the devil as brick house that is lock-
ed up in law suit.
Bashful people arc generally mischievous.
While our Office boy never talks 10 a person
withon, looking down the left leg Of his
brceches, he is no sooner left alone, than he
is setting figgery four to throw The foreman
into The coal bin.
If sou would know how bull would look
when his tail is twisted, just ask man for
'tthat little bill he owes your when he is
talking to q woman.
| A late writer says that the skies Of Italy
are bluer than any thing he ever saw, with
the exception Of Miss Smiths eyes. Miss
Smith is the young woman he sits up with
An exquisite who boards at the City Ho-
tel, says that oysters are SO cold and damp,
that he dare not cat the 'dem things" for
fear of catching "a dem catafrh."
To make people idle and poetic, we know
of nothing better than love. A young
friend of ours. who ''has got il bad" has
done nothing for the last three months, but
sit in the garret, and write sonnets to his
SniveIinker's eyebrow.
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Mra. .Smi,hers says that Jenny Lind IS
blessed woman--alI she lacks being wings
TO make her perfect "syrup."
CHuacHEs-Paces where eressy women
go to learn the fashions,
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