The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-10-16
Odds and Ends.

4 Rhode Island lad, under examination by
Connecticut schoolmaster, being asked ''llow
many Gods there" after having scratched his
head some time, replied, ~ don't know how
many you've got in Connecticut, but we have
Bone IN Rhode Island
There was some sense in the remark of
Scotchman, who, in adng the saying Of Solo
mon, "Snow is beautiful in its season. exclaim
cd, SAY. nae doubt it was beautiful TO You sitting
with the vines and lassess o. Jerusalem aside
you; but had you been poor stone mason, We
would have said nae such thing
A poor man, at Havane, England. while re-
moving a cork from large stone beer bottle. hy
means OF his teeth, got it suddenly propelled
down has throat, owing TO tie fixed air the bottle
contained. lie was only relieved by having his
windPiPe opened.
RUNS great elevator. Old Hicks says night
afore last, he couldn't pay his board-the thought
made HIM desperate; he drank half pint Of X.
u. (rot lgut,) and in fifteen minutes he felt a.
though be armed oil the real estate in town.
4 student of medicine out in Michigan, ha wing
coOrted girl year, and got the mi,,n, has turn
ed around and sued her father for the visits he
paid her. He's 'some,' isn't he? lie makes
out his bill for Justification Of the heart
An old farmer in Ohio, was anxious TO have his
minister dismissed, and was asked The reason
why. "fve heard say ;" was the reply. ",.,at a
change Of pastors made fat calves, and I'm IN for
change
John Fish adyertises in the Manchester Mirror
that he cannot live with his wife, as she keeps
Assa "continualy in hot water, and acts like the
devil" John Is excusabe--no Fish can live in
hot water.
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were working at mill, ''what possesses YOU
to associate with such girls as YOU do! When
vas of your age could go with the first cut
1.-The first cut" said the son, as he assisted
the Old man IN rolling over log, sis always IA
sab.''
"Why are pretty women like barking dog.:''
'Because they show their teeth and don I bite. -
The aethor Of this conundrun, is an old bachelor
An honest Irishman, fresh from Hibernia,
caught humble bee in his hand, surprising it 10
be hummiHg bird.
'Och," he exclaimed, ''deyi bum, how no,
A Michigan editor who had been TO New York
purposeiy To hear Jenny Lind sing, and who saw
her eat hearty meal afterwards on the steamer
says he can't understand how such angelic notes
can proceed from where he saw her take in such
A country clergyman, being opposed to the use
OF the bass-viol IN church service, was overIuled
by the congregation. The FIRST Sunday it was
brought into uss, he announced the psalm as fol-
lows. To praise God, We will now fiddle the
l6th psalm, short metre.
Said one apprentice TO another, "Bnl, III mucl
sooner work for my boss than your old man. -
"Why sos'' "Because my boss amt ALWAYS
round the shop interfering with his own business. u
PRoPnEcY.--A correspondent of the Bos,o1
Post, more than year ago, rentured the follow
ing prediction, based upon the fashions of tina,
period. He saw it literally fulfilled a, yer,
early !!R Rs.,od Go.,. h.,. -, :, a.. ,.,
by our precious acquisi,ive spouses,
Our confidence well may be shaken
la respect 10 retaining our trousersr'
The Ohio Democrat gives The following sad
iale:--Charles Seymour, engineer on the Eaton
and Hamilton Railroad, had been paying atten.
ti0n 10 Miss Julia A. Gould; her father having
become acquainted with The state Of affairs, cali.
cd upon Mr.. 8. and requested an interview at hi:
tG's. residence. During the interview, certain
propositions were made 10 s., with which he re.
fused to comply, whereupon the eBraged and dis
tressed parent drew a large knife and thrust i
into s., making frighifui wound in the lowe,
eide OF the abdomen, through which the intestine.
protruded; an awful and dangerous wound wa.
slso given in the neck, and SIS. hands and face
were considerably cut. He is now lying in very
ethical state. Much sympathy is expressed for
The parent, who is one Of the bcs, citizens
- ATTEND TO YOUR OWN BUsINEss-A man
who had become rich by has own exertions, was
asked by a friend the secret Of his success ~
hare accumulated, replied he, ssabout one hall
my property. BY attending strictly TO my own bu-
s,ness. and the other hillf by letting other pep
Pies alone