The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-05-22
Scene in a Dentists Office.

A male representative from the Emerald Isle
enters, hat Il, hand, with
''Ihe top o the morning TO We, sir, an l got a
bad tooth, an the di,i bit o. comfort can get
short iv a bottle O. brandy; an I've got one o.
Father Maiihy's medals to kape me from all such
evil spirits sure. New, sir, whal'll you be oxin
10 pull me TOOTH siT.''
''tlaif a DOLLAR" says the doctor.
Well" says Pat, ''what'Ii We pGll two for:''
''Oh,' replis d the doctor, al won't charge
You anything for pulling The second one''
Fat seated himself, turned up his mug, and the
doctor took peep ut his grinders and with
little assistance from Pat, soon found which were
tho ones Pat wanted out.
'lhis Is the frs, one,' says Pat, "an' that is
the second one. Please pull the second one. ou,
first
Every weIl.'' replied the doctor, ''apy way to
get them out
And he pulled but before he had time TO fix
the instrument for the other tooth--the first one
Pat had got out of the chair, and was edsing
towards the door,
81 guess, doctor, won't have the first tooth
pulled tiil II aches, an ye told NE We would pull!
the second one for notb;ng.''
Pat miz.led and the doc;er pocketed the Joke
instead Of the fee.-l Yankee Blade.
PRoPHECY.-I1enry c. Wright, ,criting
for the Libera.0r, holds the following language,
right or wrong:
1.-THE future history Of thi. Republic has been
impressed on my mind with living and fearful pre-
cisicn. have lived amid scenes vet to he enac-
ted in this nation, and have experienced the deep
emotions which those destined TO feel who are
to be the actors in those scenes. have hardly
dared to give uiterance to the record of the future
touching this Republic, as it is inscribed on my
spiritual being, az everything, eycr-present
fact. have struggled TO throw off these dis
tressing forebodInss, but cannot. They have
entered INTO my soul, and become elements Of
constant thought and feeling. | am
now moved, INSPIRED to say, THIS UNION
SHALL BE DISSOLVED -
Everybody, every sold inhabiiant,' will re-
member the man who rushed on horseback into
the town Of Hartford, Conn.,, when the "Oliver
Ellsworth steamer burst her boiler, excaiming
at the top of his voice, "JHe Eiirer OisrorM
has b'iled her 5u's:er! the Elirer Olsworth has
b'iied her buster" Something not unlike this
was buried inquiry we once heard made in
this city for the office of Dr. Occular the Wheel
ist."-l knickerbncker.
A similar occurrence to the above took place
at one Of the New York theatres when that great
rragedian, Booth, was play wing X ichard H. When
the intelligence Of Buckingham's capture was
communicated 20 HIM, it was announced by one
Of the snpes, who had never before been on the
stage, and was terrified al The sight Of the audi
eace, as follows: ''My Lord, the Buck of Duhng-
ham is tuken.''
A land Of liberty is land Of newspapers. 81
had rather have newspapers without Govern
anent,' said Jefferson. ''ihan Government with.
out newspapers.
Dean Swift says, "no risf man ever married
but for fool think il is the most ambrosial o.
all enjoymcn,s.'
All censure of mans life is oblique praise
II Is done IN order 10 show how i1uch one car
spare. II has all the invijiousness Of self-prase
and all the reproach of falsehood.
The very name Of Pe!and is now extineuishet
from official language in Russia. The counr,
10 now known TO that language solely as the Gov.
eminent Of New Russia, and il is as perfectly
incorporated into Inc Empire as any othcl Prov.
ince.
The man that first Introduced tanning mil
into Scotland was denounced as an atheist. II
the opinion OF The sid fogies Of that generations i
was ssfying into the face Of the Laird are
getting up gales Of wind when Providence wlllet
calm.
Elder Brigham Young pledges his honor Ina
he has only t~enty-six wives! He is the sain
upon whom fell the mantle of Joe Smih.
The Great Koh-i-noor Diamond is to be OK
hited in the glass palace, great precautions bein.
taken for its safety. II ought to be placed where
all the starving people Of the manufacturing dis
uicts could see, if not enjoy, the wealth i, con-
tains.
The Emperor Of Russia, we learn. bsvin,
nearly completed the railroad from ST Peters,
bug to Moscow, li20 miies,) is now about I,
begm railroad from ST. Petersburg to Wursaw
between and 900 miles.
Let young men remember, there is nothing de.
Togatosy in any employment which ministers /,
ahe well being Of the race. II ia the suirif Ia.
is carried into an employment that eleya,es O
deerades it.
The London Examiner states that il has re,.,r,
for believing that the Bishop of London has som,
years received not less than SO, 600 s4O0. 600
Tho English should adopt jacsass Tor their ma.
tionai arms, seeing how they let hypocrites swn
de them, all because they ure loyal. The lion j.
cygtsiny mal-arsoPos