The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-10-30
Odds and Ends.

Odds and Ends.
It's bad policy for people to sell poor articles.
You may make few cents by it at first, bu, at
last, you will lind your customers dropping Oft,
and yourselves falling swiftly to The eeward in
business.
Why was John the Ba p,ist ike small coin -
lie was one sent.
Be-ware--thats what the potter said TO lump
Of clay.
''Since Time" said Goethe, SIS not person
we can overtake when he past, let honor
him with mirth and cheertu!uess Of heart while
he is passing
Did you ever know chap scury looking
that politician wouid no, snake hands with him
just before eeciiOn'
Mrs. Boggs says that she observes the people
in the Legislature have put her poor neishbor,
MIR. Brown. on "A standing committee, which will
be dreadful trial to him. as he was always very
weak in the legs, and never could keep his feet
long at time.
People who don't believe in pursa,ory, may
70 farther and fare worse
An editor in the western part Of Michigan is in
q tx. lie dunned subscriber for his subscrip-
,ion. which he refused to pay, and threatened TO
ticg the editor it he stopped the paper.
1t requires more courage to think differently
from the multitude, than II does to FIGHT them.
The first hero, therefore, not he who made
the first conquest, bat he who uttered The FIRST
doubt.
A butchers boy, carrying 4 tray On hi. shout
der. accidentally struck IT against lady's head
aud discoDposed her hair The deuce take the
tray" said the lady ''aiadam," said the lad,
gravsly, "ths deuce cannot take tie tray.''
A person who had some small sma.terius Of
geological lore, said one day to novice, that
0diies were Oflen in tears. 'Oh, that's
nc.hing," said The other, ''I've often myself
seen whales tlubber'
Pnnch says, an astronomer being asked, what
the use Of an eclipse was, repAed-''Oh, DOM
know; it gives the sun time for re6ection:''
Al recent meeting Of Il parish, n solemn,
straight bodied and most exemplary deacon sub
u,iited report, in writing Of the destitute and
Others standing need Of assistance in the parish
care you sure, deacon" asked another solemn
brother, s'fhat you have embraced all the wild
ovvs," He said he believed he had done so, but
IL any had been omitted the omission could be
easily corrected.
A certain entcrprising capitals, bought the
''Vestiges Of Creation because be had heard it
contained some deep specu,ations.
There was some in the remark Of
1cotchman, who, in reading the saying of Solo
mon, s'Snc.y is beautiful IN its season. ex-
claimed, "Ay, doubt il was beautiful TO you,
sitting with the vines and lasses O. Jerusalem
aside you; but had YOU been poor stone mason,
ye would have said nae such thing
Love is 4 sweet cotiagon which attacks peo-
PIE with severity between eighteen and twenty
two. ITS premonI,ory symptoms are signs ruffle
shirts, riuglets, bears grease and whisters. 1t
feeds moonlight and llues and o1ks with I,or-
rOr on "biIed pork" or baked beans.
A wicked old soldier in the revolutionary war
exclaimed, occaSion, when u bombshe
from the enemy aIichted within the American
lines-"Ses here, He'll has laid an egg!''
Among the curiostcs exhibition at the Troy
Museum, Is q half bushe of potatoes, all of them
cross-eyed.
A soldier sentry duty at an cncampmcnt,
stabbed dog with his bay onet, Who was set on
him by boys. The owner came up and
wns much vexed TO see MS Cur lifeless ''Why
couldn't you have struck him with the butt Of
your gun - said he. $50 Should replied The
sentry, 'if the dog had at me tail foremost -
A student Of medicine out in Michigan, having
ccurted girl year, aud got the nitten, has
sssued around and saed her filher for s.ihe visits
he paid her.
A soldier, many years ago. was sentenced 10
have MS ears cut oil. After undergoing the bru-
tal ordeal. he was escorted out OF The courtyard
to the rogue's march lie then tuned, aud in
mock dignity, lhus addressed the musicians ::
"Gentlemen--ihank You, but have no further
seed Of your services, for | have no ear for rnu-
SIC
John Fish adyertses in the Manchester Mirror
shat he cannot live with his wife, as she keeps
him continually in hot wafer, and acts ike the
devil John is excusabIe-no Fish can live in
hrt waller
A man the other day swallowed halra dozen
glasses, and IN less than ten minutes after he be-
came tum6ler.
A good newspaper and slean shirt are two
shiass seeded by every man in the community,
sesssbody says.
A paper says 'there is no face to behold 80
lsveiy the face Of one that loves u.s. Yba,
depends upcs whether or pot it happens 10 br
washing day.
Coon CUssENcY.-Wben a man kisses his
own wife, il is '.iawful TENDER
When does person look like a cannon-b ll5
When he looks round.