The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-08-20

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house aud thegrave individual returned his
pencil amidst cloud OF dust;--
HIhey seized the Soldier In Broadway,
t)eeember was the month)
He saw his pistols thrown away,
And also was his gun tn
hown uway.n-DAy BOOK.
llr. Byoi0Rl says Jones, meeting his friend
one day.
'Weil, what is itY'
Il wish to obtain few dollars
'Certainlyi Of course; how much do you
wantp
why. b., replied Jones, certain Of
doing Blown ont Of an x, Il should like saw
ten dollars, until Tomorrow.
sls that all you wantP said Brown.
why, yes, It viii do
Say twenty that's an easy amount, not
easily forgotten. You see l never remember
Very wen, then; let me have twenty
lertalniy; just call on me soon after the
next rain, aud maybe you won't get it,
jones cast an indignant look at Brown, an
eyaporuted int twmkling.
sHop many seasons are there, WiIliam?n
sir---tho oyster season, and the apple
sass season"
rcharles, how many seasons do you say
there are2"
| f'Three, sir--the marble season, the bathing
season, and the kite season.
Some, George, can you tell me how many
seasons there are2''
GeOrge-"T "There's the spring season, that 8
one; there's the summer season, that S two;
there the autumn season, that three; there S
the winter season, that's four; aud there are
ThOmpson's Seasons--but reckon | don t
know how many Of 'em are in itlS'
4 yoRAg convert got up in church, and was
making his confession somewhat after this
sort-'I have been very wicked, indeed
have: | have cheated many persons, very
many--but will restore four fold;" when he
was interrupted by an old lady thus: "Well,
should think before you confess much, you
better marry Nancy Stebbins, as you agreed
to-"
II nan moved to New Hamshire and remain
cd three weeks, during which time it rained
hard every day. On the morning of the twenty
first day he met a ,neighbor,, who remarked
thatthe skies looked as though "a storm was
going to set in, whereupon the discouraged
emigrant packed up and floated to his old
home.
Dropned bat not LOSt.-An Englishman
travelling in Kilkenny came to ford and hired
boat to take him across. The water being
more agitated than agreeable to him, he asked
the boatmen if any person was ever lost in the
passage. "Neyer," replied the boatman, my
brother was drowned here last week, but we
found him again the next day.
Aboy in Ohio last week licked, in eighteen
minutes, two deputy sheriffs, four constables,
and a hogshead of mOllasses. Next week. he
has set-to with thrashing machine. We
shall await the result with some anxiety, as
the fellow said when a three-story house was
falling on him.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a
drunken lOafer out of doors, after the landlord
has made him spend his last cent for liquor.
Com5atioeaeSS-Squaring off to pump
handle.
IdeaIity - Combing the beams to
catch Eiries
C0idr-Rubbing ones checks with an icicle
to make them blush.
FigaTe-Throwing ones self into snow
bank, to see the impression made.
Il man need not grow old unless he chooses.
Keep the heart moistened with the waters of
cheerfalnGss, and you will feel full of clover
and elasticity at 60 as you did at l6. Wrin-
kles come not SO frequently from months and
years, as from avarice and discomfort.
F70rsace and LeUm.-The Democrats of the
First District in Philadelphia have indicated
preference for the Hon. Thos b. Florence,
the present member of Congress from that
district; and the Natives have given maio-
rity Of wards for Hon. Lewis G. Levin.
Il sensible Driter says, that to occupy one's
mind with a matter that stands out in open
antagonism to common sense and all the prin-
ciples that guide us in the affairs of life, is to
trifle with the faculties which the Creator has
given to us for wiser and better purpose.
Then have musketoes in California with such
suckers that they look at distance like young
elephants. To guard against their attacks peo-
pie have to wear copper bOttOmed trowers and
sheet -ironed under-clothes.
The inventor of the knock -kneed syrup has
lust patented a wash for sore eyed potatoes -
He obtained the receipt from H. G. Prentice,
the gentleman who raised a sorrel colt from a
horse chestnut.
Prairte du Chiea is assuming new life under
the conviction that it will be the termination
of the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad.-
Speculation in lots, which was very active in
36, is again renewed.
In a list of premiums awarded at country
fair, a reporter gave under the head Of "Sheep-
| Best fine -wooled buck, John Buck" and un-
der the head Of Domestic Articles-Best bed
comforter, Miss Harriet Sheldon"
Il SRbstitate.-At parish examination
clergyman asks charity boy ii he ever had
been babtised. "No, sir, i" is the reply, mot
as know of; but We been s0armated''
POetry.--A wishey- -washy kind of food
| that young people live On while troubled with
a palpitation of the heart. Mixed with moon
! light, it is very apt to make young ladies feel
as thesgh they would like to lean against a
white vest.
| Nothing was so much dreaded in our school
| boy days as to be punished by sitting between
two girls. Ali the force Of education. In af-
ter years we learn to submit to such things
without shedding tear.
Fo0li8h.-Young men who think that drink
ing gin, and wearing their collars turned
down, Will enable them "to hate their fellow
creatures" as Byron did.
Francis /. having asked CASTELAR,, Bishop Of
Orleans, whether he was Of noble extraction.
'Sir," replied he, ''Noah had three sons in the
ark; cannot say from which Of them l de-
scended,"
Lynchiaq. .-On Saturday week five negroes
who confessed to having murdered Mr.. Jas
Houston, in Mcintosh county, Ca, were tried
by meeting Of citizens, found guilty, and i'm.
mediately hung.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel says that the ven.
erabe old Block House, the last relic of For
Wayne, at that place, is being pulled down
The timbeFs are perfectly sound, and nigh
have stood for another generation.
/ 1T the late commencement at Yale College
Gov. Seward was appointed orator for the mex
wear; but in consequence of the disapprobatioI
Of southern gentlemen, the appointment wa