The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-27
ODDS AND ENDS.

bWeetueart. "uOW on alTtIl, JOhetnaii. 40 you
arrive at that cOnclusiOn!' inquired the fair
one. "By simple addition" replied the ready
reckoner, .'for when have you hanging on my
arm, my sum of happiness is complete"
Tom said man to his friend the other
day, 81 think it highly dangerous to keep the
bills of small banks on hand nowadays. =
"Tim," said the other, Il find it more difficult
than dangerous
A musical composer on being asked if he had
done any thing lately replied that his last
work was composition with his creditors"
An advertisement in newspaper is like
circle in the water, continually spreading itself.
Throw in your crooks" and try it.
Wrongs may try good man, but cannot i'm
print upon him false stamp. a man in ear
nest finds means, or if he cannot find, creates
them.
If dirt be as injurious to health as some ply
sicians say, how comes it that all our rosy
checked children are found playing in the mud
cutters?
"The man who has no music in his SOUL was
last seen listening to a saw-filer while at work.
The man, to all appearance, seemed highly de-
lighted.
The man who harbors an evil thought it is
reported, has consented TO let out pier VI two
If good price is offered.
The tears of beauty are like light clouds float
ing over heaven of stars bedimming them for
a moment that they may shine with greater lus-
ire than before
Mrs. Darlington says the best ''anecdote" for
"pizen' is not to take 1.-The darned stuff
What is the difference between a schoolmas-
ter and an engine-driver! One trains the mind
and the other minds the train.
AwFuL-Our Dan'l says than the new mons
ter telescope recently constructed in England
will be just the cheese for the milky way.
Punch, speaking of the influence of good
dinners says there is no diplomatic dispute in
this world so large that lit cannot be covered
with table-cloth.'
Sam Slick says "if TELLER can't he let to
shake hands with a gal unless he has glove
on, why amt he made to cover his lips and kiss
through his kidskin too?,'
Bayard Taylor says the largest bustles he ev-
er saw, are worn by the ladies of Africa. He
also mentions, that in the warm months they
have habit of wearing nothing else.
Some people have queer way of expressing
themselves. We heard darkie say the other
day that the first time he waltzed with WALLER
gal, he felt as if somebody was pouring sugar
house mOlaSses down his back
An intelligent physician of our acquaintance
gives it as his deliberate opinion, that if the
ladies would reform their costume properly and
take proper exercise. they soon would need no
other supporters but good husbands.
pickpockct recently thrust his hand into
the pocket OF a country parson, and plfered
'therefrom memorandum book which contained
nothing but the skeleton of sermon upon the
text-'.Thou shalt not steal''
The Portland Transcript has an amusing cor
respondent who lately relieved himself of the
following play on words:
Il cannot bear to see bear
Bear down upon hare;
When bare of hair he strips the hare
For hare cry-Forbear!'
A married gentleman, in relating how he
trled the disposition of his wife before marriage
stated that he carelessy drove blind nag over
twenty feet embankment into muddy brook
and then helped to get the horse ont of the wa,
ter before he did his lady, The lady would
nave served him light if she had given him the
sack, and sued for damages.
o.. negro woman was relating her experience
70 gaping congregation of color and among
otner things, she said she had been in Heaven
One OF the ladies of color asked her, Sister
did you see any black folks in Heayene', 20
get out, spose go in de kitchen when l war
dar ~
You may CLEAN knowledge by reading, but
you must separate the chat from the wheat by
thinking.
The LATEST CAsE-When the Forest City
was mile from the Detroit dock last EVENING
man rushed to Capt. Pierce exclaimine, "Are
we on, Captain" "Yes" was the replvs ooh
christopher, Captain, left my wife standing on
tne wharf, and told her to wait for me. and Can
taln-i forgot her." Amidst shouts of laughter
tne boat was put about, and the deserted lady
taken on board, to the unbounded delight Of
this "case." "'Ne' ioi
my son, would you suppose the Lords
prayer could be engraved on a space no bigger
dime was as large in reality as it apnears in
your eyes, think there would be no Difficult.
ty in putting it on four times" go to bed
Said bed-bug to q musquito whom he
cnsnced to meet; "How is it you make out to
eN en-. SO much more of life's current than N.Y.
Mnen can bite as severely as you? How
Gan you explain it? 'For particulars, see
dignity. 'A' n'uSq"i'o WIN great
eougnt is great beautifer, and especial
OF al that has been touched by the finger Of
decay, from palace to-a woman ~ ta ses,a "
what is harsh, renders fairer what is fair and
dlsposes the mind to tender melancholy a in
harmony with all around. III
"Had you, sir" said Erskine to a dilatorv
tradesman, "been employed to build the ark. We
should not have had the food yet"
"Jerome, Jerome" screamed Mrs. Butter6eld
TO her biggest boy, "what are you throwin' to
those pigeons? "Gold beads, mother, and the
FOOLS are eatin' EN- spect they think that it's
4, The vulgar trace faults in others which thew
themselves possess, but have no idea of excel
fences to which they have no pretensions.