The Nevada journal., 1853-06-17
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The daughter of Tagliona has mar
ried Russian Prince. She is beau-
tiful, only one year more than "sweet
sixteen" and possesses an immense
fortune.
The Lantern tells US of the sad case
of man who was shipwrecked, and
cast upon an uninhabited island, with
out shilling in his pocket.
Awkward--A gentleman lately boast
ing of the neatness and regularity of
his wife, said: eff I get up in the
night, pitch dark,I can find my clothes,
down to my very gloves, all in their
proper places. l was up this morn
ing before daylight" he continued,
putting his hand into his pocket for
his handkerchief, and here he pulled
out, not his handkerchief, but his
his wife's nightcap.
IF you doubt whether two skulls
are better than one, just undertake to
row againt the tide some day.
Madam said cross-tempered
physician to q patient, if women
were admitted to Paradise their ton
CUES would make it a purgatory.'-
And some physicians, if allowed to
practice there replied the lady, would
soon make it graveyard"
You look as if you were beside
YOURSELF as the wag said to Ounce,
who stood by donkey.
The man 'who dying left not line
which he would wish to BLOT it has
been ascertained, read and corrected
his own proof
How romantic young people are
when they court. Till girls get mar
ried, all they think necessary to hap
piness are light evenings, a few
hollyhocks, and cottage surrounded
by honeysuckles and grapevines.
The best safety valve to a boiler is
sober engineer. Congress may legis-
late till doomsday, but as long as the
officers carry too much steam, the
boats will follow their example.
At camp meeting in the West, q
preacher delivered himself Of the fol-
lowing:
81 would that the gospel were O
wedge, and / a BEETLE, I'd whack it in
to every sinners heart among you p
A LADY who her lover had sold.
Asked if reason could be told
Why wedding rings are made of Gold
ventured thus t. instruct her:
"Love, madam, and Lightning are the
same, [came,
On earth they glance, from Heaven they
Love is the souls electric flame,
And Gold its best conductor"
A colored man named ]. Williams,
committed suicide in the american
Valley on the 25th ult, by taking
opium.
a good wife is one who puts her
husband in bed at the side next to the
wall, and tucks him up 10 keep him
warm in the winter-splits the wood
makes the fires in the morning--washes
her husbands face and draws on her
husbands boots for him-never suffers
rent to remain in her husbands
small clothes-keeps her shoes up at
the heel--keeps her stockings darned;
never wonders what her husband sees
interesting in the young woman who
lives across the way; never slams the
door when her husband is speaking,
and always reproves the children when
they eat up their fathers supper.
If every man would see
To his own reformation,
How very easily
You might reform nation!
The Maltese have a proverb that
person who is never in love is sure to
be fat.
An incurable punster declares that
the new kind of paper made out Of
straw will doubtless lay the foundation
of a new Literature
1t was maxim of General jack
sons, "take time to deliberate but
when the time for action arrives, stop
| thinking"