The weekly Placer herald., 1854-07-29

A young lass who went to a camp
meeting came back full of the revival
which they had, did nothing the following
week or more but sing "Shout! Shout! |!
we're gaining groundr' She had the
.....e so pat, that all she had was contn-
uaton of that song, and not unfrequently
the rhyme was too long for the tune. Old
Jowler slipped in and took bone off the
table, and lust as he was making for the
door, she sung out
elf you don't 90 out I'll knock you down,
Halle, halleluJar,
You nasty. stinkin, flop card hound,
o. glory, hallelujar?'
BEING PARrICULAR.-An amusing incl
dent took place yesterday at the st.
Charles Hotel, where Mr.. Fillmore is
stopping. A waiter came to the office
with large bundle of clothes from the
laundry marked ESP. Fillmore" and asked
the clerk what room he should take them
to. The clerk read the name and scratch
ed his head, trying to think if any such
person was stopping in the house: "P.
Fillmore, P. Fillmore. Who the duce is
P. Filmore?'' The waiter replied, 81
know the name is right, for asked par
ticuIar what the gentleman's first name
was, and they told me President, and
wrote it right down P. Fillmore" There
was some laughing in those parts about
that time.
'sSay Oliver, can you tell what Is the
best thing to hold two pieces OF rope to-
gether?"
81 guess knot"
Why is the interior of a roasted duck
like nonsense? Because its all stuff.
Why is rheumatism like glutton!
Because it attacks the joints.
SIGH Coop 'UN.-The Lowell Mass.
Advertiser out Billy Blacks Billy Black
herein.
WHAT'S the difference between an at
tempted homicide and Cincinnati hog
butchery? "Don't gasp"
One is an assault with intent to kill, and
the other is to kill with intent to salt!
CHANGE OF HABIT.-A gentleman re-
Gently from Africa, while at one of the
civilized colonies on the coast, met a
Young colored woman he had known IN
Old Virginia, who had obtained her free
dom for good conduct, and had emigrated
to Liberia.
"Where are you travelling to Mary?"
said the gentleman.
81 am going down to the village on the
sea-shore. Pm tired of seeing niger.
want to see some white folks"
"But are you doing well here?"
"Oh, very WELL I have four slaves,
who make palm-leaf hats"
"Slaves, Mary? You, emancipated to
have slaves in your own land"
ooh, yes," said she, with great sim
plicty, "must do as they do in Old Vr-
ginia."
SOLVING THE QUEsTIoN.-There is a
great deal of latent intelligence in the
world, which only needs little awaken
ing to be brought out. Witness the fol-
lowing colloquy:
"Annette, my dear, what country is op-
posite to us on the globe?"
"Don't know, sir?"
"Well now," continued the perplexed
teacher, 'sif were to bore a hole through
the earth, and you were to go in at this
end, where would you come out?"
'sOut of the hole, sr!" replied the pupil,
with an air of triumph at having sovIed
the great question,
A Coop DEFINITIoN.-Ata a social party
one evening the question was put, "What
is religion?" "Religion," replied one of
the party, "religon is an insurance against
fire in the next world, for which honesty
is the best policy.
Why did Marcus Curtius leap in the
gulf of Rome? Because he thought it
was good opening for young man.
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