Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-21
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There is shop kept by an old maid in New
York in the windows nf which appear the words No red
| sonable offer refused -
| Caesar Augustus. why your legs like an
organ grinder" "Don't know, Mr. Sugaroaf-why am
dey?" Cos dey carries monkey all around de Streets
"My son, step over the way and see hoao old
hrs Broea s The boy did the erraud and on his return
reported that Mrs Brown didn't know Aosc Old she WASH
The young lady who was carried away by the
force Of remark, came in last night on " train of
We do not belong to our patrons,
Our paper is wholly our own;
Whoever may like it may take it,
Who d'nt-just let it alone.
"Old age is coming upon me rapidly" as the
boy said when he stealing apples old mans
orchard and saw the owner coming that direction with
cowhide in his hand
The Taunton Mass BARRIERS, ''hopng that
the public will believe tn they have families to support
and souls well anybody else have raised their
prices and agreed close their shops the Sabbath
In ancient DAYS the celebrated precept was
Know myself" times has been suppianted
by the more fashionable maxim, Know Thy neigbor, and
everything about him"
Bus-to kiss. Re-bus-to kiss again. Blum
der-us-two girls kissing each other. Onni bust kiss
all the girls in the Bus-ter-a general ksser. E
pta'T-bus unann-a thousand kisses in
gentleman meeting one of his friends who
was insovent, expressed fr his embarrass
msnt, You are msaien my dear SIR said The other
law
Jane to her spouse could not bestow
One tear of sorrow when he died;
His life had made many flow,
That all the brny fount was dried.
If you feel as if you didn't know where to 90
and what to do nder chaotic and indeffne get married
For bringing down fixed fact, and making him eel
somehow or 'ther matrimony i, sure thing.
rowdy, intending to be very witty, thus
accosted lady in the Madam, you Inform
where can see the eephant9 ''No, but if had look
nr-plaSa Won n
Thomas, of what fruit is cider made o.
Don't know, sir. ''Why what stupid boy! What did
you ge: when yon robbed farmer Jon SIS ohard" 81 got
da nd good lickiu' sir"
Miss Susan, has you eat ali de peaches
sent you9' No, Mr. Cuffee' says Miss Susan, who is
supposed he invalid, 81 only half bushel but the
seeds scratched my throat so couldn't finish them.'
Breathes there man with soul so dead, who
himself hath said, i'll the chaste MINERVA take,
both for my and neghbors' sake? If such there be,
let him repent, and have the per and if he'd
pass happy winter Of he'll pay the printer.
A few mornings since we were relating to our
family the fart of friend having found upon his doorstep
fine tie male infant whom he had adopted when Of
the olive branches remarked: " Pa, dear that will be
his stepson, won't it?' We thought would decidedly.
DO you not find my eyes expressive of my
eengs? said sentimental lover to the lady he desired to
p ase so yes presume o. said the lady, they make
me think o a Goldfish dying with the tooth ache' The
sentimenalst vanosed
A man says, the first thing that turned his
attention to matrimony the neat and sklfu manner in
which pretty girl handed broom He may the time
when the which the broom handled wifi
afford him so much satisfaction.
A party of belated gentlemen. about a certain
hour began to think of home and their wives diseasire
and urged departure. "Never mind" said one of the
guests, fifteen minutes will make difference; my
wi is as mad as she can be, now"
NAPoLEoN.-
One Napoleon sad Europe wants, As'
To right mans injuries and Gods affronts,
To play the chess-men in approa hing wars,
And throttle temporiziug kings and schening Cars.
NAUTY-cAL.-If you see squall arising in
the latitude of your wife, what should be pursued
avoid its consequences? Double her cape wi your
and let your lips drop anchor the cruising ground
of s,naeks.a
A gentleman with glass eye was about to
exercise the right of suffrage, when he accosed by
political opponent with, Mister, what doing
here? You can't vote you're not natural-eyesa." Exit
joker with kick la hinderend.'
Aunt inquired medical prodigy of fifteen,
fresh from lecture surgery wha do you think the
most difficult operation in SURGERY? Don't know, Charley
what is ?" TAX ng the jaw of u !" said the
young hopeful. Exit aunty with a flea in her ear
BLACK EYES
Teresa's eyes so brilliant are and black,
That your fail you at he first attack.
Black should they be-" suffering victim spoke
If but in mourning for the hearts they broke"
Among the admirable axioms of Sir Thomas
Overbury there which places the knights opinions
of family honor in conspicuous point of view He Us
that the who has not anything to boast of but his Illus
trious ancestors Ike oat1the OILY good belonging to
him is under ground.
A Young blood in Suckerdom wishing to act
chance the fair what he thought of r,
doned his best looks and addressed her in this wise Miss
can have the exquisite pleasure of rolling the wheel Of
conversation around the asleree of your understanding
few minutes tn EVENING" TIE lady tainted.
In Benton's Thirty Years View is an anec-
dote of Lafayette that approaching the hartor of New
York he made the unsophisticated inquiry whether his
servant would be able to find hack at the pier to
pageant which anxiously awaited his Harding
1t is common to speak Of those whom hirt
has lifted as her victims This grave Her real
victim is the VIII she accepts This reminds ofia
smile we a somewhere "A coquette is rose from whom
every lover pucks eathe thorn remains for her future
husband"
"You are from the country-are you not ?"
said know nothing clerk in certain bookstore to plain
dressed individual who had given him trouble YES"
well, here essay the ring of calves" That
said the Gust he slowly turned to leave the storc
you had better present to your mother
When we see a neat, pretty girl, with free
but innocent air with cheeks which hardly help
kiss ng; and with pair of heavenly blue res, which
rerose perfect serenity beneath their silk asies
always wish that she was near mudpudie. and that
had to lift her
An old bachelor geologist was boasting that
every rock fainter to him the alphabet LADY,
VIII was presect declared she Of which
he wiroHy ignorant. 4" You don't say-iust name it,
madam cried Coebs quite possessed ut rock the
cradle sir" replied the lady. CGlebs vanished. He did.
A lady acquaintance says the frss time she
kissed by "feer," she felt like big tub Of
swimming in honey, cologne, nutmeg, AMI blackberries
She also felt omethng running through her
feet of diamonds escorted by several little cupis in
cfarots drawn by ANGELS shaded by honey-suckles, the
whole spread with ted rainbow. Wat power there
be in a full breasted kiss
The lady who did not think it respectable to
bring up her children work has heard from her three
One Of them driver the canal another had
been tatsa up vasra1t ard the third had gone to
Baton Roge the business Of shoemakng under
the auspices Of Keeper. It's hard thing to quarrel with
the great law of nature.
g My love-" said Boyle to his wife, swhy is
a Laplander Ike umbrella maker? Dye give it up?
Cause he derives his port from the reindeer" Try
another said chief he threw himself the sofa
Saturday night g" why is your tired husband like an
bre az? Because he protects from the elements
love- mot bit o. it darling, but because he is used u.
A correspondent of the New Orleans Crescent
asks question which comes home to the bHzsnn of every
one who loves sassingcrs" Here it is Mr. EHgtr:
That what witch you weather srichnihe *ot the
poeece gives dogs wont pizen the heunan bens after
sassngers has been de Please put in the paper how
is fur if frde strichnine is pzen, agn sassngers
Yours n plzened. An ALLEY Boy"
'.What is slew bread, Aunt.' asked Ike, who
reading the Bible consecuveiy and tearing out the
leaves as be along oloese the place "Why,
Isaac" said Mrs PartDgon "shoe br al Is that which
Poop by making Of shoes. There is plenty Of in
Lynn"