Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1855-08-16
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"a a punishment for neglect of, duty.
It's my own nose, amt it : and its the
Fourth of July, too, and I'll pick thunder
out of it, il I've mind to" IS the in
slant reply of Young America.
80. One of our friends was being
shaved at Antwcry. The barber was a
female. What was his surprise, when he
saw the good lady spit into the box, and
besmear his face with the forming saliva !
An expressive grimace did not escape
that she barber.
My dear sir, sad she. ! don't treat you
as | do my othrrs customers, because |
perceive very well that You do not belong
to these parts.
BY Jupiter! Madam, what do you do in
their case
Why, sir. L spit Oh their check instead
of splitting into the soap-box.
80. .'sambo, I'sc got a connumbibus
to promulgate to YOU
''Propel darlSey."
swell. den, why am You like tree ?''
"Why am like a tree!'' ,.oe dat
up.
'''The reason why you am like tree is
because you am et green' Yah! yah
yah!
"Julius. l'se got connumbibus % pro-
pound to YOU
"Expatiate den, Sambo."
''Well. den, why is you like 4 tree 7"
81 gibes det up for sartin, darkey."
"Den darkey, can demonstrate de fact.
De reason You am like a tree is because
you am a low .cuss''
"Good bye, darkey, exchange no more
salutation wild you.'
COMMON BLUNDERs. .-Errors of the
tongue, oft repeated, become permanent
faults of language. May we call the at
tention of the reader to few blunders
every day made, both in speaking and
reading. ''If | am not mistaken" should
be, "If | mistake not,' and "You are
mistaken" should be, !" You mistake y
"A new pair of boots" means "A pair OF
new boots.'' "The then Mrs. B. -
should be, "The Mrs. B-;then living
"a couple of pounds" should be, 1.-Two
pounds" for a couple implies union.
''Direct to me,' should be, "Address to
me-" ''He lives at London should be "He
lives in London
TAKING a LANDLORD AT HIS Word
The landlord of hotel at Whitehall called
a boarder to him one day, and said
''Look o'here want you to pay your
board bill, and you must, Eve asked you
often enough; | tell you now, that you
don't leave my house till you pay it y
"Good,'' said lodger; ':just put that in
writing; make regular agreement of it;
III stay with you as long as live -
-. An old customer named Ami,
going home rather light, mistook the house
and finally began to doubt his own identity
and began soliloquzing thus: ''Am | Ami
or am not Ami ? if am not Ami, who
the duce am [ !'
A spindle shanked dandy, says Putnam,
is vagrant, inasmuch as she has no Wis.
iblc means of support
Might not publican who, having been
unfortune in business and re-opened his
house, be termed republican 4 81,
We must reconcile ourselves to ou,
enemies when we are dying, remarked an
old topper as he called for glass Of water
Whether Lucy Stone has professed alb.
clifton sentiments hitherto, or not, we are
pretty sure her last act has shown that she
loves Black well.
Jim Smicks puts everything to use His
wife has bald head, and he straps hi:
razor on it.
| Why is married man like a candle
Because he sometimes goes out at nig
when he ought'nt to.
s'Pete, are you into them sweetmeat.
again Z" ''No, marm, them sweetmeat.
are into me-" cf5s
o. During a violen, Thunderstorm
which lately burst over Paris,the elcctri,
fluid entered a room in which was seate,
man who had been long paralytic, de
priving him of the power of speech.
set lire to the bed curtains, and did olhe
damage in the rorm, but instead Of iniur
ing the infirnl man, it restored his speecl
and health.
1t is humorously said that there ough