The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-02-14


Extract from poem received from a
young lady OF boarding school in an-
swer to tho present Of baked Shang-
hal:
On Shanghai feathers m,y yon rest,
On Shanghai-hen's eggs tread;
May Shanghais rouse you from your dreams
And hover DER your head
Nice old Shanghai,
Long-legs'd Shanghai,
Real kind old Shanghai-hens.
And il you're ever left alone.
By your companion true,
May |, or some one handsomer,
Cook Shanghai-hcns for you,
Well fed Shangbais,
Great fat Shanghai,
Real Sbanghai-hens for you.
The man who was "picturc Of de.
spair" has been set in "serious frame
Of mind" and hung-in the back par
lor.
The young woman who " tainted
away" has boon told by hor family,
that it would be moro delicate to faint
athome.
Some fear that the German soldiers
about to be added to the forces of the
allies will not stand fire. One thing is
ccrtain-they will all have been accus.
toned to stand smoke
Two Irishmcn we're in prison, one
for stealing a COW, ana the other for
stealing a watch. Nike" said the
COW stcaler, one day,'what o'clock is it,
"Faix, Pat, haven't my watch handy,
but / think it is about milking time"
At the printers festival in Lowell,
the following definitions were given:
True Progress-Subscriptio ns in
adyance.
Old Fogyisln-Owing a printers
bill.
All virtues are in agreement, all
vices at variance.
There is no restraining mons tong>
RES, or pens, when charged with a lit
tie vanity.
"Well. Mr.. Nathan, you have made
ont pretty round bill against me"
said Mr.. D. " Yes. and l have come
for the purpose ofgetting it squared"
One of the Texas papers remarks
that, " at the recent sitting Of the court
at San Antonio, thirteen gentlemen
we're assigned places in the pcniten-
tiary."
SHERIDAN AND HIS son Toni
Sheridan had great distaste for any
thing like metaphysical discussions,
whereas Tom had taken liking fol
them. Tom one day tried to discuss
with his father the doctrine of ncces-
city.
!" Pray, my good father" said he
did you ever do anything in state
of perfect INSTRUMENTATION motive
mean, of some kind or other p
Sheridan, who saw what was coming
and by nc means rclishing such subjects
even from Tom, or any one else, said
"Yes, certainly ~
"Indeed ?"
"Ycs, indeed ~
"What, total indifIercncc-to;al, en-
tire, thorough indifference"
" Yes. total, entire, thorough indiff
erence.
MY dear father. tell me what it i
that you can do with-mind-total
entire, thorough Indifference ?"
"Why, listen to you Tom," sait
Sheridan.
This rebuff, as Tom related, 50 dis
concerted him, that he had never for
gotten it, nor had no ever agai'
troubled his father with any of hi
metaphysics.
Suspicion is the mark of a meal
spirit and base soul.
Opinions grounded upon prcjudic
are always maintained with the great
est violence.
A mother>in>law' sermon seldom
takes we'll with an audience of daugh
ters.in.law.
God is better lodged in the hear
than in great edifces.
Emulation looks out for merits, tht
she may exalt herself by a victory
envy spies out blemishes, that she ma
lower another by defeat.
An imaginative Irishman gave ut
terance to this lamentation 81 return
cd to the halls Of my fathers by nigh
and | found them in ruins / erie
aloud, MY fathers, where are they
and echo res oonde1, is it you, Pa
rick McGlarthry ? " o.
Paddy McShans was annoyed e.
csedingly by strange dog. On
cold winter night, the wind cutti
like knife, after the dog had bee
turned out of doors no less than thr,
times, Pat was awakened by the moi
of rather an expensive fracture Of Il
glass. The dog was in the house
gain. Paddy waited upon him OIL
and both we're absent some fifteen mi
ntes, so that his old woman, becolnil
alarmed at such prolonged absene
rose and went to the window.
What are yees doin out the
Padia. sessila p said she.
There was such ehatteriug Of tee
that the answer for sometime W