Daily American organ., 1856-02-19
Amusing Dneis.

work on Duel and Duellingn has recently
been published in Boston, which contains far NOR,
amusement than one would expect to fin in suc
a volume The case Of Majors Hillars and Fento
In Ireland, in which the iormer gentleman wa,
shot, is an Illustration. The Judge in summing VI
the evidence said to the Jury:
Gentlemen, IL ia my duty to lay down the Law
TO you, and will The law says the killing mar
In duel Is murder, therefore in the disc arge O
my duty tell you so; but | tell you at the sam,
time faer duel than this / never heard of in tn,
whoi' coorss Of my life ~ a
Two physicians, nv the name of Mead and Wood.
ward, fought in England, and the latter slipping
his opponent exclaimed, take your life" To
which the prostrate Galen replied, !" Anything bu
your phvsic" ~ II.
sold Put" one of the heroes of our Revolution.
was very odd, also. in the ideas of the code. I'll
agreed to meet British officer at a specified plac,
and hour, without seconds When the Briton re.
paired to the spot he was greeted BY shot from
Old Put" lying IN perda about thirty rods Of
While Put" was reloading, the officer approach
cd and asked, "What are you about to do Is thi
the cnnduct of an American officer and man Of
honor" What am about to dor' replied tn,
general. pretty question to put to man yor
intend TO murder! | am about to kill you, and
if you don't beat retreat in less time than it takes
old Heath tn hang Tory, you are gone dog"
The officer fed.
The old wolf hunter accepted another challenge
from British officer. At the appointed time and
spot the officer found him seated near barrel
apparently of Notwithstanding pipe He
asked the Englshman to sit on the other side OF
the barrel, and remarkng that |" there was an equal
chance for both I" set fire to the match. The Off
Ger retreated in hurry, when Old Put laughed al
bin, saying: " You are just as brave a man as
took you 10 be; this is nothing but a barrel OF
onions TO try you by; but you don't like the smell
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GooD NATURED LANDLORD. -" Old Dad" was
the familiar title by which was generally known tn,
eccentric landlord of the hotel in Lowville, New
York He was good, easy soul--honest and un-
suspicious -preferrng to be cheated once in a
while rather than be always looking out for rogues
Hence it was not very bard matter to impose on
him, and many were the bad bills with which he
was :" stuck" in the way OF trade by his travelling
customers. Indeed he would take almost any
thing that was offered him in the shape of bill,
saying that bad money was about as good as any.
as somehow it wouldn't stay in his pocket"
Once, however, be took V which stuck to him
like plaster. The more he tried to get rid of it,
the more he couldn't. He had paid il out several
times but 1t came back as often, returned as "bo-
gns Al length traveller, with whom he was &C
quainted, stopped for dinner, on his way to Utica
and it occurred TO Old Dad that his bill might
go down there, and, stepping into the dining
room with it. handed it to his guest asking him "a
put il off ION the first old fool he met" and he
would allow him one-half the amount. The guest
took II and promised to do as well with it as be
could and account for il on his return On his
way back from Utica he called, and Old Dad asked
him where he had paid out the bill, as he had got
itagain, Int could not for the life of him, tell
where it had come from.
Why" said the e lend "you told me to nut Il
of on the fret o'd fool saw, and so paid you for
nv dinner with H." 't
The old fellow acknowledged himself sold, and af
ter paying his guest the halfsccording to promise
and giving him his dinner besides, insisted that he
had five dollars worth of wisdom out of the ope.
ration. .
LAWYER POSED" William, look up and tel
US who made you. Do you know
William, who was considered fool, screwed hi,
face, aud looked thoughtful and somewhst bewl
dered, and slowly answered, Noes, 'spose."
That will do Now sa;d onnnsailnr n al.