Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-02-06
Humorous.


The early marriages Of our abbreviating
country seem to have ono moral effect--they
remind us of the alarming fight of timel--
An American hard thus describes the inHu-
cnce Of it,
Another called our baby ,Ioe>c
And she our net and piilc;
No one Thought " scolding Josey,
Whom she pouted frowned, or cried.
"oniy think, how years crowd round us,
Bringing trouble, bringing change
Now THAT hahy's rot baby
Bless mol ain't very stranger
Pending famous watcr suit somewhere
in Vermont, Sax the poet, amused the
Court with the following impromptu:
''Nv wonder is really bouudles.
That among the queer we try.
Gland case" should often be groHHdiess,
Aud "water case always be drg1"
Here is specimen Of Revolutionary verse
relating to the battle of Saratoga, published
in the newspapers of that era:
"Here followeth the dircfui fate
or Burgoyne and his army great,
Who proudly did display
The terror Of despotic sway,
Ills power and pride and many threats,
Have been broug ghtlow by fortunate Gates
To bend to the United States"
That Buffalo, down at the other end of
the Lake, is a right smart village. Among
other things, literature is decidedly advanc-
ing, and that with rapid strides as the fol-
lowing contribution to the Republic, shows /:
"esst hambursh dcsonbsr 90 1858 inistur eddytur 2
yeres cent Peace NJ potrv which WI thought
oooddee and printed II hav not rote much that
Time when that producshun was prodused xeept what
pome fur new ycre aires. yours Til deth, CENSOR.
alas old time has kut the thred
on which ayere susspcndid
G muth 20 II was haf ded
but Now its life IL endid
anuther dot Of Natures pade
hv vealding up its hreth
With herred ycrcs the old yere's iads
for the old yere froze to deth
but o We must not cast an
on what we've dun In DAYS gon blgh
nor closely staau our faults
for lots Wife once reviewed her Track
ia the act ofloolin Back
Was quickly turned to saultslllll"
The following is true copy of bill rem
dercd TO gentleman in Boston. We should
call it new style of double entry:
! Mr. Patrieh Dealy worked for Mr. SNYDER
| Bydc four Days setting trees two Days set
ting trees two Days turning manure three
Days worked at Apples And four days
worked about the garden And Mr. bide 5
Dollars worth of hay & 2 Dollars in boston
one Brl of Apples taken and my Cow was
in your pastor to two month, And sawed
1-2 cords of Wood S6S7 cent.
"I have recently given up all idea of wo-
men folks and came back to parlitikel life.
| am more at home in this line than in
huntn' the fair sects. Aingils in pettikotes
an kis me qucks' is purity to look at, but
darn 'em, they are as slippery as cells and
when you fish for 'em and get bite you
somehow or other find yourself at the wrong
end Of the line; they've cotched you! An
when you've stuffed them with peanuts, can
dy and doggortypcs. they'll throw you away
as they would cold 'tato. Loastwisc, that's
been my experience. But I've done with
'cm now. The Queen of Sheber, the Sleep
in Beauty, Kleo-patry's Needle, Pompey's
Pillar an Lots wife, with steam engine to
help 'em, couldn't tempt me. The very site
Of bonnet riles me all over Portland
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