The Nevada journal., 1857-02-06

Amid other instances he quoted one of the
Rutland punchbowls, which on the chris
seniug of the young marquis, was built so
Gie that a large boat was sent saTfing upon
it in which boy sat, who ladled out the
iiquor Il guess" said one of the COM
pany, "I've seen punch bowl that 'ud
beat that to immortal smash for at my
orother's christening, the bowl was so
deep that when we young 'uns said it
warnt sweet enough, father sent man
down in a diving bell to stir up the sug-
sr at the bottom!"
Fanny Jones says that when she was
IN love, she felt as if she was in tunnel,
with a train of cars coming both ways.
Jimicks says that when he was in love,
he felt as if he was being hung, and had
a cat iii his hat and a peek of humble
bees under his waistcoat Jimcks
knows the symptoms. Juliana says she
felt-oh, my-as if she were in bower
Of moonbeams sinking into bath of ef-
falgent honey beneath blaze of balmy
stars to the tones of slow music.
care you an Odd Fellow2" "No sir,
I've been married a week" 81 mean
do you belong to the order of Odd Eel
lows p s'No l belong to the order of
Married men," 'How dumb Are you
a Mason p "No! I'm carpenter by
trade !" "Worse and worse Are you
Son Of Temperance 2" "Confound you,
aot l am a son of Mr.. John Gosling"
The querist went his way with some
thing of flea in his ear.
WASHINGTON Almost
every negro that dies in the south at an
advanced age, now a days, is proclaim
ed by the paragraph makers to have
been household servant of Washing
ton, and most of them were "at his bed
side when he died" If all were pres
ent at his bedside that are claimed to
have been, it would have required for
y acre lot to have held them all
A HAPPY FIREsIDE.-Home is the
residence not merely of the body, but
of the heart; it is a place for the affec-
lions to unfold and develop themselves;
for children to love and learn, and play
in for husband and wife to toll smiling
iOSOiilCl; anu lHtthC lllc IL UlCSSllS.-
The object of all ambition should be to
be happy at home if we are not happy
there, we cannot be happy elsewhere.
Ii is the best proof of the virtues Of
family circle to see happy ireside.
Music not only improves mans
tastes, but his morals. 1t gives him
taste for home that amends his habits
wonderfully. The man who spends his
evenings with piano, is seldom seen
N dram shops, and never with night
brawlers. We believe in music, and
oandidly think that one flute will do as
much towards driving rowdyism out of
i neighborhood as four policemen and
bulldog.
II is curious fact that the Girard
College turned out, last year, more lads
TO follow the business of printing than
any other class. Nineteen pupils have
taken to the types, and twelve have be-
come farmers ten others chose to be
chemists, and the remainder were dis
trbuted-in mechanical avocations.
An exchange says, that restless and
crying infants may frequently relieved
and quieted by draught of cold water.
Who knows but this simple agent might
proftably supersede both spanking and
paregoric
Says a scientific writer ITO obtain
some idea of the immensitv of the Gre
ator's works, let us look through Lord
Ross telescope, and we discover star
IN The infinite depths of space whose
light is 100000 years in traversing to
our earth, moving at the velocity of
swelve millions of miles in a minute
and behold God was there.
The man who "shot at random did
not hit it - he has since lent his rifle TO
The youth who aimed at immortality.
A .'NoTIcE" FOR FASHIONABLE SHOP
fhRs--" Ladies not intending to pur-
chase anything, are requested not to
keep any one article longer than ten
minutes l''-Punch.
Remember that every person. how
ever low, has rights and feelinps Tn
all contentious let peace be rather your
object than triumph. Value triumph
only as the means OF peace.
1t rained so in Boston the other dav
that all the fishes in the harbor crowded
under the bridges to keep from getting
wet.
''Come here, sonny, and tell me what
the four seasons are 7"
Young Prodigy-"Pepper, mustard,
salt and vinegar; them's what nanny
always seasons with
He is the best accountant who can
cast up correctly the sum of his own err
rors.-Necins.
1t is not easy to straighten in the oak
the crook that grew in the sapling.
You will never have a friend if you
must have one without failing.
Better be the head of yeomanry than
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