Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-02-26


To feel that though this hollow fashion
He never can be nearer.
That instead of timidly drawing near,
And pouring into the thrilling ear,
The food of his sous devotion,
He must stand and below in thunder tones,
Across half an acre of skirts and bones,
KS if hailing shipon the ocean.
And ifby chance the maid Of his choice,
Shall family hear her lovers voice,
And smile her condescension-
Why he captures mass of hoops and rings,
Skeletons, bones, and other things,
Too horrible to mention.
Thuslove woman hoops to folly,
And drives poor man to melancholy,
By her great frigid zones;
Then let her hear warning voice,
Between her hoops and hopes make choice,
And give the dogs her bones
E Here is fifty year old jeu de esprit
that is quite Gas good as new" a rich
old gentleman of the name of Gould mar
ried a girl not yet out of her ''teens. y
After the wedding he wrote the following
coupled to inform friend of the happy
event.
"You see, nv dear Doctor,
Though eighty years cid,
A girl of nineteen
Falls in love with old Gould.'
To which the Doctor replied
ga girl of nineteen
Nav love Gould, il Is true,
But believe me, dear sir,
II is GOLD without SUR
The TaIisman of Temperance.
Iwish had a ring to wear,
Whose magic energy such
Nv finger that 'twould pinch, whene'er
My next drop would be one too much.
Then should hit the happy mean
Aimed at by every man of sense,
And evermore walk straight between
The states of Beer and Abstinence
E The Adrian Watchtower has been
favored with poetical eAusion from a
"favorite correspondent" who is styled
the gentle Lucy" On a previous occa-
sion she wrote some thrilling stanzas on
the occasion of voyage of her John
"'cross the sudgy sees" The burst OF
lyric JOY with which she describes the arri-
val of John, is very touching:
Deer John has GOMEZ. sound the drum
Aynt happe wumun.
Too mare NEE hees krost the see
o.. diddunt he act humun.
Her Joy here appears to take more qui-
ct turn, and she thus graphically describes
the wedding attire:
hadd on dress Nv muzzng WHIT
Oh trimd arovnd with yeller
An thee galz tina sed mi fails wuz redd,
A thinkin NV mi feller.
mi hare wuz ixt and phrizzlud upp,
With ribbunds redd ROXY
An ON thee top, Nv mi big bak kome
Was boka al Viktory. -
= An John hadd a pair of blue trcughsiz on,
An Shanghi kote so meet
An big busum pin stuk rite under lis chin
An pear Nv boots ON nys pheet
How touchingly she alludes to the min
ister's, "unhurnun" question. whethe, she
wished to be married or not. Hear her:
The minister hee looked rite at NEE
An SEE Evil be a married wommun''
Twill ser j, an begun tn XII,
Fur it scanned soc kinder minimum,
Tu ask NEE, whenhe nu soc vel
ide bin waytin so long, it wuz horryd.
Butt itz oil oyur now an ime happy vough
Tu thynke John an hazz gott married
r. A pedagogue provoked at the dull
ness of pupil, instead of eoaxing him
along, boxed his ears, and demanded OF
him how long a man could live without
brains The boy neekly replied; 81 don't
know; how long have you lived yourself,
SIR"
e vIc1oUs.-To persist in kissing pretty
black-eyed girl, when she resoilutely de-
clares she wishes you not TO- 1t looks
Just as though you wouldn't take her
word.
H A man came into a printing office
TO beg paper. Because" said he, 1--WE
like to read newspapers very much, but
our neiglnbors are all too stingy to take
one"
~ w An editor in Norwalk has lost a
faithful and notable horse; which the editor
says was reputed to "know more than hall
the people in Norwalk.'. A very intelli-
gent horse, or a very dumb population.
- E1 wake up and pay your lodgings, .
said the deacon, as he nudged sleepy
stranger with the contribution-box las
Sunday
@ II you want an easy conscience, yo,
must repent Of your sins, low your wife
If you have one, and--eake your count,
; paper. fn ~
Bear TH1s.=Mr- Baker showed us a,
egg yesterday which was seven inches i,
circumference Can anybody beat this
Syracuse Joevnol-T -
Certainly. break the egg into Devil an
beat it with = spson--Lyns Nssss.