The Placer herald., 1858-01-09
An irreverent rascal publishes the folio

An irreverent rascal publishes the follow
inc atrocious conundrun:
What is the difference between a maiden
Of sixteen and maiden of sixty!
One is careless and haPpy, and the other
is hairless and cappy.
An anecdote is told of an English barber,
who observed to his customer, there was
'cholera in the hair" "Then | hope You
are somewhat particular about the brushes
YOU use" "Oh," said the barber, Il DO not
mean the air of the 'ead, but the hair of the
hatmosphere."
SHE FELT CuEAp.-In kanawha county,
Va, a young lady sued gentleman for dam
ages for breach of promise 1t WAS proved
i'll evidence, that the young lady was a tirt,
and the jury according y awarded her one
cent damage.
It is said that no fort ever suffered so
much from single battle, as has the piano
forte from the battle Of Prague.
''Peter, what are you doing to that boy?"
asked a schOolmaster "lle wanted to know.
If YOU take ten from seventeen, how many
will remain; so | took ten of his apples to
show him. and now he wants should give
'em back" ''Well, why don't YOU do it,"
"Cos, sir, he would forget Aoc many are lett"
They tell a story about tailor dunninc
man for the amount Of his bill. The man
SAID, 81 am sorry, very sorry, indeed, that
can't pay it," SWELL" said the tailor 81
took you for a man that would be sorry; but
If you are sorrier than am, I'll quit"
a tough un" is told by the Boston Tia-
0eler, about zone of our distinguished chem
lists" who was so absorbed in his expert
lnents that he did not observe that his own
nose was burning in the candle till a com
panion told him of it.
One of the newspapers inquiries with much
seeming innocence, if it is any harm for
young ladies to sit on the lap Of ages
Somebody answers that it probably depends
on the kind of ages-those from eighteen to
twenty-five being rather hazardous.
Chapter 80, verse /, of Ecclesiasticus lin
the Douay version) says that, "IIe that loveth
his son, frequently chastiseth him. that he
may rejoice in his latter end" We have
some recollection of sundry fraterna chas-
tisements, bnt rather fancy their effect upon
our latter end was not the occasion of re-
ioicing.
VERY OFFENSIVE OBsERvATIoN-TheM Ma
rysville L1qairer remembers the time when
calico WAS all the rage there; now silks and
velyets have driven the democratic apparel
into ohscurty. The paper adds spitefully, that
''the women wear the most ca dy clothing
10 hide their uolness, and to make thems ,lv, s
look finer than they really are
That was a good point made by member
OF the Minnesota legislature, when he grave
ly moved that half of the land in the Ter
ritory be reserved for agricultural purposes,
and that the area covered by the charters
Of new cities should not exceed over one
half Of the arabic land in Minnesota
A singular marriage lately took place
in Wilkes county, N. G. a man, named IIo-
loway, married his step-mother the second
wife, the widow Of his own father She had
six children, three Of them by his father, and
three by himself and having nine children of
his own, the couple set up house keeping
with fifteen children.
JUST FOUND IT TO BE so.-lhe Georgia
Legislature have pronounced lotteries "a
curse and a swindle," and are about to put
them down by stringent laws.
A true gentleman never resorts to false