The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-10-14

! school III tue N0rtn OF England, during q
lesson on the animal kingdom, the teach
er put the following question -" Can
any boy name to me an animal of the
order edantata--that is, front tooth
toothless animal" :" A boy (whose face
beamed with pleasure at the prospect Of
good mark) replied, Z. can p" Well,
what is the animal r. asked the teacher
my grandmother replied the boy.
with great glee.
Connubial Bliss,--I once met free
edd easy actor, who told me he had pass
no three festive days at the seat of the
Marquis and Marchioness Of, with
tut any Invitation; convinced (as proved
to be the case) that my lord and lady,
not being on speaking terms, each would
suppose the other had asked him,-Rey-
nolds' Life and Times.
The Latest Fashiox.--A Milwaukee
paper, to give some idea as to how the
croppy style Of cutting hair is spreading
among the ladies in the city, states that
one barber says he has cropped three
hundred and thirty five ladies within the
past three months. There seems to be .
perfect rage on the subjects with the
young ladies' of Milwaukee.
0J The Kansas question isn't settled
itself, though it has settled good many
Locofoco politicians.-Preatice 7.3
- Cowper says that~.the tear that
is wiped with address may be followed,
perhaps, with smile" Fits woman's
tear, the perhaps" is unnecessary. You
can always dry it with dress.
VA man in Charleston kissed wo-
man Of illfame against her own will, and
she punched out his eye with fork
He squeezed a leman and got punch.
Prentice.
On the Sd inst mob hung two men
on suspicion in Bad Ak county, Wiscon-
sin. The name of the county should be-
Bad Acts. 800 atx E 2EF
n A newspaper correspondent writes
that while travelling in the South. be at
tended negro meeting, when the sable
preacher offered an earnest prayer for
" de white element in our population"
- We understand that the superin-
tendent of the Mobile & Ohio Rail Road,
has stoppedrunning daily train from No
bile and runs tri-weekly instead. This
accounts for the failure to receive papers
daily from that city.
If your sister, while tenderly engaged
in tender conversation with her sweet
heart, asks you to bring glass Of water
from an adjoining room, you can start on
the errand, but you need not return
You will not be missed, that's certain
we've seen it tried. Don't forget this,
little boys.
THE pREsENT.-Enjoy the blessings
Of this day, if God sends them; and
the evils bear patiently and sweetly--
For this day only is ours; we are dead
to yesterday, and We are not born 10.
morrow.--Jevemy Taylor.
OF Why arc young lady's affections
always doubtfuls Because they are mis-
givings. ae M
or Why was Lavater likely to be q
good soldier2 Because he could write
about face
VIRTUE AND PEDIGRRR.--I am no
herald to inquire of mems pedigrees it
sufficeth me if know their yirtues.-Sir
PAilip Sidney.
OF That agreeable little fish, the sar-
line, is now MANUFACTURED in large guam
ties, in Scotland, of sparts and little
behring's What next
or A youth, with a turn for figures,
had FIVE eggs to boil, and being told to
give them three minutes to each, boiled
them q quarter of an hour altogether. Il
SUrTING THE ACTION TO THE WORD.
"A person bored by squirting man,
who persisted in questions about his bro
ken leg, replied, "Itis quite crooked
as you SEE" s'-'- -atl
tR Everything has its use. Where
L not for the flies, people in summer would
sleep two'hours longer thanSthey do, and
thus lose the best part Of the day--ths
portion devoted to sunrise and meadow
|arks. = 8 8 - = =
WhicA gcas dyu4ke-fhe roman or tie
clergyman was lately de-
pictins. before q deeply interested audi
eace, the alarming increase of intemper-
ance. when he sstonished-his hearers by
sxclaimings: "A Agyoung woman insmy
died very suddenly last
Sabbath, ,cAiie I ssss. .pseeskixg the Cos
pet inSa beasf'y state efinforieation =