Smyrna times., 1858-03-25
HUMOROUS.

0F The bar and the pulpit have furnished
no small amount of admirable material for the
Drawer, but tie medical gentlemen are very
pairing OF their flvors. Probably the doctors
'arrly see anything TO laugh at Then lei US
have the her side of the picture. The serious
Is the better part Of man. Laughter is but the
tiower OF life; to be seriously cheerful and
cherriuly serious is the true way To 1--we.
No" and The n one Of rhe doctOrh con.ts with
a humorous rtnlnIsceIce Of hls profession, or a
sketch OF something that has just happened,
aud which he must tell or burst. Listen
'One Of my patients is a genuine Ly. ochon.
drIac. One Ui h,e la llucIna lubs las Lrcn that
Bonapatrp Is seeking hun 10 take his lite, and
that detachment Of the Guard is around his
house, ready 10 pitch into bIH, IT be sIIrs out
The other day he seLl tor NE in great haste
! was suon IN his cha mber, and found hIm rl,h.
ing in great agony. He had been eating
hearty dinner, and an attack of dy yspepsIa vas
on hlm of the worst kind.
We'll, what's the matter now, nv dear sirr
| said has BOu0parIe been here =
No oh no, GuctGr! thousand times worse
I've swallowed tho Twelve Arottlesr
lis II possible -" repiird. That Is dreadful,
to be sure, Lut not so bad as 1t Bohapsrje aud
MS men had gone Gown, for they carried fire.
arms, and wohId have blown you up III TO time!
But the Apostles had only spears. / euppcse
you feel them prick occaslonaIy!'
'Oh dear, yes! There what al awful lunge
right there! That's Judas know il is " hat
terrible fellow he Isr
I'll fix ihem I'll bring them ell in five
mlnulef, SAID !. And preparing a strong emeuc,
dark"ned the l""n', gave him the dose, and as
'oof' as 1t tn"k ctiec' / struck my cane heavily
on the floor with every cascade. cry1rg out with
each There comes Peter there comes John!
that's Judas !! TIL the round dozen were cast
up; when | ordered them all out of The room.
and shut the door. The palicut-exhausred,
indeed, but relleved-tell asleep. aud ava kened
with full CONVICTION that the Tw Give had de-
parted.
lie will not swallow the AposilPs agar, un.
I'll he takes them dessert after overieedIug."
-Harptr's DrdWer.
o. The Rev. Mr. Peters, of Tennessee. was
preSching, aud having large gift of cohiinu-
ance, was sOmPwhat rOiracted IN his discourse
Several Of his hearers left in the mids, of the
sermon. Que young man was on his way 10
he door when Mr.. Peters pointed his long fn-
ger at him, aud said, Brethren, that Young
man has just as good right to GO out as any
one II iS needless to ssy that he vas the last
desPrier.
Al another time, while Mr.. Peters was
preaching, ynnng man started TO leave the
house, and making some noise as he went, MIR.
Peters paused, and SAID,
i will hHeh my discourse when that young
man gets out
The fellow very cooly took his seat. and
said, Then it will be sometime before you oct
through!
The preacher, however, wns up to him and
remarking, "A bad promise is better broken
than kept went on with his sermon.
This reminds US Of IN old pulpit anecdo,e at.
Irbuted to Rowlsnd Hill. Two strangers pass
ing the church in which he was pres ching, en-.
tered, walked up the aisle, and finding no seat
stood for awhile and listened TO the sermon
Presently they turned to walk ont. Before
they reached the door the preacher said, But
| will tell you story
This arrested the strangers, nd they paused.
turned again. aud listened.
'Onee there was a man. ssid the speaker,
who said that il he had ell the sxes in the
world made into one great axe, and all the trees
in the world were made into one great tree,
a nd he could WELD the axe and cut down the
tree, he would make il into one crest whip TO
thresh those ungodly men who turn their backs
upon the Gospel. and stop 10 hear story
The strangers thought they had heard enough
10 satisfy their curiosity. RRd resumed theis
waik in The strset-