Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-10-27
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"Have YOU read my las, speech said vain or
ator to friend. Il hope 50, was the reply.
There are good, dull folks who doubt of lasting
love in paradise, seeing that the first match want
ed the consent of aunts aud grandfather.
1--WE risen from the bar to the bench" That
what u lawyer said ON quitting the profession and
taking up shoemaking.
A young physician asked permission Of lady
To kiss her: she replied. NO SIR never Ike t,
have doctors bill thrust in my face
In the "Talmud" there is n forcihle figure des-
criptive Of the depth of the sea Step not in
there, runs the passage, for seven years nsa. n
carpenter dropped his axe, aud 1t hath not yet
reached the bottom.
The evening before Cradle died his physician,
feeling his pulse with much gravity, and observed
that it beat mere evenly than upon his last VISIT
"My dear friend. said the patient, ''f you don't
know, or have not technical expression for il.
will tell you what it beats; beats the dead march.
Soon after Whitfield landed in Boston, ON his
second visit to this country. he and DIR. Chauucy
met ID the Street, and, touching their hats with
courteous dignity, bowed 10 each other. $50 you
have returned. DIR. Whitfield. have you?' He re-
piled, ''iss, Reverend Sir, in the service oi the
Lord. u am sorry to hear it, said Chauncy.--
80 is the Devil the answer given, as the
two dvines, stepping aside at a distance from each
other. touched their hats and passed on.
An important scientific and economical problem
is solved'i in the following question and answer
How can nine pigs be put in four pens ST. that
there shall be an odd number in each pen! Easy
enough. Make pig pen and in il make three
small ones; in each of these little pens put three
pigs which will lie odd numbers each. As amat-
ter Of course the fourth ren--the big onc-will
have odd number in it the whole nine.
A friend Just returned from Iowa says they
have such huge long nosed hogs in portions Of that
State that the settlers employ them u plpw the
fields. lie saws they bury corncob at one side
Of the field and place the hog at the other side
The porker immediately digs his snout in the rich
coil and turns a furrow equal to that OF the hes,
pillow right up to the cob. Some settlers aver tina,
if stump should be in the way Of the furrow the
hog splits it open with its if it were n clod
Of earth. but that he is not disposed to souch for
Great country ''out west.
Married on Thursday last, by Rev. B. Hyde
Mr.. James 7. Wallach, to Miss Mary Dayy.--
Shreeveport Journal.
This looks like union of Wallnchan and Moll
Davian Principalities.- Louisville Journal.
A Southern editor says that Mr.. Buchanan i
the head Ut the Democratic party, and Glance
Jones its tail. fthat's the case we would adyis
the party to shake it's head aud switch its tail IL
We believe that all the commercial houses i,
Kentucky stand firm. but the intelligence is thu
the Bourbon county Jail is droAon-lbd
Some few weeks ago, strolled into the count
ing room of friend. He being absent; | com
menced chat with his clerk when good look
ing ''cullered person, entered dotfed his castor
and said: Mas Bob can you len me quarter till
this afternoon. and will pay him sartain?" Mas
Bob applied his dexter to his vest pocket but it
made mo sign" turned. Well Buck, YOU look
tolerably honest, but as don't know you, if you