The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-09-24
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GAMnttNe-t never by chance hear
the rauing Of dice that it doesn't sound
to me like she funeral bell Of whole FAM
ily.
RgWomen arc true TO one another in
all things but babies, and there, it must
be confessed, shcy do Aatter each other a
Gulo bit.
Fer" You have considerable floating
population in this village, haven't your"
asked a stranger Of one ol the citizens Of
"a village on tho Mississippi
"Well, yyA rather" was the roply,
"about half Of the year the water is up to
tho second story windows.
A Mrs. Smith, having lost her husband,
adver,ises after this fashion:
Lost, strayed or s,olen--an individual
whom I, IN an urgent moment Of lonoli.
ness, was thoughtless enough 10 adopt as
my husband. IIo is a good looking and
feeble individual knowing enough howev.
er, to 60 in when IL rains, unless some
good looking girl offers him her umbrel.
h Anybody who will bring him oare-
fully back, so that / can ehasIise him for
running away, will be asked to stay to
tea by llrNRIErrA a sMlru.
Uncle Isaac was a great sticklor for
grammar lie always stuck to 10 That The
adjective COOL admitted of no degree Of
'oomparison; "for" said he, "what Is
good is good, and good is good enough"
One day brother Jake was reading aloud
tho adventures Of an unlucky and not 70.
.markably bright youth, When be came
to The sentence, Long ere Joe return
cd" Uncle Ike suddenly interrupted for
the seventeenth timo "rut, boy that's
very bad grammar; read correctly long
eareA there Is no such compound adjeet-
i've as "long ear"
fW7H UWrW q" rf rrr
Lovers conceal their faults from one an
other. aud deceive themselves. Friends
confess their faults to ono another, and
pardon mutually.
TrGur LAcIvG. The ladies were gull
.ty Of this practice over i've hundred years
ago In Ms. copy OF the 'Lay Of Syr
Launial' y written about the year 1900,
two dnmsels are described as
%TlSig kirl9; ,,i we're ,,s Of I,iiI IT4; 'cnal'
Or as might be translated into modern
lingo, they were 'jolly we'll laced"
The rollowingi is literal copy Of the
list Of question proposed for discussion
in beb iting club "out West"
"Subiecks of Disku ion.
is Dancin morralie rong?
Is the reeding Of fctishus wurks COM
mendible?
Is It necessary that fomails should re-
seave a hurray oduosshun2
Ort femails to talk parts in pollytxg'
Old Mrs, Darnly is pattern of house
hol economy. She says she has made
pair of socks last ffteon years by onll
Knitting new feet to them every winter
and new legs to them every other winter
An exchange tells of man whose SIS
, ter told him he had not long to live, and
suggested that he might not feel altogeth
er prepared for that event. "Why should
l be afraid to die?" ho asked, II never
voteda Democratic ticket in my life"
A FEATHER IN MS CAP.--In the Brit
ish Museum are two MSS descriptive o
Hungary in 1893, IN which the WriteI
says Of the inhabitants:
1T hath been an auncient customO
amongst them, that none should weare q
fether but he who had killed Turk, {,
whome onlie yt was lawful to shew TIC
number of slaine euemyes by the numbe
Of fethers in his cappe"
RyENoNs A NOS MoOToNs.--"Letus re
turn to our sheep" is proyerb taken from
the old French play "PateliI," where
woolen-draper is brought in, who, plead
ing against his shepherd concerning som
sheep the shepherd had stolen from him
continued DEPRESSING from the point t,
speal, Of piece of cloth which bis antag
onisps attorney had likewise robbed hin
Of which mado The judges call out to Oh
draper, "ReUenons nos moRioRs." ."