The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1858-01-27
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r,er cent. month, md as ou want it sr .
year, that leaves JUS forty dollars coming to
you"
Innocent Borrower-sThen if wanted it
for two years, thess'd be something coming
to you.
+ =, "Grandpa, do you know the United States
have been in the habit Of encouraging and
acksowisdging tosiesf" Certainly not !;
what kind 81 tories !" ssTerftories p =.
A country editor thinks that Richelieu;
who declared that the '.pen was mightisr
than the sword" ought to have spoken g.
good word in favor. Of the Scissors"
The gentleman who inadvertently took
our new beaver, and left an inferior article
in its stead, will do US infinite kindness by
returning our own, and he shall receive our
warmest thanks, and two apologies; an apol-
logy for the trouble we have given him and
the apology for hat" he left as. .','' -
"Tell me, ye winged winds, that round my
pathway roar, do We know some spot where
women fret no more? Some lone and pleas,
ant dell, some 'holer' in the ground, where
babies never yell, and cradles are not found!
The loud wind blew the snow into my face,
and snickered as it answered, mary place..
The man who thinks his wife, his baby,
his house, his horse, his dog, and himself Sc
veraly unequaled, is almost sure to be q
good -humored person, though liable to be
tedious at times. es 19l .s4s
"Nr. Smith, you said you boarded at the
| Columbian Hotel six months; did you foot
| your bill g'-"No, sir; but it amounted to
the same thing-the landlord footed me"
A clergyman was censuring a young lady
for tight lacing. "Whv," replied the arch
Miss, "you would not recommend loose habits
to your parishioners q The clergyman thus
outwitted smiled thoughtfully. .-.
Hugo Arnott was one day, while painting
with the asthma, looking out of his window,
aid was almost deafened by the noise of a
brawIng fellow who was selling OYSTERS
Said he, 'That extravagant fellow has wasted
in two seconds as much breath as would
have served me for month"
The little Prince Imperial of France is en-
tered upon the roll of the French Grenadier
Guards, draws pay, and his names is called
"On leave with his family"
An old lady was asked what she thought
of one of her neighbors of the name of
Jones, and with knowing wink replied -
"Why, don't like to say anything about
my neighbors; but as to Mr.. Jones, some
times think and then again don't know
but, after all, rather guess he'll turn out to
be good deal such sort Of a man as l
take him to be-
81 tell you," said bacchanalian Joker,
| describing an affair. Everybody was there!
and the court house was so full that nobody
could have got in if every one hadn't gone
before anybody else did,"
A military officer in Texas boasts, through
the papers, that his men "would rally at the
tap Of the drum" Perhaps they would raj
ly still more promptly at the tapping of a
key.
Mrs. Smith hearing strange sounds, inquir-
ed of her new servant if she snored in her
sleep. 81 don't know, marin, replied Becky,
innocently; 81 never lay awake long enough
to diskiver."
Colonel Rivers, a tried and gallant officer,
never went into action without manifest emo
ton and on one occasion, when leading his |
regiment under Are, a raw subalteru, who no.
ticed the culver which shook his frame, re-
marked, "Why, Colonel, you're afraid
"Yes, sir, and if you were half as much |
afraid as I am, you would run away
Keitt, of South Carolina, we notice. is
soaring aloft before Palmetto audiences on
the Study of nature" We hope he will
keep at it. He is of no earthly use in Con-
gress. His constituents couldn't do better
than let him fy.-Prentice.
Our Johnathar thinks it very fortunate
that the prayers of the wicked are no
heard; "for," says he "what would become
of those unfortunates whose constant PRAYER
is God damn my souI!'"
Gross PLAG1ARIsM.-Ino one of Alexander
Smiths "City Poems" occurs the expression
"A sigh and curse together"
Mr.. Punch says that it was evidently cab
baged from Sir Walter Scott, who said. in
recording the death of charger.
"And draws his last sob by the side of lis dam."
Of the whole number of Revolutionary
patriots who have ever been placed on the
pension lists, only BAG were reported living
on the 30th Of June last. -.
Resolutions have been introduced int
both branches of the Virginia Legislature
condemning the arrest of General Walker I
and bis men by Com. Paulding. !
General Walker estimates his losses by the
seizures Of Davis and Pauding at one hum !;
dred and forty thousand dollars.
ARTEsIAN WELL IN Lou1syrLLE.-The Ar
tesian well now being bored in Louisville by
the Messrs. Dupont, for manufacturing pur-
poses has reached the denth of l6Sn foa4 | e