The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-09-10

A RArHKR TOU0n JoKR vuR TEE JoKgn.-
| 0ne Of our citizens. who u more noted tor hi
fun than for his church attendance. accoste,
one Of the employees (Diabolus to wit,) Of Ia,
Courier job Office, this week, saying: .sYou ds
all kinds Of printing IN yOas plaes, don't yes'
Assurance Was given the inquirer thaf such -,
the interesting fact do y0u print Bibless' va.
the next question in order. This had also az
Affirmative reply, when our Mide-awAke va
declared that he must have one done forthwith
Send along the copy and you shall have ths
article" said the con Of Faust. Towards the
afternoon Of the same day on which this confab
took place the joker did send along the Bible,
With OrdeTs TO make al haste with tine job; q
he wanted il badly--an assertion that mnst
have greatly delighted his Christian friends Who
might have had the felicity Of hearing it made
The title page, contents, and the first, second
and third chapters Of Genesis, with part Of the
fourth, were speedily put in type, and proofs
sent 70 the joker-sho could hardly believe his
eyes when be found thar not only literal in :
depreciation had been put on his fun, but that
literary proof Of il stared him in the face. He
started tor the Courier Office with oil speed, and
PVT ~ end to that practical joke-after paying
damages Of course. which he was glad to do
thus sunlmarily cancelling the somewhat loose
and shoOghtless contract he had made. Moral:
HE requires long spoon whe sape With the
lPrinter's) devit''-and : long head TO joke sue
cessfuliy with that same diabolical imp.
The Albany Journal tells story Of lawsuit
in that city, brosght BY an undertaken against
. lasysr, for the psias Of six rosewood eol3ns,
ordered By the latter BY the way Of . joke
The price Of those ''usefal articles" - the fun
ny purchaser called them, vas $l50.-Norwich
Courier. .
A LOST CnILD-HER SUTTERINss AID AD-
vENrUaEs-The listle girl q West Milford, who
was lost in the woods from Monday until Thurs
Day, when found Eve miles away, Wa 10 tam
shed condition, and rasenously deyeufed some
bread which her discoyerers happened to have
10 their possession. Bordering the house OF her
parents is spring Or brook. where the family
Washing 10 usually done. Whilst the mother
was at the washing, the little one, aged about
hree and half years, was playing about the
pushes with child some what older. Al the
pushes are quits thick and the country back
and altogether uninhabited, il vas
impossible to find the lost child, and she would
undoubtedly have perished but for her acci-
leDtal discovery BY farmer and his man, who
sere going over the mountain to cut little |
'los Of grass, when they saw the little thing |
rying to get away through the underbrusb.-
cratched and wounded by briars and brush. BY |
'hich they had been torn. Upon offering her
piece Of bread from their dinner-pail she |
Matched it and devoured it almost ravenously. |
Ter little hood she had kept upon Ter head, al
hough it had been united al the while it is
lngular that during the days and nights spent
J the woods she had kept this little hood
ne was found in direct line five miles from
ONE but how far she may have Travelled in
er wanderings to get that distance away can
OF be told. She must have gone over rocky
iaces where she was in constant danger
tumbling over precpces, and where rattle
makes are SO thick as TO keep men and boys
! fear from their proximity. She had also
'rced her way through briars, over swamps
nd through thick scrub districts, where only
untsmen penetrate; for the country therea-
out is the widest and most impenetrable She
as 50 young AS to be without fear, but has
lftered terribly rom hunger and from the pains
the laceratsd limbs.-Paterson IN. J.) Guar
ian, Aug. 26