St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-01-20
humorous.

The woman wb never intcrfercd with her
husbands affairs in town. She is unmarried.
Why is q weathGcock like q loaferl Because
it is constantly gong round, doing nothing.
EVENING FAsuIos.-Emily Shall you dress
much tonight, Gear? Lillian No, as little
as possible l am .oing to a ball.
There is a fellow in st. Louis so extremely
fond Of sausages Il 1t he bit off the tail of a
pet spaniel belonging to Mrs. Rathbun.
COMMON CEysuRr-All men who do any
thing, must endure a depreciation of their ef-
forts. 1t is the dirt their chariot wheels
throw up.
1t is curious fact in the grammar of poll
tics, that when statesmen get into place. they
often become oblivious of their antecedents, but
arc seldom forgetful of their relatives.
A la ly, expressing a wish-in the presence
of her son, a boy of five ycars-that she had
something to read that she had never read be-
fore, the 10y exclaimed, take your Bible,
mother!'
RATHER PARrIcuLAR.-There is a maiden
lady in Connecticut so modest, that she turned
Off her washcrwoman because she put her
clothes i'm tn same tub with those of young
man.
PAINFuL.--Ve learn that Mr.. Cotton, edi-
tor of the Win,na Democrat, leapcd from his
bed on Friday Night, seized a butcher knife,
made for his barn, and with one fell swoop cut
off his cows tai close to the rump!-L Cross
Democrat.
A romantic father whose name was Rose,
named his daughter "Wild," SO that she
grew up under the appellation of "Wild
Rose" But the Romance of the name was
sadly spoiled in a few years, for she married a
man by the name of Bull"
We were listening to an eloquent divine,
who, in the course Of his sermon, was compar-
ing the state of the u~nconvcrted sinner to that
of IA man in a boat away from LAND and only one
oar. He was suddenly brought up with a Sc
we're round turn by sailor, who jumped up
and asked Couldn't the old fool skull?"
The neat old lady in Virginia, who scrubbed
through the floor and fell into the cellar, is
but one among many Of the very nice females
with which our country abounds. We know
a good lady in New jersey, who whitewashed
all the wood she burnt and another in Con-
n~ecticut, who used three times a day to scour
the nose OF her lap dog to keep him from soil
ing the dish out of which he ate his meals.
The same good lady took her own food through
a napkin ring to keep it from coming in CON
tact with her lips.
An Irish girl, writing from Buffalo to her
mother at home, says ''Ihc Yankee girls
are like the old horses at homc-high in bone,
but low in flesh, and the color of a ducks
foot After this. we don't think it incum-
bent on the Buffalo girls to come out to
night or, as it may he more chastely express
sed in the classics. The damscls of Buffalo
are not required t.. leave the SHADE of the ma
tcrnal roof, nor to amble beneath the subdued
lusture of the silver moon"
Battle every day !" exclaimed the widow
Slnashpipes, as she dropped the tiat-iron upon
the horseshoe, and looked her neighbor Snubs
right in the eye. "Why, you don't say so
l never used to think of stripping my Jecms,
and giving him a right good wash but four
times a year onst in the spring, onst in the
summer, onst in the fall, and onst in the win
ter. Howsomdever, some children ketch dirt
sooner than others"