The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-06-18
So 90 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, SATURDAY, 49, 1859.

would you play them three up there, sup
posing the corner one was your ball and tht
moon was the pocket?'
This answer was lost likewise by being
crowded out by fresh note from q new.
conner.
"Yes. sir, the moon is very fine. and
was saying, there never was a better time
to invest in the Wamskateaua coal. share,
than now. Yes-yes-l observe--your'e .
pointing to the sea-but let me tell you, sir
that subscriptions to that stock are coming
in lust rs fast rs those wayes-and it.
arising, sir, like that tide. Breeze!-l
should think so it blows. Yes, and there:
been n mighty sigh. Of blowing along Wal
street about the Triangle railroad and it,
six foot guages and ten plates; but mind
your eye on it, sir breezes die away, and
it's private opinion that tho Triangle will
bring up like that wave, sir--in awful
smash"
Three young ladies and-a dummy in the
shape of silent male escort in white linin,
came futtering along and piped down Wall
street.
eyes they say he is really attentive to her
quite desperately smitten, though he's
hardly off with Lucy Bottonwill-and Annie
went in bathing with his sisters robe to-
day, SO tha. Pm quite sure there's some
thing in it. And Marian Dicerly came on
yesterday from Baltimore but she won't
be the belle here this season, now she's in
eolcrs black was so much more becoming
to her. Oh ! yes; her counsin Pinkey is
lovely with her hair a la Eugene, but she
looks perfectly horrid with it puffed plain,
and really do believe she left it off Just
because Hamilton Smack compared it to
cows horns. o sirls-girls-did You see
Hattie Wincher's dress at the hop last
night! where does she get that horrid taste?
for I'm sure her mother and sister if they
tell her once tell her twenty times every day
she goes out what to buy and one would
think her skirts were made of bramble-
bushes.
What you don't say that Jem Barriden
is really over at Miilers? Well, it's very
plain what he's there for. Yes, know that
Julia wouldn't receive his attention, and he
did send such elegant boquets, but dare
say that it will come to something. That
family have such luck in presents. l do
believe that her sisters have Mailiard's
boxes sent her every week by the dozen,
and when Jenny was married, goodness
saw so much silver and that droli old
Buckles went round saying that half of 1t
was hired.''
And by this time we passed everybody,
and the crowd was behind us. and Amelia
said nothing, and ditto. But there was
tall talking going on between our hands,
and once in while say remark in the
widows eyes which it would take a smarter
writer than Mace SIopcr to set down on
paper
CONVENTION OF COUNTRY EDITORS.
At the suggestion of Col. Switzler, of the
Missouri Statesman, il has been decided to
hold Convention of the country editors and
publishers Of Missouri. at Jefferson CITY. on
the oth Of June. We want to be thar when
that convention is held. We want to ask
some of our cotemporarIcs. contidentially,
where they expect to 90 when they dies. and
how long they intend TO live as the slaves of
quack doctors, one horse politicians and non
pay ng subscribers. A good many of the
country editors of this State are practical
printers, who know they are doing wrong in
publishing long columns of quack nostrums
at starvation prices-too frequently for no
price at all-and we are curious to learn
their reasons for so doing. Some of them
are lawyers, and yet they blow and puff an,l
make pack horses of themselves to sustain
the political fortunes Of some shallow patef
orator, who, as soon as he gets a seat in
Congress. or on the bench. will cut the
poor devil of country editor dead. We
want TOO ask him if Blackstone and common
sense don't teach him better.
There are many subjects which should be
brought before the convention; and if We
had the gift of CAB like Col. Switzler. we
would make a speech that would bring tears
to the eyes and money to the pocket OF every
country editor in ear-shot. But. being no
orator, we will only give the heads of the
subjects we would discuss. Fellow country.
men, did you ever know,
l. a prompt-paying patent pill pcddler :?
Q. An honest Eastern advertising agent ?
8. A truthful travelling agent?
4. A menagerie man without mu.ilated
money?
5. An Office seeker that wouldn't lie?
We might ask hundred other questions
equally pertinent, which it would trouble
our brethren to answer in the Affirmative
Louisiana Her.
THE PRINCE AND THE BARBER.
\ great many years ag', or somewhere
when the people of this coun-
try were at loscerheads with England, and
sarlike feelings were turned up to the
highest notch against the British, BY some
meant or other, it so fell ont that he Prince
Of Wales (afterwards William the Fourth.
it is rrohabie) being in the English feet Of
New York, Thought he would step ashore,
take tramp around, incog Of course, and
see what was going on. The Prince was a
''hish lark" fond of fun and fashions, and
finally found himself in Boston, where he
would have been glorious "spec" for
some one, had they known and nabbed his
royal highness. The prince stepped into
n BARRIERS shor-a building yet extant upon
Hanover street. although the dramdtis
persona have all made their exit-to get
shaved, just like other metropoltans. The
ba Der was out, but his buxom and prcpo-
scssing wife was on hand, and took off his
ROYAL highness' beard in rs ready a manner
rs could any barber or valet in town. The
operation over, the jocular prince gave the
woman guinea, and as she was about to
hand the change, he sughingly said:
SO, keep it, woman, keep it all, by tho
laws it's worth twenty guineas to be shaved
by lass, and such pretty one, too - and
his AIMS about the neck of the
barber -ess, his royal highness vouchsafed
her a most natural and comely kiss. The
woman of course blushed and resisted, and
looked very awkward and wrathy.
go, never mind that, my pretty shaver,''