Nevada national., 1859-10-29
ELEANENGs.


Some men are very entertaining for
first interview. hut after that they are ex-
hausted. and run out on a second meeting
we shall lnd them very fat and monotonous
like hand-organs, We have heard all their
tunes.
NJ Lain. professor OF Chemistry at the
College OF BesancOn, has proved the presence
in considerable quantity Of arsensic in the
wire from which pins are usually made,
three or four serving to give perceptible
quantity in the common form.
" Charles" said young lady. there's
nothing interesting in the paper to day. is
there?" "No, love /; but hope there will
be one day. when we shall both be interest
cd" The young lady blushed, and Of course
she said, "For shame, CharlesY'
In a small party, the subject turning on
matrimony. lady said to her sister, Il
wonder. my dear, you have never made
match | think you want the birthstone =
to which sue replied NO, not the birthstone
only the spark y
"what has been your busiuesslr said
Judge to a prisoner at the bar. Why, your
honor, used to be dentist-now l am a
pugilist. Then put teeth in-new knock
'em out"
A pedagogue threatened to punish pupil
who had called him fool behind his back.
Don't don't - said the boy. 81 won't do
So again, sir, never never will say what
think again in my lifel''
chemist at Lyons has discovered the
means of removing instantaneou4ly from the
hands the stains produced by nitrate OF sill
yer in Photography. 1t is simply to put lin
seed in the water used.
! A Frenchman mounted on a snowy horse
met an old priest trotting along on quiet
jackass. "Ha, ba.' exclaimed monsieur.
how goes the ass, good fatheri'' "On
horseback, my son, on horseback" replied
the priest.
As proof of the hardness of the times,
there's man in Ohio who only kills half
pig at q time.
Scatter the germs Of the beautiful as
the poet said when be kicked his wife and
children out Of doors.
A witness was asked bow be Anew the
parties to be man and wife" Cause
heard the gentleman blow the lady up was
the reply.
A wsg, on seeing an old gobbler trying
to swallow q cotton string, very facetiously
remarked. &" That was the last attempt TO
int oduce cotton into Turkey
When wo nan can faint and has capital
opportunity for fainting and yet doesn't faint
you may be tolerably sure that she has some
other feint in view.
A wealthy Frenehman who died recently
in Corsica, was refused interment in conse-
Grated ground in consequence OF copy of
the Protestant New Testament having been
found amongst his effects.
A son ofGalen, who was very angry when
any joke was passed on physicians, once de
Tended himself from raillery by saying, !
defy any person whom | ever attended. to
accuse me of ignorance or neglect" That
you may do safely replied the wag. " for
you know, doctor, dead men tell no tales"
A butcher, who was once afflicted with
that obliquity of vision known as strsbs-
mus, was about slaugh,ering bullock, and
be employed a stout negro to stand by the
animals neck, grasp his horus. and hold his
head steady, so that he (the butcher) would
have a certainty of knocking him down. As
the butcher poised his axe in the air, be
seemed n be looking directly at the negro
instead Of at tue bullock, Look here, look
here, bossy," exclaimed the dsrkey, with
grea, deal OF nervous trepidstiou, -" Is you
gwin TO strike Shar you is lookin' :" q" Of
course. I am. you black scoundrel," was
the reply. "Den you gi, somebody else to
hold de bullock, calculated the negro.
i" yoa isu't gwin to knock dis ehile'r ofsinE
out