The Shasta courier., 1859-01-22
NUMBER 46.
Light Reading.

......An editor down south reports himself son
struck, and says he is recovering though the
blow was a heavy one-an eleven FOUNDER.
......An English paper, speaking of the American
light pleasure wagon, says, that the wheel con-
sists of four circles of cheese rind filed in with
spider webs.
......" Isn't it time to think about getting mp ?n
said a wife as she ratified the bedroom door of
her liege lord. Yes, my dear; have been
thinking about it an hour and half"
......T The jolliest old brick alive, and the most
sensible, is DR.. Hall-he says early rising is a
humbug, unhealthy, and should not be INDUCED
in
......A few days since, pious old lady, rrePar-
ing to go to church, WAS to tax aconsider-
able quantity ofcash from her trunks and wrap it
up carefullyand put it into her pocket She stated
that it was her habit--that it kept her mind
steady at DEVOTION " for where the treasure is
there will the heart be also
.....A child four years old with fine growth of
beard and whiskers is ON exhibition in New
York.
IA frantic fair one says that ladies are be-
ginning to give up society, because they encoun.
ter nothing but spoiled boys and premature old
men.
The papers say there is a great demand for
women in Oregon. Isn't there n demand for
women everywhere? There are plenty of ladies
dainty creatures win SOFT lanuS anu softer
| heads, puffed with hoops in the lower story and
nonsense in the upper-but genuine, sensible
women are in demand all over creation. They
are scarcer than diamonds, and far more valu-
able-better than gold, and safer to tie TO than
the best State stocks.
......Boswell, the biographer and worshipper of
DR.. johnson, observing to the latter that there
was no instance of beggar dying for want in
| the streets of Scotland. g believe sir vou are
| very ri Ob . lint
arise from the want of beggars, but the impos-
sibility of starving Scotchman."
NAN old fellow being visited by his pastor,
answered him that he could not be good Chris
tian unless he took up his daily cross whereat
he caught up his wife and began Juggling her
about the room.
......A Canadian editor says they had terrible
winter there; but with three tons of coal and a
pretty wife he had got through it very comfort
ably.
......Somebody says :" He who marries for
beauty only, is like buyer of cheap furniture
the varnish that caught the eye viii not en-
dure the fireside blaze"
......That agreeable little fish, the sardine is
now manufactured in large quantities, III Scot
land, of sprats and herringsl What next?
......A city girl, who had been with her beau to
a maple sugaring" in the country, writes homo
that the funniest thing l thaw wath Charlie
uear trying 10 eat maple molatheth with his
muthtacheth on turkey eating thch dough
ith nothing in comparthon."
1.-THE victory is not always to the strong, as
the boy said when he killed skunk with a
brickbatl
......Lola Montez says it is strange to see what
pains men and women take to catch each other,
and how very little pains they take to hold on
to them.
......An editor out West says that when be was
in prison for libelling Justice of the Peace, he
was requested by the jailor to give the prison a
puff.
......Just before you 60 to bed, eat two pigs
feet and a fried pie. In less than an hour you
will sea a snake larger than hawser, devour-
ing two light blue haired children, who have
just escaped from monster with sorrel eyes
and red-hot overcoat.