The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-03-31

STANDS iaStty ny yum tlSIu sl,tG, w you
take to be your dearly beloved husband,
70 wait On him through health and
through coy7ution, safe and be safe, holy
and he holy? Do you love his mother?-
Do YOU love his sister? Do you love God.
the best?"
Answer--"i will"
II ahall pronounce Mr. Jim to hold
Hiss Mary tastly by the right hand, and
shall pronounce you both to be man
and wife, by the Commandments Of, Col.
We shall hopes and trusting through Gcd
that you may die right, now and forever
more. Now Mr.. Jim sle,o your bride.
"Eet us sing hime:
plunged in gulf of dark dispair
Ye wretched sinners are, &c, Amen
IA irish waiter once complimented
,alrnon in the following manner
Faith, it's most two hours since that
fish was walking round his estate wild his
hands lin his pockets, never dreaming
what pretty invitashum he'd have to
Ion you gentleman at dinner"
A medical man asked his legal adviser
HOW llt GOtlAQ pulllou q SCiS sNhO iItiA
stolen canister of valuable snuff.
~ am not aware OF any act, says the
lawyer. chat makes it penal to take
snuff,
y. X says that he expects to be able
10 q short time to pay everything that he
owes in this world. Aye, but there's .
heavy debt that he has got to settle in
she other world. ThereW be tie derH 10
pay.
DO you believe, sir, that The dead
ever walk after death?"---"No doubt of
it, madam; 7 have heard the Dead March
in Saul"
An affectionate building.--lu the adj
.ertisement of I new hotel, it Is said, sit
entrances about sixty rooms"
A Tennessee paper announces that
'the inauguration of the governor was
celebrated by firing minute guns every
halfh hour.
You can easily Keep yonfself through
out the winter from freezing, by getting
continually into hot water with your
neighbors.
A young lady who han! lost or misIAd
her beau, was advised to hang up her tid-
die. She said the advice did great vio-
lence to her heartstring.
az man is, in general. better pleased
says DIR. johnson, "when he has a good
dinner upon his table, than when his
wife talks greek"
Boys should be very careful how they
steer their lile-barks if they would arrive
without shipwreck at the Isle Of Man. E
Take not too much pride in mere man.
ners. The finest dandy is not better at
j. how than puppy is at bow-wow.
An indiscreet person is like an unseaI-
ed letter, which every one may read, but
which is seldom worth reading.
"Among all my boys" said an old
man, 81 never had but one boy who took
after me, and that was my son Aaron,
who took after me with club.'s
1t may fairly be coltended that in
3aterate laziness is the most effective la
nor saving machine ever invented.
A villain generally plays the coward,
- if he supposed that the blacknesa of
his heart might be redeemed by the
Rhiteness of his liver.
The read Of life is love, TIE salt OF life
Is work; the sweetness Of love, poetry the
water of life faith.
The secret Of ones success OF failure
inNnearly every enterprise is usually con-
sained in the answer to the question
How earnest is he?
Natural wants are few and easily graf
lied; only those which are artificial per-
pIez us by their multiplicity Booee.
A quack adyertises compound that
viii cure everything from lad charac-
ter to bad temper.
What means of conveyance By land,
and what by sea, are ladies foudest DIP
Buses and smacks.
Somebody says that the best way to
keep food upon a..week stomach is to bolt |
it down.
Moderation is the silken string run
ming through tac peare chain Of all vir-
tues.
Falsehocd is often rocked by truth, but
she soon outgrows her cradle, and dis
1ards her Nurse.
What goes most against farmers
srainP-H His reaping machine.
Asplened ear but very poor uoice, as
she organ grinder said of the monkey.
The oorDbirds are not very bold
race, and yet great many OF taem die |
gans |