Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-08-10

THE DEVIL AND THE LAWYERS.

THE DEVIL AND THE LAWYERS.
{ The deyitsame up to the earth one dav
. And INTO . courthouse he wended bis way.
Jast a. N attorney, with very grave face,
: was prss~ding to argue the points in the
Now lawyer his majesty never had seen,
| For to bis dominions none ever had been.
Ana he felt very anxious the reason %
: why mono had been sent to the regions
:, Twas the fault of his agents his Majesty
m mhousht' caught,
That none of these lawyers had never been
And for his own pleasure be felt desire
10 come to the earth and the reason in
Well, the lawyer who rose With visage so
Made out his opponent cousum mate
And the devil was really greatly amused.
To hear the attorney so grossly abused.
But soon as the speaker had come to a close
Inc counsel opposing then fercely arose,
And he hsaPea such abuse on the head Of
That made him villain, of all men the
| worst.
Thus they quarrelled, con tended, and ar
gued so long,
Twas hard to determine which of them
was wrong
And concluding he'd heard quite enough
of the fuss,
Old Nick turned away and soliloquizsd thus:
II all they have said of each other be true,
The devil has surely been robbed of his due;
But l M satisfied now, it's all very we'll
For these lawyers would ruin the morsls
of h-ll
They have puzzled the Court with their
villainous cavil
Ard I'm free to confess they have puzzled
the devil
NY agents are right to let lawyers alone,
If had them, they'd swindle me out Of
my throne.
A good newspaper is we'll spring Of
knowledge.
Of insects thas,prey upon wheat, there
are thirty thousand different kinds.
A writer on economy says that more
money is paid for cigars in the United
States thassGes hssa4
The number. Of persons transported-:
Paris BY omnibuses, per an--
five millions.-..x that the most reluctant
-.asg to vice We have seen, was poor
fellow who had his fingers in one.
"What right have you to be sick -
" A Constitutional right to be sure" re-
piled the individual.
Whoever pretends to great friendship
requires watching. Action in such eases
are far better than words.
Ii you have nothing good to say Of .
person, be good enough always to let your
tongue lick your lips in silence.
Society is like air--vsy high it is too
sublimated for comfortable breathing, too
low down it is perfect DAMP choke.
The object for our feet on the Southern
coast-To attend to the Manners and Gus.
toms of the country.
ADVICE TO BRIGADlER GENEEALs.--
When you don't know what to do, don't
you do you don't know what
When you see man cheating his belly
for his pockets, you can safely believe
that his soul is in some danger Of being
sacrificed also.
If uen can bear them selves erect through
the day in these hard times, they can at,
ford to lie perfectly PROSTATE through tho
night.
"Is your house warm one?' asked .
man in search OF tenement, Of land.
land, l. ought to be; the painter gaveis
two coats recently was the response.
One of our finest writer's says that "ths
nightly dews come down upon No like
blessings" How very differently the dai-
" dues come down upon Us these hard
times.
The portrait Of ex.President Tyler has
been taken down from the rotunda Of the
Capitol, stripped Of its frame, and hung
head downwards in the rubbih room.
An English farmer recently remarked
that he fed his land before il was hun
cry, rested it before it was weary, and
weeded it before it was foul.1 We have
seldom, If ever, seen so much agricultural
wisdom condensed into single sentence.
A good story is going the rounds
charges to the account Of Gov. Wright, tho
American Minister at Berlin, who 10 from
Indiana. Two European diplomats were
talking about the Governor, and one OF
them who knew him, and whe had just
told the other that the Governor spoke
neither French nor German. and English
but indifferently, val. s.Asked By the other
wha. language hs did spe.ks "wby, In.
diaua, 1 suppose" wa; the reply. .