The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-02-18
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THAT'S very singular" said young
lady to a getleman who had just kissed her.
ooh well, my dear miss, l will soon make
it plural"
81 AN afraid of the lightning" MUIR
INJURED a pretty woman during a thunder
storm. " Well you may be- said des-
pairing lover, "when your heart is steel"
PERU is coming into the world as a cot
ton grower; fifteen thousand bales OF her
cotton have just been sent across the 18th
mus, most of it to Europe.
Il YOUNG lady engaged in writing, OBJ
served to a clergyman present that she was
a Scribe. To which the man in orders,
with sagacity and clerical diseernment
truly creditable, replied, And fair | see,
(Pharisee).
NED SHUTTER thus explained his reason
for preferring to wear his stocking with
holes to having them darned A hole"
said be, may be the accident of a day, and
will pass upon the best gentleman but
darn premeditated poverty"
~. A young lady thus describes her
feelings, and courts sympathy. We hope
she may realize the change that she devot-
eddy wishes:
NV heart IS sick, my heart is sad,
But, oh, the cause dare not tell J.;
am not grieved, I am not glad,
I am not i'll, not we'll,
I'm not myself Tn not the same;
am, indeed, know not what;
I'm changed in all, except in name
Oh when shall be changed in that
A DOUBLE PREsCRTPTIoN.-A gentleman,
wrote to DR.. Francis, of New York, last week,
the following note
Dear Doctor caught cold yesterday,
and have got little horse. Please write
what I shall do for them"
"Dear P.-For the cold, take half a
pound of butter candy. For the little
horse, buy saddle and bride, and ride him
out of town, the first time we have pleasant
weather"
RSPA spendthrift was once lying awake
in bed, when he saw man enter his room
cautiously, and attempted to pick the lock
of his writing desk The rogue was not
disconnected at bearing loud laugh from
the occupant of the room whom he suppos-
ed was asleep. ''Why do you laugh9' asked
the thief ~ am laughing, my good fellow,
to think what pains you are taking, and
what risk you run, in hopes of finding money
by night in a desk where the lawful owner
can never find any by day" The thief
vanished at once.
CRINOLINE AND UNfON--lh ne 81 Louis
Republican says the ladies of Howard coun-
ty, Missouri, have taken the Union in hand.
On Saturday of last week, they held q meet
ing in Fayette, at which one hundred fe
male names were enrolled. They resolved
to present a flag to the man selected for a
Union representative for that county, APP
pointed a Committee of Arrangements for
the presentation, and chose Miss Jane Lewis
to make the speech. Among other proceed
ings, they resolved to invite several gentle
men to "address" them at a future meeting.
THE other day agent Of the New y orh
and Erie Railroad Company was putting up
one of the finely Illuminated cards of the
road in the Office of the st. Charles Hotel,
New Orleans, when a 6re-eater came up,
saying The New York and Erie Rail
road Yesl Through broad guage route !!
Yesl Let's see, think New York gave
about fifty thousand majority for LincOln;'
saying which he gave the card two or three
kicks, of course destroying it. The agent
mildly demonstrated, but n crowd soon col
lected, and the landlord informed him it
would not be safe for him to remain longer
in the house. He collected his baggage,
and left the city as speedily as possible.