The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-24
Cur - ally g0aEAal.
WIT AND SENTIMENT.
[From Yankee Not.ons.l

A thousand barrels of Hour have been
sent to New Orleans to be distributed gratis
among suffering Unionis:s. Whet they get
1t they will know what is meant by the
Belnls Of thousand JFoars THE reader is
requested not to De hard upon the perpetra-
tor Of the above, as be has bitterly repent
ed, aud willed his entire fortune to the Idiot
Asylum.
What the rebels get from the Irish Brig
ade-Paddy hacks.
Why are the Siamese twins dangerous
men to NEEDLE with Because they are
form-a-double fellows.
Why is locomotive like gay deceiver 2
Because it goes sparkling, right and left, ali
through the country, regardless of the
flames it kindles.
Notes one likes TO have the key to
Treasury Notes.
Mans dearest love in bot wea,her-FIp;
(rhe cooler she treats him, the better he
likes her,
"Au flesh is grass" we are told, but
there is reason to believe that a good deal
of what passes for flesh is not grass, but
cotton.
There is said to be very little bread in
the southern Confederacy loaves, but
great many ioafers.
profound student of anatomy promul-
gates the remarkable fact that every man
has several canals in his body, but no rail-
roads Boston Post.
When (says the philosophical Quilp
hear a young lady. who dresses with the
utmost care, and is always on exhibition in
society, pretending that she has horror of
men, and wishing that they won. DIT plague
her with their nonsense, | always feel like
advising her mother to marry her off as
soon as possible. Do you ask why :? Why,
in order that she may have husband to
help her keep of the meD, don't you see?-
Boston Post
Who is the author of those pretty
verses 2" said one at soiree lately ada
Clare, replied the lady. s' [ declared re-
torted the querist. The joke was too easy
to be very excellent; but then it was just
as good as one of Charles Lambs that made
great laughter in London, once on time.
{" w hat are you going to call your daugh-
ter 2" be said to Barry Corn WALL "Adeli-
side,n said Barry. 3" Good, said Lamb
AddIe head is goOd-very appropriate.
THE SuBTLErIEs OF THE SurLERs.-
When the White House was eqacuated, sew
eral on the SUIT ers, We are told, saved their
goods by chsrtering small vessels. These
men cannot be too thankful for the bless
iDgs of small vessels. They have made
sheir fortunes out of small vessels, and are
much Indebted to their quart measures for
holding no more than ordinary pints.
@REsT, WARRIOR, REsr"-It has lately
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lish chip Warrior is a bad one to go to sea
IN. She ships seas leaks, founders, and
otherwise misbehaves herself disgracefulIy
How melancholy must it be for the authors
of her being to find that one whose mission
was to seize ships, should thus run counter
to her destiny, and do nothing but ship
seas
MODERN CoNscRrPT Fathers The Of
fcers Of the Confederate Army-Leadsr.
From Vanity Fair.
A NAVY Item. The termination of the
Nave Of the Great Exhibition building in
London, is marked, we are told, by an ODE
lisk.
Naves with obellsKs as mucu as they pIease
in England; but when our Federal autbori-
ties here catch Floyd. and few other birds
of that feather, we hardly think that the
erection by wbich he termination of those
Knaves is likely to be marked will come
under the denomination OF an obelisk.n
Give I'm is ED "-Jenks thinks therei Is
no cause for alarm at the recent rebel offer
OF ten thousand dollars for Gen. Buffers
" eOcoanutP the late management OF affairs
81 New Orleans having shown conclusively
that It Is not in the power of Rebellion 20
get head OF Butler, at any price.
GoING UNDER.-Jef Davis promises his
soldiers, somewhat alphabetically, that each
one shall be allowed a quarter-section of
land at The close of the war. We can prom
Use many of them, including JEFF himself
that ihey will, about that time, enter a sec
ton Of land, say six feet by twol
REvENoNs A NOS BELIERs-HAfter all. the
aueienis were smarter at warfare than we.
The defenders of Jericho fell before the
blast OF q rams horn, while We have to use
whole haek of Rams to take Memphis
LOPinion Of an Eminent Person.
NOT IMP as>IBLE "A tobacco mauufactu-
rer adverrises a new brand as " Ladies' De-
light Our Cynical Contributor wishes to
know if that isn't lhe sort they make into
.WidoDs Weeds. -
QUERY BY CAuLKER.-ShaIl we have
any more pitched battles at sea, when they
have covered up all our ships with iron
plates
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