Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-12-23

sparkling but perhaps the most trenchant Of
the French epigrams is thGf Of pifou oil tho
Royal Acndemy--to to which he was denied adj
mission. lie revenged himself by writing his
own epitaPh in the following immortal cOuplet;
q git PiFon Qui fW riea,
Ias meme Acdiemicidn
Which may translated tolarably thus:
Ilero lies Piroa. who ip worldly position
Was nothing-not even an Academi'idn!
A French savan once asked whether GCrmnn
could be bel esp,,t2 aud yet all Of tho epigram
misis from Martial TO punch Ootthold Leasing
is one of the wlticst, His epigrams were freely
stolen by COeridge and furnish the point to
many an English Joke in prose and verse. Here
is translator of one Of his cleverest epigrams:
" lie ia gone Mt hst--old Myers dead I"
Last night twas said throughout the city;
Each Iuidnunc grayely shook HE head.
And half the town cried, What pity !"
The news proved false twas all cheat
The morning came the fact denying
Aud all in the town to-day repeat
What half the town last night was crying
Aud h,r, is aucther;
Quoth gallant Fritz, al ran away
To fight again nnother day"
The meaning Of his speech is plain,
lie only lied to fly again
to have been written by piron:
From the grave where old Gripe-ali, the miser
reposes,
What n villianou' Odor inyades all noses
1t can't be his body nlone-in the bOe
Th4yve certainly buried the usurer'H soul!
" Anonymous is tho most prolific of epigram
msts. This exraoi dinary person, who il equal
ly At home in prose and poetry, fun aud philoso.
ply, iact and fancy, the most excellent and the
most execrahle If writer's; and, TO oWn his in
Vulnerable honors, the undouDte author of the
" Junius" etiers-this iuexplcablo fellow
whom nobody knows--has written more cpl
grams-gool aud bad, than al the rest of the
writers put together Fifty years ago he perpe'
trated the following:
ON A rALn LADY WITH RED NosED HUSBAND.
Whence comes it that in Clura's face
The lily only has its place
Is it because the absent rose
Has gone to paint her husbands nose
A point of wit which Holmes has made poetry
Of in one of his lyrics, thus
.The of her cheek was dissolved in his wine"
Soon after Lola Alou'ez arrived in this couu-
try, she lost II couple OF bracelets set with dia-
monds. One dropped from her arm in New
York, and the ether in Boston. The papers
talked good deal Of the matter and the Boston
Times ohrOniced the lady's misfortune in u
pathetic paragraph whereupon our versatile
friend Anonymous" wrote tha following con-
solatoty epigram:
Three jewels Of beauty and cost
Are loss il were bard tO sustain
But tt0O in America lost
She may chance to recover again
Some people were puzzled to find tue joke
but it was not the fault Of the epigrammist, We
are quite sure.
The following by the same author, in the
character Of "Joly Widower,' will bear
republication:
THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL.
My first was lady whose dominant passion
Was thorough devotion to parties and fashion;
My second, regardless of conjugal duty,
Was only the worse for her wonderful beauty
My third was vixen in temper and life,
Without one essential 10 make good wife.
Jubilate at last in my freedom revel,
For am clear Of the tcorid, the flesh and the dev
The following originated, we believe, in Vanity
Far.
ON DECOLLETTE DRESS.
That " effects arc same from similar cause"
Is one Of the famous SOoratian laws,
Whose falsty we may discover:
For quite in the teeth of the logical rule)
The style of apparel that keeps Emma cool
just kinuleh ilame IN her lover
ON a LADY WITH BRIGHT EYES AND A LOUD VOICE
Miss Blast is made of fearful stuff
Her eyes excite your wonder;
But then her vOice-so loud aud rough,
1t splits your head asunder
You bear her lightning well enough,
! But who can stand her thunder
woMAN's SMILE.
| TLa n,toh l,oya a sa,y ,,on, nn;nto1 - to...
That Z" q pretty girls smiles are the tears Of the
purse"
No mhtter--true diamonds can never be cheap
Lat lovers he happy, though purses should weep /
DOUBLE FAMINE.
| Our Southern neighbors roundly swear
They'll have no Yankee teachers there.
" Indeed I" (said TOm) " il that's the case
God help the helpless Southern race
With Western Larvests all shut out,
Aud Yankee teachers put to rout,
| How the poor fools will starve and stammer,
In double dearth Of grub and grammar r
KISSING cAsuIsrRY
When Sarah Jane, the moral Miss,
Declares It's worry wrong to kiss,
I'll bet shilling 1 sec through it
The damsel, fairly understood,
Feels just as any Christian should
She'd rather suffer wrong than do i'll
As "Single-speech Hamilton" is famous for
having made good oration after which he never
spoke in public again-so there are authors who
have left in print o single epigram. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, orator, dramatist, and uni
versal wit, wrote the following on the occasion
Of the Prince of Wales complaining one day at
Brooee's that he was cold but, after drinking
three glasses OF brandy said he was comfortably
warm. The old prOverb that "one swallow does
not make a summer" is the Jue deprit;
The Prince came in and said twas cold
Then raised the ruby RUNNER,
Till swallow after swallow came,
When he pronounced il summer
Erskine, also, has left us his epgam:
The French have taste 10 all they do,
While We are quite without
For Nature who to them gave gom
To JUS gave only gout
little girl, observing goose with yoke on,
exclaimed
Why, ma, there is a goose got corsets on