Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-25
A year old to-day is listle Molly
Romring. noisy, fat and jolly:
Too young too walk, and like a polly
wog excited she es froli-
cking about he door, and gollyl
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RomFing. noisy, fat and jolly:
Too young too walk, and like polly
wog excited she es froli-
cking AsoTtthe door, and goliyl
i Wha laught ~
Leonine verses are those in which the
terminations rhyme with the central
words. An inscription in the Chapter
House of York Cathedral isa beautiful
specimen of this:
''Ut Rosa hos forum sic est donfus ista domorum.'
FOREIGNERS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
The English language must appear
fearfully and wonderful y made'to for
eigner. One of them, looking at pic
ture of a number of vessels, said, " See
what flock of ships"
He was told that flock of ships was
a fleet but that a fleet of sheep was
/ called flock And it was added, for
his guidance in mastering the intriea-
cies of our language, that "a flock of
girls is called bevy, that bevy of
wolves is called a pack, and pack Of
thieves is called gang, and gang Of
angels is called host, and host of
porpoises is called shoai, and shoal
of buffaloes is called herd, and herd
of children is called covey, and covey
of beauties is called galaxy and gal
ax7 of thieves is called horde, and a
horde of rubbish is called heap, and a
heap Of oxen is called drove, and a
drove of blackguards is called mob,
and mob of whales is called g school,
and a school of worshipers is called a
congregation, and a congregation Of en-
giHeers is called corps, and a corps of
robbers is called band, and band of
locusts is called a swarm, and swarm
| Of people is called a crowd, and a crowd
of gentle folks is called the elite, and the
elite of the eity's thieves and rascals are
called the rogues, and the miscellaneous
crowd of the city folks. is called the com
munity or the public, according as they
are spoken of by the religious communi-
ty or secular public. HaI =,
Now, again, the Hudson River is fast
when the ice is immoyable, and then the
ice Disappeared very fast, for it was
loose A clock is called fast when it is
quicker than time; but man is told to
stand fast when he is desired to remain
stationary. People fast when they have
nothing to eat, and eat fast, eenseq lent
ly, when opportunity offers Z
A story is told of Germaa7who at
tempted TO court in English, with the aid
Of dictionary. Having obtained an in
terview with an English lady who, hav-
ing recently lost her husband, must be
open to new offers, he opened the bust
ness thus: r.
High born madam, since your hus-
band have kicked de bucket"
"Sir !" interrupted the lady, astonish
ed and dispIeased
"Oh, pardon-nine, ten thousand par
donst Now l make new beginning
quite order beginning. Madam, since
your husband have cut his stick"
1t may be supposed that this,did not
mend matters; and reading as much in
the lady's countenance, he said, perspir-
ing with shame at having second time
missed fire
Madame, since your husband has gone
to kingdom come" -
This he said beseechingly, but the lady
was past precipitation by this time, and
rapidly moved toward the door. Taking
last hurried look at his dictionary, the
German few after the lady, crying out
in voice of despair
Madame, since your husband, your
most resnected husband have hA-,a-a L
twig-
This was his sheet anchor, aud as this
also "came home" of course the poor
man was totally wrecked. 1t turned out
that the dictionary he had used had put
down the verb ster5en Ito die) with the
following worshipful series of equiva-
lents: 1. To kick the bucket 2. To
cut ones stick. 3. To go to kingdom
come 4 To hop the twig; to hop off
the perch into Davy's locker. ~
A French gentleman, who was caress-
ing dog one day, remarked: "DOve
de dogs, de cats, de sheep, de pigs, in
fact anything vat is beaStly."
Of course, we make as funny mistakes
in other languages, if we only knew it.
Miss Blank it is known, is accustomed to say
| Many very queer things in very queer way;
But Of all her mistakes, the absurest and oldest
THE HUMOROUS VEIN
An individual is told of as doing bust
ness in one of the markets, who is down
on customers who don't speak properly.
"What's eggs this morning? says Gus
5 toner. eggs, of course" says the dealer.
"I mean, how do they go ""G Go
where2" "Sho-l" says the customer,
getting up his fury, "what for eggs ? "
"Money, money, sirl or good endorsed
credit IL SAYS the dealer. ''Don't you
understand the English language, sir2'
SAYS the customer. Not as you mix il
and mingle it, don'tl" responded the
egg merchant. What-is-the-pr
per dozen-for-your-eggs? ''Ah
now you talk" says the dealer Six
teen cents per dozen, is the price, sir d
They traded. But it appears that anoth
er customer, who, on asking, What!
eggs this morning." was answered
"eggs, of course" responded, "well,
. am glad of that, for the last 1 got of yor
: : were half chickens"
A Dutchman had two pigs-a large
one aud small one. The smallest be
ing the Oldest, he was trying to explain
it to customer, and did it in this wise
t "The little pig is the biggest" Upol
+ which his vrow assuming to correct him
| said: You will excuse him; he n
& speak as good English as me; he n
means to httiu pig is te ptggestI but t
+ young little pig is te oldest" ~
: In Dutch translation of Addison
/ Cato, the words, "Plato, thou reasones
r well" are rendered. ".Just so-you ar
i very right, Mynheer Plato" 1lL
e "The dear little things" said an oil
o nurse of her mistress twin children
n lone looks so much like both, you can
a tell t'other from whichW SzL3s1
le The contradictions of pronunciation
I, the termination ough are amusing
Ie displayed in the following lines:
swife, make me some dump1ings of dough,
They're better than meat for my cough;
PRAY let them be boiled till hot through,
But not till they're heavy or tough.
Now must be off to the plough, .H II
And the boys (when they've had enough)l
Must keep the lies, of with hough, -