Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-06-04
WAITS

| 1t is often the case that men, for the
sake of getting living forget TO live.
AnIrishman's repartee is generally like
himself-pat ga ss
They make out about ten General Smiths.
| 1t is a very General name.-Prenties.
Mind you, child is not a wooden top,
that you can make come round, as you will
by whipping it. E srs
"a person who has been travelling ''down
East" says he saw plenty of pine orchards,
but no pine apples. @
- The Prince of Wales is credited with
the intntion of abolish ng the taileoat as a
full-drees garment, and substituting for it
velvet sack.
s - An exchange says: There is something
inexpressibly sweet about little girls The
Louisville Journal adds. And il grows on
'em as they get bigger"
- "You bachelors ought to be taxed" said
lady to resolute evader of the moose matri-
monial. az agree with you madam, was the
reply "bachelorism is great luxury
= In " Sancho Panza,' comedy by Dun
frem, the duke says, at the beginning of the
third act, 81 begin to get tired of Sancho."
$50 do ], said wag in the pit, taking his hat
and walking out. This sealed the fate of the
piece.
-"Why did Joseph's brethren cast him
into the pit asked Sabbath school teach
er of his class. Because, replied one young
LADY, " they thought it good opening for a
young man."
A lady in an omnibus at Washington,
espied the great unfinished dome of the cap
itol, and said innocently, 81 suppose those
are the gas works?" {" Yes, madam for the
nation" was the reply of fellow passenger.
-"How are YOU, John? I'm deuced glad
to see you" "Very well, Charley. Come
and take a drink, old fellow. 'Tisn't often
we meet" "That's fact, John-and when
we do it's meet and drnk?
There are occasions when the gentlest
and most delicate girl should be bold. There
ought to be in every young female bosom
reflection of that heavenly zodiac in which
the lion shines beside the virgin.
A paper asks very innocently, if there
is any harm for young ladies' to sit in the
lapse of ages. Another replies that ii de-
ponds on the kind of ages selected. Those
from eighteen to twenty-five it puts down as
extra hazardous.
A exchange commenting on the fact
that number of Cincinnati young ladies
have been married and carried away to other
places, says no city has better claim to sup
ply spare ribs for the immense west.
If there is a heaven on earth, it is on
soft couch by your own fire-side, with your
wife one side, smiling baby on the other,
clear conscience, dozen cigars, and knowl
edge that you are out of debt, and don't fear
the tailor, sheriff or the devil.
= elbow many kinds of motion are there?"
said a Glaswegian professor of physics to one
of his very bright pupils. Three, sir"
was the reply. "Three; name them" ''The
retrogade, the progressive, and the stand-still
notion" - t4
= A little fellow, not more than five years
of age, hearing some gentleman at his moth
er's table discussing the familiar line "An
honest man is the noblest work of God"
said he knew it wasn't true; his mother was
better than any man that was ever made.
= ' Do you enjoy going to church now ?"
asked lady caller of Mrs. Pennington. Claw
me, do" replied Mrs. p. " Nothing does
me so much good to get up real early on
Sunday morning, fix up, and go to church,
and hear real smart minister dispense with
the gospel"