American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-03-02
WIT AND WEsDOM.
POPULAR Balls-Cannon Balls.

POPULAR Dances for 1S64-Squad-
drills.
WHAT the will of heaven ordains is
good for all.
THE more true merit man has, the
more does he applaud it in others.
Why was ST. Paul like a horse? Be
cause he loved Timothy
| Why is a darkey never dead broke
Because he always has CENT left.
A TEACHER of penmanship in twelve
lessons, taught lawyer to read his own
writing.
81 AM going to draw this beau into
knot as the lady said when standing at
the hymenial altar.
THERE is an old maid out west so tough
and wrinkled that they use her head to
CRATE nutmegs on.
THE young man who wrestled with
fortune" is learning the science of box
ing.
OUR Jim says that getting in love is
like getting drunk, the more fellow does
it, the more he wants it. He knows.
Why me the girls unlike Napoleon ?
Because hcy favor the freedom of the
press.
WE apprehend that, during the coming
season, a great many oak, ash, chest
nut, hickory and apple trees will bear
butternuts.
81 WANT a safeguard" said violent
rebel to General Negley the other day
q Hang out the AMERICAN FLAG" re-
piled the General
A PIECE Of common sense that ought
to be remembered by every soldier when
his regiment is about leaving for the seat
of war-It is not right to be left.
SAM" why am Senators like fishes ?
II don't meddle wild de subjec"
Why, don't you see, dey am so fond
of de bate
Tom MOORE compared first love to
potatoe, because it shoots from its eyes"
Or, rather exclaimed Byron, because it
becomes all the less by pairing p
What folly the young man Of fashion displays;
To what childish pUrsuiis he is unwilling TO stuop,
m NJ en q e. n uls a.
No better amusement than chasing hoQp.
HANS, what is de matter ?"
"Dc sorrel wagon has run away nit de
green horse, and broke de azel-tree of de
brick house what stands by de corner
lantp-post across de telegraph
AFAcr-Habit in a child is at first
like a SPIDERS web-if neglected, it be-
comes a thread of twino; next cord or
rope; finally cable; and then, who can
break it.
WHITFIELD was accused Of rambling
in his sermons by one of his hearers, to
which he replied:
eff you will wander to the devil l
must wander after you"
A DUBLIN paper contains the follow
ing paragraph;
Yesterday Mr.. Kosny returned to town,
fell down and broke his neck, but fortu-
nately received no further injury!
To tell our own secrets is generally fol-
ly, but that folly is without guilt. To
communicate these with which we are
entrusted, IS always treachery, and trsach-
cry for the most part combined with fol-
ly.
A AscHooL-BoY being asked by his teach
er how he should fog him, replied "If
you please, sir, | should like to have it
upon the Italian system of pennmanship
f-the heavy strokes upward and the down
ones light"
How TO GET HoUsEo OUT OF a WINS
KEY BARREL.-Put the barrel in a secure
place, near a spring Of good water, on the
road to the grog-shop; go as Tar as the
spring, drop the money through the bung-
hole, take good drink Of water and re-
turn Loo Repeat this operation till the
barrel is full, knock out the bead, and
you have the price Of a splendid brick
building.
A coLoRED firm in Newark, n. Jersey,
having suffered some pecuniary embar-
rassments, recently closed business, and
the senior member gave to the public the
following notis -" De dissolution OBJ
coparsnips heretofore resisting swixt me
and Moses Jones in de barber profeshun,
am heretofore resolved. Pussons whot
ose must pay to de scriber. Dem whot dc
firm owes must call on Jones, as de firm
am insolved,"