Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-13

Some slandering bachelor says it 10
much Joy when you fret get married,
but it 10 more jdrg after q year or 90.
The unsuccessful spinsters on their
way home from the watering places are
called BY an exchange, soar returning
Veterans"
A beautiful young lady sprained her
foot last week on the top Of Mount Mon
adnock, "badly luxatipg the joint and
splitting off the internal eondyle Of the
tibia," at least the Boston Transcript
says 30, and she was carried down on the
backs Of eight strong men. She must
have been "a whale" 20 take eight strong
men to carry her. f
We have no doubt abe had good deal
Of whale bone about her. &&4i
The Ash Illinois 10 en- route for home.
They will be Wormly greeted by their
many friends Ii has been one OF the
most servicable regiments in the field
during the war Cairo Advocate.
George, you would certainly feel bet
ter by taking five cents worth of soorm
candy at single dose Try 1t, and snt-
fer no longer.-SAa~Heetos0D Mercury.
"My friends" said returned mission
airy, at one Of the late anniversary meet
ings, "let Us avoid seclarian bitterness.
The inhabitants Of Hiudostan, where I
have been laboring for many years, have
a proverb that, Though you battle a
dogs tail in oil, and bind it in splints,
yet you cannot get the crook out of it.
Now q mans sectarian bias is simply
the crook in the dogs tail, which cannot
be eradicated; and hold that every one
should be allowed TO wag his own peculi-
arity In peaceP A4A& go
A Cairo paper says that at the hanging
OF two negroes in that city everything
passed off most pleasantly" No doubt
the negroes passed OFF very pleasantly
| indeed 0 Ct
Our youthful joker tells us that Miss
| Buchanan once rallying her cousin, an
officer on his courage, said, Now, Mr..
Harry, do you really mean to tell me
you can walk right mp to a cannon q
mouth without fear2'' "Yes," was the
prompt reply, FOR 10 a Buchanan {
| either" And he did IL. $50.
A CHEERFUL REPoRT.-In the release
of certain rebel sympashizers OF Mis-
souri,, ON condition of residing outside
the State, they were required. to report
| to the Provost Marshal weekly. One oil
them recently reported in the following
cheerful strain:
To The ProUost Marshal, Department Of
| Missouri: 80
DEAR SlR--I am alive and kicking.
am at work on farm four miles north
east OF Quincy, Ill, at the rate of $50 a
month, payable in greenbacks. / am at
work for fine old gentleman, and be
has O charming daughter. / love her
and she says she loves me, SO by the
next time report I shall probably
tell you how have made it.
The MusoufTo TO TIT SLrEPER.-Thus
he "goeth " for him, in poetic numbers:
Hum, huml shut your eyes, sir; a
within. mimi don't be scared, sir, 20 to
sleep; your sheets were aired, sir. Mum
Alb y-m-n, it is | am singing; / won't
sting you, sting, I'd sCorn to do SO
mean q thing. A hum BUG ii is, not ME,
that bites. Take carel don't slap, new
er fights. Slapl whangl Take carel
you nearly hit me. 'Twasn't me, my
friend, that bit ye. There again its come
to blows-why man, didn't touch yoar
nosel What in the worlds the use OF
slapping-your own face. when you
should be napping7 A-h-em-nI don'l
be alarmed; you really ought to be quite
charmed. A wham again--there, there
now 60 to sleep. Ahal you're going
Now for feast, old chap; / go in. All
right; he's gone; I'll have my fill. Say,
old sleepy, here's my bill.
A RAT BARBER SHoP.-We have read
in several papers recently stories of rats
drinking whisky and getting on husts,"
but the following incident told BY a
friend in this city beats all of them:
had very good razor and on that
day purchased cake of almond soap.
After going through my usual tonsorial
"manipulations," laid them both
down In the window--the aforesaid win
dow looking down out upon back yard
in which is large mulberry tree I
noticed while shaving four or FIVE large
rats looking up ut me from underneath
the tree. The next morning my razor,
soap and brush were all gone, and no.
where to be found in the room. But i'm
agine my astonishment upon looking
down under the tree, and seeing an old
grey rat busily engaged shaving another,
whilst three or four were sitting around
waiting their turns. They had all my
things, and O box of blacking (stolen
from my neighhor, Bob. Fleming) with
which TO black whiskers. Before break
/ ing up 'the shop" / found good many
shinplasters, but no hard money