Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-23


You may take he ghamrock from your hat and
1t will take root and flourish there though under
w6ea (Ee ~ can stop the blades Of grass from
And when the leaves in summer time their ver-
dure dare not show . %
Then y Will change the color wear in my eSrs
Blu. I'm that day, plAzs God. Inasiah % wsarin'
Of the green. -e.-t.r.s
III.
But n at last our color should be torn from Ire
Her sons with shame and sorrow from the dear /
81 ould coil will part.. - 4 ..-,+s y. |
I've heard whisper Of a country that Hes far |
Where rich and poor rtand equal In the light Of |
freedoms day. h. t-,- t-e ..-rst.i
Oh, Eric, must we lave you, driven by this tyrAnts
Must we ARK a mosHer,S welcome from STANCE |
where the cruel cross Of 'Engiand's thraldOm |
never shall be seen,
And where, thank God, wen live sud die, stiIl |
wearin' Of the green
A young lady being reprimanded for |
not recollecting the name Of friend, 4
replied: Why should / recolIect the I
name Of my friend, when 90 not know /
what mine will be year from this |
time" A
81 IN particularly uneasy on this |
point, as the fly said, when boy stack |
him on the end of needle. ID Il
The Louisville Democrat reports the |
discovery of ga large canvas-covered l
modesty enough to cover her |" trunk"
but decry the other lack of linen.
A little girl who had not behaved
properly at church, criticised, on her re-
turn, the dress of a lady who was there,
saying that i & had tuck very near the
hem, when her mother said reprovingiy,
al should think that you would have
been 80 much ashamed of your bad con-
duct that you could not have raised your
eyes from the floor" $50 / was, ma"
was the ready answer; " and having my
eyes cast down caused me to see the
bottom of Mrs. Rs dress"
TIGHT soUEEzE.-A young man recent
ly having succeeded, after much persua
sion, in getting kiss from a girl, went
and told of it. One of her acquaint
ances met her and said:
49, Mary, John says that you let him
kiss you s. / did let him, after be had
teased me over an hour; but it was a
tight squeeze even then"
$50 hoI'.' exclaimed the other, " He
did not mention that He only spoke
= of the kiss bat did not say anything
about the squeeze"
Will you give me that ringY said q
village dandy 10 8 lady, ',for it resem.
bles my love to you; 1t has no end"
Excuse me, sir," was the reply; 81
choose to keep itF as being emblematie
Of mine for you; ithas no beginping..s5s
Moral suasion ID effectuaIin Petrolia
A clergyman stopped by highwayman
there commenced feeling for his money,
at the same time saying: :" Y0u- can
havemy money, but for Christ,s sake,
and your own souls sake, give up the
business of highway robbery. The
freebooter dropped the pistol By bis side,
said: 'sYou can pass our" The clergy
manPassed. rTss ~ aN0uu9hu
A, sailor, in giving his opinion of all
the religious denominations, said: II
like the EpIscopslians BEST" and when
asked Why said, r" In all the other
churches you must sit mum and take all
the jaw, but in the Episcopal church you
can jaw back. + = r-..Ts-r-s u
f-ra aaa-s n 'a -
A tradesman recently told youth in
his shop to write in large letters on q
sheet of paper, Waited, stout lad as
light porter" The young scapegrace,
either from Ignorance or desire, wrote-
Wanted, q stout lad as likes porter.
Why is a convalescent dispeptic like
reprieved criminal2 Because he cant
digest yet 17-7 80 r --sr;s1i1 s--- HlE 3
REMaRKABEE MEMogY-sA lady in
Boston, now nearly seventy years Of age,
can, repeat all the Psalms of David and
Solomn's Proverbs by heart. r. s-'s-7' Z.
"Are you Christian Indian2" asked
a benevolent gentlemauHof one Of the
Chippewa tribe. No, sir, was the an
weri II whisky Ingen.e.ss err Aael
The wickedest liar is he who lies for
an object; the greatest liar is he who
lies without one. THaHrawAvE
A late San Francisco paper mentions
the iridiculous anticsa of some pigeons,
III who had become drunk from eating
grain that had been stepped in whisky,
for the purpose of " clearing them out.
One of the birds died; cat ate it, and
he died stoo--both Of the delirium tire
menG
Why ID person who resembles your
mother likes Hamletss father2 Because
/ he has an sYe-like mas. Z asg,a aiH,
The N. Y. Evening. Post gives the fol
lowing epitome of the late Lord Palmer
ston's character: No labor has, been
too arduons, no trick too mean, no zgri
1 mace too clownish, no lie to bold fol
him to adopt, wheffhis measures were Il
be maintained. rfes'1 ie.-1't h Ih5as -.HI
A wag met milkman the other day
and said he:
"Jinn, you ought to shingie them cows
of vours'aisr- ~pe-srfn4 -e-rt ar 70 t-esin7
dWhat for2' aEet RI
"To keep the water from running i
the milk.'tE eeE1 500 aA8kf6aA IVY
"Itfis vol to leave something forthos'
who come after u.s." as gentleman sale
who threw a barrel in theswa of O con
stable who was chasing himala a REW
AORIGIH OF THE PRIETERs DEVIL
When Aldus Manutius set up in bushes
as printer at1Veniee, he came in pos
session Of q httle-negro boy. This Be,
was known over the city asqtfthe littl
black devil" who assisted the mysteripu
! bibliofector; and some OF the ignoran
! persons believed him to be none ofhei
than the embodiment eff Satan, VIII
: helped Aldus in the prosecution of hi
4. profession Oae day, Maputius wishiu
to dispel this -hallucination by. publicity
4 displayed the young s'imps to the peore
classes Upon this occasion he mad
= this short but very CHARACTERISTIC speech
BE il known to Venice, thatsl Aldu
Manntiue, printer to the Holy Ghnrc
and Doge, have this day made public e.
posure, of the printers devil. All thos
who think he ID not flesh and blood ma
come and pinch him. - Scientific Amer
A BIT oFADyIcE FOB CHILDREN.-Yo
aresmade to be kind and generous an
4 maRnaninous. II there is boy
school who has club foot don't let hin
q know that you ever saw it. If there is
J poor boy with ragged clothes, don't tel
about rags when he is in hearing
Z there is a lame, boy, assign him som
mart of the game, which does not requir
running.g II there is a duh one, he
him get his Lesson. If there is brig
one. be notsenvious of him; for-if 81
~ 4 envious of them, there are Nv