The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-24
HUMOROUS.
W. c. o.

a.. tG LIE foLE AND BAsoN.--Dean Swifts Bar
pc, per told nm one day, he had taken public
house, whats your sign % said the Dean
A ooh, the pole and bason and if you worship
would only write me few lines to put upon
it, by way of motto, / have no doubt, but it
would draw me plenty of customers" The
Dean took out his pencil and wrote the fol-
lowing couplet, which long graced the bar
bers sign - f15- trs.r5 1ss.ssIs ts .f
.'Rose not from pole to pole, but STEPPING here
Where nought excels the shaving but the beer -
-i,a1 Young ladies are often asked why they blush
-'l4 Q 50 often when spoken to about their lovers,
esE but they are seldom able to gvea satisfactory
answer. Taking pity on their bashfulness a
writer Ill the American Medical Gazette fur
la nishes the following lucid explanation of the
beautiful phenomenon: sThe maid COMMUNE
Gates with the central ganghon, the latter, by
reflex action through the brain and facial
nerve, to the organ nerves in the face, with
which its branches inosculate" The mystery
t9Ec2 is now perfectly clear
aot 80 In the last independent the editor of that
81 paper Is called all sorts of attery names, and
~ IS announced as one ''who to-day stands in the
ss,4F foremost rank OF American editors poets and
popular orators! Zine preaching in Wor-
eester yesterday said a certain old clergyman
q oi to a brother parson in the street. "Ah you
~, don't say SOL who preached?" ~ did, quietly
s replied theunassllmng divine
sson,i. PARsoN PArTEN-It has been said of the
,srsoy good-natured but eccentric Parson Patten,
sin az the curate of Whitestable that such was his
81 love Of punch, that when his sermons were
too long, if any of his auditors held up
lemon, he would bring his discourse to an
,aoss abrupt conclusion that he might be at liberty
tssa to adjourn to the public house.
Cupid is busy among the coored population
Of To,,nac NhoC Io1I,, L. e Al
9th of August says: "The clerk of our county
,sasea court issued during the month of July 422
a5ot marriage licenses. The number issued to white
persons IS; to colored 406-He issued as high
as LOG in one day. Is there a county in this
State can beat this?"
siaIls a clergyman, at the examination of the
Qn5 be young scholars of his Sunday school put the
following question: "Why did the children
of Israel set up golden calf" Because they
had not money enough to set up an OK" was
the pupils reply. .r Il
,.sh "A witness in the police court at Troy, a
few days since, answered ''No' so persstenty
1'sg to questions put to him. that the suspicious Of
,,,;5 the Judge were excited, and on making in
49, h quires, he found the fellow was Dutchman
aa alwho. did not understand another word of Eng
ata lish.
Among the sayings attributed to Admiral
''S' farragut is one that ''you no more make
s4--, sailor out of land ubber by dressing him up
.safd- IN sea-toggery and putting commission il
aEcTl7 his pocket than you can make shoemaker
sal y" of him by filling him with sherry cobbtersf'
u, Uneasy lies the head that weares crown.
This may be the reason the ladies have dscar-
ded the crowns of their bonnets
80 e5fol5 God news for bad punsters-the Russian
"a s7i Chamberlain and ex-Secretary of State Alex
ander Popof, is deadH ~
~ AMIABLE.-Father, do fish bite now? You
@" stay at home and they wont bite you Exit
Tommy. -i--
~ 4s''4 Shakespeare says that "use strengthens
41"~ habit" Somebody says he tried the expert
ment on coat but it did not answer at all