Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-15


QUERx.--May not the Kirages Of tn,
Desert be produced by the Sand Witches
there7
Az AFFECTING SEPARATION. - Tit
parting Of the Atlantic Gable.
Horace Greeley is to deliver the an
ual address ct the Minnesota Agricult
ural Fair. An exchange says that hi
subject will probably be "The Eradica
ton Of Weeds - Providence Journal.
During an irksoDe del y OF two hours
on the Troy and Boston Railroad tbs
other day, two young men, just to xii
time, proposed to two young ladies re
spectiveiy, and clergyman being q
hand, were married on the spot.
The Cigar steamer, it is asserted, viii
be worked By steam, not smoke o. hal
been supposed
Punch says the Cigar steamer 10 re
markable sea weed.
"Come till America, PATTI writes {
son OF the Emerald Isle, to his friend il
Ireland; tbs fine country to get a liv
ing in. Ali ye have 20 do is to get 9
three cornered box, and I'll it with brick.
and carry it to the top of four-storJ
building, and the man at the top does eli
the work.
A New Orleans letter-writer relates
that young officers in that city succeed
indifferently at speaking French. One
day one of them entering restaurant
asked for un eercHeiF "a bier. The
waiter stood aghast as the order was re-
peated. Impossible" replied the wait
er, Eve have only beer-lager." "Pre-
cisely what ] was asking for" cried the
officer, with an execration. But" said
the waiter, as he sat down the glass,
Monsieur asked for I'm ceTcueiE--a cof-
en-" A1f es s3e 4A tAe
A ten year old Sunday school boy was
asked by bis teacher, not long since,
what the phylacteries ofnAae Phariseet
were.
Broad hens, such as ladies wear in
their dresses" was the reply.
But the Pharisees didn't wear them
for the same reason that the ladies do,
did they7"
40 yes" was the wicked answer, z &c
be seen Of men"
A very loquacious lady offered to be-
her husband Eve pounds she would mo-
speak q word for q week. "Done,
cried the delighted husband, instantly
putting down the money, which the lady
as soon took up and put in her pocket
observing naively THAI she would secure
it until the bet was decided. Why
said the husband, havs won ii al
ready and required her to fork over.
Not at ALL" said the lady, "you are
mistaken in the time-I mean the week
after / am buried" The lady went
shopping the same afternoon.
The attention Of little girl having
been called &c e rose bush, on whose top
most stem the oldest rose was fading,
while below and around it three beautiful
crimson buds were unfolding their
charms, she at once and Rrtlessly ex,
claimed to her brother: "See, Willie,
these little buds have just awakened in
time to kiss their mother before she
diea."
An English NJ. p, who owned exten-
sive estates and possessed considerable
personal celebrity, was spending q few
days at the residence of noble family.
There we're several interesting and ac-
eomplished young ladies in the family, to
whom the honorable member, as in duty
bound, showed every attention. Just as
he was about to take his leave, the noble
mans wife proceeded TO consult him in q
matter which, she alleged, was causing
her no little distress. It is reported.
said the Countess, "thet you are to marry
my daughter L.. What shall we do7
what shall we say about it7' "Oh,"
quietly responded the considerable NJ p,
just say she refused mer !,
A SNAKE CARRIED I'M LADIES CRISo-
LINE.--One day last week q party of
young folks, male and female, in the
township of Franklin, went to the buck.
CHERRY rock, a distance of about eight
miles from this neighborhood. After
reaching the rock, the day was spent in
the usual way-by picking berries and
wandering over the vast plain Of rock.
Evening came, and the parties returned
to their homes. One young lady, after
reaching her residence and performing
her customary work about the house, re-
pared to her room to retire for the night,
and, upon undressing, what did she dis-
cover nicely entwined around her waist,
between her orinoline and under-gar-
ments, but snake fully twenty inches in
length. As might be expected, on max
ing such q discovery, the ladys feelings
can be better imagined than described.
She gave the alarm, when other in
mates Of the house came to the room and
dispatched his snakeship. 1t turned out
TO be one Of the spotted adder species,
which are very numerous on the rock.
The query is, how did the reptile man.
age to get in that positiou7 The only
way such can be accounted for is this:
Sometime during the day the young wo-
man must have been sitting down on the
rock, and the broad skirts now worn
might possibly have covered the snake,
which in its eEdeavors 10 escape got be-
tween the garments, and SO worked itself
up to the waist, unfelt by the party.
She states that several times during the
evening she felt sort OF gripping sensa-
ton about her body, but deiicacy in com
pany constrained her TO bear il rather
than attempt to ascertain the cause
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