Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-14

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GONG 10 BosroN.--A sweet little girl
in New Haven, only three years old. was
promised one evening that she should
accompany her parents TO Boston the
next morning. She was much elated at
the prospect of the journey, and when
she had finished repeating her little.
prayers, as she laid down TO sleep, she
said, with. most exquisite simplicity,
"Good-by, God-good-by Jesus Christ
am going to Boston in the morning"
PRKcou1ous "A little grim Lewiston,
before going to bed the other night, said
she Fret wanted to " say her prayers and
have some whisky This style of
Christianity must be rather bracing for
young people, thinks the Journal
The performance of juyiniIs prodigies
have hitherto been confined to theaters,
balls and concert rooms. Bat noT pro-
cocity has begun to appear Ia the pulpit
The natives Of Yorkshire have, accord.
ing to contemporary, been astonlshed
1y-
A Box PRRAoHER--On Saturday
last Two Sermons were preached in the
Methodist Free ChuEch, North Washing
ton, BY a youth aged thirteen years
Crouded congregations were attracted,
aud the collections amounted to E3 os,
which will be devoted to the purchase of
a harmonium." +ss 49, .~es
For the boy2 Surely an accordion
iwonid have done as well for q young
gentleman only thirteen years old; per.
hsps, indeed, the infant Preacher wonld
have been very well satisfied with q
penny trumpet-English Paper.
"Nobody ever lost anything by love, "
said sage looking person. & That is
not true" said young lady who heard
the remark, ''for ! ones lost three nights
sleep"
Mr.. Quibble, reading that at has been
decided in the Court of Queens Bench,
an Dublin, that q clergyman of the
Church Of England can legally marry
himseIf," observed that that might be-
very vel as measure OF economy, but
ihst@ve IN the hardest times BIO shonld
prefsr to marry woman. z.
Next to being q bride herself every
young lady likes to be bridesmaid.
Wedlock is thought by large proportion
of the blooming sex 20 be contagious,
and, much to the credit of their courage,
fair spinsters are not at all afraid Of
catching it. Ass AB4
So far as official conduct is concerned,
when you have seen one bridesmaid you
have seen the whole facinating tribe.
Their duty seems TO be to treat the bride
AS victim led with garlands TO the
sacrifice" They consider il necessary
to exhcrt her to cheer up. Her fair as
saistanta provide themselves with pungant
essences lest she should faint at the try
ing moment, which, between you and
me, she has no more idea Of doing than
she has of dying. 1t ia true she some
times tells them "ishe feels as If she
should sink into the earth, and they re-
spond: "Poor dearf' and apply the
smellin-bottle; but she nevertheless goes
through the nuptial martyrdom with
great fortitude. In nine cases out Of
ten the bridegroom 10 more frustrated "
than the fragile and lovely creature at
bis side; bat nobody thinks OF plying
hisi, poor fellow If one of the grooms-
mea does recommend him to take q
glass of wine before the ceremony, to
steady bis nerves" the advice is given
auperciliously, as who should say
"Wbat g spoony you are, old fellow
Bridesmaids may be considered as brides
In what lawyers call-ths "ineohate" or
insipient state. They are looking for
ward to that day of triumphant weak
ness when it ehall be their turn to be
"poor dear creatures" and otherwise
sustained aud supported, as the law of
nRptial prstences directs. Let US hope
they may not be. disappointed.
. AFtemus Ward, in de-
scribing his journey from California says:
The driver with whom sat outside in
formed me, as ge slowly rolled down the
fearful mountain road which looks down
on either side into an appalling ravine,
that he has met accidents in bis time
that cost the California Stage Company
a great deal Of money, "because said
he, "juries is agin us on principle, and
svery man who sues as is sure to recover.
But it viii never be 40 agin, not with
me, you beti How is thas2' / said
II was frighfnl dark. It was showing,
Yithal, and notwithstanding the brakes
we're kept hard down, the coach slowed
windly, often fairly touching the brink of
she black precipice How is that?" /
said. Why, you see" be replied,
q that corpses never sue for damages,
but MANNED people do. And the next
time have an oVertnrn, shall 60 round
ans cheerfully examine the passengers
Them aa is dead I shall let alone; but
them as is multilated l shall finish with
the king-boltl Dead folks don't sue.
They amt on it. Thus, anecdote, did