The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-10-22
v arieties.

SHE Loves NOT WIsELY.-We hear OF a
New England school marin, not a thousand
miles from Danvile, who is desperately in love
with big buck negro, as black as crow.
The on dit runs that she wooes him equal to a
greasy moth wooing a Pickering candle, and
that "Sam" reciprocates the passion, but his
mother and father are dead down against the
match This information comes in such a
shape as leaves no doubt on our mind as to its
truth, otherwise we would not notice it. Per-
haps the objection of Sans parents could
be removed by the painter S brush
A rich city is Chihuahua ii. e. city of joy,)
in Mexico. Most of the houses therein are
built of ore, from which the silver has been
only partially extracted. The number of in
habitants has been reduced from $4,000 to
10000 An American proposed lately to
buy all the buildings, gradually, and to ex-
tract the silver from them.
Why was the giant Goliah very much
astonished when David hit him with stone?
Such thing never entered his head before.
A gifted African of boot-black persuasion,
while dancing like ST. Vitus over customers
boots the other dry, observed his partner
porting intently over newspaper, whereupon
the following colloquy ensued
First member Of the frm-"Julius, what
you looking at dat paper for? you can't read"
Second member-"Go way, fellah; guess
can read; Use big enuff for dat
First member-"Dat amt muffin "A cows
big enough to cotch mice, but she can't do it, i"
A German statistical writer remarks that
the invention Of the sewing machine has ena-
bled one woman to sew as much as hundred
could sew by hand century ago: but, he CEN
tinues, ond woman now demands asmuch clio
thing as hundred did century ago-so that
matters are not so much changed after all
We may owe it to our enemies to forgive ;
we owe it to ourselves not to forget.
The estimate of the tobacco crop Of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina the present season
is 100000 hogsheads.
1t is wiser and better to hold the torch of
truth to the mind than the torch of persecu-
ton to the body.
Brick" Pomeroy says he hopes when Gen.
Butler dies he will be buried all in one place
If cut up in chunks and buried in different
cities, thieves would grow from his grave spon-
taneously, as do mushrooms from a compost
heap.
We find this in an exchange: II once met
a man who had nerve-and-bone all healing
salVe; ne Was an enUerprlslnS Sort OF lelloW,
so he thought he would experiment with it.
He first cut off dogs tail, and applied some
to the stump-a new tail grew out immedi-
ately. He then applied some to the piece of
tail which he cut off, and anew dog grew out,
He did not know which dog was which.
Douglas Jerrold calls women's arms ''the
serpents that wind around mems necks, kill
ing the best resolutions
That class of serpents can just wind around
our necks as much as they please, and if any
of the young ladies believe what Jerrold say,
they can come and try the experiment on lis.
Well risk the consequences
Theophilus Cibber, who was very extrava-
CANT one day asked his father for hundred
pounds. ....
BOUNDS, sir" said Colley, " can't you live
upon your salary? When was your age
never spent farthng of my father smoney
"But you have spent good deal of my
fathers money" replied Theophilus.
This retort had the desired effect
Tennyson should have excepted the Dead
Sea when he said every sea is full of life f"