The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-28
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
JOKES.

Az cat may look upon q King, We
s,nnose an editor may speak TO the fres.
;Jant Well, then, Mr.. johnson, pleass
stick to your post, and speak US no .n tho
sneeches. Your veto message sm.
soundest political document tnas M n ~
pendence. Stand by that, then, % you.
platform. and instead of makingspeecnss
execute laws. Congress talks enough
for the whole country the demand nov
| is for action. Don't try TO silence You.
opponents by answering them, ioI yvu
might as we'll try to silence brass ke's's
by beating IL. -.
We have been requested, this iass
| month, to sign about dozen peutlonss
to Congress the only one we coyi%
think of signing would be TO the sMeo.
that some loquacious body woula a,s e,. .oet
stop talking aud go TO work, or else 'ges
I'M and git IF this country Is ever
mined. it will be by what Carlyle cahs
| Spouting Wretches.
The arrangements being MADE Dy oat
c;tv authorities for the reception OF the
cholera are growing. more ana PeI,ie.s
overv day. 1t will have the freedom
~ tie cityn extended to 1t immediately
On its arrival. Two or three rather ois-
NAL branches of industry are gettin8
ready for the emergency, and manogony
has gone up nearly twenty per cent.
At bigamy suit recently institlte !.
against young woman In EngIanu,
turned out that one or her nusuauuS ~ ~.
cd 7 little and the other Long. One
&c nmr f,,nny contributors, on hearingM
the ease. said he could imagine tne
woman addressing her brace OF husoand.
thus: Love me Little-love me Long
A correspondent who seems to take
,atriotic interest in internal-revenuS
pti;,irs suggests that rs we have MN
| aa,na task we should also have noo0ie
tax He thinks that If the two were
: r;cidly enforced, the national debt Wouio
"a he exiinguished in less than year.
) II ia reported that President Johnson
, having written to Fernando WOOD y
= consuit him about his policy, Fernande
: replied that he was not i'll the polSy
! business any more, ana Ieioiie" '''
r matter to his brother Ben.
1t il proposed to change the name , .
: the House of Representatives. IN w T ~,
= inpton To "The Stevens House,. IN
+ landlord of the hotel in this city oearinl
that name Indignantly objects. w
:, don't wonder.
!. We hear that a new Mutual Admire
"a ton Society is about to be formed II
~ Roston under the title Of 1.-THE Goo
"a FelIoes of the Hub" The presidency
II ii said to have been offered to Mr.. Long
10 ft,lloe. rs
n "They say that absinthe conquer
m love-" and 1t is probably for this reaso
st that number Of young ladies In Par
NJ have recently formed themselves into
IL society to discourage its use.
20 Mr.. Geo. Wood has taken a long leaf
n of Wallaek's old theatre (now the Brcat
'e. way) so that instead of being pulie
10 down it is about to be built up. 9ia
n e The Cumberland Coal Company .
~ expecting rapid rise in their stock
" account Of contract they have recent
-. made for the exclusive supply OF the
MAN navy.
Our pet brigadler has thrown aside
TT shoulder straps and gone to farmin
he He says "his occupations corn" ID
An Poor BUT RNATE.-Bancroft's eulot
IN. of Lincoln.
Good wine needs no push.-NeW 70
- Saturday Press.