Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-30
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TUEsDAY................JANUARY 80
Fun and FrOlic.

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Nothing is more odious than that ir-
sepsibility which wraps man up in
himself aud his own concerns, and pre-
vents bis being moved with either the
joys or sorrows of another.
Coleridge was acknowledged to be a
bad rider. One day, riding through
street, he was accosted by a would-be
wit: /" say, do you know what happen
ed to Balaam2" Came the answer sharp
and quick" The same as happened
me. An ass spoke to himl'
Things should not be done by halves.
If it be right, do it holy; if it be wrong,
leave it undone. Every day is little
life, and our whole life ia but a day re.
peated. ef5.,1as
M The following verse contains all the
letters in the alphabet, and may be used
as an exercise for children in teaching
the letters:
God gives the grazing OK his meat,
And quickly hears the Sleeps low cry;
Bnt man who asts his fnest wheat,
a Should iey to lift his praises high.
a dilapidated wit observed on the
morning after debauch-"Had Lean
der practice swimming with half the
perseverance, of my head, he'd never
= have been drowned
A lady who had read of the extensive
manufacture Of barometers, to tell how
far carriage had run, said she wished
some Connecticut genius would invent
an instrument to tell how far husbands
had been in the evening when they just
step down to the Post Office.
GOLDEN MAuM-There is no greater
obstacle to success in any sphere than
trusting for something to turn mp, in
stead of going to work and turning up
something.
I" The rich" said the Jew, eat veni-
son because it ish deer; / eat mutton
because il ish sheep. LII
Gas we two are one," said witty
brute to his wife, "when beat you, /
beat half of myself"
"Well," said the wittier wife, then
beat your own half, not mine"
At Fernandina, Florida, many of the
white people let their children grow mp
in ignorance rather than send them TO
the same school with colored children.
The future of the two classes is not of
difficult augury.
A golden rule for young lady, is to
converse always with your female friends
as if gentleman were of the party;
and young men, as il your female COM
panions were present
An Arkansas butternut advertises that
"any gal what has got coffee-pot, and
skillet, and who knows how to taxa ca
of children, can hear of situation by
applying to the undersigned"
There are eight requisites to success
In law suit--a good cause, good
judge, good counsel, good attorney.
good witnesses, a good jury, good
purse, and last, though not least, good
luck.
A tenth beatitude was pronounced at
public Union of the Congregational
Union, recently held In Toronto. Itruns
in this wise; " Blessed is the man that
maketh short speech; he will be invi.
ted again"
"Will you take the Life of Sherman,
ma am, said Boston bookseller to Mrs
Partipgton, as she eyed the contents of
s his shelves. Land O. Goshen, nol'
replied the old lady; "why should 2
The General never mislested me-"
A Cleveland copper Spectator fell
asleep in church, from which he was
walked up by the pastors reading:
Surely there is vein Cor the silver
and place for the gold where they find
it" Jumping to his feet he shook his
book at the minister, crying, IN take
five hundred shares"
Baron Rothschild once complained to
Lord Brougham of the hardship of not
being allowed to take his seat in Parlia-
ment. You know" said he, ~ was
the choice Of the people" To which the
Z ex-Chancellor, with his usual causticity,
replied, So was Barabbas."
An Irish Judge had habit of beg
ging pardon on every occasion. At the
close of the ass ze, as he was about to
leave the bench, the officer of she Court
reminded him that he had not passed
sentence Of death on one of the crimi
mails, as he had intended. Dear mel
said his lordship, / really beg his par
dom"
A person in Paris noticed pool
man with wooden leg walking past hi
hotel, and gave him q franc. The next
day he saw the supposed beggar, but ht
had changed the wooden leg from tbs
right to the left. Enraged at the decep.
ton, he went up to the man, and ex
claimed; @You rascal, you had q
wooden leg on the other side yesterday
- You are not lame at alll'' Monsieur,
was the response. with dignity, /" neve
said was wear wooden leg 70
economy, so as not to wear out nI'
trousers, and | change the leg to proven
one leg of the trogsers wearing out be
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