The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-16
THE DAILY CLARION
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Two young ladies are announced to appear
mt fancy ball in Paris as birds. From the
description of the costumes, it is evident |
striking feature will be the bill.
A good chorus for man who has gone to |
sleep in the fields-"Too-rural Too-rural |
Toorural-i-ay"
Brigham Young is indeed pillar of Salt |
Lake. His idea of wife is-Lots
\ Chicago divine was recently discussing
the subject Of baptism, and, after summing
up al the arguments in its favor, he said to
his opponent Il am not surprised that you
object to immersion, sir. for that was the
way Satan lost all his pork
Hogs have excellent ear for Inusic-but it
takes a dog to pitch the tune.
4 man. his wife and five children were on
train going Bostonwdrd the other dav
lie man took almost sole charge of the
children, and was also quick to anticipate
the wants OF the wife Two ladies were
seated near them, and one of them remarked
to the other Isn't he very attcntiye!'
Il should think he had been, ;" was the quiet
reply, as the fair speaker glanced ut the in
terestIng group of little ones.
The indianapolis Herald publishes the
following communication
mr. Edditur eye see hi the papueZ tibet
they is a maxim dretful furse A bout the
wurmz in hogs wich hez lately killed
NANNY in the dutch in prOoshy, jest zif they
wuz a moo thing Now Mr.. edditur these
moo tangled wurms which they hev dubd
trik III a sporialus, hez cggsisted in Maroon
kOunty for yeres. Last summer i cede a hog
"a lying on the kOmmOus mere the latitte
deepO wich had morn thOusen Ov EN-,
vizzibul to the uaket | without the ade ny
mikeTscoap the hog he'd bin ded a Bout
weaks that the larry 1--WE thease parrycides
in - a nal mot
for peTliticSle ctteck and j am responsible
for wot say A HOSS DOCKTER
A young lady went into a certain book
store for the purpose Of purchasing a piece
OF music entitled, when ! sleep, dream of
thee but by some Of those ludicrous mis-
takes which viii sometimes happen in the
best Families, she astonished the young man
by inquiring if he had the music entitled
when | dream, | sleep with thee The
mistake brought a modest blush to the
cheek of the fair inquirer-dittO to the
young gentleman.
Who was the first jockey Adam, for he
was the father of the race.
What kind ofpaper resembles a sneeze Z?
Tissue paper.
In country churchyard this epitaph may
be seen: Here lies the body Of John Rob
iu,on, and Ruth, his wife" Underneath is
the motto, Their warfare is accomplished"
"Sarie" for Sarah is the last illustration of
the 'ia' mania among young ladies.
A curious story is going the rounds of a
mistake in "A mustard plaster at hotel A
lady. whose husband was suffering from cold,
got up at midnight and went to fetch a mus
tard poultice. In her agitation she mistook
the room on her return, and went into one
where there was a light burning as dmly as
that she had leit-a room altogether similar,
and apparently her husband in bed fast
asleep. She applied the mustard poultice to
his chest. and sat quietly at his bedside till
it began TO draw but it drew an infatuated
scream from the poor fellow who had been
the subject of her unconscious solicitude.
AT the sound Of the uuaCcustomed voice, the
nature OF the accident which had betalIen
her, and her patient, was at once visible and
she rushed headlong from the mustard man
into the arms other lcIgc lord Both parties
told their story the next day, and had to
leave amidst the laughter of the occupants.
4 Western chap, in describing a gale of
wind says ~ white dog, while attempting
TO weather the gale, was caught with mouth
wide open, and turned completely inside
ont
1t is said that NAPOLEON. when he was ask
cd by DR.. O'Meara if he really thought he
could invade England at the time he threat
cued to do so, replied in the following ana
Whether this is true or not, we should like
10 see more ingenious or extended auagram,
which, the reader viii observe, reads the
same backward or forward
When a broker loses all his money he is
dead broke, but when he dies he is dead
broker.
If, according to Sam Weller, a soirce be a
leg of mutton and trimmings, what is a sol
rec dansante! Ditto with capers to be sure.
Fanny Fern says that the men like to pick
the ladies to pieces. We have certainly
found it very pleasant sometimes to take one
of them apart.
The Washington Star thinks the Chroni-
Gle let's off a pretty good one in saying in
relation To Senator Summers speech: The
public mind is just now wide awake to all
impending issues. and every great teacher
finds a willing and an cager d"dience' Ca Mig
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