Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-03-31
HUMOR, WIT AND WISDOM.

we seek reIreSS Tor injuries, we
find it in juries.
A good definition of Congress Water
Rum.
1T is the emigration fever that car
ries off people.
Connected people are always happy,
they do so enjoy themselves.
All men can act well; few men can
write, paint or carve well.
Let your hair turn gray if it will,
but never say dye.-Prentice. i
Why lis wit like a Chinese lady's
foot? Because brevity is the sole of it.
That man is not good enough for
any place who thinks no place good
enough for him.
DIR. Chaplin says: The cause that
never made fanatic never produced a
martyr
The phrase, ''fxed as the everlas-
ting hills, is, quite inadmissible.-
There never was hill that didn't slope
What is the difference between ac-
cepted and rejected lovers The ac-
cepted kisses the misses, and the re-
jected misses the kisses.
Philosophers arc like graveyards-
they take all things just as they come,
and give, them decent burial and a
suitable epitaph.
The first institution vouchsafed to
our race was the Sabbath /; the next
marriage. So give your first thought
to heaven, the next to your wife.
The winning-post to the race of
life is a slab of white or gray stone,
standing out from that turf where there
is no more jockeying.
Beautiful was the reply of vene-
rable man to the question, whether he
was still in the land of the living mo,
but am almost there"
ga traveller" wishes it explained
what sense there is just now in the
term railroad securities" seeing there
is no security on any of the railroads.
"A vengful individual, in the exu-
berance of his rage at some one who
offended him, said: 'I'll have revenge?
By Jove I'll give his little boy a tin
horn"
When gentleman stares at a young
lady, and she stares at him, thy are
apt to mount to the region of love by a
pair of stares. - Prentice.
| 1t is reported that President John
son having written to Fernando Wood
to consult him about his policy, Fernan.
do replied that he was not in the policy
business any more, and referred the
matter to his brother Ben.
The best reply to hiss in a public
meeting was that of Rev. Mr.. Stebbins
of San Francisco: ST hear hiss; did
ever a word of truth drop into the
vortex of hell without sending up 6
hiss?"
| MIR. George Moore read a paper
before the New York Historical Society
the other evening on ''North American
Rock Writing" &c. We are curious tc
know if he explained the mysterious rs
T.-1860-X.
An echo song
"Canary birds"-the pedler cried,
But scarce had said the words,
Ere Shocks, the joker, prompt replied,
In echo, mary birdsl"
Miss Braddon is about to turn edit
ress aud take charge of a new magazine
not bad name for it would be 'Tht
Powder Magazine" although wag al
our elbow suggests The ,-Bombazine.
| A magician once upon a time adj
vertised on his bills that the evening:
entertainment would conclude with the
mysterious disappearance of lady. He
kept his word, for at the close of the
performance he eloped with the wife o.
the man who owned the hall
"A London cabman said eff yor
run over a youngster down here, the
folks don't say nothin, kase they have
got more children and no whites tol
'em-but you jist run over goat or {
kid, or SOW or a pig, and I'm blest i
a mob amt arter you in two minits p