The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-20
SENTIMENT AND FUN

This is the way candidates for Office
in Richmond, Va, announce them
selves: ba IIiEIJd iGssnssl -s.u
Judge Crump, it is said, gave three
thousand dollars to the Confederacy.
Mr.. Gilmer gave four years of his life,
and risked the wholel Who gave
the most? Let the soldiers answer at
the polls" 4lafa cd al sa
How do you admire this beautiful
example of reconstruction?
Speech of CONSERVATIVES,
proud to have the honor of addressing
you tonight. IWag of the head and
arms flung wildly-great sensation
| am about to call your attention to
the designs of the black hearted, black
republican abolitionists. They desire
to make the nigger-I say the niger.
the nigger-r-r, to make the black mig
gah, the curly headed niggah, the
thick Tipped niggah- che ha-h-e-e-h-
a-h-e-a- h h-h-h."
SHARP.-The past summer as a lady,
modestly attired, was on her way to
the city of New York, on board one Of
the Hudson river night boats, she sat
quietly reading in the ladies cabin,
when a fashionably dressed dame,
mistakingI her for servant, rather
ruGely aceosted her with & -
I" DO you know this cabin IS for the
ladies?" ~
"Certainly I do,a was the answer,
$ and have been wondering for some
time why YOU were here.p F8moj t5
A pretty girl says: IF our Maker
thought it wrong for Adam to live
single when there was not a woman on
earth, how criminally guilty are old
bachelors, with the world full of
pretty girls!" el
The following is list of com
memoratiYe weddings" Two years
after The aoedding is the " paper we'd
ding" the fifth anniversary is the
wooden wedding" the tenth ami
versary is the tin wedding; 1.-THE ff-
teenth the t'crystal wedding" the
twentieth the 9 china wedding;p the
twenty fifth the silver wedding"
the fftieth the golden wedding
the seventy-ffth the diamond we'd
ding" fa..9 dil7 r5"aHa1
A fellowwho has had the mitten'
more than dozen times, says that
the custom of joining hands In matri-
mony is said to be taken from the
practice of pugilists shaking hands be-
fore they begin to fight. 81 -am
The Fat Contributor stopped off
at Xenia, Ohio, on the Little Miami
Road, for dinner, one day. But this
is the way he relates it:
I" Twenty minutes for dinner the
brakeman shouted, as we approached
Xenia. Arriving there, | entered the
dining-room and inquired of a waiter,
What have you got for dinner?' .
Twenty minutes" was the hurried
reply. d = taia, ,',# 80
L told him [ would try half a dozen
minutes now, just to see how they
went. He looked confused, scratched
his head, and walked off. . e 't'. :"
I approached the man who took the
money. "What do you have for din
ner?" asked |. ~ "s e
I" Half a dollar, said he.
I told him / would take half a dol
lar. we'll done. Asked him if he
couldn't send me, in addition, boiled
pocket-book stuffed with greenbacks,
and garnished with United States
bonds. Postal currency wasn't bad
as a side dish. and stamps would do
for dessert. / would like to wash my
dinner down with National Bank
notes, on draft. I9i sge saH.al
! He said they were out of everything
but the bank notes, and he ordered
the waiter to go to the bank and
"draw" some. sa., v..7