The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-11-22

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How can you support such characters,
while you put on long faces and pray in Sab
bath schools? Hartford Times.
There is much said, both in the Texas legisla-
ture and out it about dividing the state OF into
two states.
Some think there is now no congress known
to the constitution. Quite many think that
there ia no constitution known congress
Prentice.
seThe ocean speaks eloquently and forever
says Beecher YES" retorts Prentice, "and
there is no use telling it to dry up.
A miserable wretch in New York abandoned
himself to his cups when his wife died, saying,
by way Of excuse that he ''never could bear
prosperity"
"Ha p exclaimed Mr.. John Thomas, the foot
men, standing with his coat tails drawn forward
and bis back to the kitchen FIRE, "lve neered a
good deal about the cattle complaint, but am
Apply to cay it 'aven't yet attacked my calves"
"What makes you look so grum, Toni" "Oh,
had to endure sad trial TO my feelings
| "What on earth was it? "Why, l had to tie on
pretty girls bonnet while her ma Was looking
on"
els it possible, miss, that you don't know the
names OF some Of your best frends! inquired
gentleman of lady. Certainly" che replied.
II don even KNOW what my own pe yoaf
hence
A paper asks very innocently..f it is any harm
to sit in the lapse Of ages. Another replies that
it all depends on the kind Of ages selected
Those from eighteen to twenty five, lit puts down
as extra hazardous.
gypsy woman promised to show two young
Iades their husbands faces in pail of water
They looked and exclaimed
"Why, we only see our own faces"
"Well," said the gypsy, "these faces viii be
your husbands when you get married.
An exchanges, in noticing the presentation of
silver cup to eotempor.r,, says He needs
no cup. he can drink from any vessel that con-
tains liquor, whether the neck Of bottle, the
mouth ofa demijobn, the spiie OF key or the
burg of q barrel
LoSe AGO "A lady who was very Submissive
and modest before marriage, was observed by
friend to use her tongue pretty freely after.
There was time" he remarked" when l
almost thought she had no tongue"
''Yes, said the husband, with a sigh, "b2t It's
very long since"
A CEEssriAL VIsioS.-euin, being asked by
lady why there were more women in the world
tina men, replied:
cit is in conformity with the other arrange
mants OF nature, madam; we always see more of
heaven than earth" - 81 rv--
A correspondent asked how much we lost on
the election! Not any thing-not even our tenn
per. And be should have been satisfied with
the victory he boasts without adding he chopped
the devil will have us before another first Tues
day in November" But We don't believe the
devil wants as; he il looking for chap 80 a lees
price who calls himself - RApIcAL."-BoSfest
Post
James B. Glentworth, q well known citizen of
New y ork, died AT Wiesbaden, Germany, Oct.
Sth. His name was connected with the whig
election frauds Of 1910, by which voters were
introduced into New York from Philadelphia,
under the plea that they we're to be used for lay
ing Croton pipes; hence the term 'pipe-laying"
in politics.
The Rev. Mr.. A. was more eminent in
his day for the brilliancy OF his Imagination than
the force of his logic. At one time he was
preaching 1.-The Ministration Of Angels and
in the peroration he suddenly observed 81 hear
4 wisperi" "he change of tone started the dea-
con, who sat below, from a drowsy mood, and
springing to his feet, he spoke: Il guess it is
the boys in the gallery"
1t is the fashion III California for gentlemen to
take their families to the country aud camp out
for q month. They pitch their tents and lead q
sort of Gypsy life, shooting, fishing and cooking.
The doctors object to the fashion, it is con-
ducive to health. There are any number of la
dies who can handle a double-barre with eject,
and bring down their birds with the aonehalaRce
Of old sportsmen.
Goethe was in company with a mother and
daugh liter, when the latter, being reproved for
something, bushed and burst into tears. He
said: "How beautiful your reproach has made
your daughter That crimson hue and those
slvery tears become her much better than any
ornament of gold or pearls; these may be hung
on the neck of any woman, but those are never
seen disconnected with moral purity. A full
blown flower, besprinkled with purest dew, is not
so beautiful as this child blushing beneath her
parents displeasure, and shedding tears of
sorrow for her fault. blush is the sign which
nature hangs out to show where chastity and
honor dwe!l.'
sTFEy-Lso."-Look out for the blue-tailed fly
keep your eye on yonr sugar-lump-"Lor' bless
yer soul, sabe yourself honeyn-a new game, has
turned up for the freedmen of leisure. We bas-
ten to lay it within their reach. 1t is called "fy
loo" and beats keno and draw poker all hollow.
1t is very simple, and can be played BY ANY num-
Der of darkeys. The players all put up stake,
and after the pot is made up, each one puts a
lump of sugar on his tongue, and the one who
closes his potato trap on the first fly that lights
on the sugar, rakes down the .spondulix. OAR
keys may be seen sitting in the sun ont west play
ing ''Ry-loo," and their tongues hanging out like
so many yards of red 1anneI.-HoJHe .Adpertser;
One Of the graduated confidence sports of St.
Louis recently played new "dodge' on q coun-
try dame. He came up the river to st. Louis,
and while on board the boat warmed into the
good graces of q Mr.. and Mr.. johnson by his
graphic descriptions of the various places along
the river. Arrived at st. Louis Mr.. Johnson and
his friend Miller took a stroll to see the sights,
Mrs. johnson remained on the boat. After TAX
ing johnson to a portion of the city where he
could not find his way back, he left him there,
rushed for the boat, told his wife that her hns-
band had been arrested and twenty dollars were
needed to insure his release. He got the money
but in a short time thereafter got caught"
The New York Journal Of Commerce says;
Gen. Mcclellan has for two years past been
Withdrawn from immediate communication with
the American public, and wholly removed from
all our political complications. The health of
his family has claimed his entire attention. He
has passed the last summer at st. Mauritz, a re-
mote and quiet bathing place in Switzerland,
seldom visited by travellers, whither he was sent
by the orders of physicians At the latest dates
he remained in this village, the highest inhabited
village in the world, detained by the same causes
which have guided all his movements. The ho-
tells were closed, and all summer travel had ceas-
ed but, we are happy TO say, he writes with
more cheerful and hopeful prospects.
The editor of the Smithland, KY, Times
has evidently been on a big tight, and is re-