Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-18
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The reason ~iy tall men best succeed 10
mssrimony, if th-y do, is because all senslbis
women favor Hymen.
One Of Sir Boyle Roche's invitations to sn
Irish noblsmsn was rathsr equivocai II hope
my lord, il ever you are within mile of my
house, you'll stay there all night"
John Rogers might have learned something
from Prof Blot. The careless fellow let his
stake burn while he was cooking himseK
That's whats the martyr"
The author of the following atrocity is doubt
less and deser edly bachelor | msan no dis
paragement to the fair sex when / say that
woman was not in the great architsst's orgi-
nal plan OF the creation. She was but an At
terthought."
Sam. Why don t you talk to massa and tell
him to lay up treasures in heaven ?" What
de Us oh layin treasures dar, whar he neber
see um aginf'
A teacher of vccel music asked an old lady
if her grandson had any ear for music Wall,
said the oil woman al really don't know
Won't you take candle and see ?"
The most ehaste writer of the present age is
the editor Of Memphis .4-pedi, Who vas chased
from Memphis to Grenada, from Grenada to
Clinton, from Clinton to Jackson and 20 to At
lanta, and from that point tn the A'l-ntc
Saxe's " Mourner la Mode:
Her robe h I'd the hu= of the rest.
(Iio4 nicely fitted her shApe!)
Asd ths grief that h,aD,.g ker breast
Artemue w ard, who designs soon leaving for
Europe, says in a recent letter to = Portland
paper: :"l had intended sailing from Portland
but | an told, though your steamers leave pune
liz sald he pfh HEP
will deter me from patronizing them. i would
not die in the spring time, unless 1t was necss-
sary."
Atan early sitting of ihe-County Court
Judge J-presiding, quaint old Frenchman
arr.igned on charge of petty larceny. At
ter heeriog his defense, the Judge sentenced
hin TO prison for thirty days, upon which the
Old Canadian broke forth as follows Shuge;
YOU know not what YOU do ! You sent me to
shall ten mJnths il. 5 an n II ash Twelve months
~ 2. Wia,er, no care; M now you sent me
to sa9ie thirty d4ys il Sucker tune My God
Snuee, you kno" nor what you 90 y
"John y said guest a, B,rnnm's hotel to
the garcon of the African p-rsuson who waited
on him, = give meeof7e, sv o9-.'lay.
,iy name is Daniel, SIR" said John. Il
Ink YOU were soldier 10 Buffers army, Dan 4,
were we're you when Richmand fell = "On,
nasss, was in the nes dsn." .se-you
va. Daniel in the lions den ~" Was there
ans of your name in your reg ment, Daniel ??
YES, sr," - Then you were second Daniel.
Were YOU ever arrested, Daniel p "On, yes,
massa, [ was court m4rtIaed." - Then Daniel
came to Judgment P''' said Mr.. Trumps. com
paceutiy aud thereafter subsi 'ed.-Washing-
ton Republican.
The following teas. was given at an Irish
Society dinner in Cincinnati =" Here's TO
the President OF the Society, Patrick ORif-
erty I; and may he live to aEe the hen that
scratche over MS grave.
"Won't you cut open penny for me, faith
er," said a little girl, when she came home
from school one day.
"Cu, open a penny! What do you want
me to do that Tor ?' asked the father.
Cause said the girl, - our teacher says
in every penny there are iour tarthings, ~r d
| wan. to see them"