The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-13
SENTIMENT AND FUN.
A little nonsense, now and then,
Is relished by the wisest men"
Men One Would Much Rather not
Meet,

Men One Would Much Rather not
Meet.
Men who mix a salad better than
any other men.
Men who ask you to listen while
they read out aloud something they
have written themselves.
Men who tell stories that run one
into another, so that you find it very |
difficult to get away at the end of any |
one of them.
One-character comedians.
Hero worshiper of the common |
stamp, by whom such pure minded !
earnest persons as Garibaldi are rem
dered ridiculous.
Men who have quarrelied with all |
their relations.
Men who have been betrayed and
abandoned in the most heartless man
ner by all their friends.
Men who have been prosecuted and
sWindled by general conspiracy OF
Men who initiate popular actors.
Men who are always asking, Don't
you think SOP"
Men who are always " putting a
case. y
Men who agree with you too much
Men who feel impelled to join issue
with you there"
Men who are technically enthusiast
tic on the subject of art, without hav-
ing any particular knowledge of 1t
whatever.
Men who will go on drinking the
best wine you can put before them,
and, when asked how they like it, re-
ply, ooh, pretty we'll; but the fact is,
you know, it's perfectly immaterial to
me what / drink"
Men who have received a testimo-
NAL
Men who quote Shakespeare.
Men who quote Byron.
Men who quote Artemus Ward.
Men who quote anybody.
John Randolph is said, upon one
occasion, to have visited race course
near the city of New York. A fash
: looking stranger offered to bet him
$500 on the result of the race, and,
introducing his companion, said: Mr..
Randolph, my friend here, Squire
. Tompkins, will hold the stakes.
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: Roanoke, who will hold Squire
Tompkins after [ give him my
money!?
Why is praising children like tax
: ing opium? Because it is laudanum-
lauding EN-.
Why is baker like beggar? He
!. kneads bread.
ten minutes" might as well have ad
ded / am killing myself by boiling
my food, and then trying to digest it
: over my papers at forty-fv [ shall
{ probably be either a broken-dOwn In
: valid or lunatic, but, in the NEAR
: time, [ am very much at your service.
: There is also CHASTITY humor abou
2 that other story of the host in a New
; England city who asked his guest, at
, midday dinner, If he would mind eat
ing his pie in the street as they walked
along.
STARTING A NEWSPAPER Mos
everybody has heard the anecdote o
Z Sheridan's telling his son to take
Z wife, when the son replied, Yes, ia
: Their, but whose wife shall / take? n-
s A similar story is the following: 4
( young gentleman says to the Colonel
2 few days since" Colonel, | wish t
5 start newspaper 9 Very well, y re
? piled the Colonel, which newspape
: do you wish to start?"
THE BEAUTIES OF EDITING.
editor says, in a recent letter to
friend: ''At present am in the coun
: try, recovering from fourteen years
Z editorial life-bad eyes, crooked back
z and broken nerves, with little to sho7
. for it. Any one would think tn
: three articles enumerated were quit
s enough to show for it.
z Pray, SIR said Judge angrily t
: blunt old Quaker, from whom no di
rect answer could be obtained, " D
= you know what we sit here for?
Yes, verify, do, said the Quaker
three of you for four dollars eacI
day, and the fat one in the middle 70
four thousand year.