Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-06-06
"i'Ve Got 'em Too"

Two whlskey-drinking friends, who had
been on a prolonged spree, wandered into
livery stable the other night, and were
allowed by the man in charge who knew
them, to lie down On bed ia the Office
to sleep of the fumes Of accumulated alco-
hol. Now, it happened that there was a
young puppy under the bed, in basket,
covered up with blanket. Suddenly one
of the men woke up and heard success
sion OF smothered barks coming from some
direction, he knew not where. Waking
up his companion, he said,
slim, do you hear that dog barking p
Jim didn't, Of course, because the dog
had stopped barking. He listened, and
hearing nothing, told his friend it
was but his fancy; there was no dog bark
ing; he had better go to sleep again.
.5"Din't you hear the dog, though p urg-
ed the other, growing suddenly excited,
and the sweat starting out of him.
'No, you FOOL said the other. aa
Then, Jim, [ have got the .tremens p
he shrieked, and attempted to leap out of
bed But Jim chung to him, and finally,
by soothing conversation. prevailed upon
him to lie still, and after little while the
frightened hummer went to sleep. '
jim didn't, however. lie was wake
full frofa nervous reaction, and the gnaw-
ings Of a remorseful conscience which "a
man feels when he is coming out de-
baucli. ..dsa te7 a-5 .-ss-
p Suddenly the puppy under the bed be-
gan to bark again. 1t was low, muffled
sound that seemed to come from the air,
and then there was something SO myster-
ious and weird in it that Jim. who sat
bolt upright in bed, shiyered in every
fibre. He listened with straining ears
and protruding eyeballs, and when he
caught the sound once mere .-ses<all.
that stretched his father cn a bloody BIER
CHATS what's the matter, the bloody beer,
he clutched his sleeping companion with
frantic energy, aid shook him until bis
teeth ratified, and shreked d2a @
1--WE got EN- too, Bill I've got EN- p
s'Got, what, Jim p ID il. =.
sssTremens p' z. Aaa s'f.d a
The hostlers were alarmed, and came
running in, when ali explanation ensued,
and the puppp who had caused SO great
agitation was found. Jim and Bill got
sober at length, and they haven't been on
spree since.
"A funny matrimonial affair recently oc-
Cured near Spirit Lake, MINI A green
justice married three couples in one batch
and about four weeks afterward discovered
that license from the clerks of the court
was necessary to make the ceremony legal
and he lost no time in informing the par.
ties that they were still single, though
they had lived together the intervening
time. The first couple were willing to risk
the consequences; the second consented to
be remarked while the third, having dis
covered in each other divers and sundry
shortcomings, refused to have the knot re.
tied, being satisfied with one month O.
.matrlmony, and glad to revert to single
blessedness. 3anr6yla 20 ea3 + s.a3P
Josh Billings says there is one cold
blue5slean9 kiss that always makes hin
shiyer to see s'.Two persons Gov the fe
ma .e persuasien) who have witnessed {
great many more younger and more pulpy
daze, meet in.some public place, and no
having seen each other for twenty-foul
hours, that kiss Immediately Then they
tork about the weather and the young
mea who preached yesterday, and til;
kiss again immegiately; and then thu
blush and larf at what. tina say. to cacl
other, and kiss again 'immegiateIy. Thi.
kind Of kissing olWais puts me in mind 0,
tew ole fints trying to strike fire." -Toa
A pretty woman, ike a great truth o.
great happiness, has no more right to bun
die herself under green veil, or any othel
abomination of a like character, than thu
sum- has to put on green spectaeles.s IL
So large proportion of all the appl,
trees in the country have not been in bloon
before these thirty years. So say the old
est orchardists.