Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-01-15
Drihings.

Last week an inverted pair of boots,
stuck in billow Of mud, bore this inscrip-
ton: Farewell, Brownlow, I'll meet you
down below"
-"Pa, how many legs has ship?" GA
ship has no legs, my child" "Why, pa, the
paper says she draws twenty feet, and that she
runs before the wind"
"A Morayshire farmer recently sent the
following message to the lady of his love =
Tell her. he said, that gin she doesna haze
me, L Wilma kill mysel, but I'll pine awaP
Charlie, my DEAR said LOVING mothers
to her hopeful son just budding into breech-
es, Charlie, my dear, come hereand set sss,lte
candy L guess won't mind II now, moth
err, replied Charlie, I've got{in some tolsac;
Sally B. once asked theslate sey. Dr..
Osgood if he would sanction an eyening Ices
ture at Medford. '-'sS;' said the deelor, i
have no opinion of religion get b csndle-
light
-Coleridge was acknowiedged to be a lad
rider. One day riding through the street lie
was accosted by wouldSbe Wit Saw. 10
you know what happened tosBalahm
same as did to mean ass spoke % him. sai3
he.
get some sugar said mother to her preeo9
cious sou of eleven years. 'Excusc me. mn
l am some" hat iudsposed this n1ornina
Send father, and tell him to bring aspaper5cf
tobacco along
The Madison Argus told. newly mar
ried editorial friend that he would find a DIFF
ference between the matrimonial and edito>
rial experience. In the one case the devil
cries for copy, and in the other the copy cries
like the devil.
"A young widow who had married an
old man was forever speaking of my first
husband The second husband at first gen.
fly demonstrated. 4 guess said the young
wife, you'll wish me to remember you when
you're dead and gone Comforting
IA gentleman was promenuding street
with a bright little boy at his side, when the
little fellow called out: ooh, pa, there goes
an editor , Hush, my son. said the father
'donf make sport of the poor man, God only
knows what you may come to yet
* difideut lover, going to the father of
his gal to ask tho old man for permission to
wed her, found him at work alone in the mid
die. of ten-acre field, and asked him to SteD
ASIDE moment, as he had something partic.
~ular for his private ear.
"A coarse, ilknaturcd fellow died one day,
and his friends assembled at his funeral but
no one had good word to say about the de-
ceased. Even at the grave all were silent.
At length a good hearted German, as he
tqFtcd to go home, said: Veil, he was goot
schhoker."
i At fancy dress ball in Paris recently
lazy was seen in very low. bodied dress,
while floating and waving an abundance of
gre9 gauze. She was politely asked by a
gentleman what she personated. 'The sea,
MonsieHr" "At low tide, then, Madame"
IheFady biushed, and the gentleman smiled.
1.-The Franklin Ga=ette gives the follow
ing lucid explanation of the failure of the
star1Shooting display that was advsrtised.
around so promiscuously few weeks ago -
Read,and ponder: When the melofygistics
temperature of the horizon is such as to Sll-
orlclse the impurient indentation of the hem !
lsphere. analogy, the cohesion of the boraS
curbishs becomes surcharged with infntesiS
mails, which are virtually deprived of their
tissurai disquisitions. This effected, a rapid
charge is produced in the throamoumpar of
the gymnasticus palerium which causes cons
vacular in the hexagOual antipathies OF the.
terrestrium aqua versula. Clouds then; be- {
come mass of deodetomized speculae of Gers
emocular light, which can only be seen when
it is visible. This didn't happen, therefore$
the stars didn't shoot.
"A gentleman who recently put up at a.
log tavern in Wisconsin, was awakened by a
young man who commenced a serenade thus /:
s'Oh Sally Rice, +
I've called you twice, Z" 9
And yet you lie and snore.
pray you wake,
And see your Jake,
And Ope to him the door ;or the gins
dow, don't care muehwhish; 8
for
1t makes but little difference
To either you or T.
Big pig, little pig,
Root hog. or de-
DIDN'T MEAN HIMsRLF.--A- good joke il. s
told of acarpenter down South who once went
to see a young lady who liked him very much
He askedsber if she wo0Id marry a car
penter aud go out West. {.
Thinking he meant himself, she replied
that she would.s -