Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-10-17

A friend of ours has the following way
of rendering Scriptural quotation THE
wicked flea, when no man pursueth but
the righteous, is as brave as lion"
A lawyer, one day pleading before
him, and using several times the express
sion "my unfortunate client" Lord Ellen
borough suddenly interrupted him
"There, sir, the court is with you"
You have played the deuce with my
heart" said gentleman to lady who
was his partner in a game Of whist
"Well," replied the lady, with an arch
smile, dit was because you played the
knave."
I. A young fellow once offered to kiss
Quakeress, "Friend," said she, "thee
must not do it.
"oh, by JOve but I must" said the
youth"
"Well, friend, as thee hast sworn, thee
may do it, but thee must not make a
practice of it"
A poor gentleman, with very scanty
wardrobe, was accosted by man in the
street with the words: "Will you buy a
truuk?" "a trunk " exclaimed the
gentleman; ''what for ?" 10 put your
honors clothes iu," replied the man.
"What," cried the poor gentleman "and
60 naked.'
(Which way do you travel from z"
asked wag of a crooked backed gentle.
man. ~ came straight from Wheeling"
was the reply. "Did you, said the other:
"then you must have been shockingly
warped by the railroad
Johnathan presented himself and his
intended to the minister for the purpose
of being married. Being questioned if
they had been published, "Oh, [ guess
so, for l told it to Uncle Ben, and he
told his wife morn a week ago"
Under the head positively the last of
the Long Skirts this Season" Punch
gives the following: "Hostess -'Oh,
how tiresome Somebody must be stand
ing on my dress Would you just run
down stairs, and see who it is, Mr..
Brown ?"
A Cincinnati justice of the peace was
reused at the dead Of night, recently, BY
couple who wanted to be married i'm
mediately. Not liking to take the trouble
to dress, he sent down word that it wa:
all right; consider themselves man and
wife, and come round in the morning t.
have the legal part performed.
The Methodist says: Surprising al
the trails worn this summer at the fash
ionable watering places were cut off even
with the ankles, how many poor children
would it clothe? How much woult
woman rise in the estimation of men 2
An innocent exchange remarks: "Sup
pose your aunt was your uncle, VIA
then Z"
Charles Dennison, a Democrats
member of Congress from New York
having succeeded in getting Presiden
johnson to send to the Senate the name
of several of his friends for appointmen
to office, all of whom having been reject
ed by that body of Jacobins, Mr.. DENIM
son called on the President to get hin
to send in the names of Others NO use
said the President, "to send in any NOR
names, for if the Twelve Apostles wer
nominated by me for office, the Senat
would be sure to reject all but one G
them and it is easy for you to under
stand which one would be confirmed.
In the United States there are 81 sal
miles of territory to each mile of railroad
and one mile of road to each one thol
sand of population. In Great Britain tn
proportion is nine miles area to one
railroad, and one mile of road to eac
1913 ofpopulation; in France the rati
is twenty. four miles to one of railroad
and one mile of road to LIP inhabitant
Belgium with one mile of railroad to e.
cry seven miles of territory, has moi
thorough network of railroads than an
otner country, while Russia, with a teri
tory twelve times the extent of the Bri
ish Isles, has only one-ffth the length