Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-21
Pleasant Paragraphs.
AN OLD YARN vEEsIFIED.
"Prithee tell me, DimpledChin,
At what age does love begin?"

At what age does love begin?'
"Oh the rosy lips reply,
II cant tell you if try.
IT'S SO long I can't remember;
Ask some younger miss than I. =
Tell me, o, tell me. Grizzlcd Face,
Do your heart and head keep paceI
When does hoary Love expire.
When do frosis put out the fret
"Ahl r. the wise old lips reply,
youth may pass and strength may die
But Of love / can't fortokeH
Ask sone older Sage than ]. ;"
= Receipt for preserving the hair-Don't
marry.
- When is lawyer strongest2-When he
is fee-blest
= The boys who sang Eve won't go home
till morning" were probably in the lookup.
A Western editor says that the gas in
the city is SO bad that the man who puts it
ont has TO carry lantern to find ths lamp
posts.
-"Well, my boy, do you know what
'syntax' means?" said a schoolmaster TO a
pupil. yes, sir" was the reply; "the duty
on spirits"
- Mary Don't you think, Angelina, that
the close of the sermon was very fne?" An
gelina "Oh. | was SO taken with the clothes
of Miss Goldwraithe. that l didn't notice
the close of the sermon"
= In one of Josh Billings late papers be
says: THE sun was going to bed, and the
heav ms fur and near were a blushing at the
performance"
= When you see a young man and woman
walking down the street leaning against each
other like a pair Of badly matched oxen, it is
a pretty good sign that they are bent on con-
solidation.
-"She only wore single rose" accord.
ing TO the song. Rather light costume
Wind wasn't probably East that day.
- Ladies at the present time have more
liees than cat, for each night they shuttle
off the mortal coil"
Said Annals preceptor. "a kiss is a noun;
But tell me il proper or conamon?" he cried,
With checks of yerRillion, and eyelids cast
down,
''Tis both common and proper" the pupil
replied.
"A well known minister repudiates the
received theory that they have music in
Heaven. lie declares that his choir has given
him so much trouble on EARTH that the idea
of music in the world TO come is wholly re-
pugnant TO his ideas of eternal peace and rest.
-"Shrouds have no pockets" That is
the most concise and pithy apothegm We
have met with for many years. What is the
use of wasting life in the pursuit of wealth
when your last garment is minus even of a
fob?
- Two children who were recently disput-
impatient, the little damsel blurred out, by
the way of climax and as a clincher :--'.Well,
there is one thing my mother can do that
yours can't-my mother can take every one
of her teeth out once"
- A Nevada Sheriff, the other dav, serv-
ing the bill of complaint of Il husband, in A
divorce case FOR adultery. hit upon the wrong
woman and proceeded to read. The lady
stood amazed till he got to the char.e Of
adultery, when she fired frying pan loaded
with hot fat and doughnuts at him, and the
Sheriff quit the premises.
A discohsolate widower, seeing the
remains of his wife lowered into the grave,
exclaimed with tears in his eyes. "Well, I've
lost hogs, I've lost cows, but / never lost
anything that cut me up like this.
IVY, daddy, your feet are cold, and
| your hands are cold, and your nose is cold"
~ 4 al, let ufn be cold
"Wy, daddy, you're gong 10 die!
"Wa'al. guess l know wot I'm bout"
IVY, daddy, watts TO become Of me if you
| die?"
II dunno, and don't care Wat want TO
know is. whats to 6cem1 of ,ne2"
- Old MIS-. Bumblsbee SAYS that e'when
she was belle in the belfry of auld lang
/ swine, the gals used TO wear their bustles'
under the canopy of their petticoats, directly
! opposite their aprons, but the immortalized
/ huzzys oy the present generation, hist them
| to the toppermost of thesr craniums. and the
| dear knows that if all the other opportunities
| OF the feminine apparel rise in prop ortion,
] the respectable portion Of the immunity
won't dare to leave the inclusion of their
1 own domiciles.''