The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1867-03-23
A CLEVER PARODY.

CLEVER PARODY.
on in the chilly night.
Ere slurnber's chain has bound me.
pull the blankets tight.
And tuck them close around me,
Feel dreadful chill.
without Of warmth token.
Prom bitter winds.
Through tatterd blinds
And window shutters broken.
SO in the chilly night
Ere siumter's chain hath bound me,
pull the blankets tight,
And tuck them close around me.
When remember all
The times IN wintry weather
That sheets and blankets fall
From off my couch together,
really dread
To go bed
Lest after hours dozin',
Without quilt
I'd waken kilt
And find myself half frozen
So in the chilly night
Ere slumber's chain hath bound me,
pull the blankets tight,
And tuck them close around me-
YorSG ladies, now adays make love "full tilt.
THE restitution among the poor of North Car
DINA is said to be very great.
No PEACHES next season in Western New York.
The cold weather has killed EN-.
were consumed last year.
New York rejoices in seven citizens whose col
lective wealth is estimated at $50 600 000
MAINE two years old colt sod for twenty five
thousand dollars.
If Colts pistol has six barrels, how many bar
rels ought horse pistol to have.
AN editor speaking of blind sawyer, says =
Although he can't see, he can saw.
THERE were thirty thousand marriages in Ohio
last year.
PIN has as much head great many authors,
and a great deal more point.
IDoL.-It is very proper for to speak of
lazy wife as his idol.
NOSE AND CHEEKs-A canter will give you rosy
cheeks; decanter will give you rnddy nose.
HEALTuY-Santa Fe is so healthy aplaee that
the people seldom die of old age or whisky.
A YOUNG lady of fifteen Summers, in Minnesota,
journeyed forty miles on skates in six hours.
MAD wag says Hiram Powers has Just executed
at Florence figure of Eve after the WATERFALL
WHY is a lady's bonnet like cupoa? Because
ii covers the belle.
The tobacco-chewer is said to be like goose in
q Dutch oyen--always on the spit.
Who is wise? He that learns from every
Who is powerful? He that governs his passions
Who is rich? He that is eontented.
A Coop GRouND.-A woman in Chicago. on Wis
itng her husbands Office discovering long hairs on
in his hair brush, has sued for divorce.
Who CAN TELL?-Not long since in the State of
Indiana, a Mrs. Day gave birth to four children
Verify, who tell what day may bring forth.
SERVED HIN RIGHr.-The old fogy who pocked
his head behind the times had it knocked sound
~ by a"passing event"
MAN that hords riches and enjoys them not is
no better Oft than the that carries gold and eats
thistles.
IT is stated that the only son of Hon. VIM. Day
ton. of New Jersey is to marry the only daughter
OF Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio.
Two hundred and eightytive gallons of sorghum
molasses were made from one acre of corn tn is
season by Rockingham, Va, farmer.
A coLoEEp man. formerly President Lincoln's
barber, is clerk in the u S. Treasury Department
at Washington.
A Chicago man tried to cut a Cincinnati mans
throat, because the Cincinnati man said that Gin
Cinnau was better city than Chicago.
WOULDN'T you call this the calf of leg asked
Bob, pointing to of his neither limbs. No
replied Pa, 81 should say it the leg of calf
SHOCKS says the words mo Cards. are affixed
to marriage notices because the parties played all
their cards before marriage. This is new theory,
and will be generally accepted.
THERE is a bashtul bachelor who dares not meet
ladies in the street. He says they wear so many
buges on their dresses that he Tears oyertures from
them.
THE lady who did not think it respectable to
bring her children up TO work. has lately heard
from her two sons. One of them is bar-keeper
on a boat, and the other is steward of a brick
ward.