The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-27
AN INNKEEPER's SIGN.


formity to the modern practices of
selling tea at public houses, an inn
keeper at Stratford, near London, has
placed in his window the two follows
ing stanzas: snsA 1A4f th ao AsntAH
fteA yeu want. you win not get It here,
Gin; rum or brandy which you like TO
Matchiess in quality, and nne in flavor. =
But for your tea. I'd rather have you go,
when e'er you want 1t, to your friend, the
50 live IN harmony, like friends aud
And do DOT tFespssson the rights Ofothera.
.rSs SCANDAL AND TEA. as =
I'm avs re that the grounds in our cOffee.
Furnish very good grounds TOR COM
A4th6Ggh scandal and tea. wise philOsO-
One IS easier to drew than TO paint.
I have found that hot .oater to each is al
CGrays discussion, now pray don't be-
For you cannot have one without it's app
a LOGICAL CONCLUSION. a
Thou'rt like treasury note, sweet Annie
Grant me thy haiid, and Twin prove it
Hark yei thep say that. I'm your sworn
A tender Lee gaias,a legal tendeft
Mr.. Alexandra Dumas, Jr.. was
asked by lady. whom his preface to
the celebrated Dame aux Camel
has 4 had provoked, I" Who has given
you the right 70 speak SO about
women?" - 81 ~ ..s
No one has given it to me, mad
anne, = replied Dumas yfls; . have
bought it, 1aA
Some one was boasting to a great
lady that his heart was dried up and
perfectly indifferent.
1t is like mine, = she replied g
have never loved anything.
+" > Not even your ehildren22
" Oh! yes, when they were little
and my diamonds, toe"
w hen they were big the gentle
man added. G'i1
Europe corrupts our young repub-
licans. Little Miss STAIRS being pre-
seuted to the Emperor, he asked her
first name. has atff
Helen, she replied.
l could wish, mademoiselle, that |
were Paris, gallantly returned the |
sovereign.
Impossible, sire, since you are
Erance!" said she, with ready wit.
A German tin and iron worker once
hill to a Captain for /
Elm Scheidirum of bipe." The +
Captain puzzled long over The item, T
aud so did his agent. Who would /
ever imagine that the worthy Teuton +
that a very plain way Of |
spelling one sheet of iron stove /
pipe" ma.t1 ra
A story is told of q young lady,
eacher at one of our Sabbath Schools. /
Fho one or two Sundays ago, asked a
Toungster what was matrimony. He
the question for purgatory,
md promptly answered, "a place or
tate of punishment IN this lifewhere
ONE souls suffer for time before
hey go to heaven = No 5aa
A good joke Is told of a young man
rho attended a social circle, few
venings since. The conversation
urned on California and getting rich.
'om -, remarked that if he was in
he would, instead of work
az in the mines, waylay some rich
pan who had a bag full. of gold,
mock out his brains, gather up, the
old and skedaddle. One of the
Dung ladies quietly replied that be
lad better gather up the brains, as he
vldently stood more in need of that
rtIcle than gold. Tom subsidized.
The ruling passion strong in death
'asl characteristicsily Illustrated on
ne occasion OF. elergyman'ss prayer
or dying toll keeper. The poor man
ad not many hours to i've, and the
lergyman was IN the middle of his
rayer: Whist q vice." interrupted
ae toll man, think I hear a cartT'' =