The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-06

The following Is recommended as
receipt for making bologna sausage:
Take an eel skin and stuff 1T with
ground cat; season it with Scotch
snuff and persimmon oil; lay it on
hog pen 70 dry. and then hang IT up
by the tail in a grocery for three
months for flies to give the trade
mark, then 1t is ready for USE"
A NEWSPAPER at Martinique, hav-
ing received two warnings, decided to
give up politics and take to literature.
His first issue, under the. new regime,
contained La Fontaine's fable of the
Wolf and the Lamb" whereupon
the Governor suppressed the paper as
insulting to himself. @
THE cemetery at Tippinsville is
about undergoing various improve
ment. In the course Of an argument
in favor Of the proposed renovation,
good old Deacon T remarked that
It was a duty to render the place as
attractive as possible, because"
with sigh, we shall all be buried
there II zoe heel 81
EVERY third man and boy in Bos-
ton whistles the airs of the Grand
Duchess as he goes through the
streets. An evening or two since one
of the brethren at prayer meeting
unconsciously led off with the Sabre
Song, and only discovered his error
when the meeting didn't join in the
Glorious. " 49,
AN exchange says that a freed
woman in New Orleans, bought a
skyrocket, under the impression that
| it was an ornament for the hair, in
which position she wore it until sa-
| gacious urchin touched it off.
THE President of the Detroit Com
mon Council is a good speller The
/ other day he appointed committees on
hidrolix, helth, " public bid
ings, 8 licenses, . : markits, " etc.
A EUROPEAN Professor has sue
ceeded In photographing the beating
of a persons heart. What a neat
/ thing for an absent lover to send his
adored would be carte of his palpi-
tations on gazing upon her portrait.
WHAT we call rubbers the Phila-
delphians call gums. A gentle
man in that city and his wife, coming
to spend an evening at house where
they were very much at home, he en-
tered the parlor alone. and to the
question. " Why, where is Emily? "
answered, " Oh, Emily is outside
cleaning her gums upon the mat =
whereupon there was a mOmentary
look of establishment and then a peal
of laughter. ot
GEN. GRANTS brother, Oryille
like himself, is very reticent. Las
week he was in Galena, H., when 3
friend drew from his pocket a splen.
did knife and presented 1t to Mr.
Grant, making a speech, which, fol
the sport of the thing, he spur out tC
considerable length. Mr. Grant re
sponded as follows Colonel, this is
Just what I wanted. Thank you"
SEEING THE CHIPS FLY. Some
wears ago, a young New EnglaDdei
found himself In the back part oil
Pennsylvania, ashore as to the mean;
of living. In this strait he applied to &
wealthy Quaker in the neighborhooo
for help.
!" | will furnish thee with work, and
will pay thee for it, friend, said the
Quaker; "but it is not my custom to
give aims to one that is able to labor
like thee" aaiaR ..i aoHu
well that's all | want, replied
the Yankee; Of course, I'm willing
to work" &
What can thee do, friend?'
Il will do anything to get little
money to help me out of my Difficult.
ties. 49,
Well there's a log yonder, and
there is an ak. Thee may pound oil
the log with the head of the ak, anC
if thee is dilligent and faithful, IWil
pay thee dollar day" ."e
(" Agreed; I'd as soon do that a
anything else.
And so the youth went to work ant
pounded lustily with the head of tn,
ak upon the log After time b.
paused to take breath then he begal
again.
But after an hour he stopped
threw down the ak impatiently, an,
walked away, saying: I'll be haDge,
if I'll cut wood without seeing tn
chips fly.
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, Tobn q Wheeler vs. Alfred B. Curling Ed