The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-15

! Or tangle-1oOt, or rich red-eye
| OF Bourbon's famous shilling.
Like new and fiery app'e Jack
= My love for thee IS BURNING;
/ Not cen for peach and honey had
e'er so strong yearning.
Thy beauty, love, ELECTS still
My fondest admiration;
/ And stu love thee, though my head
/ Should suffer co1fScdtt0R.
OIL like a mash tub boiIs my. heart
| IL. With hot love thou didst ill il;
And since thou rais'ds the storm, my love,
j. us thou alone canSt still It,
| II thou could'st my affection gtdge,
Inspect my heart, and measure
4 The h5qh-17r0of love with which It's filed,
/ You'd ne'el reject the treasure.
n ow these high eoif7les 1 send to thee,
All writ in lOhtshY meter.
They've been IN bond, as | would be
/ Tothee, my Charming "creetur."
Then fly with me, my peri, fly!
And be my bride and treasure,
And if they falsely brand US, love,
III whale them at my leisure.
And though your pa will rave and roar,
And cuss me for stranger. ..-.
A still house OF our own Wen have,
Far, far from noise and danger.
But now nay music begins to tire;
Her flight III put a curb on,
And drink a pledge 10 thee. my love,
In straightest, purest Bourbon.
ours gush1ngly, JOIN -.
What thing is that which the more
we cut the longer it becomes? A
ditch
The reason why ladies like to get
gentlemen on the string is supposed
ito be an ultimate knot.
Hate not. 1t is not worth while.
j You life is not long enough to- make
it pay to. cherish Ill will or hard
thought toward any one. 5
A Southern mariner is said to have
been So bitterly. partisan as. to refuse
to be guided by the North Star, and
the consequence was his vessel was
shattered.
Why Is R,young lady from boarding
school like building committee?
Because she, is, ready to receive pro-
posals.
l think our church will last a
good many years yet, said a waggish
deacon to his minister; | see the
sleepers are very sound.
HARD to BEAR, INDEED.-To a GER
tain extent the character of a man
may undoubtedly be told by his hand
writing. You may be sure that no
one of humane disposition would
bear hard-even on his pen.
Madam, a good many persons were
disturbed at the concert last night by
the crying of your baby" Well, 1
do wonder that such people will go to
concerts"
:" never complained of my con-
dition but once, said an old man,
when my feet were bare and I had
no shoes but [ met man without
feet, and became contented."
You lost two legs in the army,
you say: what did you gain by it?"
asked a gentleman of a prisoner.
Single blessedness, SIR he replied,
81 for after that no woman would
marry me.
No mind so bright but drink, will
befoul it; no fortune so ample but
brandy will beggar it; no business so
thriving that whisky cannot ruin.
The happiest it will I'll with misery
the frmest health dissipation will
shatter.
L "A sanitary supPOsition--A Scotch
lady visiting the city. complained
much of the hardness Of her bed. To
this her host responded that the
harder the heal hier the rest, even.
awhen the bed was as hard as board.
8 Oh, ahl cried the Scotch woman,
lrzthese viii be the neW-fangled Boards
of. Health / hear telliof3'fH % e
A gentleman. who entered a BARRIERS
shop to get.shaYed, was recommended
by the operator to raise a mustache.
= 1t is inlpossi bieys replied. the gentle
man. 'sOh, MOI insisted the ton.
serial artist oh, no! Fam certain,
sir, you could raise a mustache-a
light Summer mustaeheg1b q A-s.i
That preceeiQus sPittsfela boy has.
been heard from again, He was in
quisitite about the reason for clean
ing up his plate, and asked his mother
hlt ltfwOuld nOtamake him grow rich,
Il and was answered af6rmatively. The
next morning the passage in Scripture
teaching that "a camel can go through
a needles eye easier than rich man
can enter the kingdom of heaven. was
read. .TtNas Is tiat really sop said
he. She gave him to understand that
such was the literal meaning of the
text, when be, exclaimed, I sban't
clean up my plate any more then. for
want togo to heaven" no t-is ID