The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-22
HUMOROUS.


cause it is an internal transport.
The real champions of the ring
mothers with daughters to marry.
Here is an expressive epitaph,
which, alas, would fit many grave:
Poorly lived,
And poorly died,
And no one cried.
You can insult any man but baker
by calling him big loafer.
A novelty in the way Of advertising
is the announcement connected with
rooms to let that there will be no
objection to few children.
Rev. Mr.. Talmage, of Philadelphia,
stated that a raid was made on a
brewery in his city recently. and that
two bushels of rats were found in the
bottom Of the vat. .a
After long march, during the late
war. a captain ordered, as a sanitary
precaution, that the men should
change their undershirts. The O. s.
suggested that half of the men only
had one shirt each Tue captain
| hesitated for a moment, and then
said: Military orders must be
obeyed : let the men change with each
other"
In Philadelphia a man brought suit
against railroad company for de-
Quoting the revenue tax from his
| coupons. on the ground that it was
/ Obhging him to pay tax twice on his
/ income but the court decided that It
/ would not have that effect, as he could
/ deductth the sue. fromthe gross return.
/ Here is another
| TRIES FOR THE BACKS OF UNREAL
/ BooKs.-A pleasant amusement for a.
| casual evening party Of young people
/ may be found IN setting all hands to
/ initiate Hoods capital fun of making
/ titles for the backs of unreal books.
1t is not uncommon In England for
! door opening out of gentleman's
library to have shelves on il, with
sham volumes upon them. consisting
of the backs of books only, and we
know of two such doors In this city.
Il Some have lettered these deceptive
works with the names of the lost
books of Livy, and so forth and it
( will be remembered that the late Duke
of Devonshire asked Hood for some
titles to be used on such door Of
the library at Cbartsworth. Hood
replied with a long list, of which the
following are all we now recall:
Lambs Recollections of Wolfe.
Nautilus Attack of Infantry.
Boyle on steam.
Johnson's Conrradicti0nary.
Cursory Remarks on Swearing.
The game, if such Ii may be called
was tried the other evening at a party
of young ladies, with the promise that
the best titles should be published in
a certain Gossip. and here they are:
Michaux's Life of Forrest.
Burr's Life Ia Chestnut Street.
Emmet's Life Of his Aunt.
Drinker on Alcoholic VapOrs.
The History of Old Maids By a
Singer Of the Declaration of hide
pendence. eo.EU IS EeA
Youatt on Dogmatism.
Cobb on the torn Law ~.
LongfelloW on Life s Shortcomings.
StTiPPgetellow s oP Capital Punish
ment. -
Trotter's Walks through the United
4 States.
4 Scraps from Baeon. By A Fry.
!. Hogs FAles. Appendix BIZ Twist.
.iFd Elegant Extracts. By a Dentist
ifH9 Teaching SitnpIifed. By Birch, with
cuts .-6-1si4at d ul a
her Fishmn-NetePFoftsl r. &.
4 The Qaadr96n. With portrait in
4 mezzoHnt.ias evl i
4 Lumberman on theArt Of FEELING
Timber With wood eRtss=-
: Reflections on Mirrors. BY A. Man
tell g" - asa =
. The Artyot bookkeeping (Not to
be borrowed from this librarys) aoa7
: illustrations of Honesty. With steel
: engrayings
a Fossil Footprints. With fitho-
graphs ala.o-5E - i- $50
Aaxmihan poem. By Napoleon
g BASE BALM THE FAMILY.-Ar
exchange tells of a man who became
50 infatuated with the game of base
ball, that he insists ont running the
g home ? machine on the base BAL
system. His children. being quite
numerous, are assigned to their re-
% spective positions, and the servant
ordered to take the first base" His
& wife, whose word none dare dis.