The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-10-09
HUMOROUS.

We seen many rirl
Who would marry a ehurl
Provided cc'd perty OF gold,
And would live to repent
when the money was spent
When she found tina, her heart had beer
sold.
/ II Is sol 1t sol
You may smile if VOC like.
But is sol
! sc known many a lass
49,, Who would thoughtlessly pass
Whole hours parading the streets,
While her mother would scrub
All the while at the tub,
Never minding the cold nor the heat
| Ii is 90 IL is sol
You may smile If you like,
But it's so
"A learned servant, whose wife has
high temper, being applied to by a
committee for information as to the
best method of preventing being
blown up by steam boiler, said with
sigh, All, gentlemen, that is of
small consequence but I'd consider
1T great boon if some one would
discover method whereby man
could escape being bloVa up by his
wife. "
The Grccian bend !, made to cover
about every attitude aud movement
that can be named. 1t includes the
siagger of tipsey Ounce, the wobble
of grncelcss cock, the awkwardness
Of lubberly lout, and the mincing
wr'eeling gait and inclination of the
elastic miss just opening into woman
hood
a marrying man in Brooklyn has
now his fifth wife and five mother in q.
laws in his house. His motto i.
"Let there be peace.
GRAMMATICAL LoyrLErrns IN POETRY
| Accept, dear miss, this article of mine,
For what's indefinite, who can define. 49,
My ease IL singular. my house IL rural.
Wilt thou, indeed, consent to make il
plurall
Something ! feel pcryades my system
through
| cant describe, vet substantially true.
Thy lorrH ~ feminine, thy mind renec.
tive
Where ali possessiyc good, M naught
objective,
IN positive none can compare with thee
In wit and worth's degree
First person indicative, but prove
Let thy soft passive voice exclaim, I
Love
Active in cheerful mood. no longer
ncutor,
III leave my cares both present, past,
and future,
But nh what torture must undergo
Till ! obtain that little Yes or No -
Spare me the negative to save eompunc.
ton
Oh, let my proposition meet conlunc-
ton
What could excite such pleasing recol.
lection
As hearing thee pronounce this intericc-
! will be thine, thy joys aad griefs to
Till Heaven shall please to poin, a pc
riod there
Gotham divides its attributes be.
tween the graceful Grecian bend and
the impressive Collie s'oop
SOUR GRAPES At tue SEASIDE
(SoHg Of The Ocean Roeer)
LA, ha, ha, hal
Jones and his bride,
Portly Man ma
by the Seaside.
Jones on the snnd.
on the sea
Here do stand,
There sitteth he
So let it be
I'm on the wave,
Ilo' | am free,
lie is slave,
Family man,
Forced there 10 stay
BY Mary Anne,
What Jones must pay.
Hundred to one
Such were my lot
Her had / won
Glad did not
I'm in my yacht
She is not mine
Her Jones has got
I'm on the brine
Ger the Wild wa.e;s,
Through the white foan,,
Wife, sons aed daughters,
Cost me no home.
IIa, ha On billow
Sleeping, ride;
Head let Jones pillow
by the seaside
An unexpected breaeh-a breach
of promise.
The young bride she is dreaming,
All who that dream can tell
II may be Of some loved one
Ere !alsrhood broke the spell
~ IuNN b' VI 'n' f'f''E'''"
Who watches by her side,
And deeno she must be happy
Because she is his bride
The young bride she is dreaming
OF the luture, of the pnstP
But she Il wake, and smiles around her
Like q ray o. SUNSHINE east,
Her pride will keep her silent
She may speak Of other themes,
But her lips will never whisper
What she wept for in her dreams.
A lady well advanced in maiden
hood, at her marriage, requested the
choir to sing the hymn commencing
This is the way long have sought,
Ard mourncd because found It not
A melodious shower reignine
belle"
The place for a" Tanning the shrcw
Shrewsbury river
A young bachelor writes that he u
| exceedingly suspicious-