The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-07
HUMOROUS.

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HUMOROUS.
AT tavern one night,
Messrs. 30 e. TRANCE, and Wright,
Met to drink, and sood thoughts to ex-
says More: "of US three,
The whole own will agree
There is only. one knave, and that's
Yes" says Strange, rather sore0
. I'm sure there's one More,
a most terrib knave and bite,
Who cheated his mother,
His sister and BROTHER"
- Oh, yes" replied More, that is Wright"
A LAST SALUTE.
BOB VARKIs, of the Metropolitan Record.
(the cleverest humorist of the day, we
think, since the exit of poor ARTEArUs
WARD,) not exactly a LoNGFELLow, but If
any one thinks he can't write verses, let
that person read the following, and then
apologize: HD-isf a ssh
't - eAD0o! OLD YEAR, ADooI aS
7- Gil out, old year. git ont,
q gafvf sAbskwatulate, yamOosel fr
To us foax hereabout,
NO more, you amt no use.
f-tfg You are used up cuss
And we amt going to cry,
Nor kick up nary fuss, 1858
Becos you have to die. e
AS good year as you
Has died and gone to pot,
And You may go there too,
- And simmer down and rot.
don't care where you CO. fa.t
SOS you'don't come no more IN
To this here place, nor show
Up the old close you wore. 1a.l
The chap that's coming in
is jest as good as you,
And amt got nary sin fIrai iio
On him, becOs he's moo 1
Git out, old year, git ou.!z afl
Think of the foax you slooI
You're played out hereabout--
- = BOB vAkKrs.
WHEN person we'll replenishes a
fire how does it feel2 Gratefully.
SHoUeD47not drinker of corn
whisky always be afflicted by a aoasky
voice2 ia a. ia
MATCHLEss misery" has been de-
| fined to be to have cigar and moth
ing to light it with.
A LITTLE girl in Bangor, last Sun
day, astonished her Sunday School
teacher with 8 Blessed are the dress
makers.
The only General for whom we
feel any graet degree of respect is
General-News, . when he is we'll
dressed up. q - 1hIL
WHY was Goliah astonished when
David hit him with stone? Because
such thing never entered his head
before.
A HUSBAND, on being told, the
other evening, that. his wife had lost
her temper, replied that he was glad
of it, for it was very bad one.
PATRICK was in charge of "a ferry
/ boat. A lady passenger being fright
ened by the waves, asked him, . if
/ people were ever lost bylthese boats?''
/ He gave the encouraging reply, - lot
I often ma am; we generally find them,
afterwards by dragging the riVer.ii
ENTIRELY roo SENSITIVE. i - A.
Bachelor editor objects to taking a
wife, through fear that il, she should
habitually copy without credit, would
refuse to give him the credit for the
papy. ag ~ 9eG 0R d
AN English journal, in criticising
| a child's book. more meurnful than
merry, says, that $ to read to- any
child who does not ideseFve a whip
ping, would be an act of cruelty.n +
/ aFoR several weeks the Springfield
LEADER kept the following oonspicu3
ously at the head of its local column
boy wanted at this Office A few
days since the editor'swife presented
him with :" boy.R which, in a highly
significant way, shows the value Of
advertising. .aoffaH "
PA said Charlie to his. paternal
ancestor, holding a Sunday School
picture book, 9 What is that?''
! That, my son, Is jacob wrestling
with the angels. - 81
- And which licked?" Inquired the
young hopeful. 4
T. AaLITTLE girl seeking CELESTIAL in-
formation, asked her mother; s Have
angels wings?" The uhsuspecting
mamma, full of memories of pictures
and traditions, answered I" Certainly
they have" Straightway young in
quisitive sprung her trap: 9'Then
what did they want ladder for to get
down to Jacob?' History does not
record mamma answer. fG
A FEW DAYS ago. while a noisy mem