The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-11

A correspondent at Clifton. Iowa,
sends US this: IAN Irishman in our
employ gave birth to tho following
bull: 'Jabers, Tommy, if | live till l
die, and dunno if l will or no, L
want to see auld Ireland again before
lave Clinton"
A gentleman observing a servant
girl, who was left-handed, placing the
knives and forks on the dinner table
in the same awkward position, re-
marked to her that she was laying
them left-handed.
"Oh indade," said she, $50 [ have
Be plased, Sir, 10 help me to turn the
table round"
An invincible wit and punster ask
ed the captain of craft, loaded with
boards, how he manage to get dinner
on the passage. Why" replied the
skipper, I'VE always cook aboard"
"CooE board, do your" rejoined the
wag. "Then [ see you have been
well supplied with provisions this
trip, at all events"
THE man with specs" who has
been doing the Asylum at Flint in
the Detroit Tribune, says that the
anniversary day is always looked for
ward to by the blind inmates with a
great degree of interest" OFF the same
piece was the remark of benevolent
individual, that he was willing to
take a mans word as to whether
he was deaf and dumb.
Never lose an opportunity Of seeing
anything beautiful. Beauty is Gods
handWritiDg-a wayside sacrament;
welcome it In every fair face, every
fair sky, every fair flower, aud thank
him for it; the fountain Of loneliness,
and drink it in, simply and earnestly,
with his eyes; It's a charmed draught,
a cup Of blessing
A straw will make an impression on
the virgin snow; let it remain but a
short time, and a horses hoof can
scarcely penetrate it. So it is with the
youthful mind A trifing word may
make an impression on it but after
few years, the most powerful appeals
may Geese TO influence it. Think OF
this, We who have the training of the
infant mind, and leave such Impress
ions thereon as will be safe for it to
carry amid the follies and temptations
Of the world.
The Topeka Commonwealth tells the
following: "A certain prominent legal
gentleman of Leavenworth, who has
a lOadness for the popular game of
'pieh, has been recently elevated to a
distinguished position in the Episco-
pal Church. One of his principal du-
tics is to pass the contribution has k
ct. A few Sundays since, this gentle
man came along with his basket to a
pew filed with pitch cronies, aad,
shaking the receptacle enticingly be-
fore them, said, Throw in your game,
boys; throw in your camel They did
throw in, and the finance of the
church was considerably set up
All this beautiful worldl | know
not what TO think Of it. Sometimes
it is all sunshine and gladness, and
heaven itself lies not far off, and then
it. suddenly changes, and it is dark
and sorrOWful, and the clouds shut
out the day. Ia the lives of the sad
'dest of us there are bright days like
this, when we feel as if we could take
{ great world into our arms. Then
come gloomy hours, when the fire will
not Durn on our hearts, ana all with
out aud within is dismal, cold and
dark. Believe ME, every heart has
its secret SORROWS, which the world
knows not, and ofttimes we call a man
cold when he is only sad.-Long-
JeiloI0.
Jack Whaly's wife one day CHANGED
to find an elegant piece of white
leather on the road, and she brought
it home with her in great delight to
mend Jacks small clothes, which she
did very neatly. Jack set off the
next day little expecting what was in
store for him; but when he had trot-
ted about Eve miles-it was in the
month Of July-he began to feel
mighty uneasy in the saddle feeling
that continued to increase at every
moment, till at last he said: 1T was
like taking a canter on a beehive in
swarming time, and we'll he might,
for the piece of leather was no other
than blister that the apothecarys
boy had dropped that morning on the
road.