Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-23

appears In the evening Star
of Washington: Number
thirteen of Appleton's Journal
has a first page full length
wood cut drawn by CASTOR
Fay) Of a young wife knitting
a tiny stocking by the side of a
cradle in which lies a sleeping
infant--the picture being en-
entitled Not "a Girl of the Pc
Rod Guess she must be, or
she wouldn be finishing off the
stocking at the top. Our grand
mothers didn't knit them that
way. H~
All differences between the
Union Pacific and the Central
Pacific Railrod Companies re-
garding through rates have
now been settled. The time
by this route is eight days, and
the fare $178,35 in currency.
A Western paper announces
the illness Of it's editor, pious-
ly adding: 'All good pay
ing subscribers are requested
to mention him in their pray
ers. The others need, not, as
the prayers of the wicked
avail nothing, according to
good authority.
In order to amuse the chill
dren on a Sabbath, a lady was
engaged in reading from the
Bible the story of David and
Goliath, and coming to the pas
sage in which Goliath so boast
ingly and defiantly dared the
young STRIPPING, a little chap
almost in his first trousers said:.:
"Sister, skip that, skip that,
he's blowing ! L want to know
| who licked p
Oar is, said a sable
preacher, two roads trough
dis world De one am a broad
and narrow road, dat leads to
perdition, and de udder am a
narrow and broad road dat
leadsto sure destruction
IF dat am the case,' said a
| sable hearer, dis culled indi-
vidual takes to woods.
Witticisms. - Washington
Irving was fond of ludicrous re-
joinders. do you sing?' said
he one evening to gentleman
who had called. Il sometimes
join in a chorus, replied the
other, in an important way.
'Then give us a chorus Mr..
Madison Morton had put this
| jest into one of his many farces.
On another occasion some per-
son asked, do you know He
brew, Mr.. Irving?' 'Yes, he
answered with the utmost gray
ity, but | can't speak it a
| great deal better than I can
speak it. From The Philoso-
ply Of Absurdity, in the July
Number Of Lippincott's Maya
zine.
An attacbe to the French
Embassy at st. Petersburgh
wrote little comedy called
The Dancing Shoes, which
was performed with great sue
cess at a fete given at theEmbas-
sy. The Princess 0. was so
much pleased with the piece
that she begged the author to
send her a copy, which he was
only too glad to do. A few
days afterward he went in per-
son to the Princess s house with
his manuscript, Who am I to
announcer inquired the fun
key. The attache, thinking his
noble patroness might not re-
member his name, answer
ed Tell the Princess that I
bring her the Dancing Shoes. ,
And the footman, opening the
door of his mistress room, an
noenced: Your ladyship's
bootmaker.' ...
In one of the villages Of Ken
lucky recently Baptist minis
ter and a young Presbyterian
clergyman preached in the same
house night about both
preachers being present at each
meeting. One evening the Pres
byterian, after a discourse on
Infant Baptism, proceeded to
baptize several babes. The lit
tie candidates made a general
cutlery, which, Of course, was
noted by the Baptist man.
Next day a number of the con-