The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-14
SENTIMENTAL AND FUNNY.

be a good deal like that OF last fall
particularly with those who are COM
PEELED to year last falls coats.
Girls sometimes put their lips out
poutingly because they are angry
and sometimes because they are dis.
posed to meet you half way.
Love In the Indian language, is
Observation-Disclosures F" 1t
must be quite an undertaking to tell
a squaw that you love her.
Why is a married man like a
out at night when he ought not to.
The smartest hunter in the vicinity
Of Deer Lodge City, Montana, is
Johnny Powell, a thirteen year old
Snake Indian boy. When he goes
for meat, meat comes. If 1t takes two
or three days In the mountains alone,
its all the same to him.
IT cannot imagine, said an Alder
man, why my whiskers should turn
gray so much sooner than the hair of
my head" Because" said a Wag,
you have worked so much harder
with your jaws than your brains"
The mills of the gods grinds slowly
but justice, though tardy, always
comes and this is the reason why a
baggageman at Cleveland got hole
In him while smashing up trunk in
which there was revolver.
A wise. old gentleman who knew
all about it, on retiring from business,
gave the following sage advice to his
my son. is valuable in all kinds of
business-except in love making"
why don't you limit YOURSELF"
said a physician to an Incorporate
person. set down a stake that you
will go so far and no further" Il
do. replied the other; but I set it so
far off that | always get drunk before
I get to it"
A clergyman addressed his female
auditors as follows: BE not proud
that our blessed Lord paid your sex
the distinguished honor of appearing
first to female after resurrection,
for it was only that the glad tidings
might be spread the sooner"
Two old ladies, who were, known
to be of the same age, had the same
desire to keep the real number con.
cealed. One used. therefore, every
New Years day, to visit the other
and say, Madam, am come to know
how old re are to be this year?"
A precocious youth was brought
up before Chattanooga Squire last
week as a witness in certain suit.
Do you understand the nature of an
oath, my son?N asked the benevolent
Justice. Just you step out in the
street, and give me a chance to cuss
you, and you'll see if DON'T" was
the reply.
A man who was shaved recently at
a barber shop in Pittsburg, is likely
to lose his eye, because the towel
with which the barber dried his face
had arsenic upon it. The physician
fears that the poison may extend to
the sufferers brain, in which case it
may result fatally.
The Detroit Free Press says: 1.-THE |
play of Enoch Arden had to be al
tered In Chicago before it would take. |
When Enoch came home and found |
Mrs. Arden married again, he was |
not allowed to go away grieving, but |
the other fellow must needs give him /
into the hands Of the coroner, dead |
man"
In translating the scriptures into |
the pagan languages, the missiona-
ries often employ euphonious terms, |
aud readily pronounceable by US. |
For example, in the SOOdheLee Ian |
guage of Africa, the word .God" is |
rendered MooigRiozinooRgo. Aerigin- |
al sin, f" in the Otto mi Indian ,tlacdtzin-
tiiztdtldcoti and ''repentance" in the |
Delaware tongue, acknowledgements |
chelCdgdn.
"Qnilp," of the Boston Post, says
that, after the passage of the liquor |
bill by the Massachusetts, Legislature, |
a sequel to Gates Wide Open" and |
Gates Aiar" will be published, en-
titled BARS All Closed.
A Philadelphia thus "poctizes"
the Pacific railway:
"The mighty work at last is done,
SO speedily and brisk, oh!
And now In ten days you can run
From here TO san Francisco"
Paper thoroughly impregnated
with carbolic acid has been made by
an Italian chemist, and its preserva-
tive power is so strong that meat
wrapped In it is kept perfectly fresh
without salt or any curing process.
Elder Evans, of the Labanon
Shaker confederacy, thinks that the
proneness to gossip, SANDER, evil talk,
defamation of others, is the serpent OF
mankind, and the same that tempted
Adam and Eve. He appeals to
those who want to lead pure life to
have their husbands and wives cut
loose from the influences of the ser
pent and unite with the Shakers.
When Prince Arthur was in New
Brunswick the ladies crowded into
his chamber, beseeching the valet to
let them even see the cast-off cloth
ing of the young chap; and it is
given for fact In the World that
one enthusiastic lady kissed an old
pair of pants belonging to the valet,
suppOsing they belonged to the dear
young man"
A Chicago clerk, lately married,
had a passion for scribbling bits of
love poetry on the brown paper with
in his reach while on duty at the
store. One day a highly excited in
diyidual rushed into the office aud
showed to the heads of the firm dItty
that he had found wrapped up in
bundle of goods bought by his wife.
The outraged husband demanded
satisfaction and was with difficulty
appeased.
A Scotch clergyman named Hacks
toun one day said to Mr.. Smibert, the
minister of Cupar, who, like hims Elf,
was blessed with foolish, or, rather,
wild youth for a son: Dye ken, sir,
you and I are wiser than Solomon?"