The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-05-15
WIT AND SENTIMENT.

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LOCAL hits-City strikes.
SHIPS bread-Rolls.
CHoP-FALLEN peoPle-Unsuccess-
ful butchers.
PEOPLE of more bid tastes-Those
who frequent the auctions.
THE spot for telegraph ofices-The
Battery.
-a WHEEE to look for stolen shoe
materiaL-In the finding stores.
MANY young men are so improvi
dent they can not keep any thing but
late hours.
~ MUsIoAL.-Is there any connection
between music pitch and gult1r.
AFTER Henry, love
I wish you would throw away that |
book and talk to me. | feel so dull.
"a long pause and no reply)
Henry, dear, my foot's asleep
1T is? Well, don't talk; you might |
wake it VI"
How TO PREVENT GRAY HAIRS
Keep your head shaved. Warranted |
Ht not to fail.
Music in the sole-A clog dance.
If it wasn't for the looks of the
thing, fresh paint would be nuisance.
AS an odor it is odious.
A -ORGAN-The car.
The best rifles for tailors-Needle
guns.
A SKY-LARK-GOing up in bal
-a loon.
aa "SHE Stops to Conquer" - The
belle with Cfreeian bend.
i 90 REFINED" Professor of the accu-
mulative art" is the polite term for
thief.
A YOUNG lady advertises to teach
"yoeal singing
WHEN does a ship tell falschood?
When she lies at the wharf.
THE surest way to lose your health
is to keep drinking other peoples.
THE sieve through which the man
IS strained every nerve" is for sale at
cost price.
THE gentleman who went on the
tenor of his way is supposed to have
been a member of an opera company.
A LANDLADY in Boston, it is slid,
makes her biscuit so light that the
dodgers can see to go to bed by them.
A DOCTOR detained in court as
witness complained to the Judge that
If he was kept from his patients they
might recover IN his absence.
equity or not guilty?" sharply
said City Judge the other day to az
iuattentive prisoner at the dock.
g j ust as your Honor pleases; it's not
for the like of me to dictate to yer
Honor's worship" was the reply.
BUCK BEER-wHAF Is IT?
Fat Contributor" of the Cincin-
natl Times, is responsible for the fol
lowing:
A Dutchman over the canal gave
us the only lucid and anyways salts
factory explanation of what buck beef
was. Said he:
Puck peer, don't you see, ish wot
der brewers makes all der vile, effray
tay, vonce a year, to dreat der Gus
toners vot pays 'em. 1t PEGS dwict
ash strong rs vot peer ish, don yoI
underestimate? Unit der man vot pucl
peer gets trunk on amt half so trunl
on some udder peer, ash puck pee
knock der sober out-of him, too sooI
already. Puck peer, shentlemens, isl
puck peer, and dat ish more vot doh
can dell you.
until a late hour, sampling the nu
rerous varieties of buck to be fount
Over the Rhine" and if they wer
not satisfied that night that buc
beer was buck beer" they were tn
next morning.
A SHORT time since man appeare
at the Boston City Hall, requestIn
an interview with the Chief OF Pc
lice
What can I do for your" inquire
the official.
Are you the Chief?"
Yes"
"Can 1 speak to you privately"
''Y es-speak out"
" Will no one hear us2"
mo"
Are ycu surc?"
well tben, listen As l W;
crossing the Common last nigh
about II O'Clock, | saw woman al
proach the Pond with baby in b.
arms. looking carefully around all ii
while. to see if she was followed; al
then, when right at the edge, stoope
and"
Threw the child into the FIR,
PoDdr' exclaimed the appalled, @
fcer, his face white with horror.
mo" replied his visitor, " loash
its face"
A WIDOW In Onondaga Count
New York, recently cut out her ov
daughter in the good graces of b
lover, and married him herself.
obtain revenge for this most uncou
trick. the daughter set her cap at 4
Young mans rich father, of whom
was the sole heir, to the infinite a
rovanoa 0f her STEM children.