Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-07-02
Things to Laugh At.
A little nonsense now and then
Ii relished by the wisests men.

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| The lates. thing in dresses--Night,
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Cheap and nasty-A pennyworth of
| EPSON salts.
knowledge is power--hence the wild
ow's might.
Domestic magazines-Wives who blow
up their husbands.
What did our first parents do in Eden ?
Adam kept the garden and Eve raised
| Cain.
The. man who was disturbed in
mind took dose of yeast powder
and Immediately rose above his troub-
les.
1t must be happy thought to Jer-
sey lover that his blood and that of
his sweetheart mingle in the same mos
quito.
Bob" said facetious farmer to his
SOM" we had pretty hard days work
yesterday; now let's have game of
chopping wood"
Won't that boa constructor bite me 2"
said little urchin to Snowman. "Ohl
no, boy, he never bites, he swalers his
whites WHOLE"
Why are young ladies, at the break
ing up of party, like arrows2 Be-
cause they can't go off without beaux,
and are in a culver until they get
them.
Mrs. Jenkins complained in the eve
ming that the turkey she had for
Thanksgiving did not set well. Prob
ably" said jenkins, /" it was not a hen
turkey"
"That's very singular" said young
lady to gentleman who had just kissed
her. Oh! well, my dear MISS" was
the reply, 81 ] will soon make it plural"
and the. villain did.
my son." said an anxious father "why
DO you use that nasty tobacco?" The
boy, declining to consider the question in
the spirit in which it was asked, replied:
To get the juice"
An octogenarian says: ! was born
at the wrong time. When / was
young man, young men were of no ac-
count. Now am old, find old men
are of no account"
An Indian was asked what he did for
a living, replied: sob, me preach"
Preachw said bystander, I" and what
do you get for preaching9" Some
times me get shilling. sometimes two
shillings." ''And isn't that mighty poor
pay9" ooh, yes; but it's mighty poor
preach"
Two physicians at the bedsids of pa
tent disputed as to the nature of the
disease. AT last oRe of them ended the
discussion by saying: Very well, have
it yorr own way now, but the post
norton will show that | am right"
The patient was not much encouraged.
A New Hampshire editor, who has
been keeping record of big beets, an
nounces at last that the beet that beat
the beet that beat the other beet is now
beaten by beet that beats all the beets,
whether the original beet, the beet that
Uossl tHo Ocot, VI Tue DcSb tuab O0ot tA0
beet that beat the other beet"
An Arkansas judge of the old times,
who had an office in common with a
physician, was at his table, busy with
briefs and bills in chancery. The doc
tor was writing letter, and pausing for
moment, called out: Judge, isn't
e-q.u-i the way to spell equinomical?"
" Yes. think it is" said the Judge;
but here's Webster's Dictionary-It
can soon tell you" He opened the
book and tnrned over the leaves, repeat.
ing aloud, E qui nomical-e-qui- nomi-
CAL" Finding the proper place, he ran
his eye and finger up and down the col
umn two or three times, until he was
thoroughly satisfied the word was not
there. Closing the book with slam,
the Judge laid his spectacles on the ia
ble,s and rising slowly, broke forth:
Well sir, I've always been Daniel
Webster man, and voted for him for
President; but any person that will
write as big a dictionary as that and
not put as common a word as e-qui-
nomical in it, can't get my vote again
not once."'z svnF ~