The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-20
HUMOROUS.
EchO Answers.

~ hich is the loVeliest flower that
vfoBs2-Rose.
hose children are we apt TO think
weetest fowers2-Ours.
Lat in manner is sure to please?
-@f 8se.
bal viii frequently overcome the
s2-Year.
loses It's flavor when we bOr-
Wit.
at is it that wealth seldom ex-
t'uguishes9-Wishes.
wat traits arc difficult to extermi-
nata Innate.
WAT did Cleopatra to her bosom
clasp Asp.
JOSH B1LL1NeIsMs.
IL trains a mans philosopher the
wuss kind tn laff when he gifts beat.
AWI ov rs komplain on the shortness
a. life, yet We awl waste more time
Than We uze,
Don't mistake Arrogance for Wizdum;
menny people hav thought tina WIZ
Rze when tina wuz onla windy,
Ths principal difference between
necessary aud luxury il the price.
~ henever the soul IL in grief. it is
takin root, and when it IL in smiles It
ig In wing.
Give the devil his due, but be
careful, there amt much due him.
ter a man Laz rode fast onst, he
naysr wants to 60 slow agin.
Egra sorrow haz its twin joy; the
tho ov scratchin almost pays fur havln
ths Itch.
Ia won't do tn stir up a man when
as thinkin, emmy more than It will
pan ov milk when the kream IL
rising.
liz cay enuff tn raze the devil,
but hes hard crap tn reap,
We ar told that kontented man il
ppy, and we might have bin told at
the same time that a mud turtle could
e I he had wings.
BARD IN The Western Monthly
1dzine contributes a poem called
VA n0na," which contains some very
Iualy verses. For instances:
aush-ke-wau, o tight the darkness
Part the gloom
alk-ta-hee, low make Winona's
BilioWy uOmbl
fs-ba-naw. baizs. take Winona's
Spirit hOmel
tche Mantle, pity mel pity mel
80 wonder the Chicago Tribune is
raninded by this Of
-gar-e e, Won gar Q, Jin-gar-e e.
King Of the oanibal Islands"
For our own part, we also are re-
miaded of a poem about Australia,
item by a NJ. KlEahan, and pub
Hshed in London some twenty years
ago-a most wonderful example Of hui
mn folly, as witness the following
lines:
..Fareweli, Tarrengoweri and Gamma
Frsweii. wagra-Brsjagi aud Irrawarrai
Fsareweit, Burra BRrra Pollfah! Morangt
Easewsll. Merrimingol and the, Burne-
I'd The. BooroopdaraI and Goomaliset
E4reWell, Harabl Narabt and Hinno-
ID RinaHnera Plains, by Tongeomunglei''
That's him over there
licking the old gentleman's pocket.
Green Youth--"Then Why don't you
rest him ?"-Policeman Well, il
night make him feel ugly towards me
/ Ike a quiet life.
4 contributor who is in training fol
q homiSide offers the following: Why
eaa't Mr.. and Mrs. Parton go to heav.
ea2 Because we are told therell bt
TX partin there.
Young ladies, says the New York
1st. may admire their clergymen, bui
light not to be quite carried away
with him.
An urehin being sent for five cents
Worth of maceaboy snuff, forgot the
name of the article, and asked fol
Ire cents worth OF make-a-boy
sneeze.
A little boy in Denver being told
BIZ his mother that God would not for
give him If he did something. answer
ed: Yes lie would, too-God like
ie forgive little boys-that's what he
for"
A little boy FIVE years old was founl
~ his mother smearing himself will
dirt. and when asked by her what b
as doing. replied: Why, you tolt
ne God made me of dirt. and / IN fill
ing up the holes he left.
A smart boy, after eating greel
aopIe, exclaimed, 70. dear, "
aWed an Odd Fellow" IAN Odi
r1lio p" said his mother Yes he
-ilor me- The grip. That youngste
III lire he Somebody yet, If he lives Ion
enough.
"Wasbinpton p exclaimed mem
Der of a Nashville debatIpg ciup.
stentorian tones: Wasnsugton va
great man; he was good nan Z
vas noble man his mind had POI
erful grasp Of the future; t ever
man was non conlpos nle9ltts, Washing
Ton was that man.
An Illinoisan has become the lift
husband of a woman, just to see WINS
effect it would have on him. az he hs
card that her first husband ran ava
taat the second one hung himsel
he third shot himself and the fourt
aro wned himself.
First young wife, Oil this horri
ouse-movine: amt you dissracte
bout It. dear?p Second ditto
aa,t no. We have arrnged 1T NIGEL
fiharles will see to the furniture al
bires. and I will superintend the r
raoval or Fido myself.
The New York Senate has 3 cha
ain who i manifestly an anti-lobl
nan. for he recently prayed the 10
0 "thwaft the designs OF those o
men who loiter about the halls OF {
ae eislature with bribery IN tht
lands, and, still worse. bribery
heir hearts, to corrupt the represeE
atives of the people, and promo
wicked legislation.