Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-16
CHIPS PROM THE WOODS OF
aCOOHA.


A staple diet-Cotton ilritteFs.
Brittle fastening-bolted meal.
Unnecessary ingredient--A wO.
man in a stew.
A Church 0rgan-A woman's
eve.
The trees now propose to put
out, if winter will.
Missing the conneXion-being
from home when your kin come in.
The barks Of some kinds of
dogs are good tonics--dogwoOd
bark for instance.
No wonder Editors are 50 often
nj sea, they are SO frequently over
bored.
Because Il man uses trusscd
fowls, that's no reason why he has
Il foul rupture.
The people in Tennessee are
trying to say Of Radicalism, that
they have Sent-'cr a DRIFT.
The Radicals seem to go quicker
at Buffers call, than they do ut
Kentucky's Beck. f,
Another accident occurred on
the Mississippi Central the other
day, but being somewhat bung-
lingly managed, only live were
baggcd.
If any of our readers don't
know what n pneumatic railway
is, all they have to do is TO imagine
themselves IN arrow in u blow gun
and he Shot through. That's the
way the thingis done.
Suckers are abundant Home
journal.
That's what the woman over a
Summit thinks, that had that littcI
Of six.
III Brooklyn they have beel
throwing bars of soap instead o
boqucts at Il danseuse.- Register
In consequence, probably of tn
exhibition of some dirty feat.
And now a woman in South Car
olina, registers three chaps ut
birth.
Some folks think such thing
awful, but we are compelled to re
gard it as II sign Of good breeding
A DEXTEEous RASC Gall!
mini tells this story: "At the Cal
du Commerce, Rue dc Viamei
near the Halle AT Bile. several cor
dealers were assembled about fy
o'clock the evening before las
when u wull-tressrd Individual ei
tered and seated himself besid
one rthcm. Altera time the stral
ger made n sudden movement, !
which he raised his neighhnr
ann. lie lnstanuy apologize
hut the other suspected somethir
wrong, and upon examinatio
missing pocket-bOok, accuse
the other of having taking
The stranger Indignantly deniC
, the fact. but was, however, take
to the station, where nothing W;
found ON him. He at first "a,
the name Of fNasseur, but Mt lengt
pcrceiving that he was recognize
. he admitted that he was real
, Polack. q well known thief. Shol
, ~ after the missing article was dl
coyercd-but without two hundrt
! francs which it COntained-und
the seat he had occupied at d
} Cafe. The prisoners career hi
, been Il most eventiul one. He is
desperate gambler, and visits Il
watering places during the SUI
5 mer. In 1866, he won $500
b. francs at Baden. To the resourc
r furnished by play, he adds tho
arising from a marvellous deXteri
in picking pockets. He frequent
exercised his industry in railwt
+ carriages. and often, when he III
! once obtained possession Of i
q booty, he opened the door III
sprang out on the line while t
u train was in full motion. Ho'
c ever, on one occasion, in deing
Il in America, he broke his leg, whi
t was amputated. He had the lo
i, member replaced by a cork one,
admirably constructed that f
could perceive the difference.
|, the early part Of this year he W
). arrested, and. rs he was womdC
?, he was sent to the hospita
whence, notwithstanding his arti
" cial limb, he managed to make /
e escape. He has lately been occ
e pying a handsome apartment
!. the Rue Castiglione.
-~ss-----
l. A Coon WIFE.-All who ha
= experienced the happiness ofmi
,. ried life will acknowledge the bci
u ty Of ihc following sentiment
c Daniel Wcbster-oi course CO
l.; iirmed bachlors have no more CO
.e ccption of appreciation Of it tn
the blind have of the beauties
nature: There is nothing up
" this earth can compare with t
ii faithful attachment Of a wife;
e. creature, who for the object of i
|, love, is so indomitable,so persev,
ing, so ready to suffer and d
Under the most depressing circu
c. stances, woman's weakness
r comes a mighty power, her timi