The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1870-04-15
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10 W htLU DNWuE.
- Happiness is like liberty, often
overlooked in search OF it.
1T Is less painful to learn in
youth than 20 be ignorant in old age.
u - An unmistakable case of black
bawling-a crying baby.
- The young lady who stock the
eye OF every body" has been arrested
for stealing.
ofaove is as absurd as it would be to
undertake to extinguish vesuvius with
tumbler of water.
A young wife carressing her
lap-dog, cried out with Transport .Oh
my jewel you arc the dearest puppy
In the world-after my husband =
- School. marin to little Josie !:
where Is them erth Pole, Josie ? Top
Of the map, marm.' =
- THE Fire Place is sthe Lame of
sadrinking sa@Apn In Chicago. ANY
sman can get Warm by it for ten. cents,
and red hot for q quarter.
- A western editor, in response
to subscriber who grumbles that the
paper is11tolerably damp. says: THAT Is
because there is so much due Oh it,
- At recent lecture Professor X
STATED that Saturn had ring six
thoushand miles Broad. 'Bejabers ex-
claimed an lrishman who was present
" hAtsa finger he must hsve.'
~ can marry any girl please. /,
said young fellow boastingly. very
true replied his waggish Companion.
sfor YOU can't please ANY,
- The poor fellow swho couldn,t
hold his own, has got himself into
worse difficulty by trying to held an
others.
- Old lady TO her niece: Good
gracious Matilda, hut it's cold My
teeth are actually chatteringr
Loving niece: well don't let 'em
chatter too much, or they may tell
where you bought Them
--sLcnny, youle a pig said a
hther to his little five year old boy.
Now, do you know what pig is Len
neyp'
essiI; pigs hogs little boy
- Our trying to love an object is
srying to laugh when we are not pleas
ed, the more we try The least we shall
succeed. The trying part of the pro-
cess lHlpiies il is thing we do not pre-
fer.
- A blusEing damsei called at one
OF the agencies the other day to buy
sewing maehne. "Do you want fell
lsrw inquired the modest clerk in at
tendance. The ingenious maid replied
with some asperity: mo sir; l have
one |"
---- A minister in Salem took for his
text. THE flesh, the world, aud t.hSS
devil and informed his Astonished au-
dience that he should sdwell briefly
In the flesh, pass rapidly over the world
and hasten rs fast as he could to the
DEVIL
- Boy may I enquire where Rob-
sir replied the boy, very respectfully.
waiting awhile where is it!' Il have
not the least idea, your honor said the
urchin.
- The Hartford Times declares
that when Senator Sumner complj- |
mented Mrs. Senator Reyels upon the
good fortune OF her husband, that de-
lighted lady replied, Thank you sab !
dough do Lord afiiict you wild white
skin. he glib You heart as black as
anybody in dis gle'us eommonwef.'
- Americans, do you know WHO
or what the Cuycaanickpncks, Yakut-
skylitmiks, Sakiatsky thinks. Ankach-
agemuds and Mekutonecutzolcoo
aref They are your fellOw-cltizens.
and live in Alaska. upon the A tutoaco-
lakuchargut, Nocotachigut. KuJuyu-
kuk Connecoyah. Unalachlut and Col
solva-Richka rivers.
- when a stranger treats me with |
want oil proper :espset,' said philoso-
pnic poor man, j comfort myself with |
the rejection that It is not my self that |
ne sights, but my old shabby coat anG |
nat, winch to say the Truth, have NO
particular slams to admiration. So IT +
my hat and coat choose to fret about II |
let them; il is nothing to me-
Alta negro meeting an Irish
man stood listening to colored speak
81, expatlatlng upon government and
freedom, and as the oratory came to a
period the Irishman exclaimed
'Bedad, he speaks well for a mayer :
didn't he n0w?'
Somebody said, he isn't a negro, he
10 only half negro
only half-nager. is he? Well il a
half mayer can speak that way, I'm
thinking whole mayer might bate the
prophet Seremiah.'
The following conversation be-
tween colored prisoner and q tenn
peranee lecturer who was in search OF
acts to tortity his positions and illus
trate his subject, explains itself:
what brought you to prison, my
solored iriendl'
NIWO cOnstahlas soh
es; but | moan had iAtemperance
my thing to do with it?'
drunk
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