The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-30
HUMOROUS.

EAtGGt t4DeF-DuHD5hmS.
Al baotless enterprise-Going bare
foot.
AFTER the principal thing is the in
arasf.
The petroleum men are great bores.
but taey mean we'll.
witt bad-in-age, how much more
unbseomi & it must be in youth.
a ao5f h breakfast aud an India
rubber 0vercoat will keep man dry
all day.
scan you return my love, my dear
sss JaIis2" Certainly; l don't want
re-"
fw d the bull look on emerging
china-shop? A little the
ware.
esident Colfax has an amount
money which he intends in
a cradle.
oring style of bonnet is de-
something like a sunhower
as TX of a haystack.
aany days has the year of its
lree hundred and twenty five;
forty are Lent.
can every inhabitant of the
folra circle claim IL as his eXluslve
--cpsrty2 Because 1t IS his zone.
Tiia innocent wants to know if a
man rho never returns thanks for bis
meals can be styled scapegrace.
a sehoolmaster in Ireland advertises
Eoov, GrwIou e0honi fuufaa
week-Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Whv is foraging party like a warm
bath2 Because the first makes clean
sweep. a0d the second a sweep clean.
"a mother wants to know whether
CHARLES Kingsley's Water Babies
yare rocked 10 the cradle of the
deer"
what is the difference between
ehatteri0g lover and pedestrian ex
eursion2 One is n talking wooer, the
other e Walking tour.
Jane i've the baby some laudanum
and pn M to sleep, aud bring me my
parae1i I am going to a meeting for
rhe ma6oration of the human race.
"A eouug man recently went to the
banks III the Danube for the purpose
II drew ning himself He laid his hat
on The ground, when a soldier on guard
shouted Fall back there, or LII shoot
Won he young man picked up his
Lac and rapidly ran away. Death by
shooting vas not in his programme.
AtDanville, New Y FORK, dog chased
= cas into a house and on to a red
hot stove. The cat tried to escape by
climbing up the stove pipe, but fell
a,r iaao a pan Of boiling water, and
the ad7 0f the house, in trying to res
cas lao cat, was bitten and will die,
aud 5he cat has died, and the dog
ought 70 lie, or any other dog or cat.
A Dutch woman kept a toll-gate
One I0gg7 day traveller asked, Mad
ann. how lar is it TO B-Y' "Shoost
.eetlo ways, was the reply. Yes
but how iarY again asked the traveller
''Sh0ost a leesle ways more emphati.
caiiy. Madam, is 1t one, too, three,
-four q fUe miles? The good woman
replied. 1 dinks 1t IS Z"
A sexton overheard the schcolmas-
tar Giving his lessons in grammar
YOa cannot place a, the singular ar.
tiele. said the preeeptOr, before plu
ral nouns. No one says a pigs, q wo
men. O. IN onsense, cried the
sexton the prayer book knows better
shan you. [ should think; or it woulC
rJ la-ch me to say amen"
a Young married couple In a Wis
consin own lately began housekeep
foe and the first purchases of thu
need of the family at the village gro
Gerry were: Five cents worth of soda
fve oeHts' worth of salt, two cents
worth 81 pepper, one cents worth o
chewing rum. and twelve cents wortl
81 soap. The bill amounted to twenty
dqe cents, which was paid by thu
young Benedict in specie, and as h.
left the store he remarked to the clerl
.thal keeping house is cheaper thar