The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-02-16
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THE WOMAN QuEsTIoS-"I that back
hair all your OWN"
WHEN the Breton mariner puts to sen,
Lis prayer Is, keep me, my God my
boat is 70 small and thy ocean is 50 wide -
A VERY VuLeAR sELL.--.Yon ought
not to come to our dance in boots with nails
in 'em." II hayen't.n a'Then you've
had your toes cut oif. Punch.
Somebody says that Ike's last trick was
to throw Mrs Partington's CATER into the
alley, and call the old lady down from the
third floor to zee an alley-gaiter.
A correspondent Of the Country Gentle
man thinks if fruit trees we're planted IN
stead of naples, we could have shade, or
nalnent and fruit. ,
A township in Henry county, Ohio, hir-
ed a lady music teacher BY correspondence,
and when she arrived she had occasion TO
ask If .'de gemmen Is gwine for to back
outF,
Josh Billings save: 1.-THE mewl il lar
ger bird than the gnse or turkey. II has
two legs to walk with and two more to kick
with and il wears is wings on the side Of
its head"
DENTIST. My dear woman, If you
kept your teeth clean you would have les
tocthache.'' Lady. but, doctor, they
FAY that washing teeth wears them out. .
Doctor. ..Good gracious, madam / hope
You don, think that way when ANYTHING ails
your feet,
In reply 70 the objections Of the counsel
for the defence, Virginia justice said be
didn't care about cUnsecutions.' and
would try De caFe nv how, and IL dey
didn't have satisfaction. .dcy could repeal
agin Ills excelsior.
Little Frank had been Taught he was
made of dust. is he stood BY the window
watching the dust AZ tile wind was whirlinr
Il III eddies, 10 exclaimed, seriously.
"Ma. ! thought the dust looked as
though there was going 70 be another little
boy made"
TIVE females III Now Orleans we're ar.
rested CT i breach of The peace. ..What
did You fight about.' asked the Justice.
'.Mr. II. wHi thereby. .'Whore Is he p
lie demanded. Here" responded d
small, squeakihg voice from the far corner
Of the room. Here, Your Honor Z aud
poor, woe-begme looking article made Iii,
appearance. 'Do you claim both Of tliosc
women Il your wife, tie Recorder asked.
"Weil, airy one Cf en- Il d0r' ..Wh,
Do you have twOwiyess" well, Won zee,
when one gets nbstroperous | kin 20 q
foiher. and she host generally pitics me.
"An English gentleman entered a bar.
bcr's sllopat Calais, and addressed the bar.
Der: II am delicate about tie skin. Shave
me without cutting me, and will give YOU
sovereign. Cut me. and-here arc two
loaded pistolsI' The barber, nothing
danuted. shaved the delicate skin English.
man, '.then my pistols did not alarm You n
mo, SIR" '.And why notg'' III my
razor had slipped,' aid the barber, 81
should have finished BY cutting your throat.
The Englishman disappeared.
C0RAL.--A lady tie other day-who 4
dceplyyorscd ID al matters appertaining Il
the nursery; She Is ''yery much married. .
az poor Artcmus Ward used to say, will
over NJ many little s'incumbrances'-
gcstcd 10 mo that Tie use Of baby coral
probably ORIGINATED in an old-world super.
stition that red coral was capital charm
against sitehcraft. D And really, now
come 70 think Of tiff il Is worth thought
--l3rande, Che antiquary, quotes from ar
old work much as follows, II my memoir,
serves me "Wytches tell that this stone
with stondeth lyghtcnyge. and putteth Il
from houses that i Is in" Bells, you know
were originally used 70 ecare away evil spi.
rita and 80 there may be the remnant of d
medieval supcrstitious fancy clinging to the
coral and the silver bells, which will soor