The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-07-01

A bashful young man was escor.
ting . bashful young lady. when
che said, neutrality-suspicious.
don't tell any body you beaued me
home" "Don't be afraid" re-
piled he'll am 40 much ashamed
Of It - you are" That settled it.
A horse. dealer had a son. who,
being q lad OF spirit, proposed as
. novel expedient to open a stable
on the principle Of strictly honest
dealing; but the father discouraged
the idea, observing, che disliked
speculation"
Josh Billings defines q thurrer-
bred Dizziness man as 'wun that
knows enuf about stealin' 80 that
there kant emmy body steel from him
and enough about law 90 that he
can do his stealth legally
A lady who had q great horror
Of tobacco, got into a railroad car
fiage the other day, and inquired
of . male neighbor, DO you chew
tobacco, STRIP No. madam, I do
not was the reply, 'but 1 can get
you chew il you want one.'
'Cuffee, what you tink de NOSE
useful oh de planets, de sun or de
moonr We'll, Sambo, / tink de
moon orter to take de first rank in
dat ar tickler.' why do you tink
20. Cufee2 We'll, l tell you; kase
she shines at night when we want
light, and de sun shines by dsy
when we don't.
For . specimen Of logical con.
seculion Of ideas, we venture to
commend this. from a school bows
composition: Tobacco was invent
ed by . man named Wslter Ra-
leigh. When the people first saw
him smoking they thought he was
. steamboat, and AZ they had never
seen q steamboat, they were fright
ened.'
When James Russell Lowell was
In Italy, q begging friar came to
him one day with q subscription
for repairing his convent. Lowell
said, 'Ah, but 1 am a hereto The
father replied with readiness that
would have been creditable in q
Yankee or freshman, 'Undoubted--
", but your money is perfectly Or
thodox.'
A flock Of over 10000 sheep
we're driven through Grass Valley,
CAL, May Al, in search OF mountain
pasturage.
The intermarriage Of two fami-
lies in Maine IL remarkable. One
consisting Of four sons and one
daughter has married all Of q
neighbours children, four daughters
and Q son.
Empress Eugene doesn't like
the foggy climate Of Hold Heng-
land, and would like to 60 back to
Paris. A residence at the Tuille.
Sies 10 necessary, che thinks, for
health, but Theirs and the French
doctors don't agree with her.
Grapes are sold at q cent and q
half per pound at the vineyards in
California, and would pay hand
somely at half the price.
The wool growers of Howard
county, Ind, are in the habit of
packing geological specimens In
their bales. The dealers object.
Scene in Hartford, Coun.: is
Mrs. Smith at homer NO, but
walk in; she has just out to get q
divorce, and will be back 10 q few
minutes.
That must be . misanthrope man
who can look upon the abundance
the fields afford, the luxurious
growth Of vegetation, the we'll filed
homes, the sleek cattle, the signs
ofplenty now to be seen, without .
feeling Of contentment and graft
tuds that he belongs here.
In the execution Of . recent deed
by . man and his wife, the wife
Was taken aside before the &C
knowledgment was made, by q
commissioner who, in the usual
form, asked, DO you execute this
deed freely; and without any fear
or compulsion Of your husband9'
Fear OF my husband2' exclaimed
the wife, I've had FIVE husbands,
and never was afraid of any of
themv
An oil Spectator at Titusville.
Pa, who is worth quite number
Of millions Of dollars, received a
letter from . poor young woman
who WAS going to be married to a
poor young man, and wanted him
70 give her $4,000, as he would
never miss it. The Spectator said
he would ask his wife about it.