The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-03-29
WIT AND HUMOR.--

what they were turned out for.
The Maine people don't stop for tri-
fes in estimating the cold weather, but
say that the mercury fell one or two
"clapboards,' as the case may be.
An absent-minded Danbury lady, on
Monday, tied bed-quilt she had just
washed, in rocker in front of the stove,
and pinned her baby to the clothes
line.-Danbury News.
cit wasn't SO very late-only quar-
ter of twelve" "How dare you sit
there and tell me that lie. l was
awake when you came in, and looked
at my watch-it was three o'clock"
" Well, isn't three quarter of twelve:'
A Michigan clergyman wrote to
lottery agent: q do not approve of
lotteries; l regard them as no better
than gambling schemes. My son bought
ticket No. S in your drawing, but if it
drew anything don't send the money to
him send it to me- The clergyman
will probably feel relieved to learn that
the ticket didn't draw anything.
Two good-natured Irishmen on GER
tain occasion occupied the same bed.
In the morning one of them inquired
of the other, dennis did you hear the
thunder last night" "No, Pat; did
it rally thunder" Eyes, it Numbered
as if heaven and earth would come to-
gether." "Why didn't We wake me,
for We know l can't sleep when it thun-
ders."
While the fire was sweeping through
Pearl Street, a shoe-dealer, seeing that
his stock must 60, told the crowd to
help themselves. A policeman who
had not heard the order soon after came
up, and seeing man deliberately pull
ing boots pair after pair from case be-
fore him, Numbered out, g Villain, what
are you about" "Trying to find
pair of eights,'' was the mild response.
There is a choice of methods in
bringing up children in the way they
should 60. An agricultural laborer of
England being demonstrated with by
the pastor for not bringing up his
boys as he should, replied, II dunno
how It's, sir; I order 'em down to
pray every night and mornin', an when
they won't 60 down knock 'em down,
and yet they amt good
A man who snores was described by
his friend, the other day, as follows:
"Snores: Oh no, I guess not-no
name for it, When you wake up in
the morning, and find that the house
that you lodge in has been removed
half mile during night by the respira-
tory vehemence of fellow lodger, you
may get some idea of that fellows
performance His landlady gets her
house moved back by turning his bed
around"
LEIGH Hunt. - During early life
Hunt was exposed to baneful influences
from his brothers and some of his play
mates, who sought occasion to irritate
him and to impose upon his naturally
timid disposition. One Of his older
brothers was accustomed to compel him
to carry him on his back, through the
mud to school, so that he could himself
appear in immaculate boots. Another
was in the habit of frightening him
with stories of COLLINS, and with strange
noises in the darkness. Indeed he
seemed in a sad case for the develop
ment of a noble and manly character,
and especially did he stand poor
chance for any benevolence in his dis
position. And yet from out of it all
he comes with more of beauty and
peace, than many with all advantages
on their side The sympathy which is
usually professed or demanded for By
ron on account of his physical deform-
ity, is to degree just. But whatever
annoyance or discomfort he might have
realized from that, as much or more
might Leigh Hunt have experienced
from an impeachment in his speech, to
which he was subject. And while we
do not know of any actual loss or dis
advantage which ensued to the former
from his lameness, we do know that the
stammering of the latter was the occa-
sion of insult and injury, and bar to
literary preferment. Speaking of the
severity of the master of Christ Hos
pital school, he says: "When his Sc
verify went beyond the mark, believe
he was always sorry for it sometimes
| am sure he was. He once knocked
out one of my teeth with the back of
Homer, in fit of Impotence at my
stammering." (Auto. ~ And so too,
at the age of fifteen, being First Depu-
ty Grecian, he had the "honor of 60
ing out of school in the same rank, and
at the same age and for the same res-
son." as his friend Charles Lamb. The
reason was that he hesitated" in his
speech. 1T was understood that
Grecian was bound to deliver public
speech before he left school, and to go
into the church afterwards As he
could do neither of these things, Gre
clan he could not be. Yet these dis
comforts did not serve by any means
to sour his disposition or shut him up
away from his companions; for he
writes: "If l receive no other benefit
from Christ Hospital, the school would
be ever dear to me from the recollection
of the friendships l formed in it, and
of the first heavenly taste it gave me of
that most spiritual of the affections"