The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1874-07-09

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Have notice.
asss Yua heard 10y .as9 fleeebf
"a political haFsuguu Ct VIII j
aHoerely bore 10, uas lhc reply.
a mau oct west is so bow-legge3 IHai
hss taylor d obliged 70 use q circular saw
ia eutllpe out bis psatal0ous.
Husband, sai1 the wife Of young
clergyman, read nae one Of your sermons
/ fee dreadful waaeiuI tonight aud wish
20 sleep.
AT certain church fair, a ses OF
Coopsrs works was promised 10 The in
diYiAnal WHO Fh0ald auswcr . set oi con-
audrums. A dsshlng Young fellow was
pronounced the winner, and received a
sri of wooden pals.
a witty morallst says TINT many a
man thinks 10 virtue that keeps him from
turning rascal, when its only fail slom-
aab. One should be careful, aud not
mistake potatoes for principles,
Charles Lamb, one afternoon, 10 re-
turning from dinner party, took seat
10 crowded omnibus, when a stout gen
ilcman subsequently locke / ia aud POI
Htely asked Al fall insiios ! don't
know bow il may With tho other passen-
gers, answered Lamb. but that last piece
ai pie did the business for me,
a Tilusyilc wife placed a toy snake
ia her husbands boots, and then could
hardly get breakfast because OF her sniek-
ofing at his performances when be dis
covered Il. lie drt looked IN the mirror
then went aud threw his demiiohn Of old
rye into the min race.
"A Boston preacher in speaking OF
tho danger Of permitting the Bible to be
crowded out by the ncwspaper,pcr
"a the following pun: Men, nowadays,
said he, are like Zaecheus DESTROYS OF
seeing Jesus, but they cauno, because OF
The press.
\ New Bedford paper tells story
abou, a shop keeper, who advised a lady
customer to buy two mohair switches in
Htcad Of one, as the article was becoming
scarce lie said that the man whom
be hired to hunt NOES had only caught
two within fortnight.
In q country town In Illinois a few
evenings since at panorama OF the
Bible. little cight-year-older sat wrap
ped In admiration at the scene until the
picture Of Jachob and Rebecca at the well
appeared, when be looked mp and said
Ia, do you see that picturcy IN just bet
five dollars they're Changers"
In lawsuit the other day, between
two members Of the same church, council
Tor one Of tbc parties suggested that the
brethren ought TO defer their differences
for adjustment to the higher court above
10 which the client responded that the
same idea had occurred TO him, but there
seemed TO be an insuperable obstacle In
tIc waya he eouldn't coutriye any way
"a get Ills lawyer there.
a Detroit female, breathing hard and
carrying a large hickory cane, ran down
the street, the other morning inquirlng il
anybody had seen a small, cross-cyed man
anywhere along here! Several person.
asked What's the matter? But she hur,
ricd on, saying, Haven't time now
want to get my paws on the fawnina
eycophant for just a miuuteW
Dill WhaIey, who recently died II
Fayetto county, Pa, poorhouse, formerly
drove q .lagc-coach between Uniontowf
aud Morgantown, in that State. liz
Wouldn't own a horse that had more thai
enough skin to cover bis bones, aud thro
which the moral law could not be read
BE animals werr queer geometrieal puz
zics combinations ct angles, right, obtus,
and aculc. Que day be came driving into
unIoutowu az full speed, aud just as b,
drew up ID front OF The hotel, one OF biz
horses dropped dead That was yer,
.adaen death, remarked bysmudcr
>ndiout replied Capt. Bill. That horse
died in smithlaud, nine miles FROM here
boat never Jet him down until got il
town.
Tho most diabolieal pun ever invent
al was perpcsatcd BY very harmless
."ri Of person The other evening When
Mr. somberlcigh read that a father
81" the Wesl haa chopped Its only son ln
two, be- iuorcntly remarked that be didh
think they ought TO srnest man Tor sim
pIy parting bis heir IL The middle.
There is nothing like dressing youl
local items IN rhetorical linerY, even 1
you do have TO como to pIAin English a
The end. See an example An Osweg,
paper describes fire by saying that The
rod flames danced in the heavens an,
dang their derry arms about like blael
funeral pail, until sam Jones got upot
the root sud dashed them out with pal