The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01
PLEASANTRIES.

All the difference. A thief running
away is scamp, but the policeman's
chase after him is a scamper.
1t is sometimes the privilege Of the
lover to be, at one and the same time,
in two situations. When beside his
mistress he may also be beside him
self:
Thomas Hood died composing-and
that, too, humorous poem. He is
said to have remarked that he was dy-
ing out of charity to the undertaken.
who wished to urn lively Hood.
A poor old colorcd women in Vir-
ginia was never SO happy in her life as
when she learned to read few days
ago, and she went right off and sold
eight geese, and bought twenty eight
dime novels.
You may talk yourself into bron-
chial affection, but you cant convince
a Vermont woman that there won't
be death in the family ifshe dreams
of seeing a hen walking a picket
fence.
Mr.. Parker, of the Woburn Mass
Journal, wrote his leader last week in
rhyme, as follows:
"A daughter was wanting, -
At last we have found her: {i
She came Sunday morning
A healthy nine-pounder.
"A lantern-jawed Vermonter got
aboard steamer for the first time,
and fell through the hatchway into
the hold, when, being unhurt, he was
heard to express his surprise: We'll,
if the darned thing amt holler!''
Webster's dictionary contains over
$4,000 words Jones says that when he
came home late the other night, in
the space of fifteen minutes his wife
applied them all to him, including
some extra ones and the fire shovel.
Good for Mrs. Jones!
A German naturalist thus trans
lates the song of the nightingale: 40
zozozozozOzozozo-Zirrhading- -Heze-
zezezezezezezeze cowar he DE hOi-Hi
gal gal gal gal gal gal gal guai gai--
Coricor dzio dzio pi." Any of our
readers wishing to emulate the sweet
songstress of the night need only to
practice the lay as above. .......5
II thought you were born on the
first of April said husband to his
wife, who had mentioned the twenty
first as her birthday. "That's just
what all my friends, think" said tn,
wife. why are they all SO unani
nous on that point?" asked her lega
lord. ION account of my choice Of ;
husband" was the quiet reply. TIL
subject was pursued no further.
At "a prayer meeting of colored poo
ple at Erie, the decency and good or
der of the meeting being disturbed b.
n negro named Brown, whose prayer
in public were only incoherent rawlings
the pastor inquired: "What foo
n;rgar's dat prayin' down dar nea d
doeY' A dozen people replied will
sah." Den" replied the pastor
"Brudder Brown subside, and lie
some one pray dat's better 'quainte
with de Lord. .-.-.
A young lady who prides herself o
her propriety, lately wrote home
her parents regarding her boarding
school associates. She said: 18th
girls are awful slangy. One of the1
told me, the FIRST day / came her
that / had better walk off on my ear
The little chit! felt just like puttir
a tin roof on her. And they use sue
disgusting phrases as you bet an
bully I have pitched into them SCI
eral times for their slang, but thu
tell me to cheese it, and if they 60 {
IN this way, ] shall git up and 81
you bet
Mrs. Hunter, an invalid who b
heen confined to her bed for the la
seven years, living In Warren count
has Just completed bed-spread cor
noaed Of 5000 pieces, each one beil
three quarters Of an inch square.