Year: 1859

cident took place, the solemn verifcation of which
vividly revives in the mind of the only survivor
of the three gentle men present at the interview.


Post Master General Brown was signing his Off
cial ournal-his clerk standing on the left turning
over the ragcs each signature affixed. MI
Marion. then the Third Assistant Post Master
General, having under charge at that critical peri
cd the important responsibilities of the finance di
vision, entered the room to obtain Nr Browns sig
nature to draft. Turning to the right he cheer
fully signed the paper. and Mr. Marion was retir
ing when the head of the department remarked


'Marron, wish you would come in and see me
when get through with this


Being then long after the usual office hours Nh
Nj turned and said


DO you wish me to see you again to-day, sir2'


Yes replied Mr. Brown; Il want to know il
you have set your house in order; for in month
or less, we shall have neither habitation nor a
name here


Mr. Marion, with conviction that his official
house was always in order, paused moment, and
with surprise and n smile, remarked


MY house in orderp


sYes sir-your house in order; for in a month OF
less we shall have neither habitation nor name
here


'Well Governor replied Mr. Maroon, if the
storm comes. can stand it as well as others, and
then pleasantly left the room.


The lamented head of the department then said
that his remarks referred to the action of Con
gress indicating the defeat of important mcaures
then under review


How prophetic was the prediction of that hour!
On that very day four weeks, the efficient assistant
was followed to the tomb, and now the statesman
from whose lips with so much emphasis it fell.


The gentleman who attempted to cut his throat
with sharp joke, few days since. has again made
a rash attack upon his victualing department, by
stabbing himself with point of honor


Shall have your hand? said an exquisite to a
belle, as the dance was about to commence.


with all my heart was the soft response.


A vocalist says he could sing 'Way down on the
old Tar river, if he could only get the pitch.


You may always know that young lady has
been to boarding school by her want of education.
/ Why isa lady's hair like the latest ncwsl Be-
cause in the morning we always find it in papers.


When is a wall like fish? When it is scaled.
Why is the letter U the gayest of the alphabet?
Because it is always In fun.


An editor retortng upon opponent says:-
Now this is matter of taste-or rather of com
mon decency-and something with which we have
nothing to do.


1t is estimated by a .hrewd friend of ours that
cheating and jockeying at horse-raccs are matters
of course.


John you seem to gain flesh every day; the gro
Gerry business must agree with you. What did
you weigh last!'
| We'll Simon. really forget, but it strikes
it was pound of butter.'
man advcrtiscs for competent persons to un-
tax the sale of new medicine, and adds that will
be profitable to the undertaken.


Young man in these parts who had spent n
littl- of his own time and good deal of his faith
ers money in fitting for the bar, was asked after
his examination how he got along.


80, well,' said he Il answered one question right.


'Ah, indeed SAID the old gentleman. with look 5
what thatl


'I'hev asked me what qui tum action was.'


THAT Il hard ono, and you answered it cor
rcctly did your


yes, told them did not know.'


Lewis what did you do with your new trousers,
said an anxious papa.


Il snapped them off,


'For what?


"a slung- g-shot Hoylc's Games and the Pirates
/ Own Book.


The last case of Child lost is related as having
occurred down in Mobile, where small boy walk
ing with his mother wished to change position and
get on the outside; but unfortunately ne had such
distance to go to get around the lady that he lost
his way and has not been found.


A lady of Albany has entered a complaint
ganst young man of that city. She charges the
young gent with leading her from the path of rec
titude.' The lady is 50 years of age, and the
young gentleman IL.


The shortness Of life is very often owing to the
irrcgularity of the liver.
Two leading members of the bar were sitting
opposite one another at the dinner table. One was
describing the effects of speech he made few
days before in great political meeting.
Indeed said he, 81 never the people so
filled with enthusiasm
Filled with what exclaimed the other?
with enthusiasm


'Oh, all, understand said the other, sbut new
er heard it called by that name before we call it
brandy and watcr.'


doctor went to bleed dandy who langudy
exclaimed: 20 doctor, you're great butcher


To which the doctor replied, Il am used to stick
ing calves"


Booth, the tragcdian, had his nose broken.
lady once said to him: i like your acting, but /
can't get over your nose.'


NO WONDER he replied the bridge is gonc'
There is n man in our town so lean that he makes
no shadow Mt all. A rattle snake struck at his leg
sixteen times in vain AMI then retired to his hole
in disgust. He makes all hungry who look at him
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