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At Washington the other day
There was a very queer display,
For some were drunk and some were gay,
At the Inauguration.
The cannon boomed, the music played,
The hangers-on like asses brayed,
Because they were in greenbacks payed.
At the Inauguration.
(Chorus.)
Oh was it not a glorious sight
To see the crowd of black and white,
As well as Andy Johnson, tight,
At the Inauguration.
It took three days, straight, to relate,
,kud puzzled many a wooly pate
To get the great rail-splitter straight
For the Ina:zuration.
•
Thong!' down the rain came like a flood,
The bummers ail like heroes stood,
Although up to their knees in mud,
• At the Inauguration.
J 61. RITCHIN
There is a place well known to all
The Senators both great and small,
A grog shop called the "Hole in the
Wall,"
At the Capitol of the nation.
And there the half-tight Andy got,
And took a brandy toddy hot,
Which made him drunk as any sot
At the Inauguration.
To speak, in vain great Andrew tried,
For brandy toddy his tongue had tied,
As Vice President o'er a nation.
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And now. to wipe out the disgrace,
The President has closed the place
Where drunken Andrew fell from grace
At tite Inauguration.
J ' l iorellantouo.
Freedom of the Electioqs—The Bill
Passed by Congress.
The following are the provisions of the
bill recently passed by Congress, to pre
vent officers of the army and navy, and
other persons engaged in the military
or naval service of the United States
from interfering in elections in the
States. .
Be it enacted by the Senate and [louse of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That it
shall not be lawful for any military or
naval officer of the United States, or
other persons engaged i❑ the civil, mili
tary or naval service of the United
States, to order, bring, keep, or have
under his authority or control, any
troops or armed men at the place where
any general or special elections is held
in any State of the United States of
America, unless it shall be necessary to
repel the armed enemies of the United
States, or to keep the peace at the polls.
And that it shall be lawful for any offi
cer of the army or navy of the United
States to prescribe or fix by proclama
tion, order, otherwise, the qualifications
of voters in any State of the United
States of America, or in any manner to
interfere with the freedom of any elec
tion in any State, or with the exercise
of the free right of sufferage in any
State of the United States. An officer
of the army or navy of the United
States, or other person engaged in the
civil, military, or naval - service of the
United States, who violates this section
of this act, shall, for every such offense,
be liable to indictment as fur a misde
meanor, in any court of the United
States having jurisdiction to hear, try
and determine cases of misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof, shall pay a
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars,
and suffer impiisonment in the Peniten
tiary not less than three months, nor
more than five years, at tile discretion
of the Court trying the same; and any
person convicted as aforesaid shall,
moreover be disqualified from holding
any office of honor, profit, or trust un
der the Government of the United
States; Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to
prevent any officers, soldiers, sailors or
marine, from exercising the right of suf
ferage in any election district to which
he may belong, if otherwise qualified,
according to the laws of the State in
which he shall offer to vote.
. SEC. 2. And be vt further enacted, That
any officer or person in the military or
naval service of the United States,
who
shall order or advise, or who shall di
rectly or indirectly, by force, threat or
menace, intimidation or stherwise pre
vent or attempt to prevent, any quali
fied voter of any State of the United
States of America, f om freely exercis
ing the right of sufferage at any gene
ral or special election in any State of the
United States, or who shall in like man
ner compel, or attempt to compel, any
officer of any election in any such State,
receive a vote from a person not legally
qualified to vote or who shall impose,
or attempt to impose, any rules or reg
ulations for conducting such election
different from those prescribed by law,
or interfere in say manner with any of:
floor of said election in the discharge of
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THE INAUGURATION.
A New Song
BY DRUNKEN' ANDY
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1865.
his duties, shall, for any such offense,
be liable to endictment as for misdemean
or, in any Court of the Untted States
having jurisdiction to hear, try and de
termine cases, of misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not
exceeding $5,100, and suffer imprison
ment in the Penitentiary not exceeding
five years at the discresion of the Court
trying the same, and any person con
victed as aforesaid shall, moreover be
disqualified from holding any office of
honor, profit, or trust, under the Gov
ernment of the United States.
Approved Feb. 25, 11165.
Horrible Murder---A Heroin Little
Girl.
The Vicksburg _Herald, of the 24th,
relates the following particulars of a
most horrid crime, perpetrated in that
vicinity. A short time since, about
10 o'clock at night, two negroes went
to the residence of Mr. Garrity, who is
superintendent of Dick Christman's
plantations, about sixty miles above
that city, on the Mississippi side of the
river, and knocking at the door de
manded adniitance. Mi. Garrity at
once opened the door, when they de
manded his money and pistols. He
replied he had neither, but had scarce
ly-spoken when he was fired upon by
both the ruffians, the shots striking him
in the back of the neck and completely
paralyzing him. Passing over what
they supposed to be the dead body,
they entered the house. murdered Mrs.
Garrity and two children, and shot
through the shoulder of a little girl.
She fell, though enduring intense pain,
she feigned death so well that the in
human monsters really thought her
dead, and proceeded with their work
of plunder without noticing her fur
ther. After plundering the house of
everything valuable they could carry
off, they set fire to it and went away.
The little girl, thus wounded and alone
in the burning building, got up, and
going to her father who was dying
near the door, with desperate courage
and strength, she managed to drag him
outside of the house into the yard.—
The rain, which was falling, revived
him, and with the assistance of his little
daughter, he managed to crawl into an
out-house. The little girl then return
ed to the house attempted to get her
mother from the burning building.—
She failed to accomplish her object,
though her severely burned sides leaves
evidence of her heroic devotion with
which she struggled to rescue the dead
body of her beloved mother from the
flames.
Returning to her father, she made a
little fire and sat watching by his side.
He conversed with her until daylight,
when, to use her own expression, he
stopped talking and she thought he was
dead. When daylight came, the poor
child, wounded as she was by the as•
sassin's bullet and by the flames, made
her way to the house of a neighbor,
some two miles distant, and related the
horrible story.
This gentleman got others of his
neighbors and proceeded to the scene
of murder and arson. Mrs. Garrity's
body was not entirely consumed, and
was taken from the ruins and buried
with those of her husband. The bodies
of the children had been entirely con
sumed.
From the little girl's description of
the nurderers, the officers of a gunboat
near the place, were of the opinion that
they were two deserters from that ves
sel.
Marriage Extraordinary.
A gentleman from the neighborhood
of Hancock county, Kentucky, has just
given us the following account of a most
singular guerrilla outrage. The notori
ous guerrilla Coulter, who is reported
to have been killed in Nelson county,
Kentucky, about two weeks ago, is the
hero of our story.
Coulter entered the village of Hawes
ville, and going to the Clerk's office
com pelled the Deputy Clerk of the
County Court to issue a marriage li
cense, authorizing any minister of the
gospel legally qualified to unite him
(Coulter) in the bonds of matrimony with
Mrs. F., the beautiful young wife of a
discharged Union soldier. (Her Husband
being in Louisville, afraid to return to
the guerrilla infested neighborhood in
which his dwelling is located) The
clerk in his own justification, entered on
his book, "compelled by force of arms
to issue this license."
Havihg obtained the license, Coulter
next sought a clergymah, who with
threats of death, he compelled to go
with him to the house and perform the
ceremony. Having lived with the doub
ly married woman three or four days,
the desperado gave her five hundred
dollars in gold and set off again in search
of adventures. Whether the lady was
constrained by force, by gold, or by ro
mantic affection, to submit to the dou
ble marriage, our informant has not
learned. It may be added; as favorable
to the best construction which can be
placed on the conduct of the bride, that
when last seen in the neighborhood, she
was on board of a steamer which was
bound for Louisviile. —Jeffersonville Na
tional Democrat
There are six colored churches in
Savannah. Three of them have large
and splendid organs. The pastors are
colored men. Another proof of the
hardships that the negro suffers from
the "galling chains of slavery."
Gen. Sheridan's Report of his Ope-
rations.
IH.E DEFEAT OF EARLY'S ARMY.
CAPTURE.OF CHARLOTTSVILLE.
Two Large Iron Bridges Destroyed
Fourteen Pieces of Artillery
Captured.
WA R DEPA RTME.).:T, WASHINGTON,
March 13.
Maj Gen. Dix:—The following re
port of Sheridan's operations has been
received by this Department.
(Signed) E. M. STANTON.
11ENDQRARTER4, MIDDLE DivistoN,
COLCIIBIA VA., March 10, 1864.
Dent. Gem Grant: GEN'L. : —ln my
last dated Waynesboro, I gave you a
brief account of the dfeat c't Early by
Custer's Division. The same night
this Division was pushed across the
Blue„pidge and entered Charlottesville
at 2 p. m. the nest day.
The Mayor and principal inhabitants
came and delivered up the keys of the
public buildings. I had to remain at
Charlottesville two days. The time was
consumed in bringing over from Way
nesboro our ammunition and pontoon
trains. The weather was horrible—rain
incessant. The two divisions were, du
ring this time, occupied in destroying
the two large iron bridges, one over the
Rivanna river, the other over Morses
Creek near Charlottesville, and the rail
road for an advance of eight miles in
the direction of Lynchburg.
On the 6th of March I sent the first
Division, Gen Devin commanding, to
Scottsville, on the James river, with
directions to send out light parties
through the country, and destroy all the
merchandize, mills, f.ictories and bridges
in Ravenna. The parties were then to
join the division at Scottsville. The
Division then proceded along the canal
to Doughenclsville, fifteen miles from
Linchburg, destroying every lock, and
in many places the bank of the canal.
At Dagendsville we hoped to secure
the bridges to cross the river, as our
pontoons were useless, on account of
the high water In this we were foil
ed, as both this bridge and the bridge
at Hardwicksville, were burned by the
enemy upon our approach. Merritt ac
companied this division. The 3rd Di
vision started at the same time from
Charlottesville, and proceeded down the
Lynchburg road to Amherst Court
House destroying every bridge on the
road, and in many places miles of the
road. The bridges on this road are nu
merous, and some of them 500 feet in
length.
We found a great abundance in this
country for men and animals. In fact
the canal had been the great feeder of
Richmond. At the Rockfish river the
bank of the canal was cut, acd at New
Canton, where there is a dam across the
James river, the gnardlock was destroy
ed, and the river let into the canal, car
rying away and washing out its bottom.
The dam across the James, at this point
was also partially destroyed.
I have had no opposition. Everybo
dy is bewildered by our movements.—
I have had no news since I left.
The latest Richmond papers were of
the 4th, but contained nothing.
I omitted to mention that the bridges
on tl - e railroad from Swoop's depot, on
the other side of Stanton to Charlottes
ville, were utterly destroyed; also, all
the bridges for a distance of ten miles
on the elordansvle railroad.
The weather has been very bad in
deed. It has been raining hard evry
day with the exception of tout, since we
started. My wagons have, from the
condition of tne roads detained me.—
Up to the present time we have cap
tured fourteen pieces of artillery, eleven
at Wayesboro atd three at Charlottes
ville. The party th at I sent back from
Waynesboro started with six pieces, but
they were obliged to destroy two of
them for want of anirnale. The remain
ing eight pieces were thoroughly des
troyed.
We have also captured twelve canal
boats laden with supplies, ammunition,
rations and medical stores.
I cannot speak in two high terms of
Generals Merritt, Custer and Devin,
and the officers and men of their com
mands. They have waded through
mud and water during this continuous
rain, and are still in fine spirits and
health.
Commodore Hollins of the rebel navy
was shot near Gordensville, while at- 1
tempting to make his escape from our
advance in that direction.
P. H. SumonAN,
Major-General.
[Signed]
No Prime at all.
In the days when servants were bought
and sold to service in Massachusetts as
well as in South Carolina, my grand
father
had in his family an unctions dar
dey, called of course "Dinah." Now
Dinah was fair to look upon, and after
sundry flirtations, received, in her eigh- j
teenth year, a bona fide offer from a well
to-do
Sambo of forty; "And why don't
you have him, Dinah?" asked my gland
father of the fair one. "Too Old, MS-
sa." was the reply. "Why; ha's just ;
in his prime." "Yes, massa, but bimes
by, when Dinah get her prime den he hob
noprinte at all.
The Suez Canal.
M. Ferdinand de Lesseps gives public
notice that his projected Ship Canal, uniting
the Red sea with the Mediterranean, was so
far completed in 1864 that a baily boat has
been run from Port Said to Suez since the
Ist cf last month—a large bark, towed by a
steamer, and conveying from twenty to
thirty passengers, having passed from sea to
sea within twenty-four hours. As yet the
depth of water would seem to be but four or
five feet with a width of thirty to forty feet;
but it is confidently calculated that the canal
will be prepared for effective transportation
by April, when six steam tags are to be
ready for service upon it.
This canal is ninety miles long, and is to
have, when completed, a minimum depth of
twenty feet, with a width of three hundred
and thirty feet at the surface. It was com
menced in 1859 by a private company, on a
subscribed capital of $40,000,000. We in
fer that M. de Lesseps does not expect to
complete it immediately, but to deepen it
by degrees, without interfering with its use.
A British Railroad, two handled and twen
ty-two miles long, passing from Alexandria
through Cairo to Suez, has for some years
afforded expeditions transit between the two
seas.
The Suez canal has been favored by the
French Government, but has, for so:ne not
very obvious reason, encountered the jealous
hostility of England. It would naturally be
presumed that the European nation, whose
possessions and whose commerce in the far
east must exceed those of her rivals, would
welcome and support every enterprise
whereby India, China, and ;span are ren
dered more cheaply and rapidly accessible.
A passage for ships to India by the Is
math of Suez sounds the knell of Britian
supremacy in the East and the Mediterrane
an. British Malta and British Gibraltar
must ere long become worse than anachron
isms. Trieste, which has alrealy grown
during the last quarter of a century like
Chicago or Cincinnati, must speedily become
the great modern enterport of the extreme
eastern trade, Venice, Ancona, Athens,
Marseilles, Barcelona. must speedily enter
into the Mediterranean competition for the
control of the commerce which has hereto
fore been ruled from Ladenhall street and
the London Exchange. English diplomacy
and the English press have done their best
to prevent, or, at least, to delay this CODSU
..
mation. The spectres of the India revolt of
'57 forever, apparently in her eyes, England
has seen in the piercing of the Isthmus only
an insidious assault upon her domain in the
Orient. The civilized world, however, cares
but little what may become of England's do
main in the Orient, and will even look with
complacency upon the overthrow of the fi
nancial domination of London.
California Editors on the Sources of
Happiness.
We find the following in an ex
change. That California is getting civ
ilized rapidly :
When from my room I chanced to
stray, to spend an hour at close of day,
I ever find the place most dear, where
some friend treats to lager-beer.—Sac
ramento Age.
Ah ! yes, my friend, of city life, sure
such a treat cures such a strife, but bet
ter than such dose by far, are pleas
ures of a fine cigar.—Placer Herald.
Such pleasure may suit baser minds,
but with the good no favor finds ; we
think the purest jay of life, is making
love to one's own wife.— Volcano Ledq
ger.
Most wise your choice. my worthy
friend, in Hymen's joys your cares to
end ; but we, though tired of single
life, can't boast of having our own wife;
and so, when 'neath ocr cares we faint,
we fly to kiss some gal that ain't—yet.
Napa Reporter.
The "lagar-beer" will bile provoke,
"fine liavanas" end in smoke. To
court one's wife is better far than Lagar
beeer, or vile cigar. Kisses, the dew
of loves young mourn, break on the
lips as soon as born. These are all
nought to that great joy—the first
glance at your first-born boy.—Evening
Ledger.
'Tis true a boy's a wished for bless
ing, but then suppose the first a girl.
A dear sweet child, with way carress
ing, with pouting lips and flaxen curl,
with dimpled cheeks and laughing eye,
to come and bid papa good-bye ! So
whether boy, or whether t'other, em
brace the babe and then the mother.—
San Francisco Globe.
Crops and Fruit.
The Sandusky Register says it is in
formed that in Sonie distriets in that
county a considerable quantity of wheat
has frozen out, hat it is thought that
enough still remains in a growing con
dition to make an average yield; provi
ded favorable - Weather ensues and it
turns out welt The prospects for a
fine yield of the - Miens kinds of fruits
never were better at this season of .the
year, and unless the buds are nipped of
this, we will have . a good yield of
peaches, apples, and kinds of fruit.
Grape men say every . thing look. well
for a large yield. SWIM the season
be a favorable one, oar grape crop will
be nearly doubled, as WV new vine
yards will come into kering for the
first time this season.
ear The stragglers from lieds army
say they are '•aeoe lers," not deserters.
A Military Necessity.
"Why, Pompey, is dat you dressed
up in sojer clothes so smart?"
"Yes, Pete, I'se enlisted."
"Well, den, Pomp, I wants to ax
you jes one ting bet° you. go. Wut's
dis I hear bout military necessity?—
Wut's it mean"
"I'll Bplain it to you right off, Giirre
your knife fust,"
“Dar it, is.”
"Bery well. Now, am you a loyal
man Peter"
"I spec I is."
"Lucky for you. Now law am one
ting and military niceisity am another.
I'se a sojer. War times now wid me.
I got your knife because it am a milita
ry necessity. I want it. The law can't
touch me for taking it. You touch me
and you am opposed to military necessi:
ty, and you go to Fort La Faughyet."
"Why, dat's my knife!"
"No. It am confiscated by military
necessity. In . time ob war de Army
and Guberment takes all they want—
property, slabes and all tin is—bekase
dey want it to help to kerry on de war.
In peace der is no such military necessi
ty, and dey couldn't do it; but now if
dey oppose, dose who oppose am Rebels,
bekase dey oppose de interest of de
whole kentry. lam in dat interest,
being a sojer. I keep your knife fur
military necessity; you object and you're
a Cesessionist at once. So be kerful.
Wut say?"
"I say take de knife, and be dam! I
don't want to go to Fort LaFaughyet."
"Den you sufficiently understand bout
military necessity!",
"I does now, dat's a fack."
"Well dar! I oiler tought yov was
loyal; so good bye, Pete; de General
wants to see me."
"Good bye, Pomp, pomp but when
de war is ober bring back my knife."
Gigantic Oil Enterprise.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle says : A
gigantic enterprise is now on foot at
Titusville, and one which will settle
many questions now in dispute in regard
to the oil theory. A company of re
liable capitalists has been organized for
the sinking of a shaft at some point not
yet_determined upon, for the full and
complete development of the geological
peculiarities and facts of the oil stratifi
cation. The capacity of the proposed
shaft is to be seven by fifteen feet and
it is supposed the drippings of the rock,
as the shaft progresses, will nearly, if
not quite fully, compensate for the labor
of this great undertaking. This under
taking will involve a greater degree of
mining skill than any now practiced, as
appliances will have to be made use of
to keep the work tree of petroleum gas,
which do not come within the range of
the ordinary class of ventilators ; and
these npnliances will have to be so com
plete and effectual in their operation,
that no ordinary skill can invent them.
Of course, after the shaft has reached a
proper depth, to fully carry out the plan,
it will be necessary to run leads and
drifts at angles from the main stem,
which will eventually create courses of
successions of caverns, which will be
come receptacles of oil, to be raised to
the surface either by means of pumps or
by hydraulic pressure.
A Mathematioa Puzzle.
The following is decidedly the neat
est little mathematical puzzle that came
to our notice
A man has sixty apples; he sells dO
for fifteen cents, which is a half a cent
a piece, or two apples for one cent. He
sells the remaining 30 for ten cents,
which is a third of a cent a piece, or
three apples for one cent. Thus we
see that for five apples he gets two
cents; now how many cents does he
get for 60 apples? The problem seems
plain enough, and the rule of three gives
the immediate resul. of twenty-four.—
But on the other hand, if he gets fifteen
Cents for 30 of his apples; and ten cents
for the remaining 80, it seems pretty
evident he gets twenty-five cents for
the 60.
YOUR FARE, , MISS. —A young lady
from the rural
istriCts lately entered a
city railroad tar. Pretty soon the con
ductor approaches her and said
"Your fare, Miss."
She blushed and looked confused,
but aid nothing. The conductor was
rather astonished at this, but ventured
to remark once more:
'Your fare, Miss'
This time the pink of her cheeks
deepened to carnation as the rustic
beauty rEplied :
'Wall, if I ern good lookin' you
hadn't ought-to say it out loud afore
folks.'
The passengers in the cars roared
with laughter, and her lover at once
settled the fare.
sm.lf you want to be a favorite with
the girls generally, attend to their wafts
—that is give them rides, dandy and
taisens; talk and laugh about love af
fairs, and keep on the off side—that iS
don't commit yourself to any one in par
ticular, and you *ill be lionised to your
heart's content till you become an old
bachelor. The more flippant and non
sensical a young man is iu the company
of the girls, the better will he stuseeed.
They prefer fools to wise men,
erne shoddy,contractors 'Slo good
by stealth and blush to find it fame."
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NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6,, NO. 404
GrA system of mettdotherapha has
been introduced in Paris. This is the
cure of neuralgia by the application of
copper or brass. The following case is
stated:
A person had been for two years suf
fering intense agony from intercostal
pain, which had all characteristics of
neuralgia. Dr. Burco applied an iron'
disc to the part affected, with no result.
lie wishid to try the influence of cop
per. A brass candlestick being near al
hand, he applied it, on which the pain
instantly vanished.
!WA colored man has been drawn as
juror in Providence, R. 1., and will take
his seat among the others. Hitherto' it
has been customary when a coltited
man's name was drawn, it passed Oyer,
bat now a new course is to be pursued.
A similar case occurred in Brooklyn a
few days ago- A colored man, possess
ing a considerable amount of rropertt
was drawn as a juror, but tie lift per=
witted to retire, as no negroes had serv
ed in that capacity.
We Gen. McClellan is in Paris. stoe.
ping at the Hotel de ('Empire, but id
SO6ll to leave for Rome. He break*.
ted at Claremont, while in England; with
the entire Louis Phillippe family, boa-
silting of twenty.two persons, add lot*
also invited to the house of the Prineiii
of Wales. At Paris his time was deed=
pied in sight seeing with Mrs MoClethati
who is in Europe for the first
1159 - The mode of treatment piticticed
by the Chinese, and the English otrioers
in China, for the small pox, is to rub ttei
chest with croton oil and tartaric oint
ment, when the preceding fever is at its
height, and just before the eruptio,ti ap
pears. That causes the whole of the
eruption to appear on the chest, and re
lieve the other parts of the body.
arA number of physicians were one*
disputing as to what would best shatpen
the sight. Some recommended one
thing and some another, till at last; one
said that there was nothing thdt.ll , cula
do it like envy, for it magnifies anti
multiplies all the errors of men.
udget Hu
..• •
etor"Ah ! Jemmy, Jemniy, "said
the kind-tearted Dr. Ponsonby, Bialy
of Derry to' a drunken btaeltertfili, 'sl
am sprry to see you beginning your evil
co'ur'se again ; and Jemmy, I ten very
anxious to know what you intend to de
with, that fine lad, your son 7" "I intend
sir, "said Jeninly, "to do' for him whet
you cannot do for your gnu!" ‘lthf.
eh ! how's that—hoWl that ?" To
which Jemmy, with a burst of genuine
feeling, said : "I intend to mate him
a better rdan than his father 4"
ga-An extraordinary escape Edith -
on has just been made at Toulon .
5 ....
seaman in the French navy, named (a
H
nieta. e had Made a hole through a
wall More than three feet fillet, iiroice
opeti two doirs, plundered the clothes
store of the' establishment, and theft
scaling a wall twenty feet high; got
away clear..
Orin the Boston police court, recent
ly, a man was arraigned as a commoi,
drunkard, who put in a peculiar plea or
defence. He said he believed the world
was coming, to an end Within a year,
and Meditating upon this Moinentona
event "staggered" him. The Court
could not see it in that light.
oa-"Ah, Sam, so you've been in trou
ble, have your'
"Yes Jim, yes."
"Well, cheer lip niau' adversity tries
us and shows up our better qualities."
"Ab, but adversity didn't try ttie; it
was an old vagabond of a judge, and ho
showed up my worst qualities."
seer-" Lennie," said a puritan to bit
daughter, who was asking his consent
to accompany her urgent and favored
suitor to the alter, "Jenny its a very
solemn thing to get married." "I. ki
it is, father," replied the tensible ,scisy
eel, but it's a great deal soleinner not
to."
'Pat, do you love your country I
'Yes yer honor.'
'What's the best thing about Treldndi
Vat
'The whiskey, yer honor'
‘A.h, I see, Pat, with all her faulty
you love her still.'
eir"How do you and your friend*
feel nowt" said an exultant politician in
one of our provincial tiorotighs, td d
rather irritable member of the defeated
party. "I suppose," said the latter,
"we feel just as Lazarus did when be
was licked by the dogs."
o r "The great beauty of a wife W'
said a henpecked husband, "that if, sh,
abuses you herself, she won't let &arose
else abuse you.
OVA public lecturer in Bug Livid his.
selected the curious title and subject of
"Old women of both sexes." The ,
theme is suggestive, to say the least.
Why is a lawyer like email Wpm*
dealer? Because his business depends
upon his standing at the bar.
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