The Butcher-Knife, Volume 1, Number 6, Danville, Hendricks County, 6 June 1857 — Page 4

OCT Open your heart to sympathy, but close it to despondency. Thellower which opens to receive tho dew, elmts 'against rain. ' ,

;V. A fellow caught stealing,, excused lamislf m the ground that he did the act in Ci cf abstraction. . ,

North Carolina Tavelia;s en tho ears from 0-

It is with faded beauty as 'with a clock - the more the face is enameled, the more clearly do we sec the progress of time.

':Z An Editor down east, who served

four days on a jury, says he is so full of

law that it is hard work for him to keep from cheating somebody.

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M , do l long since, in - tho night, -we happened to have the good fortune to get into the same box with a regular blue devil exterminator, by whom, let it be surmised oar drowsy optics were 'expanded. " Thisindividual answered to the name ef 'Bat,' and his description cf ITorf "lie rimer," her- manners and customs,- gave the listen er anything but a favorable impression of the tar and turpentine Ch.to. Thus: Why, gentleman, a deg with' a long tail in North Carolina, would bo as -great" a show as a nigger with three heads. ; Why so? asked several. : They cut 'cm off to prevent them from knocking off the huckleberries when they arc chasing foxes 'and rabbits through the

'A? There is an insciiption on a tomb

stone at La Pointe, Lake Superior, which woods. reads as follows: "John Smith, acciden- pewj came frora EOmo listener.. , ; toIly shot .ata mark of affection by .his Factcertain as rain: and you never ee

brother." . ' L

The "nice" young man who once -lay when ho "wouldn't associate anies," is now acting as chief to 'Well, and wasn't that

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I "their hird is

; one tenth tf anevde CJl it; but ;e make all even by . adoring it with a tenfold devotion. That's a fact.;

pants. ..... : What then? eaid one.' "Pegs, answered the, imperliirablc Bat; they wear the buitc:;-. r H '-.' el:: ; p.a J.ai. ::;;.:! Go it, Bat, rV ; r -: -r A "

Which is the Worst? BACHELOR. Thee-a 'in the "r-'werl; I r.i: 1 i I. eft regret Ih-i iki ciegb; For, to . u- i j i.-s :t AcAh I have to darn my own stocking. MARRIED MAN. Churns! 1 cdviso ye, never marry; .For if from hr'me fast nine I trrv, Or in-any .other way. provoke her, Biol lie's euro to tap, me. with Uu;.p;.Uef J "The Kiss Considered As an Elavator. In a German tale, published some time since, is a description of ''The First Kiss" in. the following sens alive. c:.tyle: " 'Am I really dear to you, Sophia?'I whispered, and pressed my burning, lips to her rosy month. . She did not say yes; she. did net fay hut dm isIuit: I ray ki:",c::i t.'.3 cr.l.l i ;.: ". ' ' ."' ir: fc.nl was n L ' : Ii : ig ' 1 ; . t" 12, .1 i. i : . i 'j a . a . tho h aA ; a:: ;

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t:Z" Look a hea, Clem, can" you tell die nigger why dat vooly head. oh your'n an' de mccn am like!" "Well Sambo, I guess its .lease dey am bofs'posed to be inhabited." . Q; Wo like to ee young women peep

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Cj ',, .t;rs "can tell vhicli gopher hiii tliCj 'u lu ' ' : A general scream followed ' this ; the cars screamed and we all jumped off at M ' . Hope we'll see him again.' . 03". Give me" a kiss darlin't! Xet thim be laid .wid. power .on my hps--wid a report like Heaven's tunder whips, c "the

f , v jexploshin' av the evenm gun ecu, let

' . , , ' -. . . .... ; me cave. thim that, way, iv

young men, "and when they'come in their

presence it is so admirble to eco them appear so hypo-medest! .... Zj" Winehell tells - a story cf ' a ; dog which undertook to jump across a well in two jumps. There. are a great many people just like .that .dog folk", who think they can jump across a 'well in two jumps. They that undertake the csp..ia..nt ally' ''bring up' down in the wiler."" It i i blieviJ that p.owder en a 1 ,T , " , ... , , r 1 - . -V f 1 ' " t - ' ! j 1 k p,;n cf a : v.,. 1 : 1 it a - :i her lofc V Vridch are the., two ' cmallct in:::t .::.iie:r.d. ia the 'Scripture? "The .y;;fz "rlti" and tho mzi

ay, ivcry wan! ;-.

CcThe' following is a gennine Hibernian advertisement-: "Misting from Killarney, Jane O'Fogerty; she had in her arm 5 two babies and a; Guernsey ow, rliP-.ck, with red hair;. and tortii e1;::1 ;e. ,k: I hind her carsand a largo jlaek rpe!; all down her back, which 'squint 3 rv:f:ily.

The proverb, "the longer nan li c-? the more he'll see," can't alb d'j to." money nor -a -day a ...

" "Don't you like noveh!" asked in ?3l;er of jier Iowa .lover. -..v,,., ho replied, ."for X nercr bat;I'm tremeiijoii3 cn- yensf-

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i.. it. " ti elh j- ...am.jL t.ie.,'.nt i - SyiirATnETic " And so, dear Mrs I'lohbs, " your'-poor old man has gono to heaven!" . ; "Ah, d' no; ho's been gom'- tfotwrhill so' long, I'm afraid he'll' -never ' take a likin' to goin' vp hill!' 'Poor critter! I'm only prry: ho "lived- to sncli a painial'old

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. An EmeralderJ being charged with fteedin'a' wtirrcr-,' ewe: he .had it. ever sine?, it 'was a I'U!) v;h':l-brirrow!;, "

r . II.. o yen a sister?. Then lovo and ckeiidi her with a hcl friendship. -War-

den't yen g:t ye:-r care e.e.;;d they or: cntirel"' (eo h.'ng for a, a: a." . "And V - cued thsv cro too' short fcr an a::.J'

If yo'i have :::!;r c; ycur c;;n, wo flvi"-; y-i to leve r;'";l:!y eb..'; sister.

At'n'm in n.rceri t'rera waa t!m fello.ir'g in:ciiptir"i, ia J'-li h, cn tho wall: "Yen a. ill ind at Trcleatke crckiist !,::-!, : ::at, t .-.Tided you bring tb cm!"