The Butcher-Knife, Volume 1, Number 8, Danville, Hendricks County, 20 June 1857 — Page 1

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Home,

Sweet Home.

"'ilid'-pleasures and palaces Though I may roam. Let the ducetahe them all, And give me sweet home; "Where I keep my. own cabbage, Emetics and rum, With a wife and sis children Oh! there's no place like horns. Ciioats. Home, sweet home, tc. If around at Giberalter,

wrcch cf a storm,) ; .t cf that alt

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".7hi: : rars its proud form, " v - 1 not feel emotion A; :i I the wild foam? All capsized in the ccean, xLJTr from Ins I&onis Vi' 1C21 itoxcI on x revel

In dark starless nights, When each Etump seems a devil, And each devil afrights; And my creepers and walkers In zigzags 'do roam (Ways and means at a discount) I wish myself home! Let me live in a cottage, Like Einncs cf old, With a wife full cf splinters, Well versed as a scold ; There's nothing ko rural i. 121 v tl in rfi t -i CiDon.i p That my heart fondly loveth, Thru the pleasures cf home. D?" An Irishman, who had fcsea reduced to a mere shadow by a eevcre iHr.cs.i, was asked by his physician what he thought cf a future state. "Ah! docthor," was the answer, "it makes no difference; jcz ain't left enough cf me for the devil to naturalize, no how!" ET A Tras ays it is folly to expect a younj gill to love a man whom everybody, tpcabi well of. Get up a persecution, and her aTcs ties s will clinj ea fact thatadorua guardians caiioot remove them,

A IJcasitiAil Sentiment. Shortly before the departure of the lamented Heber from India, lie preached r sermon which contained this beautiful illustration: "Life bears us on like tbe strcatn of a mighty river. Our boat nt first glides down the narrow channel through the playful murmuring of the little brooks, and the winnotr of its grassy borders. The trees shed their blossoms over our young beads; the flowers on the brinks seem to offer themselves to our young bands; we arc happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly at the beauties around us but the stream hurries on, and still our hands are empty.

Our course to youth and manhood is along

Definition cf AC: :itt::::c j In Lynchburg, Virginia there i:, r. Lad proverbial as being a bad speller. Tbo school he attends has among its numerous rules and regulations one that requires iiib scholars to spell a column in tbe dictionary, and "give the meaning" just as ths school opens, well, this lad was as tba foot of his class. 'The nest day the firet word was "admittance." This lad had been walking around sight-seeing, when his eyes fell upon a circus bill, wkislit among other inducements to draw a "

gers and children half-price.' friend spelt the wtftd, a?'5 heart. IText day, str

a deep and wilder flood, and objects more bead boy missed, and

striking and magnificent. We are anima- i until it came to or "

ted at the moving pictures and enjoyment and industry passing us; we are excited at some short-lived disappointment. The stream bears us cn, and our griefs and joys are alike left behind ns. We maybs ship-wrecked we cannot be detained; and whether rough or smooth, the river hastens to its home, till the roar of the ocean is in our ears, and the tossing of the waves is between our feet, and the land lessens from our eyes, and the floods are lifted up around us, and we e leave of the earth, and its inhabitant., .itil cf our further voyage there is no witness save the Infinite and Eternal!"

07 The following is a copy of the sign upon an academy for teaching youth, in ens of the Western States: "Freeman and IIus, School Tcrchers. Freeman tC3CtiC3 tliS hoyS Q7ld Til' ti Cjivls mmmm

We'll wajrer our hat that Hu's is liked

exceedingly well as a teacher.

was in the meantiu. the hope of getting ' uiae that he was right suit : Teacher. Boy at the foe mittar.ee." Bor. A-d-m-i-t-t-a-n-c-e, adm... TsACiiEr. Give the difiaitioa. liny TrTn( tr.fi ? n frtpioof..r f r

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Aeovs Stealing. "Billy, how did you lose your finger?" "I'arJr enough," said Billy.

I supooro so, but how?" I gess ycu'd a lost your'a if it had

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"That don't answer my question!' "Well, if you must know," said Billy, "I had to cut it off or else steal the trap."

Q3r The ignorance of young ladies brought up to thump the piano, read lovesick novels, and entertain young gentlemen with moustaches, is astonishing.

, The other day one of this class threw the

milk intended for tbo tea out of the window, because it had. a yellow scum on the top.

03rA young lady cr.so hinted to a gentleman that her thimbb was worn cut, and asked what reward she merited for ner industry. Ho sent bcran answer in the chape of a thimble, on whkh the following lines were engraved r" "I cnd you" a thimbb, fer fingers nimble, Which I hope will t when you try it; It will last you lcrrr, if it's half as strong As ths hint which you ir$ raa to bay it."

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