The Butcher-Knife, Volume 1, Number 10, Danville, Hendricks County, 4 July 1857 — Page 1

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1 . r Id: . :d 1 : GIZOllQlZ GREGG, Editor.

0- "Sim; you racial, what are you

cloiag there?"

, "Why this old cow kicked milk all over

os, that's what I'm doio." .

An unloving woman is an impossi-

-ileos we can imagine a pillar of

'vd against July sun. But all ' h! .that passionately. These I" do net, are only c: eking

.'iisr wnt-::::i ! c! the

. i. becemo tired of

Mm wrote to her in

Jim, come right off, if

; at. all; Edward Kclderman :t 1 shall have him; and he . hicsc3 mo so. continually, that I . . a' 1 cut r inch-longer. . "Hallo," ejaculated an anzious guardian to his lovely neiee, as ho entered tin parlor end caw her ca the sofa in .the r.:moof a swain who had just popped the question, and coaled it with a smack "What's the tirae of day now!" ; "1 should thwk it was now about halfpact twelve," was the cool reply. "You cc3 wc are alaiest one." GallAwt to inn 'Last. A correspondent cf the Evening Pe;t, writing on tho "Wcr:an Qccciicn " says "I confers in alkln:::ity, that I have never yet scon an u-jy wc:na:w I never find any wcrnan cr.lirJy ugly, i cnh.r .d upon tki: idea c:::3 I -fere an audi;;: 3 cf. weiuan:. "C'r, I defy you not to dad w;e ugly." "Yen, madam," I replied, "aro an angel fallen from' heaven, only you have 'fallen'-ca your nose," ' Probably iVa did i;ol -believe me, and has maintained cgahct the xih$h. world, tlmt eliois nly" .

Juvenilis Wit. An old physicians was declaring in our hearing the other day, upon the propensity - which a majority of people display in eating unripe fruit and vegetables.. Said he: "There is not a vegetable growing in our garden that is not best when arrived at maturity, and most of them are positively injurious unless fully ripe." . "I know one thing : that ain't so good when it's rips as 'tis when it's green," interrupted a little boy, in a very confidential but modest manner. .. "What's that?" sharply said the physician, vesed at having his principles disputed by a' mere boy. : ' . "A cowcumber!" responded the lad. The doctor winked at us' with both eyes, but said nuthing.

(r"ToK3," said an impudent wag' to a conceited fop, '.'I know a beautiful girl who wishes to nake your acquaintance." "Devilish glad to . hear it fine girl, struck with my appearance, .suppose,

eh!"

. "Yes, very much so. Eke thinks you'd make a capital playmate for her little poo-

diode-?!"

. Exit fop, shockingly sold! 03" An exchange says:-" One little garden patch of ours has been very profit.

able, very this season. The snails ate up

the cucumbers the chickens ate up the

snails, the neighbors' cats ate up the chickens, and wo are now in search of something that will cat up the cata."

QZr The folio.: ing dialogue was over

heard at one of the hotels a few nonusrr3 ; since, between-a lawyer, and...cno cf the servants, who was ringing. tho first hzl for breakfast. . '. Lawyer (opening his room door.) "Boy! what's the bell ringing for!" Servant--! am' ricgin' fur do Gemssea to get up. ; ' , Lawyer must all get up-when the boll rings?' ;. . - Servant No, ear, Gcr.:ra::i only, gits up when do bell ring. , Lawyers, can lay abed lornr as da .mind to.

OT "Jake," said c, farncr cue day to his mower, "do - jou !-.ne; ho;; rwny horns there are in a d:' ;: ::.:a?" "Well, no, not lastly," rep!::d J:' j "but I kno; how :arny the: 3 r;3 h n, quart cf road Ho:: sag ah :!:.." Jake was ahit cf a' wag, and said hiaself that he knowed a thing or two.

0?- iTcarly all all ths :u!sidcs in this country are by f:rc:g.-ers. Yank-:: 3 rarely make way with tko:n::lvc: fea-r.: ever one thinks ho ha: chance cf I ing Pre: id cut, and at any rale, hi. ccity prorapts hi:.: to live c::, j:;:t -what ho will co:n3 to.

"Julius, did you ever tpoak in pub-

Hef" "Ob coarsa. I did." "Whar?' "In do parlies." "And what did ycu say,

Julius!" "Hct guilty, Ilr. Cnow what c!:3 could a g::.:n:aa say uud:r do csr-

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' ' A -ooicld Cu:'::rk:y, after 1: da- to thsctravegant yarns cf a ci:r

h.opor as long as her patience -would, alio., zzvl to him: Friend, what a pity it is a Lin to 11:, wk:n it c.;l:s :o ::::;;:rry b thyb-h:::! ' " '

A Boston corrs;pozd:::t statr.3 tkai a man thereabouts has invon'.-d a s:a:a crow, so utterly torriblo and k? 'rour, that the crows aro all hu::ly cr:-::l h tririn back the corn wh::h tk:y slol) two

years r"o,

An old rail suggw'.-, tkrAwk::; r:-n break their hvartw It Is,"!!.!" 3 rnotk:r cprcuts i;:r::Ii".!:h, r r.d tc-ws n its place. ' .; . J., di.g tears; sko says it ;:i i.:f.k

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