Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1859 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

(ttrThe following laconic advertisement was placed in the window df a London cof-fee-house: “iStolen from this window a China cup and saucer: the set being now incomplete, thfe thief may have the remainder at a bargain.” 1 t ■!» 02r“That was a horrible affair—the murder of and the sealing up of his remains in a tfn box.” ‘-What D-an!” asked a half dozen voices at once. “Why, sardine, of course,” was the pungent reply. —r. ■ •••—■ <s> 0A/ r “Johnny,** said a dbatfrig mother to her lomewbiit insatiable son, “can you eat that padding with impunity!” “I dun’i know, ma,” quoth young hopeful, “but I ’apoae I can with a spoon.” t OCrWo men are called the “softer sex,” j because they are easily humbugged. Out of one hundred girls, ninet -five would prefer ostentation to happineis;—a dandy husband to a mechanic. t j f &Zr“ That’s a fine strain*” said one gen- I tleman to anbther, alluding to the tones of a ainger at p concert the other evening, ••yes,” was the reply, “if he strains much more he’ll bujst.” (Erin ad iscussion at an agricultural club, a wag recomrftended the farmers to put snuff on their corp, so as to make the crows sneeze, and then to shoot the sneezing ones as the rogues;.