Show C P I 1 well farmer you told us your place was a good place for hunti hunting now we have tramped it for three hours and found no game just so said the farmer as a general thing the less game gamo rame same there is the more hunting you nave ave marshall Soult came in greath astone day to louis louls philippe and said sire things are all gol goi going eng ing wrong 11 1 lehat s the matter marshal A lahy why sire that thiers is always shuffling 1 I know that my dear marshal replied the citizen king but then iam lam I 1 am prepared to cut A german being required to give div 0 a receipt in f full fuli 11 after much mental effort produced reduced the e following 1 I ish full I 1 wants no more money jonn JOHN SWA siva Cn ammer AMMEE lord cockburn the proprietor of bonaly was setting on the hillside with a shepherd and observing nhe Ahe sheep reposing in the coldest situation he remarked to him john if I 1 were a it sheep I 1 would lie on the other side of sheer the hill 11 11 lah ah my lord 11 said the shepherd but if ye had been a sheep ye would hae had moir sense an irishman had to give the password at the battle of fontenoy at the time the great saxe base was marshal the password is saxe now pat dont forget forge tit bit it said the colonel saxe faith falth and I 1 wont my father fathera a miller who goes there said the sentinel after he had arrived at the pass bagster Bag syer yer honour whispered pat confidently did you take the note and did you see mr thompson jack ees sir 11 and how was he why helbok he looked pretty well but hes very klind blind blind blind what that do you mean why while I 1 in the room he axed me where my hat and im blessed if it apt on my head all the while an impertinent fellow was met b by a gentleman whom he had insult insulted e 7 who observed that he owed him a it goo good 1 drubbing never mind sir sir said the fellow ill forgive you the debt when andros to demand a loan of money he said 1 I bring the two gods with me force and Persua persuasion slon 11 he was answered vve we lve have two stronger want ana and impossibility in pu J A clergyman tr tra velling in california nl encountered hunther panther of which he subsequently wrote as follows 1 I looked at him long enough to note his brown and glossy coat his big glaring eyes his broad and well developed muscle and his capacious jaws when both of us left the spot and I 1 am pleased to add in opposite 6 directions 11 miss tucker says it is with bachelors as with old wood it is hard to get them started but when when they do take flame they burn prodigiously an irishman describes metaphysics as two men talking together one of them trying to explain something he dont know anything about and the other unable to understand him it et is said that napoleon when asked by dr omeara if he really thought he could have invaded england at the time he threatened to do so replied in the fol foi following lowin ingenious anagram A able abie was I 1 lere lore ere ero f I 1 saw elba the reader will observe that it reads the same backwards or forwards an honest farmer in the state of penn pennsylvania syl syi sylvania vania married a miss from a second wife he was struck dumb with her eloquence and gaped with wonder ather athen at her hen learning you might said he bore a hole through the solid airth and chuck in a millstone an dishell andl andi shell sheil tell you to toa a how long the stone will be goin clean through I 1 used for to think that it was air that I 1 sucked in every time that I 1 expired dever she tells me that she knowel better she belled me that I 1 had been sucking in two kinds of gin ox gin and high aint my im a temperance man and in d yet have been drinking ox gin and high gin all my eifel ah ahl here youage you are my good fellow how dye dyo dog upon my honor it does my heart good to see yon once morel more hows your family and the old woman we haunt seen her for along time when is she coming down to see my wife 1 I am quite well I 1 thank you but indeed sir you have the advantage advantage Advant agne agge my good fellow what advantage I 1 why really sir sit I 1 do not know you know me ale well I 1 i dont know you where in the deuce is S the advantage e ON NEGRO instruments by A ilyus in your report of the proceedings of the british association in a paper read by mr J crawfurd on the physical and mental characteristics of the african negro it is stated that the negro devro has never shown ingenuity enough to invent letters symbolic or phonetic I 1 beg leave to hand you a drawing of the 1 1 I 1 or african telegraph an instrument which has been beely in existence for time immemorial to th the e oldest inhabitant in tho the came boons country on the west coast of africa by the sounds produced on striking this instrument the natives carry on conversation with great rapid rapidity and at several miles distant I 1 have one of the instruments now in ni my possession which I 1 brought home WE with me on my last visit to africa in 1860 the sounds are made to produce a perfect I 1 and distinct language as intelligible to the natives as that uttered by the human voice and which I 1 had the means of testing oa on several occasions the instrument is in universal practice about the Camar and up in etheln the thein interior in the abo and budi bud countries a part of central africa not yet visited visited by europeans in visiting this part of africa in 16 1859 1859 1659 59 my coming was generally announced beforehand to the different villages by the Elli elii emble embie 2 I 1 questioned some of the oldest inhabitants asto as to the inventor but none of them could tell me further than that they supposed I 1 it must have been some of their F great reat grandfathers 11 this there therefore fofe foie which is acost ingenious invention must baust have been in existence in africa before telegraphs were dreamt of in en england 0 wiand glaud athenaeum oct 14 18 65 1 |