A Frenchman, being about to remove his shop, his landlord inquired the reason, stating, at the time, that it was considered a very good stand for business. He replied, with a shrug of the shoulders, "Oh, yes, he's very good stand for de businis; by gar, me stan' all day, for nobody come to make me move!"
Plain Directions.
Represent me in my portrait, said a gentleman to his painter, with a book in my hand reading aloud. Paint my servant also in a corner where he cannot be seen, but in such a manner that he may hear me when I call him.
Homogeneous.
Joe Snooks, seeing some farmer's boys employed, some at hoeing and others at mowing, in the same field, remarked that they were a hoe-mow-geneous set of fellows.
The Louisville Journal, philosophizing on the recent commencement of several newspapers, gives the following poetic remark:
'Income and ink'em,
Although you may link'em,
Are not such first cousins as some folks may think'em.'
We did not expect to mention large peaches again; but the Louisville Journal speaks of a lot which measured nearly twelve inches each, in circumference.