Mr. Wendel Phillips was riding in a railroad I car when he was addressed by a man of such rotundity that he seemed to carry everything before him. The man asked Mr. Phillips what was the object of his life. "To benefit the negro," was the bland reply. "Well, then, why don't you go south to doit?" "That is worth thinking of. I see a white cravat arouud your neck ! pray what is the object of your life ?" "To save souls from hell." "May I ask you whether you propose to go there to. do it P" — New York paper. A Gascon officer, hearing some one celebrating the exploits of a prince who, intwo assaults upon a town, had killed six men with his own hand : " Bah !" said he. " I would have you to know that the very mattresses I sleep upon aTe stuffed with nothing else but the whiskers of those whom I have sent to slumber in the other world I"
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 200, 10 January 1866, Page 3
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163Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 200, 10 January 1866, Page 3
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