+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ |@ | @ || _Items._ | _FROST WORK._ | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 1| S || Raw @ kold @ | | | 2| G || @ now jam fires | It ought to be a fair trade to | | 3| M || more @ rawy @ | swop religions, but whare will | | 4| T || Peter denied hiz | yu find the christian party that | | 5| W || @ master @ kold | iz willing to do it. | | 6| T || @ grows @ Dick @ | | | 7| F || @ @ Blister died | | | 8| S || @ 1839 @ more @ | * * * * * | | 9| G || inklement @ Dick | | |10| M || @ Blister * waz * a | | |11| T || @ konfidence man | I find it iz a grate deal eazier | |12| W || | for mi philosophy to ackount | |13| T || @ dredphul koldy @ | for original sin, than for an | |14| F || @ now dig @ | attack ov the jumping tooth ake. | |15| S || ice @ it snows ß | | |16| G || @ @ munny @ @ | | |17| M || iz power @ wind | * * * * * | |18| T || @ @ @ nor east | | |19| W || Jackson waz a Ψ @ | | |20| T || @ dimokrat @ big | Temptashuns iz what tries a | |21| F || @ snow ** in time | mans moral grip, Adam and | |22| S || @ @ ov peace ~ | Eve were very good plums untill | |23| || prepare @ for @ | the devil shook their bush, then | |24| M || @ @ war @ @ | they let go their holt immijiately. | |25| T || @ intense @ kold | | |26| W || @ Molly Bristow @ | | |27| T || born @ 1840 @ | * * * * * | |28| F || @ kolder @ Molly | | |29| S || @ waz * a * shop @ | | |30| G || @ lifter @ Good @ | Marrid life iz too often a mere | |31| M || @: Bye everyboddy | trial ov enduranse. | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ _TRIALS AND PERSEKUSHUNS OV AN AUTHOR._ Josh Billings' "_Farmer's Allminax_" for the year 1878 is now on our desk, and why will the friends of this man allow him to disgrace himself, and humanity too, by spreading such nonsense broadcast through the land? _St. Louis Advance._ * * * * * Vile trash! when are we to be released from this annual overflow, this ideotick Allminac? Kind heaven, tell us when.