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Show DETROIT CURRENCY. A WOMAN who comes into church half an hour late in order to show off her good clothes, should be looked upon mildly. She is simply making room in Heaven for two women in calico. <br><br> THERE WAS never yet a boy so good that he didn't have an overweening desire to look for lump sugar if he came home and found that his mother had gone to a neighbor's to "borry flatirons." <br><br> THERE IS a Norristown in Pennsylvania and a Morristown in New Jersey, and when you are sending money by mail to pay an old debt of twenty years' standing you cannot be too careful of the address. <br><br> BEWARE of the landlord who wants you to make his hotel your home. He invariably arrives at the opinion that when you are home you cut your beefsteak with a hatchet and masticate it with a corn-sheller. <br><br> THERE IS something passing strange about human nature. If a man had to support his family by playing billiards at two dollars a day, he'd swear he had to work awful hard.-Middletown Transcript. <br><br> LIGHTNING struck a tree in Georgia to which a mule was tied, splintered it to kindlings and melted the buckles on the halter, and yet that mule was browsing on the fallen limbs when hunted up. Are mules non conductors? <br><br> THE IOWA hotel keepers have held a State convention to demand protection. Nothing was said of the thousands and tens of thousands of dyspeptics in this country who felt the first pangs after gnawing hotel beef and drinking hotel slops. |