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Show PITH AND POINT. -Of one thing you may be sure-viz.: that if you are looking for the dark side of life you will find it. -In some parts of South America the banana skin is converted into a material of which ladies' dresses are made. This is probably the kind that the lady slips on easy.-Yonkers Statesman. -You can never entirely discourage a New Jersey man. When he comes down to his last dollar he picks up a spade and goes out to dig up some of Kidd's buried treasure.-Detroit Free Press. -"Is this my train?" asked a traveler at the Grand Central Depot of a lounger. "I don't know," was the reply. "I see it's got the name of some railroad company on the side, and expect it belongs to them. Have you lost a train anywhere?"-N. Y. Graphic. -The peculiar costume of the dwellers in Arizona is thus graphically described by a "tender-foot;" "In ordinary weather he wears a belt with pistols in it. When it grows chilly he puts on another belt with pistols in it, and when it becomes really cold he throws a Winchester rifle over his shoulders." -It is stated that a railroad brakeman has become an operatic tenor, and has been engaged for next season at $500 a week. He won't have to learn the Italian language, you see. He has merely to speak his lines as he does the names of stations and everybody will think he's speaking Italian.-Boston Post. -Seth Green says fish can not shut their eyes. Fogg says this explains why they always succeed in keeping off his hook. Whenever he goes fishing, the fish are all eyes and no mouth, and every eye wide open. He thought they kept their eyes open out of pure cussedness, but, now that he knows that they can't help it, he simply despises where he hated them before.-N. Y. Independent. -Well, my little girl," said a New Haven gentleman, to a friend's "preciousest," "aren't you going to sing for me?" "No, sir. I"m not a singer." Now, I thought you were a little singer." "Oh, no! I only sing a little to my dolly." "But I'll be your dolly." "You're too big. I guess sister Jennie wouldn't mind if you was here. She said you was just splendid." Sudden rattling of the dishes in the back room-where Jennie was busy.-New Haven Register. -"The latest agony," says Joems, "is the way I felt this morning. My wife asked me for a XX bill-a twenty, you know-and I cut the matter short by telling her that it could not be did, for the simple reason that I had only a matter of a dollar or so in my pocket. ‘I knew you'd tell me that,'she said, ‘and it's true, too.' And, as I looked up in amazement, she added. ‘I looked in your pockets last night. I've got the twenty.' Oh! boys, how I felt! But what could I do?" -"Heart-disease," said Jemmie, as he assisted Patrick to up-end a barrel of cement, "heart-disease is one of the worst diseases. Some people never know they have it till they dhrop down dead." ?? for you, Jemmie," replied Patrick; "and those people who know that they have it have to be moighty careful wid themselves. I knew a man wonst had it, and he was always obliged to dhrop work about five minutes before he felt it coming on."-Sorterville Journal. |