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Show SHORT LAUGHS. The fashion editor of a frontier paper, about the time of an Indian scare, said ho was sorry to observe that whoopi W3ie coming in again. . Squiggs "I never see you and Miss Maryann out together any more. Havt you quarreled?" Bliggs "No, not exactly. ex-actly. We're married." An impecunious Terre Haute young man, who has become a brother by brevet to seven heiresses, calls them "the little sisters of the poor." There probably never was a woman who said an unpleasant thing to a man that she did not add that she was telling tell-ing him for his own good. Atchimn Globe. "I 'cawn't for the life of mcsee," said Gus De Jay, "what some people were put on earth foh." "My dear Mr. I)o Jay," said Miss Pepperton, "you shouldn't cultivate this unfortunate unfortu-nate habit of retrospection." St. Peter (to newly arrived spirit) " Madam, you will have no need of that sealskin sacque in this summer land." Mrs. De Fashion "O, let me wear it, please. Never mind if I do nearly roast. I'm used to that." New York Weekly. A German named Lilieuthal, after experimenting ex-perimenting for twenty-three yean with artificial wings, has succeeded in raising himself, weighing 160 pound", with the aid of a counter weight lifting eight pounds. How to raise the other eighty pound is still beyond him. Adam Clark, in returning thanks at the table of another, made use of tie following significant and pertinent words: "Lord, bless these vegetables and this fruit and bread; and if thou canst bless under the gospel what tnou didst curse under the law, bless urn swine's flesh also." |