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Show HAWKEYE GLANCES. <br><br> A new disease is called the arithmetical jim-jams. <br><br> The Inter-Ocean keeps two shot-guns with which to shoot poets. <br><br> He who would stop every man's mouth must have a great deal of meal. <br><br> The Chicago Evening Journal calls Dr. Thomas, of that city, the pulpit-thinker. <br><br> The New York Commercial says that the Puritans did not drink Plymouth rock and rye. <br><br> The piano men have struck, and Puck anxiously awaits reports from the cornet manufacturers. <br><br> The Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald says that Sunday is getting to be a day of arrest in this country. <br><br> The medicine-man of the Philadelphia Chronicle says that a good physician carries his skill in his heals. <br><br> "Quail on toast," was what he ordered. "Quail on trust," was what the inn-keeper called it some months afterward. <br><br> The New Orleans Picayune thinks that a man who bolts down his food ought to be able to keep it in his stomach. <br><br> That is an Indian nearing feet? Fast? that I don't like, as the man said who was pursued by the redskins. -Boston Transcript. <br><br> The Boston Transcript says that spring overcoats take their name from their propensity to spring open to display their gorgeous lining. <br><br> A gentleman asked his Sunday-school, "With what remarkable weapon did Samson slay a number of Philistines?" For a while there was no answer, and the clergyman, to assist the children a little, commenced tapping his jaw with the tip of his finger, at the same time saying, "What's this? What's this?" Quick as thought, a little fellow innocently replied, "The jaw-bone of an ass, sir." |