Show wit nud and wisdom edg thib thi B tough steak makes me think famous old english engli G I 1 I 1 poet is dueer what poet oct does docs it make you avink think of lf aau chau A STRANGER GER in now york allowed a new made friend to measure ins his chest in a barroom bar room and shortly after found kp he was vas immeasurably sold when lie ho honl to uke tike his bid money from his breast pocket and could not flot find it an american apparently insane recently created a disturbance in prague and was sent to the madhouse mad house after his release he be said tie ha pretended insanity in so BO that lie he might obtain an inside view via V of tho th a celebrated asylum to which he bo was wall sent cent A couple of neighbors became co ao inimical that they would not speak to ta each other but one having been converted at a camp meeting on seeing his former enemy held out his hand band saying sayin how dye do kemp I 1 am humble h um ble enough to shake hands with a dog A glutton of a fellow was dining at a 11 1 hotel who in the course of the battle battie with knives and forks forko acci dantly cut his mouth month which being observed by a yankee sitting near he be bawled out oil say friend dont make that ar hole in your countenance any larger or we shall all starve to death governor andrew is strongly ugly urged by general grant as the f fittest man for the mexican mis mission Bion the general thinks mr andrew otle ode of the strongest men of intellect in the country a a mat man of w wisdom as aa well as of enlightened sympathies oy mpa thies and one who would be of immense service to our gover ment at juareze Jua reza court A AU exchange published not long since some verses containing these lines 1 I met her on the street and she showed her dirty feet the young lady defered to made complaint and the editor corrected himself in his next paper for dirty lie ho has substituted dainty this made matter all right A CLASS IN music first class in sacred music stand up how many kind of metro metre are there V three sir sirlone long metre short metre and meet her by moonlight alone who told you that you booby bill jones sir go to your seat when school is over we will try and establish the keynote of a birch 1 y PARTON PARTOK in a recent number of the atlantic monthly has the following squib on western men the western mau man iu in all that he does and in much that he thinks is the creature of all the earth who is in the least trammelled by custom and tradition ilia his ruling aim when he gets about anything is to do it better than the same thing has ever been done before since tile the creation of man SIZE Is NOTHING this fact is well illustrated in this colored incident A talented african of the bootblack persuasion pei suasion while dancing like st vitus titus over a customers boots the other day observed a neighbor poring wisely over a newspaper whereupon when upon ho he addressed him chub julius what the deabel you lookin at that paper for you cant read go way fellah replied the other in dig autly I 1 guess I 1 can read Is apse c big for catl BI big retorted the first one scorn scornfully Fin 1 Y dat aint boffin A cows big to cotch a mice but she cant do it iv r BEARDS the farahon of wearing a long board beard banished by the normans Nor mansi gradually revive dand and in ahny the time ei de of we portraits of their great men all grim ang and warlike c wi with th ri etli ug hair and fierce mustache A melancholy melan chaly interest clings still to tile the venerable board beard of oli old sir thomas more who when the executioner had bad already bitted lilted high his ax to perform office raised his hia weal head from the block exclaiming wait my friend till I 1 h have put aside my beard that has committed no treason and Anaa again gaiu there is a story of the gallant but un fortunate sir walter raleigh who when a barber visited him in the tower to trim his beard said gently to him desist Ue eist dear sir there is a lawsuit pending between the king and me about this head I 1 dont wish to layout any capital upon it till tho the cause fg fc tried |