| Show A HARD HIT jim never made a joke in his bis life vile yet no man everead ever had more made at bib bis ex pensa pens on one occasion while a candidate for congress he be was making a speech in a country schoolhouse school house to an andl Andi audience ence of c country farm farmers elss enss who were as a general rn ru levery attentive listeners liet ilet eners joe G however formed an exception ile he b had ad been taken rather liberally of whisky straight straights under the influence of which his bis comments made in a tone rather rathey louder than a stage whisper were exceedingly annoying to the speak speaker pr jim tre prepared pared for his grand effort my friends said he be 1 I am proud to io see around me tonight to night the tardy hardy bardy hardy yeomanry of the land for I 1 love the agricultural agriculture al interests of the country and well may I 1 love them my rellow fellow cit zen zens s for I 1 was waa born a farmer the happiest esada alays ys of mv my youth were spent in the peaceful a avocations vocations of a bon hon i son pon on of t the her soil it if I 1 may be allowed to uge uee a figurative expresion my friends I 1 may say I 1 was raised between two rows of corrll corni aa A pumpkin by thunder lJ exclaimed the inebriated joe TRUE yon FOR you every editor knows th b 0 truth of the following from the N new ew york journals journal it is one of the hardships of our profession that its working wheels brains and hearts are not a allowed iloa lloa ed to ia lag for sickness or stop for calamity or sor bor sorrow borrow ro w the judg jude e may adjourn hib his court the school and workshop ma may close shutters shut tors the mourner may way veil features and a nd turn friend and qt stranger ranger from thedoor but the journalist must forget before the tomorrow of today to day must write gaily pally and freshly as a a newsmonger on the trifle of ther her hour whatever burden has been laid on thai bame same hour by Provi providence derice delice for his heart and brain as a man it sometimes inies tires and mocks mecks ae as the world that reads what hat is thus written wu would id rever never dream of A PRACTICAL JOKE SOME As ag a boy I 1 re reading a capital story of a wager lail laid by a bow boo Street runner with a country gentleman that the latter could not proceed from fro in oxford circus to the bank via holborn on foot with a guinea without being robbed of of it the wager was accepted and the country gentle gentie gentleman marr marf rea reachel reached cheI chel hoi Hor griborn lburn bars where a crowd frowd was collected round a jew pedlar boy whose box y bad been upset by soine some boor the die crowd helped the lad to pick up his traps but be he would not be comforted beeance he had lot lost all his big savings consisting con of af a guinea says saya a boy with a preternatural squint cri crl 1 I beed seed hat bat gent pick it up an and d petit lu lit his bis month the unhappy country gentleman manas wab was convicted on the clearest evidence he be was bonneted bis his coat split lip tip the back and was obi obliged hired fired in addition to 0 o pay the wager to the bow street run runner iler tier Te tempi nidie bar |
