Show jocularities E S f I 1 bowler is moad road because a compositor set him up brookhouse Bawl bawler cr 11 Anian writes to an dollars because he is so infernally short and gets for a reply the heartless response do as I 1 do stand hp bp on a chair th has heard hoard of a good old oid lady who has read the baptist papers so faithfully that she silo discharged her la undress for sprinkling ifer her linen au an evansville Evans villo ind man roan well weil advanced in years was astonished recently at receiving an invitation to attend tho the wedding of his parent who had been thirty years separated by divorce A greenhorn sat a long time attentive ten tive musing upon a cane bot tom chair at length ho he saidi wonder vonder what follow took tho the tho th o trouble I 1 A I 1 to nind find all ali them ar holes hoies and put straws around rem lem em the independent maintains that the tribune owes a great religious body an abject apology because by a typographical error it recently said congressional when IE meant congregational mangery margery what did you do with that tallow that mr jones greased his boots with this evening cP please lease maam malam I 1 baked the griddle cakes with it you did 1 I thought you had wasted it our experience and the history of the past put eighteen ceri centuries incline us to the belief that no matter t how well you treat a shotgun shot gun nor how you bring it tip up it will bang the he stuffing out of you the first time it gets a chance ex fun may never have furnished a splendid dinner but it has helred helped swallow many a poor one he t that i at cant laugh lauch is to bo be pitied lie he that wont laugh is to be feared and he that is always laughing is a nuisance A massachusetts man announces that he has an old desk that was used by colonel prescott Prescot tand and george washington wo we think we have heard of colonel prescott before in fact wo we know we have bave but who the deuce is georgo georgg washington courier journal cc many a young lady who objects to being kissed under the mistletoe has no objection to be kissed under the rose A careless compositor made an error in the above rendering it has no objection to be kissed under the nose there are a lot of people in the town of patten me ile who are aro related so much that they dont know what to call each other three brothers there have married three sisters whose brothers in turn have married their sisters in law julius can you tell me how low adam got out of eden well I 1 spose lie he clum do de fence no dat aint it well den he bo borrowed r a wheelbarrow and walked out no 11 he got snaked out and now comes that celebrated german physician and says gays the reason why printers enjoy an immunity from infectious dise aisea ases ses such as cholera smallpox small smail pox yellow fever etc is on account of their filthy indulgence in tobacco especially pecia ally aily ily lly smoking sothern was recently asked ly by an interviewer in st louis abouo about the practical jokes attributed to him when he replied the tories stories are false without exception I 1 am not one that enjoys adest that ends in the pain oi or inconvenience of others ethers my muscular adventure on the pacific railroad rall Bail road had not the slightest foundation in fact neither had the flying hoax which called out so many thousand people on broadway As for the opera hoax I 1 had nothing whatever to do with it I 1 did not know anything about it until etwas it was all over and to this day I 1 have not the slightest suspicion of the real parties who got up the sell ex ec we are often told that doctors never take medicine of their own or any one alses recommending I 1 was reminded of this a few months ago I 1 went into the office of one of Chi cagos most celebrated physicians to obtain a prescription for a cold and hoarseness hoarse ness while he lie was writing it out he casually mentioned that having been out in the terrible storm of the previous day a severe cold had resulted and th that a tin in the morning he could scarcely speak aloud As I 1 folded the prescription which was egyptian tome to me but seems to bo be the mother tongue of druggists I 1 ventured to inquire what he had taken for his hoarseness loaf sugar and lemons onsy was the placid reply well that remedy of drugs was never used for fori I 1 found loaf sugar and lemons excellent t ez ex in drawing lots for men to go ga on a wolf hunt in in lower canada lately a man named toothache was extracted from the bosom of his family the tho london morning post refuses to puff mark twain without pay ana nna lie lle is only a second fiddle to Artem artemus a rather poor first fiddle full many a turkey is now a that three weeks ago was a goblin toung young lady tuesday tho the post office if I 1 dont get a letter ietter by this mail I 1 want to know what he be was doing sunday night all |