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PROBLEMS.
Il GEoarrRicaL-1f ten dollars make an
eagic roHnd, how many win make an ca
igle sqsares
II ten dollars make an eagle JsH, how
imany will make an eagle enspfsf
IL ten mills make pnc cent, how many
iNill mako one eentrcf III
MrsicAL. -fften dollars NAL one eagle,
how many win make one buzshard, tBuz.
IxardD
/ GEoLQoicAL AKp BoT1sIcALs-H ten
dollars make ono p,etai9ir eagle, how ma.
ny viii make scgefabie one III,
j: 1ften cents make one dime, how many
] will make one dime on diamond y
PoLIncAL-If three miles make ono
Ieagae, bow many will make the Moxicsn
!. trdafyi
PHrssoLoGlcM.-If 60 minutes a de-
| Srect how many will make an Odd Fellow
ManRYisG ron MosEr.--A prudent
and well disposed member Of the Society
ofFriendsn once gave the following friend
ly.adviccs "
Y john said he, = l hear thou art 60
ing TO be married
AYcs,n replied John, Z am"
Well,n rejoined the man Of drab, 2 I
have one little piece Of advice to give thee,
and that Is, never TO marry woman worth
more than thou art When i married nv
wife, I was just worth fifty cents, and she
was worth sixty-two cents; and whenever
any difference has occurred between us
since, she has always thrown up the odd
shilling"
GRAMaAK.-John, parse Girls are love.
"
Girls Is . common noun, third person,
plural number and objective case.
Objective easel
No, nominatiye case.
Nominative TO what VERDI
don't know, sir.
Well, what follows girls2
John Dickson followed our girls whai
we've got 70 hum, last Sunday afternoon.
Oh young man Well, I should sup
pose they were in the obiccticc case.
No, sir-ee when ] seed 'em, should
think they was in the posxssipe ease, fol
he was huggin' 'em like thunder.
A few nights since, says q New York pa.
per, a policeman perceived young gen.
tleman fondly hugging one Of the posts
which supports tho wires Of the telegraph,
and desired him TO dcsist and 70 away,
You need not have interrupted me, y
replied tho youngster, who evidently had
not spent the evening at temperance
meeting -I was only kissing young la
dy in Philadelphia
kissing : lady in Philadelphia 2" ask.
cd the policeman,
Yes" was the reply--aI was kissing
her By telegraph
a passenger ON one Of the Western
steamboats, recently was landed near his
home, on the shore, and as the boat was
about 70 leave again, he bawled out:
Halo, Captain, there is something
missing here r tlf
What Is itfn asked the Captain. #
& Hang me, Il / can rccollect now IL
Let me see--here's all my trunks, boxes,
two dogs, gun, and--0h, thunder |
it's my wife and little girl, that are asleep
in the cabin ! knew there was some.
thingn
BEyEPrTs OF ADvERrIsINc.-John Der.
by.of Ware, Mass, advertised for wife,
and received seventy.fve applications e.
Some Of the applicants pressed their clans
with such rigor, that poor John, to get out
Of the scrape, placed aropc round his neck
and hung himself
NO man can do anything against his
will said metaphysician. Faith
said Pat II had brother who went to
Botany Bay against his will-faith did
he r.
aWere yon born in wedlock2n asked !,
quizzical lawyer ola country fellow
No sir. ! Vas bornyin the Jarsies.n
A young physician asking permission
o. lady 70 kiss her, she replied :--a No
-, 1 never like 10 have doaor,s 5ai
thrust IN my face.
III one q the principal rooms cf an inn
II II Rcliotd, i sampler, marked thu.
. Elizabeth CHS born March Ak
1873, aged Is yeersH Atolcrably decent
age 70 begin With
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