The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-02-27
WIT AND wI%DoM.

AUSr E-was trying 20 persuade little
Eddy to retire at sGnd0Rn. "Y0u see, NV
dear, bow the little chickens ~ 60 rOost at
that timer" "Yes, Aunty," replied Eddy,
''but the old hen always goes with them.'
"How dO you like the looks of tha var
mint 2" asked an Arkansian 81 4 d0wneast-
er who was gazing With di-teuiod eyes at
an alligator With open avs On thc bank W
tbe Mississippi. "Wdl," responded the
Yankee, recovering BIZ mental eqiip1i-e.
'he amt what 1u'd call a han'sOns crit
ter. but he's deal Of openness wh "A be
Smiles"
Is that what the ladies wear around their
waists ?" asked country youth W Y frie1d
who was clerk ia city dry goods store
''Of corset i-,'' returned thH countar-iumper
with a misebievous wink.
MILEsIAS hearing sundry reports. rather
against BIZ character for veracity, exsiaim-
cd, in an h1ne-t burst or indignation.
"Ihank forten, bali the lies that ars t1ld
about me ain't true ~
TBE HindOos extended their hospitality 10
their enemies, saying ''The tree doe not
withdraw its shade even from the wood cut
ter.''
How 70 AVoID CALUsSY. of any one
speaks Ill Of thee, said Epiotetus, "c0u-id-
w whether be hath truth wv his sIds, WA
4 %, ref iIm thys If, chat bis censures may
not afsct thee When AnaKinAnt-r w4-
l'id that the very boys laughei az his siog-
i1g. "Ah IN -ail he, "thsn must learn t0
ing better" Plato, being t0iI thar wv ati
mans enemies Wh1 spoke I'LL Of him. said.
"lt u no matter; | snail live ~ that n.ne
vii believe them"
A Young housekeeper il town va applied
to for situation by a servant girl and
among other questions, asked her why shs
left her last mistress. away vOu see \ Wa-
too good looking, and hen / opened tbs
door, the gentlemen always took me f1r tha
missi-" The lady concluded not u accept
her services.
A THREE wear Old young-ter Jaw drunk-
en- man lacking" through the street
"M0Tber," said he, "iid Gld make that
man ?" She replied il tie affirmative. The
littie fellow reflected for "a minute. and
then exclaimed III wouldn't naye done II. t.'5
A cLEEGYMAN on bis way 60 church one
Sunday morning accosted cab driver Aud
reprimanded him sharply for bis wan. oF
reverence for ths day. "Wrll, sir, can't
Keep the Sabbath now a-days at ali'' "Bat,
Dy frieud, # you don't keep the Sabbath,
y0u MT Keep tile law. and tleu -ahat 0n
earsh DO you keep?'' .'Sr, / am laborioy
hard 70 keep wife ard seven ii.Ile 'uas,"
meeSly rvple ed The cab man.
Two little Sabbath school BOYS cot very
heated over a geEsd question NJ their lesson,
and started the teacher, whose back was
turned for a moment, with:
''I teIl you it's Mary Migazine, aud not
Magdalene."
The other one, thrusting his hand deep
and desperately into bis trousers pockets,
sung out:
snow, Shat'n you bet f''
THKRE Is nothing which ads 80 much
beauty and power to a man a. character. TIKI
dlgnibes him Ia every period NJ life. Such
a character il more 70 be desired than avsrv-
thiag else on7Fartn. NJ serv,le friend, no
croaehiug sychphanS 20 trsacherols honor
seeker, ever Bsre such a character; che pure
laye u rishka yhsness never spring 10 SUCH a
person II yBung men knaw ho~ muen ~
good eharacser would dignity and sxalE
them, bow gsori)as It wound make theil
prospects even " this life, never should VIZ
Ind them yielding to the grovelliog and
Dase- o1In purposes of humAA nature.