The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-02-17
Fun and Frolic.

~ man WIN du 0open COunIeudnCe il
always read in the face.
Domestic Tadpoles. Authors, because
their tales come from their heads.
"My dear wife," as the man said when
he looked at the last milliner's bill
What shoes should man wear while at
sea Navy-gaiters navigator's J, of
course.
A pork-butcher's sign in French prcvin-
cial city reads "Batta, Jr., slaughters
hogs like his father"
Unpopular personages. A fat man in
an omnibus, tall man in q crowd, and
short man on parade.
A druggist has this cheerful invitation
in his show w-window: "Come in and get
twelve emetics for one shilling"
81 came very near selling my boots the
other day." said Jones to a friend. "How
so?" "Well, | had them half-soled
The principal occupation ofthe Ngirl of
the periOd'' is said to be to sit at the win
dow and watch for the "coming mani
"Come out here and Fll lick the whole
of you," said an urchin to some sticks of
peppermint in a confectioner's window.
"Ts troacle good for cough 9o inquired
a youth with slight cold. ''It ought to
be-" was the reply;"'it is sold for consump-
tion."
Biles says he never has any trouble to
clay in" his coal. He always does that
when he takes too much whiskey, and falls
into the cellar.
If you toast round of bread, and I eat
the greater part of it, how do we differ
from one another? One makes the toast,
and the other takes the most.
"Mhat pity it is" said lady to Gar
rick, ''that you aren not tailor" 81 should
be happy, indeed, madam" replied Gar
rick, ''to be higher in your estimation"
A cross old bachelor says. "The reason
why women do not cut themselves in two
by tight lacing, is because they lace around
the heart, and that is so hard they cannot
affect it,"
A churchyard in Ulster has tombstone
with the following epitaph-"Erected to
the memory of John Philips, accidently
shot as a mark of Affection by his broth
ers."
A Yankee editor once wrote: ga cor
respondent asks whether the battle of
Waterloo occurred before or after the
commencement of the Christian era. We
answer, it did,"
A marrying bachelor snxiously asked if
it would be of any use to attempt to make
love to young lady after one has stood on
her dress till he could hear the gathers
rip at her waist?
Horace Walpole tells story of Lord
Mayor Of London in his time, who having
heard that friend had the smallpox twice
and died of it, asked if he died the first
time or second.
A travelling insurance agent applied to
Texan to stake out policy" but the
Texan replied. ga fellows life is SO pre-
cious uncertain in this community, it amt
worth insuring."
aMy opponent, Mr.. Chairman, persists
in saying that he is entitled to the floor.
Whether this is so or not | shall not en-
quire. All | have got to say is that he
will get foored ifhe interrupts me again."
A young ladywas alighting from an ON
nibus, when aribbon fell from her bonnet.
"You have left your bow behind, ]" remark
ed lady passenger. "No, l haven't he's
gone a-fshing," innooently exclaimed the
damsel.
"Do you say that as lawyeror a,man?''
exclaimed an exasperated witness whom
a lawyer was cross-examining. s'If You
say it as a man, it is lie and slander;
but if you say it as a lawyer, it's not of the
slightest consequence" :.