The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-12-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

BELLE mettle-a young LADY, temper.
WIrH women as with warriors, there's no
robbery-all ID conquest.
Why In an infant like diamond 7 Be
cause it IA . dear little thing.
A LOVING swain in Maine dedicated q
napkin ring To my almost wife"
SERVANT is a servile word, an underling.
Help implies equality, or mOre.-L. M.
TiltoH.
A DEUNkARD is a bad arguer, for the
oftener he comes to the pint, the more in
coherent he is.
A BOY being asked what name was given
to residents Of the United States, prompt
ly answered Taxpayers.
The refusal Of her husband to wash the
dishes is said 10 be sufficient cause for an
Oregon woman TO apply for a divorce.
some people say it is dark-haired women
that marry soonest, bat elderly spinster.
maintain that it is the light-headed 1ns.s :
" you meddle with evil in any way,
whether in the way of complaining Of il,
or lighting It-you are liable 10 be swallow
ed up by it.
TRUE glory consists in doing what de-
serves to be written in writing what de-
serves to be read and in 81 living a. tO
make the world happier and better for our
living in IT,
WHAT'S to become Of me, II you die 2"
asked an atfectiOnate wife Of her husband.
II don't know" he snapped, querUualy.
"It would look better in you to - ssank-
ing what's to become IF me-"
A Z L
''Gone back" ON Darwin a good many
years, BY asserting that Empedoclea, who
is said to have forestalled Newton in dis
covering the cnrpuscular theory Of light,
held and exemplihed 'Darwinisnl" 2.JO0
years ago. Don't wonder he jumped into
Mt. Etha and finished himself
''The world is round, and | know it,"
was the FIRST expression used by the late
VIM H. Seward to the large concourse of
relatives and friends who had gathered AZ
his residence to greet him on his arrival,
after his cIrcumnavigation Of the globe.
he left Auburn for the west, and arrived
from the west
BOB Jim, de men don't make such
fools Of denselves about women as de wo-
men Do about de men. II dey look at Dc
moon they see a man in il il dey hear a
mouse nibblmg, it's a man, and dey hook
under de bed last ting at night to lind a
man. Why, nebber looks under my bed
to lind a woman, does you r
A For wishing to excite the higher sen
timents q his lady love, and turn her mind
70 the contemplation Of noble themes,
said, Maria, what 40 yOd suppose was 4
hundred years ago III ~ which Maria ~
sPonded, Just what you are now-noth-
ing at all ~
Come, don't he timid, said a couple If
snOLs to two mechanics. "Sit down and
make yourselves uur equals TO Do that
we should have to blow our brains out. r.
piled one uf the mecanics
CERTArS young Indian gentlemen. who
were pursuing the study u the Law, were
invited by the Master Of the Temple IL
spend an evening at his house. Tie tisr
set for the arrival Of the interestinz party
arrived, but nobody came When nearly an
hour had passed in fruitless waiting, the doc
tors lady rang fur the maid, who had not
become quite accustomed tO tie ways W
The house. She entered in a state Of con
siderable excitement Have none of the
gentlemen arrived = asked her mistress.
No, answered the domestic, but a lot
IF Christy Mnstrels have been a ringing
It the bell and have been driving en-
away. "- Exchange