The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-04-20
Humorous.

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fifty.
II is queer woman who asks nc
questions, but the woman who does Is
the querist.
A YOUNG lady has brought libel suit
against her mother, as the only means
to get mother-in-law.
A Missouri husband obtained
divorce because his wife insisted on
naming the baby "Forney."
In the game of mystery, vulgarly
called hash, as played at our boarding
houses, the tray is considered to be the
best trump-the chopping tray.
A PERSON speaking of man not re-
markable for his suavity, said he did
not like his manners q didn't know
that he had any," said lady.
THEY cheer their winter evenings In
Minnesota with ghost parties. The
tickets are illustrated with skull and
cross-bones, and the supper consists of
a skeleton turkey.
q A PIG will eat out of any trough"
said Deacon Jessup to his son Tom,
who had just come home from whal-
ing voyage, Z" I would like to see him
eat out of the trough of the sea- said
Tom.
SWEET sister" Now, don't be a
cross boy-have this nice jam ma has
left u.s. Cross boy" Shan't! Don't
like it! faint half so good as if she
had forgotten her keys and we'd prig-
ged it. y
A wRETcHED husband in ST. Paul adj
vertises for the recovery of his wife,
g a taul woman, with gray eyes and
| small babie just beginnln' to wauk,
who had been appropriated by ''a taul
pok market Teller, with red hare"
CaUxT Won BEUsT said, the other
day. to a Hungarian journalist: PEG
pie believe that | have amassed riches
while was Chancellor of the Austrian
Empire. TIE truth is, | am to-day
poorer than when [ came to Vienna"
1oyo,;s dam sci rushed into a citi-
zen's arms at Lon. don bridge, exclaim-
ing, ooh, you are my long-lost broth
err She soon disco> cred her mistake,
and rushed off in con FUSED manner
accompanied by her long. 'osl oro'her
purse.
IT was once remarked in tn. nearing
VI Il llltlt gill VI bul1 tttli blittu ttIi
came by chance, and that the W, Tld,
like a mushroom, sprang up i'll tie,
night 81 should like to know, SIR
said the child, "where the seed came
| from2"
A GENTLEMAN in the vicinity of Phil
adelphia recently lost his wife, and
Young miss of six, who came to the
funeral, said to his little daughter of
about the same age: "Your pa will
marry again, won't he?" ooh, yes y
was the reply, "but not until after the
! funeral.
A New YORK farmer laughed when,
his prudent wife advised him not to
smoke on a load of hay. He footed it
home that night, with his hair singed,
most of his garments prey to the de
vouring elements, and the iron work OF
the wagon III potato sack; and then
his wife laughed.
A JURY in North Carolina, after being
"chargedn in the usual way by his
honor, retired, when a white juror ven
tured to ask a colored associate IT he
understood the charge of the Judge.
Cody" asked the astonlshed amend
ment, "he doesn't charge Us muffin for
dat, does he3 WhyI thought we was
gwine to get pay"
| Il Troy paper recently printed two
articles, one of which was an Obituary
notice and the other a funny anecdote.
The headings accidentally got changed,
and when the paper appeared the ed
itor was Mortified to see the obituary,
notice headed GA Good Joke" while
the funny anecdote was prefxed with
the caption, GA Sad Announcement"
4 FELLOW lately started q store in
Kansas. The following was the sign he
hung up : DRY goods by John Smith,
who wishes to get married" The sign
drew all kinds of custom The single
ladies went, of course, and the married
men all told their wives to go, under
the impression that they could easily
cheat SO great fool
The deliberate manner in which Chi
cago is being rebuilt is thus illustrated
in an exchange: Let me see," said a
Chicago boss-mason refiectively to a
burnt-out merchant, q have got to
put up block for Brown, this morn
ing, and a dwelling house tins after
noon, for Smith. Yes, l guess we can
jerk up your store this noon by taking
only half an hours noonin."
A GOOD story is told of st. Louis
nobby dry goods clerk who attended
dance in the rural district few even
'ngs since. He wore a Chevoit shirt,
on. put on great many airs He was
s+t,se, hat taken down, however, when
be oyarhe. I'D one country lass say to
another I91, at st. Louis chap sings
On baon of ety,.a for a teller that wears
bed-tick shirt. p"
A SOUTHERN "business houce thus
displays the advantages OF the "elec-
trio institute for girls, taught " Mrs.
Letitia Tyler Semple, in the most beau
tiful part of Baltimore: Mrs. Semple
is daughter of President Tyler, grace
full and majestic in person, possessed
of courtly manners, and the guinea
stamp of genuine Virginia geniiity,
one of the most striking and lovely Of
American ladies'"
The New London Star says
"There's travelling doctor in town.
He goes from house to house, opens
the door, sticks his wise-looking head
inside, and sings out, Anybody in
here got the rheumatism, coughs,
colds, neuralgia, heart disease, small
pox, or any thing else2' Upon being
answered in the negative, or not at all,
he says, Glad of it' bangs the door