Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-14
Wit, Hulnor and Wisdom.

DIGNITY and love do not blend we'll
nor to they continue long together.
TIE mothers heart is the child's
school room.
10 be open to argum mt and to be
open to conviction are two different
things.
DlRr is not dirt but only something
III the wrong place.
NEVER ask u WOODEN manufacturer to
give up his carls.
MANY man who Thought he had
made bargain buying silk finds that
no has got worstel.
MEAN spirits under disappointment.
like small beer in thunder storm, al-
ways turns sour.
Or a indicative Stony Hill mule, it
is said: His foot is against ovory
man."
BETTER than fame is still tho wish for
fame, the constant trainings for a glo.
rious strife.
AT Is years of age the will reigns; OF
80 the wit, and ut 40 the Judgment
Gr0tt0n.
A BEAU is everything of a woman but
tho sex, and nothing of man beside it.
Fielding.
WHAT is that from which. if You take
the whole, some will RENAME The
word wholesome.
The matter of superstition is the
people, and in all superstition wise men
follow fools.
The three stages Of Darwinism are
now said to be, positive, tail compare.
tive, tailor; superlative, tailless!
NOTHING is more dangerous than m
lmprudent friend; better is it to deal
with prudent enemy.
AGE and youth look upon life from
the opposite ends of the telescope; il
is exceedingly short.
"W1LL the baker rise 2" This q
comic London Journal defines as "the
| (Y)eastern question:.
IT is said that Roman woman is
more obstinate than Roman man be-
cause she is muller.
II HATE to hear people talk behind
ones back" as the robber said when
the constable was chasing him and cry.
1uS, OIOp CUj0l!
"J hate to hear people talking be-
hind ones back" as the robber said
when the constable was Ichasing him
and crying, "Stop theft"
The kindest-hearted man lives in
Franklin county, and forbids everybody
to disturb a hen who is taking her
comfort sitting on two porcelain eggs.
To THE anxious inquiry elbow shall
we keep our boys in nights 2" we would
respectfully suggest total abstinence
from unripe fruit.
ON woman with red hair who wrote
poetry.-Unfortunate woman how sad
is your lot! Your ringlets are red, but
your poems are not.
A JEALOUS prohibitionist, on being
asked why he signed every pledge that
was presented to him, gave as o reason
that if he broke one, he would have the
rest to fall back on.
A FAMILY jar lately occurred in Ohio,
where the husband used stove wood,
and the wife buckshot. The funeral
of both was largely attended by the
neighbors, and pronounced by all who
attended us a very enjoyable affair.
A CALIFORNIA man tied one end of q
lariat around his waist and lassoed a
COW with the other. He thought he
had the COW, but ut the end of the first
half mile he begun to suspect the COW
had him.
A DowN-EAsT editor writes as follows
about what he "knows about farming:'
"Now is the time to harvest bean poles,
to save them from the late frosts. They
should be taken up carefully to pre-.
serve the sprouts for the next seasons
growth. Bean poles have done bette,
this year than potatoes"
At Banchory, in Scotland, lately, the
parish schoolmaster, out of curiosity,
put the question to the scholars,
"What is nothings"- A pause ensued
until all urchin, whose proclivities fol-
turning penny was we'll known among
the school fellows, got up and re-
piled: Its when q man asks you
to hold l.! his horse andijist says thank
ye:' The answer has since earned con.
siderable notoriety for the youngster.
"How MUCH is that pie planta'' said
q dweller of quiet district to a ven.
der of the material, recently. Chow
much 2" whispered the dweller, strug'
Cling to catch his breath. "Sixty
CENTS" repeated the accommodating
merchant. Scan it be possible there
is just heaven above us2" murmured
the stranger. Eyes, sir" said the
vender, respectfully. The stranger
withdrew.
club, can you show me the way t.
the City Halle" inquired Detroit gen
tleman the other day of young " rat
whom nc encountered sorting over {
| pile OF chestnut shucks on Jefferson
avenue. Club, replied the boy witt
q scream, eff you say 'bub' to the boy
that BACKED Johnny Kelso's eye, II
like to know what you'd called old Ton
Sayers e.