The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-09-07
WIT AND WISDOM

1
Because it is the grub that makes the but
a ter-fy.
A 9O-YEAR-old lady Of Newburyport,
Mass, tackled burglar the other night,
! and compelled him to fly for his life.
r A CANDID old bachelor says After all,
l wOman's heart is the sweetest thing in the
7 world it's a perfect hOneycomb-tah Of
7 sells
SEVERAL Of the mills at Fairfield are
running day and night, to enable them
to saw the unusually large amount Of tim
Der cut last winter.
BOsToN exhibited itself Aorally and hOr-
ticulturally on Saturday last, for the sake
Of prize. The old body is not too vir-
tuous TO be purchased.
AN OLD sailor. who had a great aversion
to life on land, said he was like lobster,
as he never came ashore without the risk
OF getting into hot water
THE street sprinklers at South Bend,
Ind, struck for higher pay, and the dust
brought the authorities to terms in TWEEN
ty-four hours.
SOMEBODY asks how it is that the
women look so cool this hot weather. 1t
is probably because they generally contrive
to keep up something Of breeze about
EN-
"AH, Mr.. Simpkins, we have not chairs
enough for our company said a gay wife
TO her frugal husband. (" Plenty Of chairs,
dear but too much company" replied
Smpkins, with a knowing wink
AN advertising tallow-chandler modestly
announces that, without intending any dis
paragement TO the sun, he may confidently
assert that his octagonal spernaceti il the
best light ever invented
Al NEGRO woman was found dead IN a
field Of corn in Macon county, Georgia,
recently, her body lying upon large
rattlesnake, whose fangs we're fastened
tightly in her breast.
THE coal depots of the French steam
packet companies il the West Indies are
now supplied with coal draw. from Balti
more and New York instead VI from
England, as (. -merly.
! A san Franclsco paper SAYS Two
| Cinnamon cOlhded with knives, On Eagle
creek, a few days ago. One VI them has
| quit mining. His friends sunk a shaft
and put him in il.
/ ~ "a
supposed she was quoting scripture, when
she greeted her son, who came home 40
keep Thanksgiving, III the folloREng
words .'. Here comes the fatted calf.
WITHIN the last two months Mr. Berghs
men have turned out - teams Of disabled
street-car horses on the Belt road. In New
York The drivers back up Mr. Bergh,
and two of them we're discharged the
other day, for refusing to drive sick horses
which the aniInaltarian had condemned
The Maine lumbermen predict that
five years hence, al the present rate w
destruction, the forests VI that State will
be wholly cleared w timber. The lumber
crop this year is estimated AT I. 900 600 OOO
feet. Of this amount the Penobscot lum-
bermen out 225. 0OO 600 and the kennebec
men over 100, 600, ,OOU.
THE friskiest VA man III the United
States is John Hale. Of Maine. He has
served several terms in the State prison.
and, at the age Of 50, continues u steal
horses regularly He Is represented AS
being one Of the most successful horse
thieves III the profession, and is IN many
respects sample go-ahead ankee.
JOIN Betchard who claims To have
made trip on the first and fourth steam
boats that sailed from Pittsburgh and u
have come to Cincinnati when there was
but one small house. a blacksmith shop
and grog shop here is now, according to
a correspondent, hale and hearty,
dwelling upon a good farm near DesMoines.
Iowa. and reading the newspaper without
glasses
A NEW Swedish paper has been started in
Minnesota. 1t Is apparently either for VT
against the election ~ Grant and Wilson.
for It distinctly say "Nldare sager han
pa tai ON Grant Nlls,n. ska nominationen
At hysa tvifvel om ,r.,r for ett sadant
parti, mar det ryCker l.t mot det gania
slafpartlets horder, al eh dudlig iorul-emp-
ming mot detamerikanska folkets Omdomes
formago och aktning for melbogarnes skyl-
digheter
A saloon keeper at Keokuk. Iowa, was
recently arrested for selling beer w sun
day When tried he explained that Ne
was Seventh-Day Baptist, while his wife
belonged " the Dutch Reformed Church
He kept Saturday holy. and she sold beer
thereon. She kept Sunday holy, and he
sold beer thereon. We are not told what
success this ingenious plea had. Many
volumes have been written on the adyan-
tages Of having differing sects in the Chris
tian Church but their authors would
scarcely count such case " combined
piety and profit az one VI those benefits
JACOB Noecker Is an unsuspecting Teu-
ton ~ Porktown On Tuesday last young
German called on him, with the story
Of foreign carpets in bond and too little
money to remove them. He would like
small loan and leave his yellow watch
Jacob didn't bite well then new man
.ropped in and offered the cramped in
diyidual $50 for his watch He told Jacob
if he could buy it for that he would re-
turn and give him SlO for his bargain
Amid tears the young man parted with
his Jewel and departed with his money
Jacob took his watch To the jeweler II
was worth "a 80 jacob muttered
Schwindeled py tam, and went home to
wait for de ouder feller ty come and
buy the 10 carat.
A work of genuine benevolence IA that
accomplished by the Metropolitan Drink
ing Fountain and Cattle Trough Associa-
tion Of London. This society has more
than 300 troughs and fountains in the
most crowded throughfares of London.
and these are all supplied with cups. visited
weekly by the society's agents. and
kept clean and ia good condition. The
fountains are of the greatest benefit u
working men gong to and from their
work as welias while engaged IL out-of-dour
I, labor. Without them II would ~ almost
inn Osslble for tins class ~ the population
u obtain pure, wholesome water when
away from their homes, and there can he
no doubt that thousands Of men are kent
out Of public houses by the provision made
for them by this society The medical
journals q London say that the fountains
have doubtless been the means Of averting
many cases of sunstroke The dumb an
inals also get thor share of the benefits
arising from the Efforts ~ the association
There are cattle Troughs for cattle and