The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-11-16
WIT AND WISDOM.

TEK new way Of dressing the hair on the
top Of the head N called the " Josephine.
An AndrosoOggin farmer raises and puts
up six hundred barrels Of cucumber pickles
this year.
TRACTS designed to meet the special re-
quirements Of people who are putting up
stoves would have good run just now.
IT doesn't matter how watchful and vigi-
liant girl is; il a fellow kisses her, il is
ten to one he will do il right under her
nose.
TME weather bureau at Washington has
tsen secured by the indefAtigable Gilmore,
and will cOntrib,Itea thunder storm t. the
Jubilee.
A POoR young man remarks that the
only advice he gets from capitalists is u
live within his income" whereas the
difficulty he experienced to live without an
income.
VIZ didn't think there was anybody "
insane as TO practice On n holiday with
pistol loaded with lead, but asthere is such
y PernOn in Chicago, We hope he may be
caught, and respectfully buried.
WHAT is your name r asked a census
officer. John Corcoran" Your aye f'
Twenty one. What nativity r. "Well.
that's what bOtheFs me- I'm tell YOU, and
may be you can make it out. My father
was Irish, my mother was English, and
was born on a Dutch frigate, under the
French flag, in Turkish waters. Now how
is itP'
A POLITICAL orator in New Orleans ~
Gently quoted history" by referring To
" the iron coffin Of De Soto, containing the
gold trumpet presented 10 the illustrious
discoverer by Queen Victoria
Why, you fool r exclaimed an intelL-
gent auditor, Queen Victoria wasn't born
for more'n two hundred years after De
Soto died an how could she give him a
gold trumpet n
% She left it to him in her will, solemn
ly replied the orator.
Z" How much is that pie plant Il said
dweller Of quiet district to a vender Of
the material Saturday evening Sixty
cents" responded the dealer. How
much r. whispered the dweller, struggling
to catch his breath. II Strty Cents re
peated the accommodating merchant.
I" Can it he possible there is a Just heaven
above usi' murmured the stranger Yes,
sir, said the vender respectfully. The
stranger withdrew.
ONE Of the important astronomical ques-
tions to be settled by observing the transit
Of Venus, which will occur in 1874, IN that
regarding the actual distance Of the sun
from our ear Before the occurrence uf
this importan event our readers and the
public at lsrgy will be fully informed re-
garding the ast nOnlcal and mathematical
methods employ cd in the solution, and, 1t
is 10 lie hoped, final settlement u this and
other important questions, together with
the number, locality and general character
of the numerous expeditions which are even
now preparing for it. 1t may, however, bo
Of interest to know that the last transit ~
the planet Venus across the suns disc oc-
Cured IN the year 1863, having been pre-
c,ded, as is always the case, byone in I76l,
eight years previous. As these tranaits 20
ia pairs, we may expect second in 1892
The zeal shown by our Government,
the liberal contribution made by our Leg
islature toward defraying the expenses Of
observing parties, may Justly be regarded
as an evidence Of popular enlightment and
national progress.