The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-08-02
WIT AND WISDOM.

ID rs full fifteen years ago that W. asked
acquaintance how he felt while a prisoner
in Egypt but we remember the reply !:
III felt like book-boHad w Morocco. :"
A WEsTERS editor requests those Of his
subscribers who owe him for more than six
years subscription, 10 send him lock az
their hair, so that he may know they are
living
Man PROPOSES AND GoD DIsPosEs. A
maiden lady Of our acquaintance objects
very strongly 70 the first part Of this pro
verb for she says the men don't propose
at all.
A CERTAIN Irish attorney threatened u
prosecute Dublin printer for inserting the
death Of living person. The menactr
concluded with the remark, That no prin-
ter should publish death, unless inform
ed Of the fact by the party deceased.
A LADY making enquiries Of a boy about
his father, an intemperate man, who had
been i'll for some time, asked whether he
had regained his appetite. ''No, ma arm, 1"
said the boy, mot exactly his appetite is
Is very poor, but his driikafife IS AS good
!, ~ ever"
Ak IRIsHMAN, seeing q vessel very heav
sy laden, and scarcely above the waters
edge, exclaimed, Upon MY soul II the
river was but little higher, the ship would
20 to the bottom Z"
"WHAT's the date Of your hustle r. was
what an anxious papa of CObleskil asked
his well dressed daughter, after searching
for the latest copy Of his paper
Twenty EIGHT different Kin Is II "bit-
medicinal use, are undergoing analysis by
the State chemist from am excise point ii
view
A CONTEMPORARY speaking of the diff
Guilty of a newspaper editor pleasing every
body, says Even if one sounded the
praises Of his Maker the devil would be-
offended.
BOLY NASH, the Cincinnati gambler.
whose death was recently recorded. was
congratulated a short time before the event
upon looking IN better health than usual.
when he replied, III bet you $50 don't
live a week. He won.
A PRISON chaplain being required for
Scotch prison, and the choice made, one ~
the Board said ''Weel. I've no objection
70 the man, for understand he has preach
Gu a hAIh cAlpN1 dliu II ne DC as
successful in the Jail, he Ii, III aybe, preach
Il vacant as we'll.
''WHo is he T. said passer-by to po-
liceman who was endeavoriug to raise All
intoxicated individual who had fallen into
the gutter. Can 't'sav sir, replied the
policeman "he can't " An. account Of
himself " "Of cours, not, IN the other,
how can you expect IA AcoO mt from
man who has lost his baIal,ef
1T is told Of Charles Lamb, thAa one af-
ternoOn, having taken his seat ed. a crowd
ed omnibus, a stout gentleman looked III
and politely .ked, 'All full inside M III
don't know how it may be with the other
passengers, answered Lamb, "but that
last piece of oyster pie did the business for
ne n
YOUNG man, who, for his sins. was
about being married, presented himself for
confession. As he appeared rather embar-
rassed how he should proceed to enumer-
ate his errors Come, said the good
Able G., kindly, ''do you ever tell false
hoods n "Fathsr, | am not lawyer,
proudly replied the penitent. Did You
ever steal HI Father, | am not mer-
chant. You have not committed mur-
der y ''Sir, / dm a physician, conscien-
tiously replied the young penitent, casting
down his eyes.