The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-06-07
WIT AND WISDOM

of lsh tackle. Soon she heard shout
from Willie, and running out found one of
her best hens fast winding Up the line IN
her crop, whither ths hook had already
preceded 1t Willie, observing the trOu-
bled look of his mother quietly remarked
Don't worry, mother | gur,- she wIll
stop when she gets u the pole.
SOMEBODY inquiring AZ the Springfield
(Ill. Postothce for letter for Nike Howe,
received the gruf answer that there was
no letter there fJr anybodys COW.
HEINE has pointed out, ia his Relsebild
or, that the young men ~ these DAYS are
very severely taxed they have ~ much ~
keep I'm their heads whist politics. gene
olOgies, the liturgy, carving and all sorts
Of things shat u u no wonder they forget
their mathematics and history.
A New HAMPSHIKE school marin mas
the following certificate from one Ot the
trustees If a school where she formerly
taught This n To certify that Farmer
Noyes stands on a medium with other
girls Of her aye and sex, and for what ]
know is as good as folks IN general
A WoNAN IN Chester mterfered with her
brothers courtship and begged him 70
stay at home evenings lie waited until
the evening when she expected her own
lover and complied, and she says that fra
ternal affection l. a heartless muckery
An editor writing poetically of the
weather, says " The backbone o: winier
is broken, but the tail wags YET occasion
ally"
Natural Error young doctor spends
his leisure hours III pracucIng on the cor
net, and passers-by thinking an amputa
tIon IL going On inside, are deiuded %
the number Of the man : patients.
A little Concord chap, who lived next
door to Emerson, was engaged une day IN
digging hole by the roadside a world
ly trifer, passing by, asked HIM, ia What
are you digging after, little boy With
gravity he answered, After the luh
mite
g Mister, will yuu lend pa Your newspa
per lie only wants to send DO tu his un
Gle in the country OH certainly and
ask your father II he viii just lend me the
roof " his house. only aaut the shingles
t. make the kettle nul
A Jury once returned mtp court n order
that one of their number might r- instruct
ed upon the following Iulnt "i ltN II 2
believe that the evidence is enc way, ana
the other eleven believe different doe, thai
Justify any other jurymau m knocking mv
down with a char
Somebody vho T. bored With the wv
thusiasm with Mo-, p1tm called III Beauu
tul ~Ipw, writes thIS pretty ~rauzt iu ne.
Ply
Beautiful snow vnen dehlaty tha0
Makes the cir chilly and damp iud TAN
Beautiful snuN thel lItt AN. whom it .ui'-
object t1 tho -tuf cause -itA- .hr.l.h u..
bt.J-."
A minister examined his school hay.
thus
+" What is the meaning w the sord Ky
pentant
Please SIR don anow
Now, 1t l had stolen a loaf ui or-aa
what should I Nv Pm
Please sir. locked up.
Well, should ! teen sorry
Yes
" Wen, Why should feel sorry
Please SIT, c1s yau Was .nt-aeL
wHES YOU court q ~idder. YOU ought W
do 1t with spurs Nh.
4 have known folks whose r1Ftrs va-
very small, but whose Joya was ,gr, blL
A kodhsh arlst0crat always puts me lu
mind Of a drunk man trvn to valk
krack
AkorIn to scripture tI5r wll. bs about
as many cammels m heaven AS uch men.
When felier gyr- ly gym down hlL 90
dus seem Az tAu everything Lad u.u CREASED
for the Ukashun.
Humiu uatur il the same tIl over thg
world, crpt in Nu England auJ THAR .r-
akUrdln To circumstances.
The Lneautst man ! ever knew was thr
one Who stole 4 sugar wAissgI from a nIg
ger baby tO sWretru d kuI uf kutiy Nirh
As some lady visitors we're regrmn gY
ing through PeuiteutIary under thr escort
u the superintendent. they went III. "a ryou
in which three women wrrr sewing.
"Dear me uuy vi thc visitors vhIs.
pered 'what vIguuS booking creatures
Pray. What ar they here f,r. Because
they have no other h1ur. THIS is uur sIt-
ting room, and they are my wife and two
daughters, handly answered the supcru-
tendent