The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-12-19
W.T. AND WISDOM.

now W BoJ EAcn-LlNe Oh air @Au aaocp
on . clothes line.
The Aldermen of Kansas City are irrev-
erently spoken of by q local Journal -
" the gentlemen with red eyes and nose. :"
The Dolly TOkiOnichiwtchi SchimbWm is
rapidly displacing the other papers OF
Yeddo, and has q circulation of 800. Now
is the time to subscribe.
"A Colorado exchange says: The Can
on city girls don't take kindly to crOqust-
They say it Is too high toned for them.
Leap frog is their best hold.
Back yard cats in Cincinnati have .
wild and hunted look, and the bakeries
are filed with mince pics" says the YER
acious Enquirer.
II, a. Emerson says, Z" in the woods we
return to reason and faith, what intelli-
gent and believing mortAls they must he
who haven't got out Of them yet, and what
educational institutions lumberman's camps
must be
A men went into a butchers shop, and,
finding the owners wife in attendance, IN
the absence Of her husband, thought he
wOuld have n Joke at her expense, and
said, /" Madame, can you supply me with
q yard Of pork r.
Yes, air, she said and then, turning
to boy, she added James, give that
gentleman three pigs feet
On retiring from business a wise old mAn
said to his son and successor "Now, my
boy, remember that common sense in the
best thing you can bring 70 bear on every
affair of life except love making.
A resident Of Sewell's point, Va, who
has been the husband OF seven wives, and
who Ia the father of twenty seven chll-
dren, has obtained q license to marry
again.
According to Cincinnati paper, John
Thomas was recently sued by Hester Prim
for breach of promise,
John Thomas, come into court" shout
ed the constable.
John Thomas needn't come in to court
me any more, said Hester drily
Nineteen years ago q Tennessee father
refused to let his young daughter 20 to .
candy-pull, and she disappeared. The
other day she returned, lifted eleven chill
dren out Of the wagon, and entered the
house and took of her things a. cody A.
if she hadn't been gone over a day.
"Why do they call the people who live
in the South Sea Islands canibals 2 asked
an old lady of q sailor.
Because they live on other people,
answered the sailor.
"Then my son-in Law must be . canni-
bal, " said she, penSively, :" for he lives on
me-"
To the correspondent who inquiries, if
there has been any sudden drop in dry
goods this week, a commercial writer
says We have noticed but one. She said
when we picked her up, that people who
ate grapes ought not to throw their EkinS
on the sidewalk" We presume it was
grape skins that we're referred 10.
A fellow raAhad into m 0flee one morn
ink with tho interfoRntion " Whats the
difference between the mice that have iuNt
been eating my greenbacks and the epistI3
Of Paul r. All present subaided, and he
gAsped They're both ScriPchewen :"
and then proceeded to the door
have come for my umbrella, Said q
lender of it on a rainy day to friend.
Cant help that, said the borrower,
don't you see that am going out with
it :" "Wsll, yes, replied the lender, an
tonished at such outrageous impudence
"yes, but-but-what am | to do r.
Do !" said the other, a. he opened the
umbrella and walked OF, do a. l did
borrow one. L
A cockney, who lately crossed froH Can
ada 10 Ogdensburg, asked his hp@f orivor
as to thu population and for OF govern,
ment Of Ogdensburg. On being lniormeu
that Il Wa Al iDcorpcrated city, whose
chief executive ofg;Ssr was q Mayor, he in
quired
(" And dos the Mayor wear the insignia
Of Office T
Z InsiQnia What's that n asked the
aptonished hackman.
"Why, . chain about his neck, e1-
planned the cOckney.
"Oh, bless you, no :" responded the
other. Hes perfectly harmless, and
goes about loose.
Those who have known anything OF
"iour printer" will recognize this picture,
delineated by a Kansas City newspaper
He was lust in from indianapolis this
time. Things are Id bad way there
rats and half union men. When he struck
Indianapolis he had wealth. cool hun
dred but he set EN- up for the boys and
got broke. Chicago was good town; but
there was fearful mob there he could
not stand it. st. Louis bout played out,
and there's going to be q strike, and hs
hoped out Bought half fare ticket 20
Atchison, but the rooster that did the
punchin' wouldn't have il. Believed he'd
skip TO Kansas City and stir up the boys,
and then 70 over TO the Pacific slope.
Say. amt there q frsight West Give nm
chew Tobacco Well, 90 long, bcyS-"
And he was gone.