The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-06-20
FacetiOuS Fragments.
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The last of the Bare uns-Adam and
Eve
LOUISIANA is just now good locality
for Watering place notes.
WHEN a colored boy shoots his father
in Georgia, the local papers call it a
"dlsfranchlSement."
WHEN deaf and dumb lovers are mar
ried, two members of the wedding party
are sure to be unspeakably happy.
INSTEAD of saying Its a long time
between drinks, western men now re-
mark, Its long time since / signed
my last pledge
THE editor OF the London Punch is
said to receive Fl 300 a year. Many
other editors get as many pounds, but
not pounds sterling.
A BURGLAR of twenty-seven years
standing has just been converted at In
dianapolis, and one can entertalna FAINT
hope that a few congressman Will be
saved.
WHEN a husband returns home after
a long absence, and hears the parrot
shouting, :" Kiss me, darling" as soon
as his wife enters the room, his interest
in "Enoch Arden" naturally begins to
deepen.
Mrs. MARRowFAT has of late been
feeding her husband exclusively upon
oatmeal and dried apples. A terrible
suspicion crosses Mr.. Marrowfat's mind
that his dear Eurydice may be an intia
ZIONIST
"OH, what do you think, Mr.. Lilly
brow? The other day | was taken for
twenty five, and / am only eighteen
"Hawl Wonder what you'll be taken
| for when you're twenty-five ?" For
better or for worse, [ hoper - Mr.. Lilly
brow looks pensiye.
| CHARLES WALKER, a negro who was
hung at Townsville, Georgia, last Fri
day, made on the gallows a singular re-
| quest. Raising his cap he asked his
| friends to pray for the counsel that had
defended him. He then met his fate
with composure.
A FRENCHMAN, recently brought to
book for breaking an engagement,
pleaded III defense that the would-be-
bride passed herself off as % years old,
afterwards owned up to 26, and he had
finally found out that she was, in real
itv b. Verdict for the defendant
\ GERMAN, who was asked if lager
beer was Intoxicating, replied " Veil,
| thinks from seventy to eighty glasses
a day, und l feel ali straight III mine
upper story for any kind of beesiness,
but [ can't tell vat it YOU'D do nit man
vat makes d swiil-tub of himself"
\ BOY about eleven years of age
fished off the dock at Detroit for four
hours Sunday, without once leaving his
post His patience and perseverance
attracted the attention of a policeman.
who asked ]: "Well, sonny, catching
any fish % "No, not yet, answered
the boy, "but I've come mighty near
having three or four big bites.
Two young ladies' conversation to
this effect was heard ina Boston picture
dealers store, as they stood before a
piece of marble: First young lady IRE
ferring to the label on the pedestaD
"This is statue of Psish" Second
young lady embarrassed between a de
sire of correcting her friends pronun-
citation and fear Of hurting her feel
ings, very mildly Il think people
usually call it Sykee First Young
lady with no intention of being put
down, defiantly) "Well, some folks
call it Sykee, and some call it Psish.
like Psish best"
ENERGETIC protest in the Louisville
Courier-Journal: "' \ Female Crusa-
der writes from New Albany to accuse
us OF making war upon the liquor
sellers. What IRE make war upon
heavens last, best gift to the temper
ance cause? Never. We would rather
be toad and bay the moon, or dog
aye a full pack of hounds-and feed
upon the yapors of dungeon we
would rather be torn to pieces by a rag
ing dandellon, or hurled from the back
of an unframed saw-horse-
Fire-eyed and meteoT-maned
Weighing tllereeing stars