The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-27
WIT AND WISDOM.

knowledge is the treasure Of tie mind
Why u life the greatest conumdrum n
Because all must give it up.
A Georgia negro who bet ten dollar.
that General Washington commanded tbe
Federals at Bull Run, handed the money
over with the remark Z Well, dis we're
hist'ry business Is ali mixed up, anyway"
Southern journal issues the following
notice Many people ask for papers az
thus Office who would scorn to beg for FIVE
cents ; yet that is the price charged for q
copy We hope they will see the point"
A Nevada lady recently took unfair ad-
vantage Of her husbands unusual indul-
gence In bath to elope with another man,
and the bereaved one expresses his con-
vlctlon thai she had been awaiting the op-
pOrtunity for months
The present weight Of the Hon. All.
Stephens is S72i lbs. He is in Georgia
hoping to recover his health.
The word girl" IA used but once in
the bible-Joel iii. g. Il tells that a girl
was sold for wine, that the men might
have something to drink.
Say, Pomp, you nigger, whAr you
get dat hat Why, at the shop, of
course. " What is de price Of such an
article as dat 7" :" don't know, Niger,
de shopekeeper wasn't dar"
The woman who made a pound of
butter from the cream Of Joke. and d
cheese from the milk Of human kindness,
has since washed the clothes Of year,
and hung them to dry on bee line.
A Boston preacher IN speaking of the
danger Of permitting the bible to be crowd
ed out by the newspaper, perPetrated the
following pun Men, nowadays" said
he, I are like Zaccheus -desirous Of see
ing Jesus, but they cannot because Of the
press.
Frederick the Great, who was opposed
to the classics, entered a room one morn
ing where his son Frederick William was
reading with preceptor Rascal, what
are you at there III broke out the rough
old fellow, in his usual kingly style,
u" Please, your Majesty" said the pre-
ceptor meekly, IL was explaining the
Golden Bull to his Royal Highness,
" III Golden Bull you, you rascal, roared
his Majesty Of Prussia. UP went the
King cane, away ran the terrified instruct
OF, and the Princes classical studies end
ed forever.
The following are the opening sentences
of an address on this subject by Mrs.
Skinner.
Miss President. fellow women, and
male trash generally | am here to-day
for the purpose Of discussing woman's
rights, recussing her wrongs and cussing
the men.
| believe sexes were created perfectly
equal, with the women q little more equal
than the men.
| also believe that the world would to-
day be happier if men had never existed.
As a success man is failure and bless
my stars that my mother was a women
Applause
| not only MAINTAIN their principles, but
maintain a shiftless husband besides.
They say a man was created first Well,
spose he was Amt first experience
always failures
If was a betting man, i would bet
$2 30 they are.
The only decent thing about him was a
RIB, and that went to make something
better. Applause
And then they throw into our faces
about taking an apple III bet FIVE dollars
that Adam boosted her up the tree and
only gave her the core.
And what did he do when he was found
out True To his masculine instincts he
sneaked behind Ewes Greciah bend and
said, "Twan't me; twas her, and woman
has had to father everything and mother
It, too.
What We want is the ballot, and the
ballot we are bound to have. If we have TO
let down our back hair and swim in q sen
OF gore. Sensation