The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-13
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visitor: ssDo you mean that man with |
his head bowed, his eyes cast down, and |
his lips moving! Oh, yes; he was
spelled down too; but he keeps right en-
practicing just the same. I believe his
word is 'syzygy.
"Long Hungry the Comanche chief,
says the New York Commercial Adper-
tiser, is on his way East. What 'appy-
tight he'll have when he gets here.
There was once Pennsyl ania legisla-
tor who laid by thirty thousand dollars in
one session. When he was asked how he
managed this with salary Of one thou
sand dollars, he said that he saved it by
doing without a hired girl.
A sharp talking lady was reproved BY
her husband, who requested her to keep
| her tongue in her Eouth. ssMy dear"
she said, sits against the law to carry
concealed weapons"
A New Orleans woman's insanity in
duces her to shout s'stop thief!'' whenev-
er she sees anybody running in the street,
and several staid old men, upon starting
briskly for horse car, have been. chased
and captured in consequences of her out
cries.
! A Milwaukee girl who has just return
turned from West Point has forty-five
government buttons, representing the
humber of cadet lovers she has on the
string. The other girls whisper query
among themselves how all those buttons
came off.
The Brooklyn trial is being published
as law book. .aa
San Francisco had spelling match, in
which the worst speller was to have the
prize, which was copy Of Josh Billings
book. "Virtue" was one of the words
given out, and the man who spelled it
"Beechertilton" was awarded the prize.
| A Dubuque printer received the follow.
ing note from his girl: ''May git
yanked out O bed at midnite every mite
by cuss like Theydore Tilton, an car
ried upp million pare OF stares, iii ever
sese to love you. Jim"
II am wearied with the blasphemy and
perjury of TIE Beecher trial, and poison
; myself to get out of it," was the message
} of true inwardness left by the German re-
porter. And tie recording angel, who
} keeps books by the double-entry system
credited him and debited Beecher, Tilton
& Co.
The circus sensation of this season will
be fac SMILES of Tilton and Beecher. Ev
cry first-class show pays large salaries te
men whose only show merit is that they
resemble the plaintiff and defendant II
the great scandal suit.
The Cincinnati Enquirer proposes .
popular vote on the QUESTION of Beecher's
guilt as the o:,ly way Of settling the mat
ter and restoring social peace to thu
country.
The German reporter who committed
, suicide the other day in consequence Of
the Beecher trial, was detailed to trans
. late the proceedings into German. Il
ever an. unfortunate human being wa.
justified in shutting off this coil he Ger
tainly was. and is entitled to Christian
burial, Notwithstanding the violence tt
himself.
Waste not, want not, is
, The mexim would teach;
Always 20 to Plymouth Church
Aud practice what they xeach
StifFan up your upper lip,
And keep . weather eye
: You'll never miss the water
l Till the well goes dry!
Sing song O. slxpenCe,
! Pocket full OF rye
Go across the river, then
Put it In your eye.
? II you think you saw thing.
8 Say you do not know;
For it's father dear, oh hther dear,
I'm feeling just 90, 30.
, Marmaduke OF Cawdor,
j. Henry Eighth and more,
Francis First OF MutuAls
> And another score
: Jingle up and jingle mp.
+ Turn and twist and lie,
You'll never miss the water
:. Till tue well goes dry.