The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-09-16
AL Snris.

4 clergyman at pittstield, Conn, has
declined to marry a couple because tie
groom couldn't repeat the Lord pray
er.
She received a poem ending: "My
heart turns ever unto thee, and questions
if thou misseSt hc." She read the clos
ing lines, and said she did.
To prevent lover from"going back
on his promise,a Ddctroit girl always in
PRODUCES him to her friends as "my in
tended husband
When You observe lady drop her
handkerchief in the street and not stop
10 pick it up, the chances are ten to one
that she hasn't got her stoop-over dress
on.
Said foreigner: $50 Donkey Shcr-
man vosh suspended, hchy Veil, joost
taut so after was reading his book nit
do Shtories nit his life. "-BoSt0H Ad-
ueTttSer.
The papers continue to show that no
young man can afford TO marry, and
tIab lbC itd6Ou IA lDc llCD OiN
widows arc carrying off young girls.
We always record with regret any in
stance Of mans striking his sister-in
law. lisa cruel intmation TO his wifc's
mother that he'll never marry in that
family again.
When a Texas man says TO his wife,
"Mary, thcre'll DO company here this
evening"" she bustles about and gets the
shotgun in order, while he sallles forth
to dig few graves.
"Nevcr mind, sonny. The rain makes
boys grow" remarked Massachusetts
tramp the other days, when he took a
silk umbrella away from Il lad in the
midst of a rain storm.
1t was an Irish Coroner, who when
asked how he accounted for an cXtraor-
binary mortality in Limerick, replied
sadly II cannot tell. There are people
dying this year who never died before. ."
When man goes to a quitting party
about tea time and sits down on ball
of wicking with long darniug needle
in il, he will think Of more things con.
nected with darning in a minute than he
can mention in two hours.
The grass .widower has his revenge
when the lady Of the house returns and
with nervous animation: at
will take three months Of hard work To
get this distracted house in order again.
Been hayiu' half dozen picnies here,
hey ~
Victor Hugo says that oman was the
of tho eighteenth century )
woman is the c0nundrum OF the nine
teenth century" We can't guess her,
but well never give her up-no never
". y. Express.
bio Lewis may blow around about
the virtue of oat meal, but hot biscuit,
with bit of white clover honey Skin
mishing around on top of il will ever
maintain claim on the affections OF the
American people.
On tombstone in the grave yard at
Ramsey, England, the following in
scrip,ion appears: "Mary Dawkins.
who having been tapped !or The dropsy
forty-six times, rcposcss in Christ,
|, 1876
A man who was sentenced to be hung
was visited by his wife who said "My
dear, would you like the children to see
you executed" "No" replied be That's
Just like you," said she; "you never
San,ed the children 10 have any enjoy
ment."
\ young lady inquiries what Will bc
The prominent fashion in voting dresses
when the country is blessed with equal
suffrage. She refers mostly, uxdoubi-
ediy, TO the urgent necessity of vest
pockets on those occasions, but perhaps
pockets will Go just rs we'll
y Jamaica man who has managed 10
get rid OF two nervous wives adveFli>es
or another heipmate, and announces the
quality OF female he requires Wanted
"A woman with sense enough 20 stand
I'LL and not lOyrl when !: ,rr-S> lof.r,ar