The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-02-25
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Lei q see. Diu TeUTuufy COtHC iH INV
a lion, or how
There is nothing SO rigidly Catholic
as an umbrella; it keeps lent the year
round.
Send us poems, sweet poems. The
cold snap has used up nearly all the
other fuel. ..s
There il a time for all things. The
time to leave is when young lady asks
you how the walking is.
When Pittsburg ladies want to com
plimen: Il gcntleman's moustachc they
call it "real camers hair.
What is the difference between an
evercoat ard a baby? One ia what you
wear and the other is what you was.
"Ah, parson, wish could take my
gold with me-" said dying man to his
pastor. alt might melt" was the con-
selling answer.
A man fell overheard from an English
steamboat The captain only asked.
"Ha az that man paid his passage 1t he
ha, go ahead l did not put him over
board"
A greenhorn sat a long time very at
tentive, musing upor a cane bottom chair
At length he said, 81 wonder what fell
low took the trouble to find all them ar
holes and put strawa around EN- !!
A kind Missouri husband wheeled
his crippled wife three miles the other
day that she Ugh; cheerfully gaze upon
y funeral procession. II was 1.-THE frat
which she had the pleasure of seeing
for seven years"
When a woman buys 4 dress pattern
and brings it homo and finds out that
she doesn't like il You cant driro Away
her melancholy by reading chapter in
the Bible or singing one Of Dr.. Watts
poems.-Brookiyn Argus.
DWELL, Lenora, what have your and
Harold been dong at Aunt Mabefs to-
day ?" Glad dinner" "Ani what did
YOU do after dinner ?" "Had tea" "But
what did YOU do between dinner and
tea ?" Had some cateI'
Helen NJ. Cooke, writing verses for
New York paper, says that kisses on
her brow are the richest diadcm her
woman's soul aspires to wear. All right,
Helen BRING on vonr brow and take
your diadcm Detroit Tribune.
All the Candor of Youth-Aunt Bella
(who has Just read out aloud "The Burial
OF Sir John Moore )-"Now, then, which
Of the verses do you like the best ?"
Jack with alacrity)-"O! know
Few and short were the prayers we
said"
Emerson has been visited By a South
ern lady, who was delighted with the
fluting and frilling of his involuted
words" This surprises the Detroit Post.
which SAYS that "lsst year he had his
words cut bias, but with plain borders
tastefuIlv folded back and secured with
blue ribbon"
A gentleman playing whist with an
intimate friend, who seemed, rs far as
hands were concerned, 10 hold the
Mahometan doctrine of abluiion IN
supreme contempt, said to him with a
countenance more in sorrow than anger.
"My good fellow, if dirt were trumps,
what hand you would have"
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleve-
land, is one of the very pretti'st OF its
kind in town of the West. The rectory
formerly had large and imposing door
plate. inscribed ''St. Paul's Parsonage
One day a waggIsh friend OF the rector
rang the bell fercely and asked II 81. Paul
was al home. The rector enjoyed the
Joke. bat called for a screw-drIver i'm
mediatcly, and the door plate has since
been missing.
Thisis specimen Of Ciscranaii poetry
She saw tim hi right blse stesd
A busting down the road
And pit-a-pat. ami i,,t-a-pat
Her lHtls h-srfet s,Ssd;
Ans soft she sobb~ti H. herself,
- houyh SWIM his psces he,
He cannot Kite so i4st but ~bst
Nv hear; keeps HP with he
Inspired being; "Whencc, Oh, whence,
ladies, whence, oh, whence came the
marvellous instinct that prompted the
minute being originally contained in this
fragile egg shell to burst the caicareous
envelope that secluded il from the glor
les of the outward world :" Chorus of
admiring ladies: Whence, oh whence.
indeed, Mr. Honeyeomb,' Master Tom
my, Perhaps the little beggar was
afraid he'd be boiled r'-Punch.