Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-20
Edgings.

imum of words" is a good motto.
A peep behind the curtain
"Mother, don't get me mad, now
Harry is coming and l shall be all
of a flush"
A Detroit servant girl has been
in one family thirty-one years
rather than incur the trouble and
expense of raising one for herself.
"He provoked me to marry him,
was Rochester girls excuse for
engaging herself to a man whom
she had always professed to hate.
Did Dante e'er discover, can any
one disclose, more successful means
of torture, than a boil upon the
nose9
Sally Morris, pretty Newark
girl, is "mind reader" She said
to bashful bean the other night,
LA, / believe you are going to kiss
me-" She was right.
Look upward, weeping eyes, be-
hold the treasure of your heart
safe in Paradise, never to be for
gotten by her grandmother.
Mrs. Darlington is in New York.
She went up from Boston ms soon
as she learned that gold was falling
in Wall street, bat after several
unsuccessful attempts to get into
the shower, she is going back dis
woman. 80
A young man in Fairfield. Iowa,
received letter from his girl last
and five minutes after it.
shot himself dead. Every woman
n the town would give ten wears
Of her life to know what the letter
contained that made the young
nan Eel so. II "
A university student broke thro'
the ice on Lake Monanh, recently,
where the water was only fourlfeet
deep. When he was hauled out
and laid on the ice, he family whis-
pered: "Boys, I don't car for my
self, Int I'm engaged" . ;
In Lowell, the other day, a dis
couraged mill girl said to her board
mistress, who was lament
ing the fate OF a boarder who had
escaped with scalawag grocery
keeper, "You keep us on bull beef
at 81 a week, and then expect us
to be contented angels"
Jack and Jill assembled the emf
hence for the purpose of procuring
a pail of aqua fontana. Jack lost
his equilibrium, fell, and fractured
his occiput, and the centre of erav-
ity Of Jill was also so disturbed
that she hastily descended the emf
nance in similar manner to her
friend.
A wealthy Pittsburgh merchant
is reported to have said: 81 al
ways feel happy when I am adver-
Using, for then know that waking
or sleeping, have strong, though
silent orator working for me; ono
who never tires, never sleeps, new.
err makes mistakes, and who is GER
tain to enter the households, from
which, if at all, my trade must
come"
"How you do, Sallie; how you do.
] amt seed you in sich time
How Is youno how |" Sally, grasp
ing the oldldarlsey's hand and Civ
ing it a cordial shake, "I'se still a
kicking, thank you, Uncle Tom,
but | amt a kicking high. How
you getting onl' Uncle Tom, de-
liberately, "Well, SalIie. I'm still
sticking together-in spots" ~
Once at a political meeting in In
diana, a speaker named Long re-
sponded to a loud call, and took the
stand. But big, strapping fellow
persisted in crying out in a stento-
rian voice, "Long, Long" This
caused q little confusion I; but, af-
ter some difficulty IN making him
self heard, the president succeeded
In stating that Mr.. Long, the gen.
tleman honored by the call, was
then prepared to address them
"Oh, he be id" replied the fell
low, "hs's the little skeszicks that