The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-14
BUBBLES.

The farmers best vest-harvest.
"A place for retlection-the mirror.
Short cake-where there isn't any,
Cutting figure-amputating limb.
What piece Of carpentry becomes
gem as soon as it is finished ?-A-gate
Mrs. Brown tells her husband not to sit
in his shirt-sleeves or he will catch cold.
How can man sit in his shirt sleeves ~
-" Why should we celebrate Washing
tons birth day more than mine? ?" asked
teacher. because he never told lie,''
shouted a little boy.
-" Are you lost, my little fellow" asked
gentleman of four year old on Main
street, Saturday. "No," he sobbed in re-
ply, "b- but m my mother is"
-" Will you have small piece of the
light meat Or small piece of the dark ?"
asked Bob's uncle, as he carved the turkey
at dinner. "Ill take large piece of
both" answered Bob.
-" Does our constant chatter disturb
you?' asked one of the three talkative
ladies of a sober-looking fellow passenger.
"No ma am; I've been married nigh on to
thirty years." was the reply.
The time when a man fully realizes
that woman's sphere should be enlarged is
when he finds that his washerwoman has
mistaken his stockings for his shirt-bosom,
and starched them accordingly.
David Dudley Field is not a teacher
of penmanship. Recently he signed legal
document, and sent it to a printer in Albany.
The proof was sent to him to be read, and
"David Dudley Field in manuscript ap-
peared in type as "Tried aud duly filed"
81 made nine hundred dollars during
my three days visit" said young hopeful
to his father, on his return from New York.
GLOW so, my boy?" replied the delighted
parent. "Why, had a thousand dollars
worth of fun, and it only cost hundred"
The LATEST man is on Western paper.
He spells photograph telegraph" There
have been only three worse than he. Ono
lived ont in Kansas, and dated his let
tiers "11worth;" another spet Tennessee
"10aC," and the other wrote Wyandotte
"Y&"
He was fond of getting up little shocks
for his friends, and this was one: al
would have been left all alone over night
at that out of the way station if had not
been lucky enough to catch that train.
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have to run very hard to get it?" sob,
no! l sat there fifteen minutes before it
came along"
"A clergyman of a country village
church desired to give notice that there
would be no service in the afternoon, as
he was going to officiate for another cler-
gymen. The clerk, as soon as the sermon
was finished, rose up with all due solemity,
and cried out, 81 am requested to give
notice there will be no service this after
nopn, as Mr.. l.. is going fishing with an
other clergymen."
Two young women met yesterday
They had not seen each other for two
months. The following conversation en-
sued: "Been to Long Branch. Where
were you?" "To Saratoga. Any Offers"
Yes, nine; two of them counts. You
have any," "Thirteen. One was an
earl" And that girl who had been to
Long Branch went home and shed bitter
tears of vexaton, though the fact of the
matter was that they had neither of them
had any offers at all, and both knew it.
She has taken a solemn oath that another
tine she will let the other girl speak first.
and raise her out of her boots if she has to
invent Russian prince to do it.