The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-22
used for table cloth. and the wine
was served from copper vessels.
GLEANINGS.

GLEANINGs..
The Chicago Times says 'sThe Widow
Butler has very winning ways
What lady would care who was elect.
cd PRESIDENT il she was only sure of a
seal-skins jacket? &c. -,
.'l'm man of quiet tastes, ,,he said.
as. ne went quietly behind the door and
tasted something. 8. 81.
''Pa,' said a little fellow to his I'm.
shaven father, ''your chin looks like the
wheel in the music-box.''
No young man should think of send.
ing poetry to publisher withoutsend-
ing the names of a few subscribers as
an atonement.
Emerson says: "T..ere is no God
dare wrong q wOrm.' He ought to
see small Sunday school boy getaway
with q box of nsh-hook bait.
A man who succeeds in passing 2
counterfeit afty-cent note after carry-
ing it in his pocket two weeks. GOES to
| bed with deeper feeling of satisfac.
ton than if he had earned sos ]egiti-
mately.
''lf you can't keep awake said a
parson to one OF his hearers, s'when
you are drowsy, why don't you take a
pinch OF snuff - 81 Think was the
reply, ''the snuff should be put into
the SermOn.''
An Indiana man has expended Sc, 900
IN a lawsuit over a yoke Of oxen, and
the suit is still in the courts. Strange.
ly enough this mans name is WISE
man, but it is not what his LAWYERS
confidentially call him.
''Can there be anything brought in
TO Inc mouse, asked a disguised mem.
per during the last session of the Leg
| lslature, ''that will not be repealed
sooner or later = One of the Opposi-
sltlon suggested ga skinned orange.''
Uncle Levi-''Now, Sammy. tell me.
nave you ever read the beautiful story
OF Joseph :" Sammy-':O, yes, uncle.''
| Uncle-''Well. then, what wrong did
they do when they sold their brother?'
Sammy-''They sold him too cheap, T
Think
''Mr dear Murphy said an Irish
man to a friend, ''why did YOU betray
that secret told you?'' lis it betray
that you call it? Shure. when found
l WASH able to keep it myself, didn't
90 well to tell it to some one that
could keep it =
.'You haven't got such thing as a
pair OF old trousers, have you?' t:No,
| my man, said the merchant. 81 don t
| keep my wardrobe in my counting
house,. ''Where do you live - re:
joined Pat, ''and I'll call in the morn
ing for the old pair you've got on
Doctor-''I am pleased to say, Mrs.
Fltzbrown, that shall be able to vac
cinate your baby from very healthy
child OF your neighbor, Mrs. Jones.''
Mrs. Fitzorown--''Oh, dear doctor, l
could nok permit that We 10 not
care to be mixed up with the Joneses
in any way.'
a Writer in St. Nicholai: "What
do you say to q flower bigger than 2
Dining plate. and weighing three or
four pounds!'' It is very rarely that we
say anything, acknowledgements we
are intimate with q vegetable and
occasionally we are drawn into a con-
troVersy with cucumber.
Years ago, when painter wanted to
depict wholesale anguish, he went for
inspection to the place where criminals
were tortured to death; but now he
finds a better and more convenient
subject in the young man in the front
seat at the theatre whose tall collar
has become unbuttOned behind.
A famous usurer of Paris being on
his death-bed, his confessor presented
a silver crucifix to him, with a view to
awaken him to a sense of his situation.
The dying miser, after examining the
cross with the most minute attention,
suddenly exclaimed: '*Sir, can lend
you but a very small sum on such a
PLEDGE
A detinition.--':What would be your
notion Of Observation-Disclosures asked
Rufus Choate Of /. witness whom he
was ross-examining. s:Well,'' said
the witness, with strong Yankee &C.
cent, Il should say that a man who
thought he'd left his watch to hum.
and took it out'n is pocket to see if
he'd time to so hum and get it WAS a
leetle absent minded
\ Sharp Monkey.