The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1877-03-30
4.6.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The glass of fasbion-Blue class.

;. corn at the depot IN Tuftonborongh, N. Il
$ Theatrical managers invariably NEE
their bills-when they so into the street.
Slngularly enough, old rye is sevent
cents bushel and twice that bottle.
Bar-rooms where blue glasses are uset
for cocktails are called Stimulating Re
treats
Great Britain has $4,000, 900 of Mussul
men subjects, and is, next to Turkey, the
largest Mpssulman poweri in the world.
His holiness the Pope uses q blue checI
linen pocket handkerchief It's well tt
know these things.
4 woman who is too proud to button hel
own CATERS may not be above studying CO
temporary history through keybole.
Il live by my pen" said poet, wishing
to impress $ q young lady. ''You look as if
you lived IN it, y was the reply.
An interviewer, writing from Washing
ton, incidentally says 'Here some one
took Mr.. Hewitt apart''
The late Lord Derby once wrote to a
man who had recommended some anti
gout sherry, II prefer my gout to your
sherry"
Parson Browrlow, when asked how he
liked Washington, replied, 'sThe nearest i
ever was to hell was when I was in Wash
ington."
A poetieal topper says that Dryden wasn't
opposed to sherry cobbler, from a remark
he once made-"Straw may be made the
instrument Of happiness
Fame is aeeting and short lived. The
laurel wreath of glory and respect is fad
ing from the memorable brow of the man
who discovered America, and settling on
that Of the man who gives the most chew
ing tobacco for twenty five cents.
In little tavern, recently excavated at
Pompeii, the customary slate and pencil
were said to be found hanging up on the
back Of the door.
A Wisconsin lumberman offers thirty
dollars in cash for "a rafting good wife
one who is not too high-nosed to grow fat
on bean soup"
Now is the time to subscribe fifty cents
to the poor fund, and FIVE dollars to the
baseball club which is to scoop the world
Says Seth Green: "A no. n1s.o4.v...
is better temperance lecturer than Joho
B. Cough ever was. At least it will make
a person drink more water u
A Western clergYman's wife received
thirty-six sugar-spoons from different per-
sons, as Christmas presents. They hadn't
pound of sugar in the house, but she
counted up the spoons.
A Norwich man came home and spoke
sharp to his wife. His little boy heard it,
and fearing trouble, went out and called
in policeman. It isn't every father that
has such boy to take care of him.
People who start for the West to see
where the wave of civilization ends, rarely /
get beyond Trenton, n. J., when the Leg
islature is in session, says the wicked
Brooklyn Argas.
Millions of discoveries are being made
in the application ofblue glass. The Nor
ristoWn Herald has ascertained that "blue
glass, mashed up fine and administered in
ternally, will cure dog-of sheep kill
ing
Even the consciousness Of a pair Of Are
tic shoes and clean striped stockings afford
very weak consolation to a woman who
gets out over the back of a cutter when it
strikes crossing, and stands on her head
ina snow-drift.
A Philadelphia woman sWore that her
husbands conduct was enough to "irrigate
an angel
0What did you get?n she asked, as he
returned from two days hunt. "Got
back |" was the cool reply
We can generally tell what mans go
ing to do next, when he puts the lighted
end Of q cigar in his mouth BY mistake.
smidgkins says that when you see
cat put up her back and snarl at . plate Of
sausages you may know they are genuine.
A negro's definition ofa bigot: a man
as knows too much 70 one niggah, but not
enudf 70 two"
She said it was a very bright idea. He
said he knew q brighter one, and when
she asked him what it was, he answered,
aYour eye, dear" There was silence for
moment, then she laid her head upon the
rim Of his ear and..wept.
After q telegraph-pole had fallen on .
Savannah negro's head, he threw up his
hands and shouted, aDon't hit me again
Wid yer club, Mr. Policeman. II wasn't
me dat stole dc chickens. It was Deacon
Henry Then he looked, saw what hit
him, and walked Of, saying, aGolly. Use
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