Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-11-21
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HumOr.
Bay windows are safe harbors ut night
for little smacks.
you don't get any money out ofme,"
said he, rs the man presented his bill
" I'm savings bank-that's what !
am And the creditor went disconso-
lately away.
An exchange wants To know how the
Turks happened to learn to fight so
we'll Whereupon another exchange
exclaims: Why, man, most of the
Turkish officers have over half dozen
wives.
Base is the slave that pays" Our
creditors are asked to observe the poetic
beauty of the forgotten line Shakespeare
was no SLOUGH. -New York Sun
Oil has been struck on the parish
lot of a Pennsylvania church in Penn
sylvania, and it is now drawing 1900
Il year from that source toward current
expenses. a good many other churches
have bored without strike.
Sitting Bull says he will come across
the line to wallop the Americans some
day If the old rcd-skin tries this, he
will find that he has come home to
die"
1t is this lying awake nights trying TO
determine whether t. leave Your fortune
To an orphan asylum or Il home for old
men that makes the newspaper business
SO wearing. Rome Sentinel.
A letter has arrived at the post office
of Independence, Iowa, directed: ITO
the handsomest girl in the city The
Bulletin says that rs the POSTMASTER does
not desire TO he run through n threshing
machine. he has turned it over to his
administrator.
Suppose that girl with her heart IN hcl clothes,
And her bonnet showed down on the bridge OF her
Should 90 for your person and pocket for life,
To be \ useless, expensive, and cumbersome
Guess wouldn' t-woud you
Ecading Dlpotch.
When YOU see n woman standing ON II
kitchen chair, looking up ut II ragged
hole III the plastering, while she holds n
hammer III her right hand and her left
thumb in her mouth, there is ne chance
for candid opinion about the nail
works Hdpirye,
When girl comes suddenly across u
man III her rural ramblings, she bushes,
droops and is rs quiet as n mouse; but
when she runs across stray Autumn
leaf she gushcs, swoops and bellows like
moose Now, why this difference Is
Il man SO much less than leaf2
llarpor's Drawer: Children who have
been the pets Of the house are almost
invariably afflicted with jealousy mt the
advent of 4 new baby A lady asked
little boy under these circumstances how
he liked his little sister 81 don't think
she agrees with me- hereplied Why
don't she agree with YOU ~ don't
know" he said, "b,.t couldn't bear TO
see mother kiss her
"You have often" said the clergy
man, heard the brethren say Amen
Amen while some one wa praying.
What did they mean? If any one
knows, let him hold up his hand"
Up jumped u little fellow, SO eager to
answer rs not to wait for recognition,
" | know - he called out 1t means
hurry up and get through. There was
an audible smile, and many of the
elders, we have no doubt, felt that
lit utlillliloll NouINi bt NtIN llst1ui
if it could be generally accepted, and
" Amen" used to shorten long pray
- Youths Companion.
Two boys sat ON the grass on Ledyard
street yesterday and played cards A
citizen who knows that card-playing
leads into the broad road Of wickodncss
halted and said to one Of the players;
"Ah my boy, don't you know that
you are in fair way to be ruincd?'
" | am, eh'r' replied the youngstcr as
he held up his hand Of cards and
showed four rumps and an ace; "you
just hold" on here minute, and if |
don't show you that the other boy is all
wrcnched to pieces and ruined TO death
III cat the jack of spades and cut my
throat with the jack Of clubs y He was
taking every trick rs the citizen
passed on. - Detroit Free Press
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