The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-08-23

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- BAD hefc A. 10 some places. IAefes
Thclcs. lor Instance. where the ruias
eaiesd iof twenty milcs
"A Baltimore girl. jet from YasAf
college. % being told that there we're
Ne more gooscberries, inquired, What
i lht matter with The goose
Robert Toombs q Georgia says
that "tbe capitalist WHO does rot
respect labor il fraud. and the labor
er uho does not respect capital j,
iool
stroke of lightning. the ether
day. tore boys boot oil to pieces and
didn'l harm the boy. Tho reason was
that be bad placed the boot under
tree aud gone ia swimming.
"A Micbigaa farmer writes to the
faculty Of Yale What arc your terms
iot yeaf' Ard does il cost anything
extra II my sou wants 10 learn 20 read
and wule a. well az roS a boat r
"so you like your second wife
better than your first = "Yes,' be
said. enthusiastically; "she always
puts enough starch 10 my shirts 10
save me the trouble Of scratching my
back"
A southern college professor says
that Governor Stone Of Mississippi is
las just as Aristides, aud as brave as
Caesar" His inaction ia the Kemper
county massacre would indicate that
be is also as dead as both.
An old citizen in country village,
on having a subscription list handed
him toward purchasing a new hearse
for the place, thus excused himself
IL paid five dollars for q new hearse
forty years ago, and me and my folks
bain't bad the benefit Of il yet
Yet another warning. Joseph
Batos OF Vermont, falls dead while
carrying IN an armful Of wood. Show
this paragraph to your wife, nay, cut
il out and pin Il to the woodshed door,
Mr.. Cartier, of New York, waltzed
six hours in one straight heat, the
other night The intellectual develop
ment of that young mans legs is fully
as marvellous AS the gloomy vacuily Of
the thing he wears his hat on,
Speaking by the card-"You seem
to know all the gossip Of the neigh
borhood, Mary" Eyes, maam; my
young man is letter.carrier, and he
reads me all the postal cards"
-Spikins came down town this
morning with a nosegay in his button.
hole. "Ilullo r. said friend "why,
Leander, you look as il you'd just come
cot Of greenhouse. NO." replied
spilkins. hopping bis fcvered brow
"but passed the night in hot bed :"
"A Portland Chinaman became the
father OF an American born sou, and as
be danced around, swinging his pig-tail
aud knocking over the opium jars, be
exclaimed "Me Melliean man, all
samee Me heap Washington Me
sewing machine agent Go way |
Whoopee J"
is there anything that will make
grain come up quickY" asked the gen.
,leman farmer Of the old husbandman
"Nell. no | don't know Of nothin'
thall do il, was the genial old iel.
lows rerly, unless it's crows Then
the gentleman farmer wanted to know
where be could get some.
II, is beautiful starry night. aud
the seniors arc out singing. First Sc
Nor. who studies astronomy--"LooE
up there, aud see how beautiful Orion
looks" Second senior, who does not
study astronomy, but who has q streak
ot Irish blood-"Is that Organ
Thank the Lord, then there ID one
Irishman in heaven, anyhow.
II was a Frenchman the famous
Carlino who, contentedly laying his
head upon large stone jar for pill.
low, replied TO one who inquired IL It
we're not rather hard, "Not at all. for
have stuffed ii with hay II was an
American lecturer who solemnly said
one evening, Parents, you may have
children or. il not your daughters
may have" IL was a German orator
who. warming with bic subject. ex.
claimed, There 10 no man, woman or
child 10 the house who has arrived At
The age OF fifty years. but what has
eli the truth laundering through their
minds for centuties
They were telling yarns about
good shooting out in Virginia. Nevada.
the other day Said one Of the marks