The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-07-21
BUBBLES.
A friend in knead-the baker.

"A friend in knead-the baker.
Watering place Undergraduates.
Always bound to follow suit-Your
tailor's bill.
"A feast Of reason-The entertainment
Of an idea.
To reduce large famiy-feed them on
cucumbers.
When birds soar they MARBLE, but
when throat's sore it doesn't.
=" Pm practically uneasy on this point"
as the fly said when the tailor stuck him on
the end of needle.
LIS -tir,rs= youi~ s,princ, MADAME
asked Missouri judge>e~ In who
had hold of snubnosed boy
"No, sir" she replied, "this is my D.. : =
boy"
Lord Braxfeld's butler gave up his
place because his lordship's wife was al
ways scolding him. "Lord" he exclaim-
ed, we've little to complain O.; ye may be
thankful ye're no married to her."
-"Goot day, Moses. Vy-'s'help me!
my tear, how you vas shanged. Wouldn't
neter ha eff known your But my name
is not Moses, SIR" "Kreat hefens, who
would think it-your name shanged too"
A fashion item says "black velvet
belts embroidered with violets are the latest
things around the girl of the periods
OF nnt
around it much later than young mans
arm-on Sunday nights particularly.
"A certain first lord of the English ad-
miralty, on his first trip down the Thames
in a rather leaky vessel, observed the men
working at the pumps. "Dear me.' he
said, 81 did not know you had we'll on
board, captain; but l am really very g lad
IS do detest river water"
What is the mysterious connection be-
tween handsome rings and the hair9--
There must be some cause, for you never
see lady with diamond rings on her fin
gers who is not constantly fussing with her
hair or her bonnet and always with the
hand that wears the jewels.
A Pennsylvania Dutchman, who mar
ried his second wife soon after the funeral
of the first, was visited with two hours
serenade in token of disapproval. He ex-
postulated pathetically thus: 81 say, poys,
you ought to be ashamed of yourselfs to be
making all dis noise ven der vas a funeral
here so soon."
An Irishman who had been sick a long
time was one day met by the Parish Priest,
when the following conversation took place:
"Well, Patrick, l am glad you have recov-
cred. Were you not afraid to meet your
God?' "Oh, no, your reverence! 1t was
meetin' the other chap that l was afeard
wv replied Pat.
-"And now let me show you the ger
minating house." said florist recently,
after taking an Irish visitor through his
collection of plants and various hot houses.
1.-The German ating house, is it ?" rejoined
the son of Erin; "av ye place, couldn't you
give us sight of an Irish drinking house
hereabouts, if it's all the same to yees?"
-Pompous old father to present style of
son: l am proud to say that am self
made man. Present style of son: What do
you mean by that? Father: | am the
architect of my own destiny-I made my
self what | am. Son: Then why, if you
made yourself, didn't you put little more
hair on the top of your head?
"A correspondent wants to know: "Can
Christian go to the circus?". Why, yes,
he can go the circus easily enough, but it
will cost him quarter when he gets there
to get in. You see Christian is always
too proud to carry water for the elephant,
and that is where the sinner has the ad-
vantage over him in the matter of free
passes. ~