Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-15
WIT AND HUMOR.

To remove paint fsom door posts-Back
up agaist it when tits fresh.
The canvass made by politician may
be for sale.-New Orleans Picayune.
The nearest some men ever come to a
buck-saw is when their teeth are on edge
If anybody would only detect some
thing tor the detectives !-Neu York Her.
cid.
The hoiiHay season approaches, when
young man must show his gift enter
prise.
Its quite appropriate that new books on
Pottery should be illustrated with plates.
The fat man who wants to become an
ti-fat should study the architecture of a
lean-to.
The man who pays in advance cannot
be trusted. Let this be Warning.-N
0. Pic.
a bouquet is a good centre-piece for
the dinner -table.-Boston Commercial Buz
Eitin
Whisky is about the only enemy man
has succeeded in really loving Dan6my
Neus.
two Opinions is lame on both sides Of
the question.
With many Of our contemporaries, last
years jokes are this shea.s jokes.-New
York Nesos.
The fellow whe got intoxicated with
delight has been turned out Of the tenn
perance society
Those cordial Michigan lumbermen
are again sapping buzz saws on the back.
IN. Y. Graphic.
Economy is wealth. Even the stove
pipe is coming out with last winters
soot-Boston Transcript.
A writer may draw on his imagination
for good story but the draft is not al
ways honored N. O. Pic.
"Here lies"-any graveyard will furn-
lsh you abundant opportunities to see
how the tOmbstones do it.
A Western paper explains. 1t didn't
mean to say that "Mayor Shocks was
tight" but that he was right
There wouldn't have been any milk in
the cocoanut If some of our dairymen
had the construction Of it.
The only finished thing in connection
with the Washington monument is the
"fund. Chicago Journal
The Press club of Boston have been
enjoying q big dinner. IT was stuffed
club when the repast was over.
The title Of "a. B." is very cheap in
Detroit. 1t has practical significance
there, meaning IA hummer"
Resurrection day will have to take
back seat unles, this body-snatchlng
business is stopped.-N. Y.4Star.
Which is the oldest, the man who
asks question OF the man who answers?
The man who asks, because he is the
querist.
The New York burglars and grave
robbers onl Y need a newspaper organ to
secure then firm footing and fair share
OF business.
What is the difference between a GER
tain Emperor and drunken mana Ones
Titus on emperor, the other tight as
brick.
"What do you want to shoot quail on
the ground for?" bowls sporting journ-
al. On the ground that We can't hit 'am
anywhere else.
A vlrdant old lady in New Jersey
thinks the ice crop will be good this
year, because there hasn't been much
frost to injure it.
The borrowing fiend, who is always
little short OF change, is an enemy to
whom no quarter should be shown
Ne,o Orleans Picayune.
"Gentlemen, there's no use talking"
remarked the man to crowd on corner,
and then he talked away for half an hour
without pause.
Some little time ago Sunset Cox told
the world "Why we Laugh" 1t is now
time for him to finish his JOB and inform
the public why we weep.
The upstart that rose to point of or
der after siltingdown upon the aggressive
end OF pin was assured by the chair
that the point was we'll taken.
A thief who fell into fit of abstraction
and got lost in thought, after wandering
awhile in his own mind, found himself at
last in the arms Of a policeman.
A hard money enthusiast says he never
met woman in his life that seemed to
know anything about coins. He never
Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
"Wouldn't you call this the calf of a
leg9' asked Bob, pointing to one of his
neither limbs. "No," replied Pat, 81
should say it was the leg of cali
A child's faith--While mother was
broodlng over her poverty, her lite son
said, Mamma, think God hears when
we scrape the bottom Of the barrel!'
The following classical poser is sub
mitted for college boating clubs: Did
Leander swim the Hellespont, or did
Hero?-Neso York Commercial Advertiser.
If there was anything practical in
spirituallism Stewart could give the po-
Ecemen a rap and some information con-
corning the disposition of his bones
". o. Pee.
A grave rebuke-Individua fresh from
his club: "My good sir (hic), can you tell
me where this w (hic) way leads to?p Sc
date party: "To the church yard Fun.
When a young mar comes TO believe
that glass Of liquor is daily necessity
he must soon quit drinking and attend to
business, or quit business and attend to
drinking.
The very last curiosity spoken of in
the papers is wheel that came off dog
tail when it was Vaughn. The man who
discovered it has retired from public
life.
Strange, isn't it2 Smoke good cigar
and you will never herr word about it
but light one Of those four-for-ten- cents
and everybody within hundred yards
will talk about it.