The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-01-03
Breyities.

Great things have small beginnings.
Some men seem to think it is always
treat" to meet friend.
Exchange: When q man starts for
the dentists he generally takes tooth
burty gait
That one Republican in the next
Kentucky Legislature will have lone
some time.
Philadelphia Pres: Vesuyius is get.
ting decrepit; she has had too much of
the "cratnr"
Bo.ton Pit: Mrs. Tllton has once
more put on gay coIors and is as happy
as bnbolink on II pump-bunde.
The Troy butcher who hung himself
in his box has furnished the coolest
case of sliciie oa record.
Why NUT yoar nose necessarily be
in the middle of your face! Because it
is the scenter.
A man in Ohio who attempted to
hang himself recently was cut down by
his mother-in-law She wasn't ,hrough
with him yet
New York Etprss: James Lenox,
is said to have given away more money
than George Peabody and made no
noise about it, either.
If any one tells you that be transpir-
ed very freely on warm day. don't bet
him that he is talking nonsense, or he
may haul the dictionary on you.
When house burns down, it burns
up: when you drink q glassful. you
dri,.k it empty; and when you take q
car. it takes you.
Somebody says that ladies 60 to
church to Look at others bonnets. That's
downright scandal. They 60 to show
their own.
Said negro orator: "Massa Christie
pher Columbus was q queer mana
notion crossed him one day, and then
he crossed an ocean,"
Mrs. Swisshelm's maiden name was
Cannon The fact speaks for itself.
We always thought she wa; a lady Of
considerable caliber
A thoughtful person says: What
must be the potato bugs opinion Of
the humanity that goes around all day
putting poison in the yictuals of hum
BILE iAsacts?
A vessel has been chartered to go to
Manila for hemp Can this be tho
response to tho demand of Kearney and
his crowd for hemp" hemp" at their
gatherings.
Down here In summer time, we take
lie easy" says Texas paper; and
then, as il to confirm the statement.
there appears in tho next column an
account OF "Threc Men Killed at a
Camp Meeting.
Detroit Free Press It's curious. but
it's true, that Americans had just rs
soon anniversary" n battle in which
they were whipped out of their boots
as one in which they mauled the foe
till he couldn't holler.
4 half -blooded Jersey heifer at Buoy
rus. Ohio. gave eighty eight quarts OF
milk in seven days, which made twelve
pounds and seven ounces of butter.
Prof. Swing says: The rock Of
poverty looks cold and hard, but within
is u jasper" Is, eh? Won't he please
smash that rock and forward the jasper?
The reason that no artist can take
Gail Hamilton's picture is because sire
can't keep her mouth shut long enough.
It's Just as well to be frank about such
things.
Two ostriches. harnessed to wagon
can pull load of u thousand pounds.
and all the care they need is pail of
water. two or three old bones and a hod
of brick. Send in your orders early.
1t has been decided 6y doctors that it
isn't the surf bathing nor the mineral
water which does fashionable young
lady good. but it's getting q good square
meal three CT four times per day.
Every shopkeeper who refuses to let
his women clerks sit down when they
are not busy, deserves to be bankrupt
till doomsday. and then to be made to
stand, on one leg. through all eternity.
When you read in the papers that .
well-known hotel at u summer resort
has enlarged its rooms for the com ing
season" you may infer that they have
scra ped the baper Off the walls.