Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-11-28
WIT AND HUMOR.

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by straining it.
A loan woman: One who has
money out at interest.
A private tooter: A recruit who
plays the trombone.
1t is superhuous to tella topper to
''puH in his horns.''
The most perfect type of 'sweet
home" is the beehive.
Men of eye-dears: Loafers who
stare pretty women.
Even a blacksmith's bellows some
times comes to blows.
How to make a noise in the world:
Strike for blacksmith.
A new year and the time for swear
ing off will soon be here.
"Music hath charms so hath
gay sports watch-chain.
Caught in the act-an actor arrest
ed during the progress of the play.
What a mockery to tell a man
whose overcoat is in pawn to keep
cool.
There are men SO constitutionally
dull that blister will not make them
smart.
We are most paradoxical creatures.
We use blotting paper to keep from
blotting paper.
A philosopher says that great want
proceeds from great wealth. We
know better than that.
A fellow in Chicago, who bit off
half of mans nose, was bound over
to keep the piece.
Why is an honest bankrupt the
same as dishonest one? Because
they both fail to make money.
The borrowing fiend, who is always
little short of change, is an enemy
to whom no quarter should be shown.
The danger signals put up by the
weather department of the army warn
people to look out for borrowed UNI
brellas.
The thirst for continual novelty
makes people throw away good alma
macs at the end of every year and buy
new ones.
There is no mistaking a real gen.
tleman. When he approaches a free
lunch table he always wants napkin
and a chair.
1t is said that one of the bravest
officers in the Russian army signs his
name with his mark. He must be a
soldier of the cross.
The leaves OF trees, like summer
boarders with bills unpaid, take their
departure, leaving their trunks be-
hind them.
This Intoxicating statement is from
the Cincinnati Saturday Night.
"Grant got sick of hides when he was
tanner; and he gets Heidsick vet,
occasionally
Do you want billiards to advance
two dollars per bill? and opera tick
cts ten dollars per ticket? and ulsters
ten dollars per ulst? Then vote the
opposition ticket.
Philosophers say that shutting the
eyes makes the sense of hearing more
acute. A wag says that this accounts
for the many closed eyes that are to
be seen in church.
A word to the wise Is sufficient.
and yet there are preachers who will
pay their congregations the doubtful
compliment of talking at them for two
hours on a stretch N. o. Pic.
"Is Lial in?" inquired a fellow,
poking his head in at the door of
printing office. "Lial?" queried the
boss; "what Lial?" ssBelial," re-
piled the man. He was referred to
the devil.
What sort of craft is it that always
has scent aboard. Boston Pest. |
We have heard it said that a schoon-
er of beer always has a scent aboard,
but we never were sent aboard to find
out.
The cactus plant will take root on
a stone window sill, and be nourished
with the promise of rain. Men who
make living by writing, consequent
ly, have a sympathetic interest in the
cactus.
/ When man is hanging by his toes
from the cornice Of q high building,
and expects momentarily to drop,
nothing so completely reassures and
SO thoroughly satisfies him as the sud.
den discovery that he is safely homo
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