Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-27
The Little Folks.

OBOstOn SchOOl-hOuSe doors swing DOtn
| ways, and teachers have an awful advant-
age over bad boy.
Thousands of boys would go dirty ali
summer, if it were not wicked and dang
erous to battle IN the river.
Memory. .My child, here is the prize
for memory; embrace me-" Ono, sir
four years ago you boxed my ears.
II don't like that cat, it's got spllnters
in its feet, was the excuse of a four year
old boy for throwing the kitten away.
'The sun hiding his face with his pock-
ct handkerchief" is how little four year
old describes the passage of a cloudlet.
The boy who is having the first tooth
pulled doesn't care anything about the
present, and futurity is as black as last
years watermelon.
Child (praying): "Please God make
it pleasant day tomorrow so we can go
on our picnic. But if it isn't, keep us to
feel that Thou knowest best"
The new song, "Sounds of Childhood,' -
recalls tender recollections of matronly
shoe, shrill treble voice, and an utter
Discrimination to sit--B0sto7l Transcript.
In the makeup of the modern small
boy there is altogether too much whistle
for the amount Of boy. 1t is most too
much like using a two-quart funnel in a
three ounce vial.
A five-year-old youngster, seeing a
druken fellow, said: "Motber, did God
make that man?" EYES," she replied.
II wouldn't have done it, was the young
innocent's answer
An Ohio minister recently asked lad
"Young man, do you know where TIE
| boys 60 to who play baseball on the
Sabbath day!" eyes sir; they so down to
Squire Aliens big field
Nothing disgusts a schc olboy with the
world in these days more than to come
home from school with the intention of
compelled to pu- in couple of tons Of
| coal.
papa" said a bright boy who had just
come nome from sle1ght-of-hand en-
tertainment: Il wish I was conjuror."
"Why, my son2' II would turn you into
rat, call up the cat, and wouldn't l
have fun?"
Little johnny Moody preaching in a
chair) "Once upon time, before there
ever was any little Johnny Moody, away
up in heaven, God said, LET there be a
little Johnnie Moody and there was a
little Johnnie Moody"
1t may be interesting to the boys to
know that stamping letters OR figures up
on coins, Or drill ing holes in them, de-
.troys their legal tender quality. When
thus mutilated they are not small change
but simply pieces OF metal.
Teacher: "Can you multiply together
concrete numbers?' (The class appear
uncertainty. Teacher: "What will be
the product Of forty apples multiplied by
six pounds Of beef2" Small boy-tri.
umphantly: "Mince pies!"
The owner of pair of bright eyes says
that the prettiest compliment she ever
received came from child of four years
The little fellow, after looking intently
at her for moment, inquired naively
Are your eyes new ones2"
Fussy and partially deaf officer inspect.
ing stables: "Ah, Smith, what on earth
have you been cleaning your harness
witha" Smith-Nothing, sir. officer
All, then don't do it with that again; sec
how it rots the leather.
It is lamentaple fact that piece o.
Dashboard with verse on it, given as {
reward of merit in Sabbath school, has
not half the charm for boy as the same
sized piece of pasteboard with the simple
talismanic words, admit one."