The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-02-20
Wit, Wisdom and Wind.

a correspondent asks whether we
believe that woman should vote.
Well, yes, when parasols are stolen
as freely as umbrellas.
The presents which King Alfonso
and his beautiful bride received from
his gay and frisky mamma were
very rich and costly.
When several bridesmaids attend
a bride they wear dresset of the
same material and style of makeup,
but different colors.
4 The Sweet Singer OF Michigan
wears no shoes nor stockings. aBd
she urges the world, in impassioned
verse. to "leave off style"
Oysters are sold for 13k cents
apiece in Austin, New. We suppose
that means they are ate for a dollar.
"A Aberdonian recently bought a
horse by photograph. thus literally
getting the carte before the horse.
Riches will never take wings and
fly away, if you sprinkle a little
economy on It's tail Whitehall
Times.
If your dinner bell has lost its
clapper. you can still have your nap.
kin ring.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
That '.little birds do in their nest
agree" is no credit to the little birds,
because it would ne ger do for them
to fall out.
A clergyman, who lived on the
seashere. says he prefers calm Sun
days, because he is opposed to Sab.
bath breakers.
A Fulton man who sat down on q
buzz-saw the other day is convinced
that something besides destiny
shapes our ends.
Most milkmen are Baptists. And
most hackmen are Memo nights
And most barroom loafers are Con.
gregationalists.
We learn that the latest song il
called Sing Me to Sleep, Doherty.'
1t was probably written by the mar
who said: ''Now l lay me down tc
snere."
It is estimated that there will BIZ
a deficit of a million pounds in the
English budget this year. How
much ought their old budget te
weigh, anyhow?-[ Worcester Press.
Philosophers say that closing the
eyes makes the sense of hearing
more acute. A wag suggests thai
this accounts for the many eyes that
close in our churches on Sundays.
A little z year old boy in New
Jersey was telling his brother thai
the portraits he was showing were
those of the Presidents efthe United
States. Said the boy: 'sMost Of
these were elected, and the other
one got in.
so there's another rupture on
Mount Vociferous, said Mrs. Par.
tington, as she put down the paper
and put up her specs; "the papers
tells about the burning lather run
ming down the mountain. but it dOn't
tell how it get fire. ~
Mrs. Gains has started another
law suit. BY the way, Mrs. Gaines
is the most extensive mother-in-lau
at present before the public.
s Miss Rothschild, who will shortly
marry Lord Roseberry, has an in.
come of $15 100000. Surely she is
favorite Rothschild of fortune.
Ten years ago a NewburypOrt
girl broke off needle in her right
foot, and last Sunday it worked out
of the little finger of her left hand.
do they miss you at homer he
asked. as she folded and put away
a letter she had just received from
her mother, Never" she answer
ed, 'they always call me Sis rBos-
ton Transcript.
Mrs. Edith Longfellow Dana at.
tracts admiration at Newport by her
simple costume. A correspondent
ofthe Boston Transcriptsays MRS.
Dana attends old Trinity Church in
the simplest OF cloth costumes, and
the most modest Of cottage bonnets.
and charms even those who pass her
on the street by ner sweetness and
simplicity"
rrha g., LII. - a. 49, o.