The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-06
Small Talk.
"aA Chest PROTECTION "a lock.

n cnckt protector ii LOCK.
l.. Grows ny nearly twenty-five miles an
hour. ...fil f.i
Never hurry hen in spring time.
She might lay q scrambled egg.
liza man is known by the company
he keeps, how do we recognize her
init? I'LL. ..r.
"You are beneath my notice. as the
baloonist said to the receding crowd of
gaping ciiilcns. l. .s.
The man who stuck TO his colors
was the painter who sat down in one
Of his paint pots.
'Therc must he lawn order" said
the Judge yesterday, pushing his little
mower vigorously.
Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by in
Vulnerable streams; but it is extremely
difficult to trace il to its source.
The tramp shooting-season has open
| ed. Sometimes the tramp gets shot,
}but oftener he boots.
The Chicago journal says that man
has never vet been found so sick and
weak that he could not draw his sal
aiy.f 7-7 49,
| Blown says that married man some
Times finds himself to be an April fool
soon after the wedding March
o. An old lady being asked to subscribe
to newspaper, declined on the ground
that when she wanted news she manu-
featured ithefsolf.
Uprightness docs not always prove
lpoodness. There are upright pianos
| That are only fit for kindling wood
| Cambridge Press.
al hope shall meet you in heaven
lsays Talmage, in generous phrase
l"I hope shall meet Van Dyke even
but not tho first two or three daysW
There's 10 use heaving old boots aut
shoes over the line fence iuto You
ncighbor's garden. They wont grow
, Ii has often been tried and Away
proved a failurc.--[ Detroit Free Press
A Penobscot, Me-, fish peddler re
turned a box of marine monsters Il
Bangor unopened, ON the logica
ground that he sent for shad and the,
; sent him c. o. d.
John i. Brady gave me blacl
! WALNUT box of quite Size" Nothin!
remarkable about it, however, excep
that the sentence contains all the letter
, of tho alphabet.
When man calls his wife 9Th
: women folks" the Kingston Freeman
says you may set il down that she
one too much for him, so that he i
obliged TO designate her rs plural.
) The boy that walks lame around tn
streets now and looks pale and defect
, ed, is the same gay and blithsome chill
s of joy who but yesterday was caugli
: slipping under the canvas al the circus
Baron IIuddleston, an eminent Eng
lish Judge, recently took occasion L
say from the bench that it was an III
, doubted fact that woman told Ii
very much better than did man, am
with much better effect.
Emerson says in his last essay, 'tha
cannot be good for the bee that is ba
for the swarm" This is n new pre-
verb which will not wear ont with
= generation or two of use. 1t is goo
: use to set to buzzing under not fey
bonnets just at this time.
"Whcll," said new conner in a
Ohio town, "vhat shancc I would hay
j in starting up nit saddle tree peesnis :
"Thc business is overdone, and con
t petition has almost ruined the trade,
G was the answer.
"Vhell, Good Imake Something's nit
! new pakery"
: 81 think not" said the native, 9Th
e towns full of bakeries now.
The man looked puzzled and ha
: mad, and suddenly came to the conclr
sion; ''Vhell, den, by shimminy, wi
: run for Office"
II INDECENT HAsTE.-Recently youn
G man was presented in a family wher
f there is manageable daughter, an
as soon as he had taken his leave tn
f friend who had introduced him.said t
D the father, "Well, how would he sui
S you for son-in-law, heyY"
: every well, indeed" says the father
II "All right; suppose he comes aroun
, tomorrow and proposes"
/ Father with dignity -'To-morrow
, Pooh, pooh; what are you thinking of
That would be indecent haste. Say tn
day after Tomorrow"