Daily globe., 1879-03-23
GOSSIP.

AHe ielgulng prlnts-Ihe latest fash
ions in calico.
Taggart calls his pig Barkis because he
is always swilling.
Gone, but not orgotten-The fellow
who left the door open.
There is nothing like a short hand
writer to take man down.
A wag wants to know if lady's hair
is something to dore when it is banged.
There are two as to spell separate, but
the wrong way is spelled with the more
els.
There are two kinds of men who tell
the truth-one from force of circum-
stances and the other for change.
The rage for antique ornaments is car
rled to such an extent that lockets repre-
senting the ark are occasionally seen.
A man who bought a box of cigars
when asked what they were, replied,
'',T1ckets for course of lectures from nv
wife,"
They bounced him literally and figura.
lively, starting him down two flights of
stairs. "Well," murmured he, resi- gnedly,
ep'raPs it's just as we'll. I ao0s goin
down, anyway"
A boy in New Haven made sensation
for short time by quietly transferring
card bearing the words stake one' from
a pile of hand bills in front of a store to
basket of oranges.
The new Isle thread gloves are seen in
all the kid colors and pure white; they
are silk finished and Irregular" made,
initiating kid so we'll as to be preferred
for full dress wear.
A boarder at one of our city boarding
houses remarked to fellow boarde1 at
the table: This must he healthy place
for Chickens" "Whv?" asked the other.
because never see any dead ones here
abOut''
The expression Of a boys face at the
end OF a straw that lacks two inches of
reaching the cider in barrel is supposed
to be the model that the artist selected
In the delineatlon of Adam leaving para
disc
The people of Ceylon bake and eat
bees. If we were going to indulge in this
kind OF provender we should want to
know that the baker understood his bust
ness, for if bee should revive after he
had been Swallowed!
"My dearest Maria," wrote recently
married Brooklyn husband to his wife.
She wrote back, dearest, let me correct
either your grammar or your morals
You address me, My dearest Maria
Am | to suppose you have other dear
Mariars2"
A Seymour, Ind, man picked up a
stick of cord wood, the other night, and
chased cat across the back yard; he
didn't catch the cat, but he caught the
clothes line with his teeth, and now When
he smiles the corners of his mouth pass
each other at the back of his neck.
How good fellow feels when, after
rushing through side street, upsettipg
a peanut stand, knocking down two
small boys, stepping on dogs tail ana
splashing himself all over in puddle, he
finds that the street car he was heading
Oft isn't the one he wants.-Lynn Re-
porter.
A bare-footed darkey, while hoeing
cotton one day, saw his big toe under
clod, and thinking it mole's head hit
it while he got tired, set his foot on a
stump and said: swell, .jes pain away
now; I doesn't care, you hurts yerselt
wusin ye do me.'
"Please draw upon the blackboard an
Interrogation point" said teacher to
one of her pupils. "Can't make good
one," replied the boy. "Draw boot
buttoner," said the teacher, "that will
answer" The boy took the crayon and
drew hair-p Sharp rebuke by the
teacher. Other scholars smile.
Boyhood is candid, and middle-age,
though it may think the same things, is
retlcent. "What part" asked Sunday.
school teacher, "of The Burial of Sir
John Moore do you like the besr?" He
was thoughtful for moment, and then
replied: Few and short were the pray
ers we said.''
A young lady called at one of our
music stores the other day and asked for
something new in piano music. The
clerk asked her if it made any difference
how many sharps there we're in the piece.
"Oh, no. che replied, "not in the least,