Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-27
GOSSIP.

The reigning prints-The latest fash
ions in calico.
Taggart calls his pig Barkis because he
is always swilling.
Gone. but not forgotten-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 ale 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
ried 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,
Tickets for course of lectures from nv
wife"
They bounced him literally and fgura-
lively, starting him down two flights of
stairs. ''Well," murmured he, resignedly,
"p'raps it's just as well. 1 pas goin'
down. anyway"
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 boardeI at
the table: "This must be healthy place
for chickens" "Why2" asked the other.
because never see any dead ones here
about"
The expression of boys face at the
end of 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--i
"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
Mariars?"
How good fellow feels when, after
rushing through a side street, upsetting
peanut stand, knocking down two
small boys, stepping on dogs tail and
splashing himself all over in puddle, he
finds that the street car he was heading
off 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 and hurt himself. After working with
it while he got tired, set his foot on a
stump and said: swell, jes pain away
now; ] doesn't care, you hurts yerselt
wusin ye do me-"
"Please draw upon the blackboard ar
Interrogation point" said teacher to
one of her pupils. "Cant make good
one" replied the boy. "Draw boot
buttoner," said the teacher, "that will
answer" The boy took the crayon and
drew hair-pin. Sharp rebuke by the
teacher. Other scholars smile.
Boyhood Is candid, and middle-age,
though it may think the same things, is
reticent. "What part" asked a Sunday.
school teacher, ''of The Burial of Sir
John Moore do you like the best?" 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 were in the piece.
"Oh, no. she replied, ''not in the least,
for If there are more than two I always
scratch them out with my pen-knife."
There is one social dishonor which no
one thinks it worth while to say much of
in reprobation, but which does more
harm than any other known to us-we
mean the dishonor of repeating CONVEX
sations, opinions, circumstances, not made
under promise of secrecy, but which a
high sense of honor would treat as conf
dental If, haply, a high sense of honor
were the rule.
Mr.. Louis A. Cooley died the quletest
and pleasantest of deaths. Sitting il
his accustomed room reading, after tea,
he leaned back in his chair. and without q
shadow of mental or physical pain cross
ing his face, left the world. He is said
to have been an exceedingly kind and
charitable man, and always just and gen.
erous to those employed by him. It is
recorded that to one of these who had
served him long and faithfully, hesgaye,
few days ago, check for $40 900.