Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-16
Miscellaneous Items

Why Is blush like little girl? Be-
cause it becomes woman.
A small boy classes pies as sscross-
barred, open-topped and kivered."
A boy who was spanked said the SEN
sation was thrilling to an extreme.
Almost every man takes his day off.
but we never heard of him bringing it
back again.
The blackbird has been called great
thief; but as for the redbreast. he il
| always robin.
What 1iles 2 country postmistress is to
nave postal card come to the Office writ
ten in French or short hand.
II don't like that cat; it's got splinters
IN Its feet" was the excuse of a four
year-old for throwing the kitten away.
The Parisiams have introduced square
umbrellas. They'll BE- just as bad as the
other klnd--never round when it rains.
1t IS hard for some men to understand
| the Lord. He calls them to be mechanics
and they straight way stumble into the
pulpit.
Edison thinks he can light theatre for
$4.oo a night, but il the receipts are only
p4.oo Where Will be the gain over the
present system?
How do you make Maltese cross9o
was the question before the institute.
And one OF the school marms answered:
| "Tread on her tail"
An honest man in Maine the other day
! offered new silver dollar with a ten
! cent piece riveted to it, at ticket Office.
1t was readily taken.
"Have you cologne?" asked she. "No.
ma'am," replied the druggist; "I have
no scents at ALL" She said be didn't
look as though he had.
An Irish student was once asked what
was meant By posthumous works. "They
are such works., says Paddy, 'as man
writes after he is dead"
Mr.. w. W. Story is reported by Mr..
James Jackson Jarvis to have recently
sold five statues to Polish nobleman at
the comfortable price of $1,000 each.
[ have theory about the dead lam
guages," said the new student. 'sWhat
is it," asked the professor. "That thew
were killed by being studied too hard."
Stair carpets should always have three
or four thicknesses of paper put under
them, at or over the edge of every stair,
which IS the part where they first wear
out.
In busting, use soft cloth instead of a
brush or wing; the cloth will catch all
the DUST, and you can shake it from the
window, while the others set it floating
again.
1t is proposed to take the census of
1880 as nearly at one and the same time
as possible in all parts of the country.
and net consuming more than one week
altogether.
Boston has already become the favorite
port for the expert of cattle, and sheep
and swine. They are bought and ship.
ped in better condition here than at any
other Atlantic port.
'Pants for $5?' said a seedy-lookino
man, reading sign in the window of a
clothing store he was passing--''So do I,
never painted so for SIS in all my 1fe."--
Ciacin''ott Saturday Night.
A cynical writer says :"Take company
OF boys chasing butterflies; put long
tailed coats on the boys, and turn the
butterflies into dollars and you have a
beautiful panorama Of the world"
A singular remedy for indigestion
recommended by an English magazine, is
chewing different kinds of grass leaves
when out of doors, and swallowing the
juice. Any leaves not nauseous or poi
sonous are recommended.
A Great Revivalist.-T was a good.
though rather severe pun which was
made by an Edinburg student (and he
was not one Of the brightest of his class
either), when he was asked, "Why is
Professor greatest reyivalist of
the age?" and, on all "giving it up"
said, because at the end Of every ser
mon there is great awakening!''
The Princess Louise calls him "Lor-
ney" in her pleasant moods; but, when
she gets up these cold mornings to build
the fire and finds no kindling wood split,
she says: "You John George Edward
Henry Dougless Sutherland Campbell, is
this what I married you into the royal
family for3" Then he wishes he hadn't
forgotten the kindling.-South Bond
| Tribune.