The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-02-05

of hog bristles, but if his wife should &C.
cidentally spatter him with dish-clout,
all the recording angels in the land
couldn't do justice to the remarks
Y0nkers Gazette.
"Hab1t" is hard to overcome. If you
take off the first letter it does not change
"a bit" If you take another you still
have ''bit" left. If you take off still
another the whole of '.it' remains. If
you take off another it is not 'st'' totally
used up. All of which goes to show that
if you wish to be rid of ''habit" you
must throw it off altogether.
Here is what was sung recently at a
religious meeting of colored men in the
South: .g. ft-
IF you see Peter asleep at de gate,
kase de night befO' he was up so late,
You needn't 'spect with your load of sin.
Dat you'll slip past him, and steal right in;
De angels always act On de squar'; :.
Dey knowyou here and deY'll know you dar."
The artfulness of women is increasing.
They even have designs on pottery.
"What," the young man asked the
young woman whe was waiting for him
to ask for his hat, "what do put YOU in
mind of" "a French clock" size said
so1tlY. And pretty soon he arose and
went on his way. The next morning he
called upon On eminent horoiogist, asked
him what was the distinguishing trait
OF French clock. The horologist said ::
"Why, 1t never goes" And the Young
man was sorely cast down, and he grieved
and told no man of his hurt.
VNharo 80 M ~oo% l,,k D,,.
gersol is right. It is only the heart that
is born in poesy and swathed in poetic
fire that could sing:
Now dang the gleuch that caused the dyke
Ye ma hae tint the meikle strike drown;
Ae lippen jouk gaed couthie ilk the wall,
An meal-pock ding the auld lang shafted
spune.
-Ho,rkeye.
The price of wife among the Sioux
Indians Is twenty ponies. And when the
young brave has won the girl, and got
her fathers consent at ruling rates, and
the only thing that remains is to plank
down the ponies, h. sits down and some
times occupies whole night thinking
whether he had better steal the ponies
fro1 his own father or the girls. BE
steals from his prospective father-in law.
-Hawkeye.
Brethren, before we sing the next verse
OF John Browns body lies all mouldy
In the grave" let us take look into
the grave and see if it is there. In these
days of Ohio medical colleges cemetery
isn't no safer than savings bank, and it
may be that political glee clubs, who
have been singing the song quoted above,
have been chanting rythmic lie for the
past fifteen years.-Bawzingto,a Haaokeye.
"Papa," said the 5-year- old daughter
OF a West-Side minister, ''is the Devil an
authorg" ''Well," replied the amused cler-
gyman, II should say he was-the author
of good deal of mischief, anyway" Mot
that, l don't mean," pursued the title
one, "but does he write books?" mot that
l ever head of; at least, not personally"
was the reply; "but why do you ask?' 20
nothing; only I heard you say something
to mamma about the acorks of the Devil
A man will sit up nights for week,
and do an enormous amount of thinking
in the daytime, and after penning his
thoughts on paper and rewriting them
about half dozen times, will burst into
an editorial room about half an hour be-
fore going to press with, II don't know
whether you can make it out or not, it
was little point that I hadn't seen no.
ticed, and l just thought I'd scratch it off,
Get it in this issue?''
This orator bit off more than he could
"chaw:" During services in one of the
colored churches in a southern town re-
Gently, the minister announced: "My
breddren, l propose to continue dis meet
in entil de Town Marshal shall be no
more seen on de streets wid his club,
de police jedge and attorney will have to
go at somthin' else for hbbin,' and de
police count bell hangs dormant in its
socket" He has huge undertaking be-
fore him.