The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-04
CURRENT HUMOR. !,

Eager TO soc she pressed the sash
| The alght frame brooks with IL sudden cras b
And fell into tho street
i AaEllnter struck gallant knight
He upward glanced: there mot his sight
i The little mnden sweet.
| She smiled; he smil 9d: YOn know the rest
/ My tale you have already guessed,
/ The ond. Of course. ls plain:
/ Tho maid confessed drew back from view.
l The knight passed on amid his crew
They never met again.
PInaphorsm Better late than hardly ever
II Dellah were alive now she could have a
boom In barbering boarding house butter and
| taking away Its strength
The lattsS, London fog: First pedestrian
| "Is your lantern Ontg' Second dol don't
know I'll feel."- London Judy.
| There Is something saddening about pair
of scssors-aas! they only meet to sever
| cleveland Voice.
| Japan has n well organized bank system,
| copied from our own st. Adams Advertiser.
| The cashiers must find Canada incOnveniently
far off Boston Post
Phelem 10 tourist. who has taken shelter
In leaky shebeen -"Dade, and it's soaked
to the bone you'll be gettin' wild the strames
through the roof. Come outside, sorr, It's
drter In the wet2'
a gentleman accidentally steps on dainty
pGf8le led by an ssegant woman. Stupid
A little more and you would have crushed
Fido." "Ahl if | had crushed him | would
have replaced him" "You iintter yourself"
| proud man, who had failed In business,
| and found his assets would pay only = cents
on tho dollar insisted, for the looks of the
thing, on paying Is, even II he had to make
up the difference out OF his own pocket.
! What part Of the wheel makes the most
noise? Why, the spotcs, man, OF COURSE
| Detroit Free Press. No, the hub hub
Boston Post. What felloes you are. ISyra=
c,lse Herald. That's right! Go it! We
ir.,, ~ hn1 ,xyhn
A Mormon bishop reprimanded a brother
for having only one wife, bat whom the wife
turned loose on the bishop and almost knocked
out his brains with q broom handle, for sug-
gasting such q domestic Improvement, he
agreed with the brother that after all re-
| ligion contemplated quality. - Brooklyn
Eagle.
| The steamer house of the Omaha fire de-
partment got afire and burned up recently
| and you can't speak OF the value of a pro-
teetive department in the presence OF ar
| Omaha fireman, but the crowd will begin tc
| laugh, and he'll turn red In the face. and want
TO know II you're nagging at him to get up a
/ fight. #M@ 20
/ confirmed card-player became convinced
| that card-piayng Is wrong perhaps because
he had long run OF bad luck, aud perhaps
| for higher reasons. He broke the subject
were busy at their favorlte game by saying
seriously, "Well friends, think after all
that q great deal Of valuable time is wasted
In playing cards. His partner, who never
dreamed Of the depth Of his remark, an
swered: Eyes, I've often thought so, too
Now, just think, for instance, how much time
we waste In shuflling."
"Ah Tong is an observing Celestial, who
serves In the humble capacity of dishwasher
at the Palace eating stand. The American
cocktail being mystery to him he has been
watching its operations. This morning he
explained: One Mclean man he come In he
say, "Bimeby me ketchum bleakfas. He
dtnk one cocktail he say, Please cook me
bleakfas.' He dlink two cocktail, he say.
Gimme bleakfas PUTTY quick" Putty
soon he dlink tlee cocktail, he yell loud, Hey
hello! where thunder my bleakfas ?"Il Vir-
ginia City (Nevadal Enterprise.
Miss Mamie" Smith has recently been adj
mitted to the bar Of Kentucky, and an Indi-
ana paper finds fault with her name. 1t wants
to know how George Washington, Horace
Greeley, Charles Sumner, Rufus Choate,
Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Ward Beeeher, Oil
yer P. Morton and Thomas A. Hendricks