Daily Republican., 1880-02-26
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room Of fashionable clubhouse. A
nine o'clock enter Augustus, who 70
moves his ulster, and discloses Q drssi
suit. One Of the players: /" Halo
Gus is riggsd ont under full sail ant
all ths candles lightedi What 10 IL
old fellow z" Augustus: "Oh,
have been TO make nay party call OF
Miss Jones She wasn't at home, 80
left my pasteboard and came around
here" Thirteen young men DROP
their cues, seize their hats, and remark,
That's the racket for mel! 7" and
slide of to Bacon street. At eleven
o'clock Miss Jones comes home, finds
fourteen cards, and says, "How funny
that all the boys should have called
this evening F" At the same hour
Augustus receives three smiles and ten
cigars, the grateful offerings Of thir-
teen young men who have made their
party.eall without the trouble Of dress
ing or the expense Of hack.
Some friends were talking once be-
fore "Cham," the French caricaturist,
Of the effect Of a powerful painting upon
the mind, and some one said enthusiasts
tically. "The painter with his brush
can bring tears to the eye az well as
the poet with his Tyre" "This Is in
deed true," replied "Cham;" ~ was
in AIRY Schefer's studio yesterday, and
he was showing me one Of his pictures,
and, though | am not usually in the
melting mood, l fairly wept for ten
minutes" "Ah, had heard that
Shelter was treating a very pathetic,
snbjectl And you found his wonder
full brush" "0h, that isn't I'll
He stuck his wonderful brush in my
eye while gesticulating."
Not long ago q we'll known barrister
was concerned In case where the
question involved was as to the mental
of the tsstatrix. The witness
under examination, herself an aged
lady, had testified to finding her friend
failing, childish, and that when she
told her something she looked as though
she did not understand. Counsel, cross
examining, tried to get her to describe
this look, but she did not succeed very
we'll in deing SO. AT last, getting i'm |
patient, he asked, "Well how did she
lookf Did she look at you as | am
looking at you now, for instanceS" The
witness, very demurely, replied, "Well
yes-kind Of vacant like"
There Is q man down at Frederick,
Nd, who don't believe in getting ex-
,lted. He did at one time, but now he
9 cured. The other day he got his
DOT caught in railroad frog when
'rossing . track, and al the same time
leard train coming. He struggled to
,et loose, but in vain, and nearer came
he train and went past him. Then
he Frederick man thought what = fool
le was not to remember he was on
ide.track that hadn't been used for
IL years. He pulled his foot out OF
he boot, removed that article from its
put 1t on the end OF club and
licked himself all the way home.
"Mr. Brown, couldn't you give me q
osltion of some kind with you :" in
uired a young man of the proprietor
I large dry goods establishment the
ther day.
Very sorry-don't think there is
ny vacancy IN my establishment" an
wered Mr.. B.
III you have nothing else, employ i
lie as your adviser"
Very we'll, you can begin now by
dvising me how can best get rid Of
ou." :
He left. 7
A certain Scotch gillie, it Is said, is
OF often Ill; but once he had the tooth. =
che. sand what did you do for itH"
lid one to him. "Weel, lust bought ,
o. laudanum, and mixed
wi a pint O. whiskey, and drank it, t.
ut 1t was ma good" Here there was e'
pause, after which the speaker re- -
lined. 80 then | got another sax Y
O. laudanum and pit it into
quart O. whiskey." "Wellf" "Weel, el
hen | woke twa days after there was
toOthache."
The Patriot, newspaper published v
'wn yonder at Tallahassee, the eapi- st
| of Florida, thinks it has something
brag about-a lady in that town VINO
ISN'T drunk water for thirty years. 20
le drinks milk and tea. The Patriot
green. 1t just ought to move to Ken So
ckv. 1t will fad lots OF men who
we drunk water for longer than o.
at, and they don't drink milk or tea =
ther. Y
We don't mean to insinuate that per- II
Ips you are crazy, but if you are, wa ST. ST.
ggest that you have several of your al
9Th pulled out. Two months ago :
natic was seht to the asylum at Lex \
gton, Ky, and has just been dis WI
arged. lie says now that the de-. gi
ngement of his mind was caused by
) teeth. While at the asylum he Y
d FIVE teeth drawn. and recovered da
tn no other treatment whatever. M
On Mr.. X. going through street in -
lndsor, two boys looked out OF win \
W and said re'
There goes Mr.. X, that makes 80 =
my bulls" 7
Hearing them, he looked up and W
d: aa
'You young rascala, | know you we'll re
ough, and II | had you here I'd kick Wv
u down stairs" -
A popular clergyman was greatly -
red by lady who admired him with
reserve. "Oh, my dear Mr." i
d she, "there isn't any harm in low sto
, ones pastor, Is thereY" "Certainly Pal Pl