Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1880-12-25
The Medicine of Life Mirth.

The Medicine of Life Mirth.
Hard ware-the friction on a school
boys knees.
And now the book of nature seems
full Of 6y leaves.
Politics is game Barrel, barrel;
who's got the barrel ."
10 draw or not TO draw, that IL the ques-
tion.
Whether It's safer in the player to take
The awful risk OF skinnin3 for q straight.
Or, standing pat, to raise 'em all thelimit.
ana tnus' by olufnng, get 1t. To draw-to
skin:
No more-and by that skin to get a rulI
Or two pairs, or the latest bouncing kings
That luck is heir to-'tis q contamination
Devoutly to be wished. To draw-to skin.
10 skin perchance to burst-aye, there's the
For In that draw OF three what cards may
When we have shfaued Off the uncertain
Must give US pause. There's the respect
Which makes calamity OF bob-tail flush.
For who would bear the Overwhelming
blind,
me reckless straddle, the wait on the edge,
Inc lnsolenee OF pat hands, and the lifts
The patient merit OF the buffer takes
" hen he himself might be much bet ter of
by simply .pRASadUJf sJfIielnlng after call,
The undiscovered ace full. to whose strength
Such hands must bow, puzzles the will
And makes us rather keepthe chips we have
Than be curious about the hands we know
not Of?
Thus bluffing doth make towards of us all.
and thus the native hue of a four-heart flush
Is sioklied with some dark and cussed club.
And speculators In q jack-pot's wealth
With this regard their interest turn away
And lose tho right to open."
Old maids are described as "embers
from which the sparks have fed"
Even if boy is always whistling
II want to be an angel" it is just as
well to keep the preserved pears Oh the
top shelf.
"Bring in the roasted chestnuts be-
fore the lamps are lighted advises "a
domestic exchange. That's right.
We've always noticed that it was safer
to eat chestnuts in the dark.
At a Police Court: Prisoner, what
is your name?" my name: Why,
I've been here more'n q hundred
times" "Your name, / tell you"
Eusebe Anacharsis Brabancon.
:" What is your profession ~ What
ami? The despair of my family. y
Journal Am,Lsdnt.
In preparing the ground for the ic'
crop it should be put under water a
least three feet in order that the ice won
freeze to it and be filled with stick
and mud. Use none but the very bes
of ice seed. That from Maine is ea
pensive, but 1t is sure to sprout an
grow in a pellucid manner.
A Galveston school teacher, VIII
lost all patience with very stupi
boy, finally told the boys fathe
} "Your son is getting worse and wora
} every day" II don't think he ca
, be quite that bad" demonstrated tn
: partial parent. "Well. then, he is
e least getting worse and worse ever
other day, or say three timeA . wee
> -Iork Brougham in the House OF Lord,
Waa questioned by a dame,
: "Who Is the ablest orator.
And answer gave the same.
We've many an able orator.
In thought and action manly,
9 You aa6m for the mrs, one Hem.
J The second Is Lord Stanley.
. A poet chides his girl for her dilatf
iness in keeping an engagement.
SAWS: "See the moon is out, love
come along with me; hear the breez
soft, love, whispering to thee. Biz
X have sung themselves to sleep callil
d you your tryst to keep; flowers "
n soon begin to weep, waiting. love,
"A thee" We don't suppose tiow'
h would weep if she would never CON
e and Is for the birds singing themsel'
Of to sleep calling her to keep her try
/. il Is all bosh. Birds have more sen
:" The trouble is her mother got wind
al the clandestine business and loci
In her up in her room.