The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-08
YARuETIES.

AAoSO 10 q tics-SfStC%yO OOt<J TtUt.
-"i like your impudencer' as 8
pretty girl said when her beau kissed
her.
Whenever the Indians and soldiers
have brush the soldiers are very ap,
to furnish the hair.
Rich Cinnamon go to Tartary fol
their wives, their wealth enabling then
to secure the very cream of Tartary.
The hard fighting in India contin.
ues, but the fighting isn't half SO hard
as the names they are fighting about
Ras0k-Eye.
Before marriage girl frequently
calls her intended :" her treasure" but
when he becomes her husband, she
looks upon him as her {" treasurer
1t was delicate piece of sarcasm
in the boarder who sent his landlord 8
razor, neatly enclosed in q handsome
silk-lined case, labelled "Butter knife. u
-Hasok-E Eye. 40 =l .s-fs e-s
"A young man was taken out and
hanged here yesterday for playing 6
fiddle under his inamorata's window.
LeadUille Herald. "Hang up the fiddle
and the beaur'
:" How do you like my boots, loveP''
exclaimed q youthful bride. 20, they N
immense" replied the partner of heI
joy; and she had the first matrimonial
fainting away at the result.
If you want to be in fashion begin
your letters abruptly, write with blue
shorter your letters are when writing
Free Press.
"A Garrard County (Ky.) farmer.
not knowing what might be the result
of the predicted meteoric shower, en-
ployed lot of hands and had an inn
mense amount of water in readiness in
case his house should catch fire.
AAsk the average husband TO run
down cellar for pan of potatoes for
breakfast and his enthusiasm over the
growth of the prosperity of America de-
creases one-haf before he reaches the
middle step-DetroitF Free Press.
:" Do editors ever get angryp" asks
q lady correspondents No, never. But
if you happen in about the time when
one puts the paste on the wrong side
of the clipping you win discover that
they become agitaied sometimes.
did you ever notice the fact-oi
course you have-that q tramp who
claims he has q trade, but can get no
work at it, in the winter is brick.
maker and in the summer a lumber
man or ice sawfer?-Lockport Union.
AN rishman was accused of steal
ing q ahandkerchief of fellow traveller,
but the owner. on finding it, apolorized
to Pat and said that it was q mistake.
Arrah, my Jewell" retorted Pat, So it
was q two sided mistake-you took me
for q thief and took you for q gentle
man."
National debts were of little import
ance until the French revolution. They
now amount to about $28, 600, 600, 600,
mostly owed by European States for
war incurred by dynasties, and in
which common people had no voice.
These debts and standing armies are
now the cause of poverty. ''s
E.P Peter. what are Won doing to that
boy?'' asked a schoolmaster. "He
wanted to know IL YOU take ten from
seventeen how MANY will remain. I
took ten of his apples to show him, and
now he wants me to give 'em back
"WeII, why don't YOU do it?'' "Cos,
sir. he would forget how many are
left.'' ~ y ,.l -
A Hartford mans excuse for steal
ipg,a pair of chickens was that while
at work he hung his coat near the COOP
and on going for it he found the chick
ems roosting on the same. He hadn't
the heart to wake them up he said, so
he wound his coat around them with
out waking them and carried them OF.
His defense was ingenious, but he was
sent up for three months all the same.
A how caught in the act of stealing
rais;ns IN a shop. was locked up in q
dark closet by the grocer; The bow
Commenced begpinp most pathetically
tn he released. and after using ali the
,,ersuasion that his Young imaoination
could invent. proposed: g Sir, If you'll
let me out and send for my daddy, he'll
pay you for the raisins and lick me be-
siden' This appeal was too much for
the grocer.
"A schoolboy got up to read COM
position on "The Tree" He got as far
as This subject has many branches, :"
when the teacher said t" Stop! you have
not made your bough yeti "H you
interrupt me again, said the boy ssPn
leave.n "You give me any more Of
your impudence and I'll take the sap
out of you" said the teacher. 81
twig," said the boy, and then the regu-
lar order OF business proceeded.-BaI-
tsnsore Herald.
III wonder what makes it look so
dark and gloomy outdoorsP' said Mrs.
Hickenlooper to the next-door neighbor
who had lust run in minute to borrow
a couple of fresh-laid eggs. .I guess
it's BECAUSE your windows need wash
ing" gently remarked the next-door
neighbor, critically running her fore
finger up and down the glass. And
then there was . sort of GOODNESS fell
like q wet sheet on the assembled mul-
titude, and the next-door neighbor' 8
cake wasn't as rlcn py Two eggs as II
might have been.-Nss0 Aooea hegssser.
There is one good thing about the
National debt; we owe 1t, we've got to
pay it sometime, that's all right; but