Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-04-16
HERE AND THERE.
HARD wear-Tight boots.

HARD wear-Tght boots. 4..>1. ~ !
FAT men commit the least crime. :.
CONNIE as it does originally from the
winding still worm, all whisky is more
or less crooked. sz.sfsS.@. ~ -, III III
The author Of the familiar phrase,
shoot the hal, ;" was an Austrian tyrant
named Gessler. .- ~. ..,,.ls.<s -. .s=' =.
my bark is on the sea and my wag
on behind, !" says the favorite dog Of
the ships crew. .,: n, ii.
LII You want eggs in winter, never
Keep old hens. When hen is years
old, sell her for spring chicken.
A BROKER replied; on being asked
What he cleared on certain specular
tlon' Nothing but my pockets" .s
sHE was my tdy1 while wooed; =.
NY Idol when I won; - -. . 80 .
Ny IDEAL when in after years ..r
ways tdle she had none.
LIE more q, man knows about any
subject the greater will be his charity
tor and sympathy with views differing
from his own. .~,..,- + 3.:...4 -,..... :,
TELL us not In mournful numbers
~ Lite is but an empty dream"
When milk is seven cents quart ~
And raises mighty little cream.
OUR striving against nature is like
holding a weathercock with ones hand ;
as soon as the force is taken off it veers
again with the wind. .--~~--,.~..
JEROME said that he had seen many
who could suffer great inconvenience in
their body and goods, but none that
could despise their own praises.
Our system of thought is often only
the history of our heart. Men do not
so much will according to their reason
as reason according to their will. .,.
A GAY rooster came tripping light
fantastic toes up to the occupant of a
quiet nest and said: Will you dance,
Biddy ?" EXCUSE me-" said the hen,
II am engaged for this set"
WHILE collection was being taken
in church at Heath, Mass, the pastor
remarked that he would rather have
buttons dropped into the box than lead
coin, because good buttons had some
value.
A LAZY man having wife named
Hope, whose custom it was to pull off
her husbands boots every evening, was
won't to exclaim on such occasions j:
"How truly it is said that Hope is the
yanker of the sole.'"
LIFE. 49,
"We live but one life here,n he said:
1.-THE soul needs love, the body bread"
So to the needy and the poor
He gave, nor turned one from the door
That asked abundance to his heart.
Each, with blessing, did depart.
This man will find. when death arrives,
He's lived part of many lives.
A sTAaE-LoAD of passengers were
startled when q desperate brandished
knife and swore he would kill the
driver; and they laughed when the
driver sayagely drew an old black pipe,
and the scared desperate plunged into
pond to escape the bullet.
A QUINCY small boy was looking at
some scriptural eng1avings, and gazed
long and earnestly upon representa-
ton of Adam and Eve in their primitive
dress. Turning to his mother, he asked,
Ma, didn't Adam and Eve wear any
clothes?" mo, my son." The lad re-
fected a moment, and said, "By hockey,
though, but I'll bet the mosquitoes jist
made them hump themselves lively!'-
Quincy Modern Argo.
A wELL-KNowN beauty in London SO.
ciety occupied astage-box at theater in
the Strand not long ago. Her white furs
and diamonds were the admiration of
the house. Shortly after the beauty's
departure, an attendant found star OF
brilliants in the box, and, like an Ion
est woman, gave the treasure-trove into
the hands of the management. No in
quiries we're made next day at the thea
ter about the lost star, but ultimately it
found it's way into the rightful owners
hands. The oldest part of the story
remains to be told. The diamonds were
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