Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-03
prrH AND POINT.

SoNa of the kettle-The dull-cimmer.
TIE beer-drinker often thinks Of foam.
An ass-He who assents to every
thing.
THE bakers observation-disclosures riz is
light.
JONAH was the first conundrum--the
whale gave him up.
THE man who goes into business with
the devil soon finds that his partner Is
soul proprietor.
ARKANSAS is poor place to get along
in. Ayoung man, on his wedding-day,
was taken out and hung for stealing IS
horse. s04
A HBERN1AN switchtender, who sawa
train coming in on time, said: 'You
are first at last, and you were always be-
hind before"
JEwELRY ought to be remarkably
cheap. You can get anyquantity of good
gold rings out of half-eagle by tossing
it on the counter.
"WHAT PLAN" said the actor to the
author, "shall I adopt to fill the house
at my beneft?" "Invite your creditors"
was the surly reply.
A MONTANA Indian, who was convict
ed of murder, expressed his opinion OF
the lawyer who defended him with de-
hcious frankness Lawyer too much
talk heap fool"
A cURATE in England, while marrying
O couple that came without the parents
of the bride, asked: "Who gives the
woman away?" when the would-be hus-
band replied: Nobody; I am taking her
myself.
"WHAT is the meaning of back
bitter ?" asked a gentleman at Sunday
school examination. This was puzzler.
It went down the class until it came to
simple urchin, who said: "Perhaps it
is flea"
WHENEVER you find a house with a
motto "Welcome |" hung so that it
catches every eye, you needn't be sur
prised at cold dinner and hint that
keeping clearinghouse doesn't pay in
these times. =
A MAN who had just learned poker,
but who had not sufficiently mastered
the intricacies of the game, bet wildly
upon q flush, and, upon showing his
hand, was told that {" the spirit was will
ing but the flush was weak"
AN English magazine discourses on
"Cheap Girls" It says: "No young
man. not even the worst, wants any
thing to do with cheap young lady. "
| This is mistake. No matter how cheap
girl may be, her young man always
thinks she is a Is little dear"
"You old vulture, you'll" she ex-
claimed when he limited that seven bon
nets year were enough for an ordinary
woman. Next day, when he relented
and told her to go down and order the
eirhth, it would have made an angel
smile to hear her sweetly call him
"Birdie."
GR1p's lexicon: Economy-The art
Of living on nothing while doing good
business. Political economy-The art
of always keeping on the right side OF
| the party in power. Social economy
| The art of living off somebody doing
good business, without doing any bust
ness yourself.
MAY is blonde and Madee is brown,
And twixt the two fly;
One lives in the country, one in town,
| But yet for both sigh
Madge says that I'm in love with May,
And pouts q sweet disdain,
Yet all the time her brown eyes say,
| 81 fear no rivals reign"
Thus 'twixt the two my heart Is thrown
| And shuttle-ike fly;
For blue-eyed May is all my own
When brown Madge is not by.
But loving each, and loving both,
know not how to lie;
So here's to both, however loath,
/ Good-by, good-by, good-by!
The reason given by the colored man
| for not going too near the hind legs of
famous roam mule was so satisfactory
that we can afford to adopt it as an ex-
cuse for not doing great many other
things. "De reason" he said, "why l
nebber 'proach dat roam mule from de
rear is dat Tn too fond of my family an
don't belong to no church, nudder."
"MAK1NG call the other day."
writes fair correspondent, 81 casually
opened Bible on the drawing-room Ia
| bic while waiting for my friend. There
was a folded piece of paper inside, and
it was marked, couldn't help seeing it,
srecipe for punches My friend entered
at the moment, and handed it to her.
stWhy, where in the world did you get
that = she asked, I've been looking for
it for six months.
"WHAT good deed have you done to-
day, Johnny? ?" said benevolent fatha
to his heir. ST gave poor little boya
cent, papa" was the good child's an
swer. "Ah, that was right; and why,
my son, did you give him the cent?"
ri gave it to him, dear papa, for a good
Scent stamp that he thought was onlya
piece of green paper" "Let us prey"
said the father, and he got strap am
preyed on that boy for fifteen minutes
by the watch.
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