Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-13
PITH AND POINT.

PITH AND POINT.
The King of Greece-Oleomarg
A FooT-NoTE-T shoemaker's bill.
SHAw1s made of zephyr keep off the
wind.
A LAWYER does not always put his wit
In the brief.
WILL some one please fit conun-
drum to the following answer " One is
an ice pick and the other IS q nice
pickle? ?"
The young woman who used to sing
so divinely, "Oh, had I the wings OF
dove" is satisfied with chicken leg
now. She is married.
THE name of the largest city in Amer
lea was furnished by Shakespeare. He
said, in a prophetic mood, 81 Knew
Yorick we'll"
THE Grand Marah Jah of Calcutta
Got tipsy and fell in the gutta;
He was found by lackey,
Who shouted /" Oh, crackeyI'
And toted him home shutta.
WHEN man is informed that his wife
wishes to speak to him, what article on
his study-table does he mention in re-
ply? Letter-weight.
JONES thinks a man is fortunate who
has his will contested after death only.
He says his will has been contested ever
since he married Mrs. J.
The only difference between a pig
making a glutton of itself and man
making pig of himself is that the pig
at some future day will be cured.
A NEGRO, after gazing at some Chi
nese, shook his head and said, solemnly,
eff de white folks be so dark as dat out
dar, wonder what's de color oh de
black folks"
WE'RE sitting on the stile Mary,
Where we sat long ago;
All, then your hair was black as jet,
But now it's light as tow
"Tis thus the chemists wizard arts
With changes queer confound US,
And mock when memory brings the light
OF other days around us.
EYES," said a would-be artist, his
eyes beaming with loving pride upon
bis latest creation; eyes, I draw all my
figures from the life." "But," blurted
out Jones, "who the deuce is it that
draws the life from your figures, you
know ?"
Chow ARE you and your wife coming
on?" asked a Galveston man of colored
man. "She has run me off, boss"
"What's the matter ?" 81 is to blame,
boss. I gave her splendid white silk
dress, and den she got so proud she had
no use for me. She lowed l was too
dark to match de dress. "-Galveston
NeaOs.
HIS mother was putting on her slip
per again when he brushed away the
tears, and, affectionately caressing the
place that smarted most, asked between
his sobs emma, DIDO you k-know
why I'm like M-mary?" She looked
at him crossways without speaking, but
he answered it; "B-because II had
Little LAM"
TIE Bohemian x. called on his friend
s., who was found in the society of an
elderly woman. "My mother" ex-
planned S. Chow many have your
asked X; "this isn't the same mother
you introduced me to the last time"
"No, this is the real one the other I
keep for the creditors who make me
swear on her head that I will pay them"
SECOND SIGHr.-The science of this
amusing adjunct to legerdemain is very
simple when once understood. The
confederates sit with their backs to the
audience. The wonderful silent ques-
ton consists in simply putting your
hand on the head of spectator, from
time to time, and rapping with the
wand. The reply from this stage is in
yariably, can idiot" This creates
much joy.-Sal Francisco Post.
81 DON'T believe in these secret socie-
ties" said /, one Galveston lady to an
other. "Thats very singular, replied
the other. "Your husband is a For
roster. a Knight of Py5hias, and Knight
of Honor, and you will have at least
$4,000 when he dies" "But what
good does that do me- was the fearful
response, "when he never dies ?" And
the poor creature burst into tears
Galveston NeaOS.
A PRIEST, proceeding to the chapel
one Sunday morning through the burial
ground, observed several sprightly girls
seated on tombstone; and, wishing to
be jocular with them, asked what they
were doing there. Nothing at all,
PLACE yer reverence" was the reply of
one of them. Nothingl' said he.
"What is nothing?" "Shut your eyes,
your reverence, retorted one of the
girls, "and you'll see il. :"