The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-04-07
OUR GRAB BAG.

OUR GRAB BAG.
How doth the busy editor,
Improve each shining minute
And gaily clip a rival sheet,
To steal what may be in it.
The saddle-cloth of polo-ponies is
now cut as a polo -neighs.
ssTHE poor ye have with you always =
but the rich go away in summer time.
A SPORTING man has named his
horse Blood, because he is a great
goer.
GLOVES are worn very long now
by people who cannot afford to buy
new ones.
A KENTUCKY company insures whis-
key, but declines to take fire risks on
the consumers.
WHICH is the greater duty-to love
our neighbour, or to so behave that our
neighbor will love US!
CARE you a wall flower - he asked,
and she replied, !" No, / am wall
sir. Then they waltzed.
WHAT is the difference between a
liked star and meteor? One is the
sun and the other darter.
PUT away our sisters bangles.
She is sleeping on the hill,
And her hair no longer tangles
In the vest of cousin Will,
AT recent dinner an eminent
grocer was urged to contribute some
thing to the occasion, if s twas but a
little faded flour. -
WEATHER prophecy-When you see
two cats on the woodshed looking each
other in the eye and waving their tails,
1t is sign of a squall.
IF you should hint to man that
small game existed on the top of his
head he would probably be angry, but
most every man has part ridge there
for all that.
PAPA, saw a young sparrow fall
out OF its nest this morning. swell
what of it, my son?'' "Why, I don't
think the Lord could have noted it's
fall, papa, because the cat got it's
She is rosy, bright and fair
And she cuts her curly hair
Like mop.
But love her, that do,
From her dainty little shoe
To her crop!
NATIVE to stranger-'' We have
always an east wind in Galveston
"But I see the wind right now is
from the west" "Oh,. that's the east
wind coming back, you know
"Ah!'
There is one boy in Galveston who
will never be a musician. He is too
independent. His teacher was trying
to make him play the right notes, and
said to him: 'sYou must not reach
away over there on the treble; that s
not right. - s. I guess I'll reach
where 1 please on this piano. We
own this piano, reckon. I'll put my
feet upon it if see fit. -
The Wheeling Register gives an
account of a woman who chad laud-
anumed herself in the Eighth Ward. -
We don't think we ever met a verb
that we were so taken with at first
sight. There is something very win
ming about I laudanum, Thou lauda-
numest, He laudanumes, We lauda-
mum, You laudanu m, They laudanum.
0 for one hour of Richard Grant
White!
REMEMBER who you are talking
to, SIR said an indignant parent to a.
facetious boy; 6 1 AIN your father
Well, who's to blame for that e.
said the young impertinence, s faint
me-" The anger of that parent was.
equal to the occasion, and it is said
that the noise OF the interview in the
wood-shed was like unto the whacking
of a boarding house beefsteak with the
flat side of an axe.
RIDING in railroad car. Husband
=" You are quite comfortable, dear ?''
Wife, Yes, love-" Husband ssThe
cushions are easy and soft, ducky o.
Wife, Yes, darling Husband
'You do not feel any jolts, pet e.
Wife, No, sweetest Husband
g And there is no draught on my lamb,
is there, angelo" Wife" No, my
ownest own Husband--s Then
change seats with me-