The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-29
HUMoR.

. Pharaoh is believed to have been one
of the ancient Nile-ists.
Some of the country schoolboys call
the school-houses tanneries.
The syllable "leo" in oleomargarine
means that it is as strong as lion.
my wedding trip" said the groom,
as he stumbled over the brides train.
A Minneapolis paper says it was
"mouth disease" that was bothering the
Senate.
The N. o. Picaytne tells us: every
dog has its day. Harmony yields tho
nights to cats"
No matter how far the ruler of AT.
ghanistan travels, it is but Ameer jour-
ney when done.
A hog has more privilege than the
Car of Russia. Hoggy can have his
life insured, but His Majesty can't
This is what like" said the tramp,
''good country board" as he laid him
self down on the floor of the barn.
Puck.
The country editor who can't get
along without an Office boy always finds
at the end of the week that there is the
"devil' to pay.
ave appear to have press of solid
matter, this evening, remarked the ed
itor as he Rugged his fat sweetheart in
the cleaning of an argand burner.
The very pious man who never read
ANYTHING but the Bible, and would not
touch wicked newspaper is dead
He went to the city and blew out the
gas
A young man who lives at Racine,
Kissed his sweetheart behind a large screen.
He made too much noise,
And was heard by some boys
Who informed the girls pa-which was mean.
| young prma donna named Abbott
Had most unaccountable habit
OF kissing her tenor
In O lover-like manner,
And the newspaper scribes had to blab 1t.
The giraffe has never yet been known
to utter sound. In this respect it re-
sembles young lady in street car
when a gentleman gives up his seat. -
Wash. Post.
1t atime-honored custom in Quincy,
Fla, to salute q newly married couple
by firing cannon. This is to remind
those present that the battle Of life has
fairly begun.
The two important events in the life
of man are when he examines his up
per lip and sees the hair coming, and
when he examines the top of his head
and sees the hair going.
A good natured traveller fell asleep in
q train and was carried beyond his des-
tination. "Pretty good joke, isn't itP"
said fellow-passenger. Eyes but
little too far.fetched, twas, the rejoinder.
Letters are very devout A great
many OF them go to Mass every day
PhHadelphia Ne,cS A large number
of them 90 directly from Mass to Gin,
and some straight to Rouen. -Yatpcob
Strauss.
A Nevada girls love letter-"Dear
Jimmy: It's all up. We amt going to
get married. Ma says you're too rough,
and guess she's right. I'm sorry
but can't you go to Europe and get filed
down.
The young lady was on her forty ninth
| ydWu, WHICH, hoi Jouhs man eoon SSuo
at the piano and warbled "Oh what
shall l give my lover" 80 give her a
rest was the unconscious reply of the
sleepy girl
1.-THE other day Jay Gould sent his
check to Col. Tom Scott, for $2,400, 900
in letter. 1t may be regarded as &C.
centricity on our part, but we never send
check for S2, 400, 900 in letter. New
er.-"B. Dddd" Williams.
Edith O'Gorman, the escaped nun"
having said that agirl shouldn't kiss q
man unless she is engaged to him, and
then not oftener than once a month, J"
tho Davenport Democrat wants to know
what in thunder she escaped for.
A coal merchant was discharging
man who had been working for him,
when the employee said: "Well have
learned one thing while working for
YOU" "What is it, you scamp" 81
have learned that LOO pounds make
ton"