Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-01-21
pIINTING-OFFlCE BLUNDERs.

toftll tclilnt HOW 10 leeu nOSs.
The intelligent compositor Of Bing-
hampton Republican, who was handed
Il paragraph which read, 9Th lumber
men i'll this vicinity are busy skidding
their logs, preparatory to hauling to the
mills set it up to read, 1.-The humber
men i'll this vicinity are busy SHINING
their dogs, preparatory to hauling to
their meals.
\ writer in the Richmond (Va,) Dis
patch says that during the session of
the Underwood Convention i'll that city.
an effort was made to expel Il reporter.
1t was unsuccessful, and the reporter
wrote to his paper, recounting the 'das-
tardly attempt, and closing with the
remark that thus an effort to muzzle
the press was thwarted. The cOmpos-
itor had something do with the letter,
and when it appeared the next morn
ing the line quoted read, And thus an
other attempt to muzzle the pup was
thwarted." The reporter is now dead
and the compositor MORALLY injured.
II love God with all my heart. said
a ,huch member. do you: how much
do you spend annually for your relie-
ION Wei about twenty-five dollars
year How much does your tabacco
cost YOU? What chew costs about five
cents day, aud what | smoke about fif-
teen cents day-sometimes more,
sometimes less.
Well YOUR tobacco at that rate costs
YOU $1,000 a year and your religion
about one. third as much. Friend you
have need to go to and learn what this
means. If any man will come after
me let him deny himself and take up
his cross and follow me-" You have
graduated in self righteousness but
have not yet learned the alphabet of
love. You love yourself with all your
heart and YOU dream you love God
nearly as well, but you do not; love
sacrifices, love obeys; you do neither.
Cabman Ito gentleman smoking cigar
Got cigar to give away, SIR? Gent.
(facetiously)-''I never smoke" Cab
man-"Well sir, thought you was just
a-learning.
A red headed man recently attended
a masquerade wrapped from his head to
his heels in brown cloth and with his
head bare. He represented a lighted
cigar.-Syracuse Herald.
"When vesse! loses its masts, why
do they call temporary one a jury
mast, Father 60 I'm sure l don't
know" said the Father: "unless It's be-
cause it's a mast that doesn't amonnt
to much.'' What an idea, to be sure
The man who invented the gas
meter never thought he had found per-
petual motion. But he did, though.
lust you leave home a couple of
and you will find that mean
while it goes right on, just like the sal
airy of clergyman who has gone to
Europe for his health.
"My wife lost her pocket book with
SIS in it to-day" SAID a sad looking
man. When. gong downtown or
coming home?" asked somebody. When?
Didn't tell you she had some money IN
it," demanded the sad looking man,
and everybody knew when she lost it.
After an enthusiastic lover spends
two hours hard labor over letter to
his girl, and then mars its beauty by
spilling drop of ink on it, he first
,wearS in a scientific manner for few
minutes, and then draws a circle round
The blot and tells her it is 3 kiss: and
she. poor thing believes it.
The duty or hippopotami imported
rom Africa is twenty per cent. Under
/, tariff far revenue only these animals
would lave been shipped here almost
rec OF duty. and in Il little while our
bulldogs, eats and other home produc-
ions in the way Of pets would have
,een crowded out of the market and
ONE of our industries crippled.
The editor of the st. Joe Gazette,
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