Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-17
P1TH AND POINT.

PITH AND POINT.
THEY that govern most make the least
noise.
DID you ever hear bed tick, or see a
needle point?
TRUTH is simple, requiring neither
study nor art.
HAVE not the cloak to make when it
begins to rain.
"B1Ess their dear little solos," says
the ladies' shoemaker.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says it
is eight years since Senator was seen
in his seat intoxicated.
No CONVERTS, either for men or women,
are to be found in Norway or Sweden.
They are absolutely forbidden by the
laws. s s.4, y .f
"MAMMA, the teacher says all people
are made of dust" eyes, my dear, 80
they are" "Well, then, I s'pose ne
groes are made of coal dust"
"WHAT is your wife's particular little
game p. asked friend of a henpecked
husband. 'sWhen she gets thoroughly
mad" he answered, "it's draw poker"
DocToRs say that in large cities the
night air is healthiest. The appearance
of the fashionable young man OF the Pc
Rod does not go to bolster up this the
DRY. t.i
THE man who thinks it foolish to re-
ward his wife's devotion with kind words
and caresses is the same one who Won
ders why it is that women sometimes go
wrong. h fa-3e ~
!, AN exchange says it's very bad thing
to get rich too rapidly. We never
thought Of that before. Here's another
danger to worry about and strive to
guard against. ~es
THERE are now more than l, 800 wCm-
en- in the departments at Washington,
the majority employed in the bureau of
engraving and printing, and In the Gov
eminent printing Office.
f. THE "Poets' Corner" of the Mitchell
Public Library at Glasgow contains at
present the works of 1922 Scottish
poets and verse writer's, of whom l. 22
are named, and the rest anonymous.
"LET Me Dream Those Dreams
Again " is the title of new song by
viii Hayes. All right, Willie. Just
state what kind Of pie you tackled be-
fore dreaming them the last time, and
we will fix it for you.
A PHOTOGRAPHERS acted as master of
ceremonies at friend s funeral, and, as
ne lifted the coffin-lid for the mourners
to look at the remains, whispered to the
corpse, Now, look natural Force of
habit. brooklyn Union-4sgus.
"'TwIxT the Cleaning and the
Dark " is the title of the latest novel
issued in New York. A Chicago young
man is thinking of getting out one en-
titled "'Twixt the Old Man and the
Bark" He called when her father was
at home and the dog united.
A coUNTRYMAN from New Hampshire,
who had never heard of a bicycle, came
to Boston, and, when he beheld youth
whirling along upon one of those airy
vehicles, he broke out into soliloquy
thus "Golly ; amt thatqueer. Who'd
ever 'spect to see a man ridin' hoop
skirt. "-An,ericGs Queen.
A LONDON scientific journal says the
cucumber is known to Have been Guilt
waited for more than 5000 years; that it
was extensively grown in ancient Egypt.
Perhaps it was the cucumber, and not
the asp, that Cleopatra took to her
bosom, with fatal results. We always
did doubt that snake story.
THE 8-year-old daughter of family
who has the decorative craze the worst
way was discovered with the big album,
daubing the faces of the photographs of
her parents, brothers and sisters with
water colors. When the little innocent
was scolded, she replied that she was
"only decorating family mugs"
In the United States fish culture dates
back barelya quarter of a century, while
in Europe the industry has been system
attic for more than 600 years, and In
Asia for thousands of years and yet the
| United States, at the International Fish
! Exhibition at Berlin, Germany, excelled
all other countries in their exhibit of ap-
pliances and methods pertaining to fish
| culture.
IT is said that there is as much differ
ence between cultivated oyster and one
taken from it's natural bed as there is
| between our best Bartlett and the COM
mon pear. The cultivation of the mol
lusks also greatly increases the supply,
as the oyster raiser watches his beds and
keeps them free from the depredations
of the starfsh, the drill and the peri
Wrinkle all enemies Of the oyster.
A New HAMpsHIRE farmer agreed to
| sell his farm for $4,000. but when the
! day came he told the expectant pur-
chaser that his wife was in Mysteries
about the trade, and he guessed he'd
have to back out" The purchaser COM
planned, and finally asked how much
| moro would induce him to sell. "Wel,"
replied the thrifty son Of the Granite
State, "give me $3.50 more, and we'll let
her cry"
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