Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25
PITH AND POINT.

"A CORN annlnllaCOr-Ine pig.
A LIGHT employment-Making gas.
A HARD set-The hen on porcelai,
eggs.
The place for fats-In a tenemen
house.
ELECTRICITY in Trankl:n's time was .
wonder, but we now make light of it.
AN eminent historian traces baseball
back to the tine when Rebecca wen
down to the well with a pitcher ani
caught Isaac.
A PHILOSOPHER says, "The man who
laughs is the sympathetic man." It is
astonishing how many sympathizers {
fellow has when he slips down an6
hurts himself.
"WHAT is the whole duty Of mar.
RED man ?" . To he agreeable to his
wife. "What IS the whole duty of q
married woman 2" ITO be agreeable. >
Prom the French.
If [ have ever used any unkind
words, Hannah" said Dir. Smiley. re.
fectively, ~ take them all back. >
Yes, suppose you want to use them
over again, was the not very soothing
reply.
An old couple were walking down the
street reading signs, when they ran
across one which the old man read thus
"Johnson's Shirt Store" "Weli. I de-
clare!" exclaimed the old lady, 81 won
der how he tore it !"
"PA," asked Fogg's hopeful the other
evening, "what kind of comb do they
use to curry chickens with? ?" "Cox-
combs" respon Fogg, promptly.
Fogg says he believes in always answer
ing child when you can.
A MICHIGAN man saved himself from
a watery grave the other day by hanging
On the ice with his chin. A man Dos,
sessed of chin enough to hang himself
by ought to cut figure in Congress-
Neec YORK. Commercial Advertiser.
LITTLE Po11Y,5 aged, attends Trinity
Church. On reaching home, she de-
STRIDES it to her mother: cit was ever
SO much larger than our chapel, and had
coiored glass in the windows made into
pictures. I saw the King, Queen and
knave, but there wasn't any ace."
An old man with head as destitute
OF lair as watermelon entered a drug
store and told the clerk he wanted a
bottle of hair restorer. "Vhat kind of
hair restorer do you prefer?" Ireckon
I'll have to take bottle OF red hair re-
storer. That was the color of my hair
when I was boy"
EXTRACT from young lady's letter {:
And, do you know, Maud and I are
quite sure Capt. Popple had taken too
much champagne at the ball, for he
took out his watch and looked hard at
the back of it and then muttered !:
.Blesh my shout! hadn't dhy dea it
was this time O night. -"
Glow ARE you and your wife coming
on?" asked Galveston man of col
oied man. "She's run me of, boss. /"
whats the matter ?" "Iis to blame.
boss. I gave her splendid white silk
dress, and den she got so proud she had
no use for me. She lowed I was too
dark to match de dress. "-Teras ,Saft.
ings.
A GENTLEMAN was relating to friend
how party of young fellows got full at
a wedding. He said one of them went
up stars just a braiding. The friend
said: Well, what in the world is braid
ing? That. is new one on me-" The
man who was telling the story said :
"You don't know what braiding is. eh ?
He was braiding three strands, two
strands of legs and one strand of ban
nisters." That seemed to be So plain
that any man who had ever gone up
stairs drunk could readily realize the
situation. Sun.
PROPER ENGLISH.
why shali we say for catched, caught,
As grammarians some say we ought?
Let us see
How things be
When this kind Of teaching is taught:
he egg isn't Matched, It is haught:
Ny brooches aren't patched. they are paught;
Jim and Jane are net matched, they are msught:
Ny door isn't latched, It is Taught;
fhe pie wasn't snstched. II snaught:
The cat never scratched, but she scranght;
q he roof wasn't matched, it was thaught
If Eng!ish must this way lie wrought.
1t soon Will be Matched that is naught.
p E. 81. NJ, SUMprER, S. c.: ct am a
young man, a carpenter by trade. I feel
that must go to Texas. Please answer.
Is it very hot in Texas in summer, and
what could I make by working at my
trade in Austin ?" 1t is quite hot
seldom abve. 900, however. With re.
gard to what you could make, working
at your trade, we presume you could
make tables and chairs and wheel-bar.
rows and bed Stats and such things, that
is if you understand your business and
you might make amends by leading an
honest life, for whatever rascalisy you
were guilty of in the old States or you
might make your escape if the officers
get after You. There is no end to the
number Of things you could make in