The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-01
PITH AND POINT.

-Politeness Is like an air cushion,
there may be nothing solid in 1t, but it
eases the jolts wonderfully.
You can get out of Philadelphia by
rail 1,140 times in twenty-four hours,
hire a special train.-Detroit Free Press.
The young man who sent fifty
cent scrip to New York to obtain valua-
BILE knowledge, received the following
recipe: "When you whittle, draw
your knife from you. IN. Y. Graphic.
III declare," exclaimed Brown, "I
never saw such time as you have with
servant girls. / don't believe you will
ever be satisfied till you can have one
manufactured to order" "Nonsense,
Brown" said Mrs. B., al shall be salts
fled when 1 find one ready maid. "
Boston Transcript.
Did you ever notice how the face of
n child brightens up when you begin to
tell some of his quaint sayings or cum
ming capersP Well, that trait is one the
child never Outgrows, but it strengthens
with his years, and would continue
should he live to be as old as Methuse-
lah.-BoSton Transcript.
"A grandfather, coming to read his
paper, found that he had mislsid his
| spectacles, and thereupon declared: al
have lost my glasses somewhere, and
can't read the paper" A little three.
and-a-half-year-old girl, desiring to aS-
sist him, answered: "G'an' pa, you gu
outside and look froo ze window, y ri
I'll hold re paper up so you Can read
it."-Our Continent.
"A young lady was speaking tn a
friend who had called upon her regard
| ing a trait characteristic of her mother,
who always had a good word tn say OF
every one. "Why," she said, 'i be-
| lieve If Satan were under discussion,
mother would have a good word To SAY
for him." Just then the mother entered
and was informed what the daughter
had said, whereupon she quietly said {:
"Well, my dear, I think we might oil
initiate Satan's perseverance. Chicago
AdUdnce.
-Scene-Passenger depot. Charac-
ters-Atlanta negro and country darky.
Colloquy opened by the Atlanta negro
"Wher' you goin,, blddy?" "DuL you
own dis shed?', "No.n "Ner none er
desc kvarsP" "No." "Ner none OF
deze yer railroadsP' "No." "Ner no
tavsrnP'' ssNo." swell, den, yer don't
wanter c1me buddyin' me. an yer don't
want no infermashun. De kinlor infer
mashun wat you git out'n med be
mighty APP fer ter sour on AT.
lantG { Ga. } Constitution.
The Visionary Robin.-A happy
Robin was one day Chanting a Requiem
over the Deceased Summer in the For.
est. Having finished, it said: "And
now I'll away to the Balmy Land where
all the year the Mlagnolias are full oi
Humming- Birds, where" In lie
sponse to the Bang of Gun in a Small
Boys hand, the Robin concluded not To
go South, and two days after it was
Sold for Quail on q Railroad Lunch
Counter for a dollar. Moral-D>n't
Sing too loud until you are out of the
Woods.-R. Il. NJ, IN Pack.
Hand in hand with him down the
Nflowery paths of local tradition should
go the well-to-do citizen of the Ameri
| can Athens who recently looked upon
the picture of Warren in the Old Soa:h
Church, on exhibition at the Mechanics
Fair, and asked bystander what il
represented. "Thst is Warren address.
ing the people of Boston from the pulnil
of the Old South Church during the
British occupation" ''Oh, is itP' re
Piled the well-to-do citizen, evidently
somewhat puzzled; s.happened som,
time ago, yP''-Bosto,s Post.