Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-02
PITH AND POINT.

PITH AND POINT.
LICK quid refreshments Chewing To-
bacco.
The young man proposes, the old man
disposes.
A TRUE poet destroys more lines than
he publishes.
Beck beer is frequently deer article
In the long run.
BEFORE quill pens went out of fashion
they used to keep stolen hogs in steel
yen.
RECENT boarding house statistics lead
to the conclusion that butter was invent
ed by Mr.. Strong, Of ancient Greece.
DURING the se-cleaning season
there is no place like home, and that s
something to be extremely thankful fer
IT has always been my aim in life 70
initiate good example" as the counter
feiter remarked while working on new
set Of dies.
One by one the ancient heroes are
smashed. It turns out that Ajax had a
bad case of rheumatism when he defed
the lightning.
A CHIRoPoD1sr advertises that his
place of business is open in the evening.
Convenient for gentlemen who are
ecrned at night.
CLERGYMAN, who has caught a boy
stealing: "Don't you know that the
ieyll gets naughty little boys?' Boy
Il know it now"
"WHAT is the national fishery ques-
tlon?" pompously exclaimed an orator,
and squeaking voice in the audience
responded "It is Have you got a
bite p"
WY will hens not lay ?" asked an
agricultural writer anxiousiy. We don't
hnow eggsactly; perhaps because they
always want to set; hens the trouble
he has.
A FASHIONABLE New York belle boast
| ed, on her return from Europe, that
while there she had some of the most
celebrated men at her feet. Cos Wy
she had corns.
DETERMINED beforehand, we gravely pretend,
10 seek the advice and the thoughts of friend.
Should he differ from us under any pretense
We blush for his want of judgment and sense.
But, should he fall in with and latter ourplan,
Why, really, We think him sensible man.
SPEAKING Of shad, would you say
| the price has gone up or has risen ?" in.
quired schoolboy of the fishmonger.
WELL" replied the scale scraper,
speaking Of shad, I should say it had
| roes."
WHEN round the ship the tempest RACES,
A little oil its wrath assuages,
And helps ehectually to soothe it;
The ships path, too, it serves to smooth il,
How curious, is 1t not, that sperm oil
Should be the antidote to turn Gil?
EVER since the death Of Darwin the
monkeys up at Central Park have
seemed to feel that their claims to a
place among the old families were on the
decline.-Neav York Commercial Id
vertiseT.
TEAoHER-"H How does the earth alb
serb water?" Pupil" a dog. "
Teacher "How do you make that out?''
Pupil" Don't we read about the lap
of the earth ?" Teacher. Go up an
other grade
4 YOUNG man in Iowa received Sc
we're thrashing for interfering in family
quarrel between John Goooenough and
wife. The umsophisticated youth will
probably adopt the time-honored maxim
aud "let good enough alone In the fu-
tire.
"1HEY tell mo Brown has great ear
for music" said Henderson. Eyes" re-
pied Fogg; 81 knew he had a great ear,
two OF them in fact, but I did not know
that they were for music. l supposed
they were for brushing flies Off the top
o. his head"
In a Western town the "star" who
shoots the apple off a mans head missed
his cue and killed the apple-holder. The
audience was SO delighted that it de-
manded an encore, and the manager
came forward and said that owing to the
prodigious expense of shipping corpse
East they would be obliged to reluctant
ly forego q repetition. = No1riStos0n
Herald.
IT was on Lookout mountain, at Chat
tanooga, New Yorker stood on Pilot
Knob and looked down in the valley, and
exclaimed Elbow grand !" "That;s
10 cents extra - replied the guide, as he
extended his hand. "What charming
prospect continued the visitor. ''That's
a l5.cent expression-pay at the gate as
you 90 out!" "Here has nature mingled
the grand with the beautiful sub
line with the lovely-the majesty Of the
mountains with the loneliness Of the
valley" "Colonel, that's one of our
regular 5U-cent ovations. 1t will be
charged in your hotel bill" ''Villain
how dare you?" said the Yorker, as he
seized him and backed him to the edge
of the cliff. "Don't you do it, COLONEL
calmly observed the man. Throwing
a guide off the Knob always costs 50
more-pay at the toll-gate as you go
down i''-WQM Street DQiLy NeaOs.