Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25
PITn AND POINT.


THERE Is q decided change for the bet
ter-when he loses.
PARApoxlCAL as it may seem, Ben
,Jonson was called "rare Ben Jonson,
because his work was done well.
CLASS in history-Professor-" What
important parsonage was confined on
the island of st. Helena?" MIR. H.
Robinson Crusoe."
BEACoNsFIELD ascribed his success to
women. Adam laid all his trouble to
the same source. Adam, we ore ashamed
OF you. Beaconsfeld, you are gentle
man.
NOTICE ct the door of ready-made
clothing establishment in one of the
poorer quarters of Paris "Do not go
somewhere else to be robbed; walk In
here"
"Tp sooner be cursed than kissed"
says Tennyson in his latest volume,
which leads us to think that there are a
great many homely women III his
neighborhood.
A Troy lawyer asked q won IN on the
witness stand her age, and she prompt
~ replied: "Old enough to have sold
milk for you to drink when baby, and
haven't got my pay yet"
WHEN you hear a young lady very
carefully say, az haven saw" you may
be quite confident that she is q recent
graduate Of one of the most thorough OF
our numerous female semi -aries.
LITTLE Johnny went fishing without
consulting his parents. Next morning
neighbours boy met him and asked:
"Did you catch anything yesterday ?"
"Not till got home" was the rather
sad response.
"WHY do not more Of our young men
get married?" asks recent writer.
Whist! till we tell him. There isn't
more than about one young man In ten
who Is worth marrying, and the girls
are finding it out.-NeO Haven Regis
ter.
The school girls Of Massachusetts,
school met and organized q society for
mutual improvement. The Committee
on Rules reported one which forbade the
use of slang words. Up spoke little
girl "Oh, that's bully rule-Iu vote
for that |"
"THHRH, Henrietta, don't be forever
gazing into the mirror. It looks very
bad" 81 was thinking, mamma, that
it looked very good and, beside, father
says should look on the bright side, in
Guiding, I suppose, the bright side Of a
mirror"
He was 70 an6 she was 18, and they
we're on their wedding tour. He pointed
out to her the beautiful scenery, and
said /: 1--WE may have many anniver-
snries of this occasion" eyes" she
answered, "you will probably live long
enough TO have tin wedding"
"You'RE sister 'Melia's Teller, amt
your" asked the little trotter, not yet
out of dresses. "Well, what do
you think about it ?" was the replying
question, with q redness of the face that
nearly matched his hair. "I fnk,"
said the little one, "that mamma talks
awfully bout the margarine on your
hair gettin' the new wall paper dirty"
There's where the child made mistake.
He drew no candy that trip.
ABEAurrrpL maid in Carlisle
On the back of her neck had bisle.
When her lover forgot
And Rugged the sore spot, !.
Her screams could be heard for mielc.
Capt Corn was In the garden,
Straight and strong ind tall,
No matter how high his neighbors grow,
He o,ertops them ali
With skcn plume and bright green ca Al
He really cuts a dssh
But whom Ee marries Lima Bean,
Hen lose his rank-I think it's mean
And be pain Succo fash.
A YOUNGSTOWN lawyer attempted to
raise four motherless kittens on bottle,
So L. ;11
lawyer is incoasolable. II Exchange. The
sequel should have been reversed, or
rather the lawyer should have done the
: dying for the four kittens, and been in
consolable beside. It's all well enough
for lawyer to raise legal objections on
slim basis, but when it comes to apply
ing the same principle to anything that
has life why lie deserves all the boot
jacks the kittens would have gotten II
they had survived the raise. - Yosskers
Gazette.
"WnRN is o man not man ?" asked
Jones. OF course he expected every
body to give it up, and then he was 60
ing to say, "When he Is shaving. /"
But they didn't give 1t up; not bit Of
il. One said it was when he was fool
enough to deal in conundrums; another
answered it was when he worked over
jokes thousand years old, and third
told Jones to look in the glass and see
for himself. Jones says he didn't zee
what in time they were driving at, but
somehow he had lost all interest in his
conundrlm, and hadn't the heart to tell
them the true meaning,
We-e-e~-~
A fashionable young lady inquired at ,