Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-19
quite wearied and desired full hearing, by
common consent, ON motion, the senate adj
iourned to Monday. 8 d. m
PITH AND POINT.

| 1iSut.
JONAH was the first conundrum-the
whale gave him up.
The man who goes into business with
the devil soon finds that his partner is
soul proprietor.
ARKANSAS Is a poor place to get along
IN. A young man, on his wedding-day,
was taken out and hung for stealing SIS
horse.
| A HBEENIAN switchtender, who saw a
train coming in on time, said 'sYou
are first at last, and you were always be-
hind before"
JEwELRY ought to be remarkably
cheap. You can get any quantity of good
gold rings out of a half-eagle by tossing
it on the counter.
WHAT plan," said the actor to the
author, "shall adopt to fill the house
at my benefit?' Invite your creditors, {"
was the surly reply.
A MONTANA Indian. who was convict
ed OF murder, expressed his opinion of
the lawyer who defended him with de-
licious frankness Lawyer too much
talk heap fool!'
A cURATE in England, while marrying
couple that came without the parents
of the bride, asked: "Who gives the
woman away?" when the would-be hus-
band replied: "Nobody; I am taking her
myself"
WHAT is the meaning of back
bitter? ?" asked gentleman at Sunday
school examination. This was puzzler.
1t went down the class until it came to
a simple urchin, who said: perhaps it
is flea
WHENEVER you find house with a
motto Welcome !" hung so that it
catches every eye, you needn't be sur
prised at cold dinner and hint that
keeping clearinghouse doesn't pay in
these times.
A NAN who had just learned poker,
but who had not sufficiently mastered
the intricacies of the game, bet wildly
upon flush, and, upon showing his
hand, was told that +" the spirit was will
ing but the flush was weak"
AN English magazine discourses on
"Cheap Girls" It says: emo young
man, not even the worst, wants any
thing to do with cheap young lady"
This is mistake. No matter how cheap
a girl may be, her young man always
thinks she is little dear
"YoU old vulture,. you p she ex-
claimed when he limited that seven bon
nets year were enough for an ordinary
woman. Next day, when he relented
and told her to go down and order the
eighth, it would have made an angel
smile to hear her sweetly call him
"Birdie."
GRIPS lexicon: Economy-The art
of living on nothing while doing good
business. Political economySThe art
of always keeping on the right side of
the party in power. Social economy
The art of living off somebody doing a
good business, without doing any bust.
ness yourself.
MAY is a blonde and Madge is brown,
And 'twixt the two fly:
One lives in the country, one in town,
But yet for both sigh.
Madge says that I'm in love with May
And pouts a sweet disdain,
Yet all the time her brown eyes say,
81 fear rivals reign"
Thus 'twixt the two my heart is thrownl
And shuttle-like fly;
For blue-eyed May is all my own
When brown Madge is not by.
But loving each, and loving both,
I know not how to lie;
So here's to both, however loath,
Good-by, good-by, good-by!
The reason given by the colored man
for not going too near the hind legs of a
famous roam mule was so satisfactory
that we can afford to adopt it as an eX-
cusa for not doing great many other
things. de reason" he said, "why I
nebber 'proach dat roam mule from de
rear is dat I'm too fond Of my family an
don't belong to no church, nudder.''
"MAKNa a call the other day."
writes fair correspondent, 81 casually
opened Bible on the drawing-room Ia
BILE while waiting for my friend. There
was folded piece of paper inside, and
it was marked, couldn't help seeing it,
recipe for punches My friend entered
at the moment, and I handed it to her.
Why, where in the world did you get
that 2 she asked, I've been looking for
it for six MONTHS"
"WHAT good deed have you done to-
day, johnny" said a benevolent father
to his heir. st gave poor little boya
cent, papa" was the good child's an
swer. "Ah, that was right; and why,
my son, Gid you give him the cent?"
I" gave it to him, dear papa, for good
Scent stamp that he thought was onlya
piece OF green paper ''Let us prey"
said the father. and he got a strap and
preyed on that boy for fifteen minutes
NV tho watch