Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-22
SPICE AND AllSPiCE.


The butter will fly fast enough when
you get to housekeeping.
Law is like sieve; you may see
through it, but you must be consider
ably reduced before you can get through
it.
In refusing to purchase his wife "a
bamboo easel, the wretch Of a husband
accused the partner OF his bosom of try
ing to bambooeasel him. LoWeH
Courier.
SILENT persuaders: Beggsr-"You
will not refuse few pennies to dis
charged tunnel laborer2 Ihave nothing
left in my pocket beside few dynamite
cartridges"
"WHAT are they doing in there?"
asked somebody who was passing the
thorne I'll, answered an obligipg native
of England.
A FLY-wHEEL weighing eleven tons
was cast at STAIRS foundry, Camden, on
Tuesday last.-Er. 1t must have hurt
the foundry. We wouldn't like to have
anything like that cast at US.
A MACON, Ga, man has received per-
NIT to shoot snakes on his premises. 1t
is to be hoped that every Georgia man
| who sees snakes will not be let loose with
a gun. COurier-.Journai.
| A NEW YORK actress who plays Oliv-
cite kicks one of her dainty slippers into
the audience every night, and Chicago
actress hearing Of it, was so tickled with
it that she tined it. Three men were
mashaa.-Phiiadeiphia Times.
Il
4, 900 feet above the level OF the sea, and
savants sit around with open mouths and
wonder over it. Couldn't the owner have
backed it up there for pig-trough p
Detroit Free Press.
A BosToN journalist says a kiss for
each falling star is the lovers rule. This
may do in Boston, where it takes some
time to remove eyeglasses; but it won't
do in Philadelphia. The falling stars
are too few and far between.
."THE fact is, said the seedy tramp,
Il have heard 80 much about the trou.
bles in the labor market that am heart
lily sick of the whole business, and made
up my mind long ago that would never
have anything to do with labor.
SHE admitted to her mother that the
young man had made a very strong i'm
pression on her. "Yes," said the old
old lady, ~ can see where the impress
sion mas he'd that lace fat as q = aan nap
kin. Don't let it happen again" ~
"HAvE you had your ears pierced?"
asked a young lady of her chum, who
lived next door. 81 should think So"
was the crushing reply, "hearing you
sing every day." There is now great
gulf of coldness between the two.
The presence Of spongilla fuviatilis
in most of the city water in the land is
regarded as a sufficient excuse by many
for the insertion of four tablespoonfuls
of spiritus frument in a small tumbler of
aqua pura.- -Norristo,0n Herald.
A MAINE boy of 9years. sick at his
stomach, threw up small piece of cloth,
several silver coins, and three pebbles.
More articles are looked for. and some
think he will throw up missing lawn
mower.-LOuisuitte COrier-Journat.
MK. Brown is not very young, but
Clara saws he is pure gold" remarked
Matilda, speaking of Clara's matrimonial
choice Yes, said Sarah, al know that
old gold is quite fashionable, but l pre-
fer to take my gold while it is young"
SECRETARY FoLGER is said to have for
hidden the clerks in his department to
use tobacco during working hours. The
working hours of the average depart
ment clerk are not supposed to be long
enough to occasion much Inconvenience
between chews. - Pittsburgh Iete-
graph.
| A TEXAS man was married while dy-
ing, and the fashion journals, after q
lengthy discussion, decided that, al
though his widow must wear mourning
for thirteen days, etiquette. under the
circumstances, will permit her to have
clocks on her stockings. .-Phitadelphia
| Chronicle.
| A PREACHER in Tennessee tried to es-
tablish church in which there should
be no members who used tobacco or any
beverage but water, and his only con-
| gregation was an old woman who chewed
slippery-elm and believed in catnip tea
for measles. s.-Louisuitte Courier Jour
nal.
"DoS'T drag your feet along the
ground sol" says fond mother to the
child with whom she is walking; sit
| wears out your boots" yes, ma, re-
plies the little one, "but it wears out
the ground, tool" Somehow or other
mamma doesn't regard this as sufficient
compensation.
THE picnic season is approaching,
which "reminds III" of the honest Hi
bernian in New York who when asked If
he had pleasant time at the picnic, re-
piled: I'm not desave ye. sor, it was
q dull time; sorra q black eye on the
ground till afther 8 o'clock. "-Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
A DENVER paper Processes to think it
marvellous that man whose brains were
knocked out is still living. II he were
ont this way, he would not only be hv-
ing, but he would be holding some i'm
portant office.-LouisVitte Courier
Journal.
ANorHKB brutal prize fight took place
on Long Island, N. T., recently. Some
of the leading citizens, that is, the aris-
tocratic people, were very much disgust
ed and justly indignant. The train broke
down, and consequently did not get to
the scene of the fght until it was all
over. It was an outrage.
JOIN "a neighbor); "They tell me,
jess, that yer cousin Wulie's AVA to
the mad house." Jess: "Deed, it's
over true. 1t was wi study" John:
"Oh, was be comm cot for minister"
jess: "Oh no, but he wrought on an
made poetry. on the ends wadna come
RIGHT, an that put him wrang."
THs story Is not new, but il Is not bad,
that il now going the rounds Of the Par
isian press TO the following effect: A
youth TO fortune and TO fame unknown
sends Dumas the manuscript of asw
play, asking the great drsmatist to be
his collaboEateur. Dumas is for mo-
ment petriAed, then seizes his pen and
replies: "How dare You, sir, propose
10 yoke together horse and an asp
The author, BY return Of post" How
dare you, Gr, call mo horseY Dumas
BY next mail-" Send me your play n
young friend r