The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-23
STRAY CLIPPINGS.
A chilling grip: Poverty's. 81 Y.

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The sidewalk shovelers will soon go in
for winter quarters. y
When the button comes off the back of
mans shirt his choler begins to rise!
A modern philosopher. thinks that early
rising is we'll enough as far as bread is con-
cerned.
The palmy days of boys life are those
in which he gets properly spanked by his
mother
There is a man living in this city who
is so lazy that when he once gets to work
he is too lazy to stop.
A soft answer may turn away wrath, but
it is far safer to trust to the legs in case the
other party is real mad.
"This insurance policy is queer thing"
said Dobbs, refectively. "It | can't sell 1t
cancel it, and if I cancel it l can't sell it. :"
King Alfonso is making efforts to en-
courage horse racing in Spain, but the
people refuse to abandon their love for
bull fighting.
''That man is so good natured that he
would hold an umbrella over a duck in a
shower of rain," observed JerrOld once Of
a brother dramatist.
A western farmer advertises that he
wants irst-tlasS potato masher. There
are lots of mashers in this city he can have
for hauling them away.
A correspondent asks, DO canary birds.
like fish?n Well, we can't tell whether
they do or not, but they manage to catch
q little perch every day.
4 iuryman was asked if the judge had
charged him. Faith" said he, "the man
lectured us a good deal, but l don't believe
he meant to charge for it."
In few years the man who doesn't get
a pension promises to be a national curl
osity shop and his person will be in de-
mand for exhibition purposes.--Brazil
Democrat
Copy Of a notice on the beach Of
Brighton "In cases of ladies in danger Of
drowning, they should be seized by the
clothing and not by the hair, which gen
orally comes off,
concentrate all you energies on one
thing and you will succeed" says the phi
losopher. How about the man who devOtes
his whole time to the problem of how to
make living without work?
A Rockland man saw advertised "a sure
cure for drunkenness" He forwarded the
necessary dollar snd received by return
mail, written on a valuable postal card, in
beautiful violet ink, the magic words
"DOn,t drink"
why did God forbid Adam and Eve to
eat of the forbidden truit?" asked an Austin
Sunday school teacher of his class For
fear they might fall out of the tree and
hurt themselves, replied Jimmy FizzletOp,
who had his arm in a sling.
A Chicago crook named GrisWo]d spent
eighteen days in L little town in Penn
sylvania, and during that time wooed and
won the belle of the place, beat a man out
of $4,000, won $500 at poker, and GOT away
without paying the landlord.
He wasn't saying anything. MAN and
wife are all one, arc thcy?' ''HeS, what Of
it?" said he suspiciousy. 'Why, in that
case, said his wife, Il came home awtully
tipsy last night, snd feel terribly ashamed
of myself this moming. He never said
word.
Ex-senator Thurman WAS looking at his
boxes in which his books and papers had
been packed in his old committee room.
He saw that the letters on the boxes read
Hon. \. G. Thurman. Keep dry. Turn
inc to a fricAd, he said "Who the deIce
would ever think of giving me such advice
as that
Captain Percival, Cape Cod mariner Of
the old school, was once awakened in his
bunk by shipmate with the announce
ment that the vessel was fast going to
eternity. swell" replied the captain, 1--WE
got ten friends over there to one in this
world let her 90" And he turned over
and went to sleep again.
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