Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-02-24
1t was but a simple pin,

But he grabs the ndiscreet
Little boy, and him doth beat
Till he rather spois the seat
OF his pants"
Instance of UNCONVENTIONAL zeal:
At the time when Episcopacy was
struggling for a place in Scotland,
much to the disgust of the common
people, girl in Fife,the daughter of
non-conforming clergyman, look
ing over the New Testament and find
ing the phrase which speaks of
Christ as the Bishop of our souls"
blotted out the word Bishop and in
serted the word Presbyter, so that it
read: "The Presbyter of our souls"
Plantation philosophy. De chan
CHI chicken minds me ob certain
men dat Use seed He crows mighty
loud an brags around 'mong the
hens an young chickens, but when
game rooster comes around, he's got
business on de udder side OBJ de
| fence.
Why is it that young man and q
young woman will sit for hours and
hours together in parlor without
saying word, and then, when it is
time for him to leave, stand an hour
talking earnestly on the front stoop
in the still, pneumonia air?
The big-hat problem: II don't
see why these newspaper fellers
make SO much fuss about the wo
mems big hats at the theeayter." said
bootblack; they don't bother me
at all" 1t will be remembered that
the bootblack and others of his ilk
always occupy the sky seats.
A press dispatch states that the
prohibitory liquor bill recently intro
duced in the Texas Legislative will
undoubtedly pass that body. Which
gives added emphasis to the remark
that you can't most always some
times generally never tell just where
lightning is going to strike.
An experienced pawnbroker says
nothing is so liable to be showed off
as an umbrella
A ST. Louis exchange says striped
parasols have taken the place of
striped stockings. Maybe they have
in st. Louis, but we have not noticed
anybody here wearing striped para
soils on their-at least, where they
used to wear stockings. We don't
catch on to the styles very quick
here.
The monument to the memory of
James, the train robber, will soon be
completed. And thus the once ia.
nous outlaw gets in ahead of the
" Father Of his country"
A man named Dunlop requested
Theodore Hook to make punning
allusion to his name. Well, just
lop off the last syllable" responded
the wit, land it's Dun"
The War Department is seriously
considering the expediency of in
creasing the standing army, 80 as to
have as many soldiers as their are
Paymasters.
| "Ah," said a fond mother.
should be glad if my boy were to
marry-then l could train his wife!'
It seems to come natural to woman
to be a mother in-law.
The Hon. Geo. w. Childs OF the
Philadelphia Ledger save his en-
ployes $1,000 in presents, and you
can't convince them that his obituary
poetry doesn't knock the best work
Of Byron and Burns oat Of sight.
An Ohio man who bought some
caramels in a candy store offered the
pretty girl who waited on him a dol
lar bill to hold each caramel in her
mouth for a moment. When an old
man gets mashed he is clear gone.
A New York man has a finger ring
with the Ten Commandments en-
graved on it in such small characters
that they can only be read with the
aid of a microscope. We regard this
as dastardly attempt to belittle the
Scriptures.
Never travel without pocket com
panion. A we'll filed pocket book is
the best.
The pundits are carefully looking
for some remedy for lame jokes
Children. for the major part. cry in
minor tones
The society belle is sometimes
known by her clapper.
Trance acknowledging in your
sleep.