Delta chief., 1883-09-26
SMILES.

The crew-cial test-An eight-oared
boat race.-CLife.
At a stand still-The peanut business.
New York News.
A dry spell-S-a-h-a-r-a. Spellbound
The dictionary.-[Puck.
You can't vote honestly by the elect
trick light Boston Star.
Love laughs at locks-particularly if
they are red Boston Globe.
A man with water on the brain should
wear q plug hiatt -[Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
Song of the Western Union-"Never
mind the wire-fare. ~ (Philadelphia
Bulletin.
After a bill is settled you can enjoy
the rest that follows payin'.-CNew
York Journal.
A poker party-The ragpicker. The
dentists motto-Too thin New York
World.
Soap was first mentioned by Pliny,
which proves that it's an historical lye.
i New York News.
A young man biting his mustache is a
case of "down in the mouth. " Roch-
ester fost-Express.
Always out of order-Twenty-two let
ters of the lphabet.-[ Cincinnati Mer-
chant and Traveller.
1t must be a poor singer who can't
make his board from the '.timbre" of
his voice.-[Musical Herald.
When people are compelled to use
snuff. they certainly are put to the pinch.
baltimore Every Saturday.
Watering the stock of leather-mak-
ing company is q new form of hide
drsulics.-[Pittsburg Telegraph.
The young woman who eloped with
an unknown man was reported as Mr.
iously missing.-[Cincinnati Traveller.
The physician is sympathetic man.
Whenever he touches the pulse of an in
valid, he feels sick ALSO Boston Tran
script
An unpopular tutor-The tooter on
the clarionet. A vest as is . vest-The
harvest. Early rye-sers-Topers.-
[Boston Traveller.
The tsilor's apprentice, when COM
mencing his trade. finds there is truth
in the text that What q man sews he
shall also rip. ."-[Somerville Journal.
magazine only differs from a sword
in this wise. With one you generally
have to cut its leaves while the other
generally leaves its cuts New York
World
A stranger in Boston. seeing the
places of public resort full of young
was the land Of midnight son.-(B Boston
Transcript.
A gallant railroad engineer met q
girl in the morning, courted her all
day, and in the evening married her.
That was sort of locomotive spark
philadelphia Bulletin.
PA, rogues always fall out at night"
AT night? How do you know that P"
because, pa, when rogues fall out,
honest men get their dews. Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
The difference between a bakery and
a printing Office lies in the fact that in
the former the pie is formed. while IN
the latter occasionally the form is pied
Bonneville Journal.
you've got a new hat, l see." said
one man to another. who was noted for
his love Of the flowing bowl. "Yes-
hic-got a new hic-hat; but it's got
the-hic-same old brick in it."-
Bonneville journal.
II need have no more fears from that
quarter" is what the storekesper re-
marked as he threw the counterfeit
twenty-tive-cent piece in the fire, which
had come back to him several times.
(Yonkers Statesman.
A citizen and stranger were riding
along Beacon street the other day at
low tide when the latter's olfactory
nerves were assailed by the odor pecul
lar to this district. Not exactly eau de
Cologne" remarked the stranger.
"Oh, no." replied the citizen. with
French accent, "O-dor Boston. We
are nothing if not original. Boston