Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-09-29
WIT AND WISDOM.

WHEN a man can make right ont Of
wrong he will he able TO breed colts from
horse chcstnu,s-
IT Is the Mobile Rsgister which SEN
IDLY thinks ;hat.n there was no news
paper notice Of duels, duelling would
come TO IN end.
THE assisted emigrant is one that is
sent to this country a. n pauper. with
passage paid. The assisted tramp
is one that is urged ont Of your yard
with boot.
THERE are only two classes OF unmar-
ried women in society. "scravny old
maids" and young ''chits Of girls" You
learn this by hearing each Of these de-
scribe the other.
A New JERSEY young man, who tackled
Professor Sullivan in a friendly bout.
how ws.ars the bel. He wears il just
oser the left eye and feeds il on raw
beef.-Erchange.
1r takes a good deal of courage to
write ont the announcements: Gone
down into the country to sponge of my
father.in-law. BE away all summer. =
tH'eH3o FRF ocean.
THE Keeper of the Lime Kiln museum
reports that he has received from Mis-.
sour the skull of farmers hired man
who had never yelled a. a yoke of oxen
,r wanted to kill a mule.
"WHAT is true bravery" asks New
York paper. 1t is going To the door
yourself when you don't know whether
the caller is dear friend, n book agent
or a man with Iill. ill.-Ehiiadelphid
Ncus.
A ''sHowER of stones" is reported from
Cecil county, Md. II a young man VAS
| singing at midnight and accompanying
himself on an ACCORDION, a shower Of
stones was what might have been cx-
| pected.
IT seems that the Tsras Sffings man
went to Texas to die OF consumption
and lived to become humorist. You
can form your own estimate of whether
the climate is to be praised or not.
| Boston Post.
4 NEW ENGLAND physician says that
if every family would keep box OF
| mustard in the house one-half OF the
| d6stors would starve We suggest that
| every family keep two boxes III the house.
: The JudNe.
CARE angels ever sleepy ?" is question
which an English psychological society
is irving to selve. We hardly know
whether orr angel is ever sleepy or not.
We've never stayed late enough TO find
| out.-LomcU Citizen.
| A CELEBRATED circus manager a on
the hunt for new curiosity for his show
He is seeking to find young married
| man whose wife can cook as we'll rs his
mother did. Twenty-six States have
neen explored thus far without success.
GnrEs apples green apples. the grass grows 50
| That the boys in the orchard can hardly lie
| oh. mother. oh. mother. yonr boy il in bed
# the doctors don't hurry. he II surely he dead
AN aesthetic writer predicts that il we
we're to revisit this country one hundred
Years hence we should see men wearing
knee-breeches and slashed doublets.
That settles il. We shall not come
back. The number Of bow-legged men
Is increasing too rapidly.
Ir is said that the number OF women
who reach one hundred years and mp
ward is nearly double that Of long-lived
men. Women don't invent patent fire
: escapes and exhibit their workings. And
tlncy don't stay ont 70 late o night.
! either, inhaling the miasma of the
| night.
He had been waltzing with his hosts
ugly. elderly daught'r. ard was in Il
corner repairing damagss. Here he was
espied 10y his would he papa-in-law
She's the flower Of my family, sir,
aid the latter. $50 il seems, answered
,he Young man PITY she comes of
80. amt it," he continued. as he tz>sa. ~
another vigorous rub at the white spot:
on his coat sleeve.
do Yor want TO see some fun saif
small bov to his father. Don
care if do" he replied. We'll, let,
20 and listen 10 Deacon Dumpy taci
Town his carpets II don't ihinl
.heren he anything funny III that.
,cornfnIlv snor.ed the parent don
; ii? You seem IL forget that the deacon
shutters" 'Ah, sud the old man
. | Then they wen. over TO harkcii.
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