The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-12-07
Charles Wyndham's Scrap.b0ok.
From the Boston Transcript.

othefhecahee we do. Promise of mar.
riagef is like precious china, Q man has
$50 much to pay for itg breakage. There
are very many things which men with
costs worn threadbafeSdare not ray.
Some sentences bya;HV. 8. Gilbert-'The
real pale of civilization is the ice pale
with a bottle of Dry Monopole in it. I
met a Japanese t'other night at the Trav.
eler's club. He had never tasted cham.
payne, and on putting awav the third
tumbler he squesked out In his odd ORR.
entail voice, Civilization very good. ]
like civilization"
It is 40 misfortune for nice young
lady to lose her good name if q nice
young gentleman gives her better one,
"Hic, haze, hoc."-The grammar il
wrong. The hic usually comes after the
hoe.
What is next to the hearts core of ev'
cry opera singer? An encore.
The chasm that sometimes swallows
up wit-Sarcasm. ~.
When a light. haired mans locks turn
gray he's getting on to fifty. When they
begin to turn black he's getting on tc
sixty.
Extract from letter by the late Hen.
ry s: Leigh: cit ..is altogether too alb.
surd to say that man lis not perfect.
Who is there who has not met with
many who were perfect strangers, some
whe were perfect rascals and few who
were perfect fools"
From poor Author Matthison. author
ofthe Great Divorce Case''- Miss-de.
sires you to engage her for soubrettes,
but ! fear size is Of an uncertain age,'
which meansfher age is quite uncertain
certainly forty, If she Is q day, But
she is still kittenish and frisky, and,
when made up, resembles an aDtiQuated
h0yden of the period of George Nv.
Have q talk with her. and observe her
airs and graces. She'd make splendid
character in comedy"
Some extracts from Henry ]. Byron
"a girl at school would like to have two
birthdays every year. When she passes
thirty she objects to having even one.
The parentage of a lie is the most
difficult of all to trace. It is, indeed, q
clever lie that knows its. own father.
THE worst kind of borrower is he
who borrows with the intention of re.
paying; for you know to a moral certain
ty that he intends to borrow again.
If England were paradise, still you
would find Englishmen grumbling."
From q letter-''Our friend, Jack
Smale, Who is twenty one, has married
a widow of forty, but she is in admirable
preservation. After the wedding some
kind female friend informed him that
his wife had fondly nursed him and
tended him when a mere babe. At first
he was disposed to be shocked, but
thinking better Of it he quietly observed,
On revient toujours a ses premiers ann
ours and went off to dine with Sidney
A1nnrf al tho (lor<1,,nrkn1
From Kate Stanly, dated Seville,
Spain, lSsl.-"It is ali entertainment
to see Spanish lady OF the. higher type
use a fan. She knows its mechanism.
she can finger it we'll, and by the grace
Of her fan she is an actress. Alb. the
fan? It's a hope, festival, a promise,
q denial, a menace, a pardon. It blames,
it praises, it approves, it encourages, it
persuades. 1t is laughing, ironical. scoIn-
full, graceful, charming. You may open
It, close it, agitate it, raise it, lower it.
1t, uay be used to show to advantage
beautiful hands. 1t may be used for
peaco or for war, for
tenderness, for gayety, for battle, for re-
partee, for Interrogation, for malace or
for perfidy. Take aim, fire! The mus.
ket kills, the fan Wounds"
From Florence Marryat, the novelist
"Be contented with your lot, especially
at an auction.
1.-THE darkest hour las rule) is just
before the gas is lighted.
You cannot do without money; YOU
may do without a nother.in-law.
Miners are always civil, for civiity
costs nothing.
"Be satisfied with things as they are;
take the crust With the crumb.
"If you are in public office, be
punctual-at all events in leaving.
Extract from letter by the late E. A.
Sothern; 4 Dear Wyndham: Pink Dom.
inoes, very droll and model Of con;
box for Saturday i night :sA fellow
Bhouldn't repeat his own wit, bntl know
yen like& 5000 put pun. L~asata par
~ ct Payne 'ssthe banker, t 0thersni9ht
and l4wife is certGihly q superb crea-
ture. Mrs. Bancroft, who was there, di-
rected my attention to her and said.
isn't she lovely? She ought to be
"Why, certify replied.
but as her hubby is a big banker, she
prefers. perhaps, to be a dfscountess."
How is that for Dundreary, and before
supper too?"
A sentence by Lord Beaconsfeld-
And what worker 10 Wyndam! He
has an exceptionally gluttonous appe.
lite for steady toll I believe
in Molliere's maxim, that the "best the.
ltrical work is that which pleases the
most" Montague Cory laughed
heartily like bov at the Pink Dominoes
and was good second. I went back
10 the house refreshed, and INDUCED
IN q late sitting. = ~