Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-28
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
NOT TOO YAm.

With gentle mien and windsoms air.
Black were his socks with purple clocks,
noted he was passing fare.
The modern pie-rate-ten cents .
piece,
The best thing to take before sing.
ing--breath.
There's very little or no opposition to
rcd-hot poker.
The right kind Of dog in yard is
a terrier to evil doors.
If a dog loses his paw, and rooster
loses his nav, does it make orphans Of
them9
Eyes" said the farmer, "barbed wire
fence is expensive, but tho hired man
doesn't stop to rest every time he
climbs it."
An exchange contains an article on
"Women who Die Early" Those who
light the fire with kerosene in the
morning are apt to die early.
marie. what's that strange noise Of
the gateI" Cats, sir" Cats We'll
when I was young, cats didn't vea
long hats and smoke cigars" Tim
are changed, sir"
Princeton College I, 70 hereafter
teach civil service reform. Tbs boys
needn't be bit astonished 70 see the
janitor walk up to the head Of the
faculty. That's the way the thing
works.
Clara docking at the bonnet,, etc. } {:
Don't you think they are very hand.
some?" Amy (whose thoughts are
on the other side of thcstreet); VERY,
specially the one with the black nous
.ache."
The man who will invent some
practical substitute for the ordinary
wooden knob for drawers, desk doors,
and the like, or some way Of keeping
the ordinary knob on, will make for
tune and die respected,
A lecturer wants to know what
shall we do with our girls?" How
would it do to give them three square
meals day and try to raise them up
to help their mothers until they are
called upon to help their husbands'
"What are the nine muses., pa"
asked little boy who was reading
NEUROLOGICAL lore in the lower class.
ut is when the home nine is beaten
in a game Of baseball, then the nine
muses. over it" was the reply.
In dangerous proximity to mean.
ness: "Yes," said Burkenstein, IL
came pretty near doing mean thing
to-day, l had a counterfeit half and I
was about to give it to poor blind
beggar who asked for aims, but re-
sisted the temptation and got an old
apple woman to change it by buying
five cents worth of fruit.
When California panther sees a
poodle and young woman he eats the
poodle and leaves the young woman.
He probably reasons in this way: II
l ca. the girl and the poodle, that will
be only one meal if l always eat the
poodle the girl will always get another,
and l can always be sure Of another
meal.
A London paper describes an Amer
lean girl in that city who "wears
gown with flight of embroidered swal-
lows, beginning on her left shoulder
and ending at her right foot :; and swal-
lows also ny ABOUT her paraSol. Ihe
American youth in London is also adj
dcted to swallows" but they don't
begin on his left shoulder-they begin
under his nose and run down his
throat.
A scholar in public school who had
been over the map Of Asia, was re-
viewed by the teacher, with the follow
ing result: "What is geography"
"a big book" "What is the earth
composed Off" Mud" "No; land
and water" "Well, that makes mud,
don't it?" "What is the shape of the
earth?" FLAT" "You know better,
if I should dig hole through the earth
where would l come out atr" "Out
of the hole"