Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-28
PEPPERMINT Q

Mr.. Virgins did not predict the storm
In the south. 1t wouldn't have happened
II be bad.
Its . foggy day in London when q
Phe,ix Park murderer isn't sentenced to
be hanged.
The little girl who called the ostrich the
bird with . bonnet tail put 1t about right.
-Philadelphis Herald.
1t 10 said the will Of Pilot, Barnum's
dead elephant, was found In his trunk. In
bis cas-, 1t wa slubbornly contested before
be died,
A New York authority on dudes says
that the DUDE never whistles. The dude,
perhaps, might appropriately permit him.
self to occasionally whistle Yankee
Dude-ei.
As the story that an Illinois man has q
toad trained 20 go down his throat and
come upsgsin on call Is denied by the
Chicago papers, 1t Is probably true.-Bos-
ton Post.
"The ~laryest button house In New York
has suspended" Now, II the largest sus-
pender house In New York had buttoned,
Il would not have been so bad.-Norris.
town Herald.
Building Il going on In Omaha 80 fast
this spring that the man who goes TO sleep
on Q lot at night Ia liable to lave 0 roof
over bis head In the morning-thst Ii II
the police do their duty.
The supreme court has ruled against tbs
Iowa prohibitory amendment, and the
Iowa man will no longer be compelled to
sneak behind the cupbeafd door whenever
he wants to take a pull at the shrimp
salad"
A fashion item states that THE Boston
plas, ca and knee breeches." Well, the one
necessitates the other. The average Bos.
ton young man needs the eye glasses IN
order to see his legs.-Puck.
The course Of true love" traced by let
ters In q breach Of promise suit in New
York ran in this manners: "My darling
Benny" MY own darling Benny" my
own dearest darling, ""Your loving Baby
"Your own loving Pet" my own darlin,
Love-" my darling Ben," Friend Nen.'
And all was over.-Boston Globe.
The telephone is very popular IN Colo
RADIO. BY means Of the telephone an ab
sent.mindsd stranger. while talking to
native, can feel in his hip-pooket for
handkerchief or o piece of tobacco withou
being shot. It Is thought that very 500
all conversation In Colorado will be 90,
ried OF exclusively by telephone.
Old ST on Three Gard Mont: Whe
the old n an came In Monday morning tn
religious editor said: Isl, I nnderstan
you play three card monte with o Cincir
natl faker down at the freight depot yel
terday?' swell, no. sab. He jess buck
gin me wunco an den he 'pear'd ter hab
'gagement somewhat else!" did You bei
him." 'Oh, no. sab! l nebber beat n,
boldly. But he flung be little kyards roul
dar an low nobody kin pick up the roos
er kyard-an' 1 tuck him!" For no
much" "Moughtyl eetle, fur he oney hu
TO dollars" Did you win III? well,
can wah Jess ter fte san flies! An one
iaks er dollar dis mowning Of bein' able
settle that 6be dollar street tax-sn'
, dere's emmy gemmen 'roun hyar wants I,
mingle three cards for or mingle-II
hyar!" Nobody responded, and we doul
whether the street tax has vet been paid.
Georgia Major,
. The following 10 said to be Q mod
Georgia love letter: DEAREST BENIN
love Is stronger than the smell Of COTE
= patent butter, or the kick Of, . young 90,
Sensations Of exquisite Joy 60 through n
q like cohorts Of ants through IN arm
cracker, and caper over my heart III
young goats on Q stable roof. I feel a.
I could lift myself by my boot straps
the height Of . church stesple, or like {
n old stage horse In Q green pasture. As q
mean pup bankers after sweet milk 20
banker after your presence, and ~ 60
ling swimmeth In Q mud puddle 30 do
swim In o sea Of delightfulness when "
" are near me, My feArt flaps up and dow