Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-01-27
A LITTLE FUN.

One great npleaSanuneSs aJUeHuiHS
a man getting married is his utter
insignificance on the occasion. The
bride is the object of attention as the
star performer of the show and he is
regarded merely as necessary prop
erty.
Oscar Wilde visited a fancy stock
farm the other day, and one of the
Jersey COWS followed him all around
Some animals are intelligent enough
to detect calf
VIII there be any marriages in
heaven?-Edith. Can't say; but if
there are, one thing is certain
there'll be no hiring lot of truck to
exhibit as presents
Never request a stranger to ask a
blessing at hotel table. Some day
that blessing might come home to
roost.
Heard in an office: II see that the
old-fashioned warming pans are com
ing into style again" $50 l have
noticed. Great folly; useless ex-
pense. 1 don't want one. My wife
always goes to bed first"
Some of the newspaper correspond
ents of the present day could discount
old Ananias, and give him points.
An Australian coffin dealer in
scribes the following motto on his
caskets: Let me hide myself in
thee"
Physicians assert that kissing away
girls tears will give chap sore
lips.
A New York sculptor has just fin
ished a large statue representing
slumber. 1t is the first policeman
ever done in marble.
Professor Tyndall says there will
be wonderful change in Niagara
Falls in 5000 years. At present, how
ever, all the change in that vicinity
is in the pockets of the highway hack
men.
When Petaluma woman was
shown picture of Lydia Pinkham,
and informed that it was a portrait
of Mrs. Langtry, the English beauty,
she looked at it with a critics eye q
few seconds, and then replied: We'll,
I've seen as pretty women right here
in this town"
Edith: No, it is not right to use
the obnoxious term, ''born idiot" in
speaking Of a woman of forty who
left her family and eloped with q
youth of nineteen. It is not right
because it leaves you no epithet suf-
ficiently strong to apply to the young
| man.
It was proven that five of six men
who assisted Kansas coroner tC
come to the conclusion that the de-
ceased came to his death by freezing
to death, assisted in lynching him
Now they've got the laugh on the
coroner for the way they fooled him
into taking that verdict.
Bret Harte's first poetic fragment
commenced in these words:
II sipped he.nectar of her lips;
slipped and lowered o'er her;
And the last two lines were as follows
Tier fathers boot flashed on the scene
I'm wiser now and sorer."
81 tell you there's lots of money il
it." said Clappertongue, speaking OF
the splendid chance to make goot
thing afforded blythe Mythical copper
mine. "That's So" remarked Fogg
who sat near. There's 5000 o.
mine in it; if there's any way of get
ting money out of the thing l should
| like to know it"
Thoreau's "Week on the Concord
and Merrimac Rivers did not sci
we'll, and his publishers returned 76(
copies of an edition of 1000. Thorear
stored them in his attic, and thel
boasted that he had library of near
ly 900 volumes, of which 700 were
books he wrote himself.
It is being stated that 'the odor o
musk, of which the Empress Jose
phine was very fond, still clings Il
her boudoir at Malmaison, thougl
the walls, ceiling and floor have beer
scraped and cleansed and the apart
ments fumigated repeatedly"
Vermont farmer notifies us that it,
nothing remarkable. 1t has been tn
same way with his clothes and hi
barn since he met polecat there.