Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-19
BRIGHT BITS.

JACK FROST doesn't say anything, but
| he INDUCES in freeze peaches.-Nel9 YORK
| AdUertiSer.
! THE most prominent man in the city is
| the street sweeper. He fills the public
! eye.--Ihe Judge.
THE woman who said she owed all he1
! happiness to her husband, had forgotten
| how much she owed to her dressmaker.-
Fail Rirer AdUdnce.
THE season of the year is near at hand
when Boston young ladies cannot 90 out
Of doors without some suffering, on ac-
count of the trees appearing in bare limbs
STOUT PARTY-"WelI, Pat, hOw's
| trade?' Grave igger--"POOrly, SURF, en-
! tirely; shure we haven't buried livln'
| sOwl this three weeks. "-LORd0R Punch
OF course the bonanza kings want to
| shake the wives of their youths and
marry others. You see it takes one kind
of wife to help make fortune; another
to help spend it.
A HUNTER in Mifilin county succeeded
! in killing ten wild turkeys in one day re-
Gently, and did not work half as hard as
a woman trying to kill one tame hen.-
Philadelphtd Call.
THE late Mr.. Turgenef, the novelist,
resembled Shakespeare in one thing at
least. His name could be spelled dozen
different ways without spelling its SYM
| metry.-NOrfiStOlCn Herald.
To MAGGIE MITCHELL has come the
| felicity of a persistent younger sister
whom she refuses to know. This is more
plausible and readable and ingenious than
losing jewelry or finding man under the
bed.
THERE is one thing to be said in favor
of John Bright" says an exchange; "he
is not coming to make money" There is
another thing to be said in his favor; he
is not coming at Cincinnati En-
qutrer.
Now, would you believe it? A man
who for six years held the position of pro-
fessiOnal humOrist on great daily told
us recently that in his private opinion the
mule is more dOcile, kicks less often and
not so hard as the average horse.
A BEAUTIFUL maid in Bismarck,
When the lamp was turned down Tor q
Struggled up to her Fred, spark,
And tremblingly said.
81 always feel skeered in the dark y
Bismarck Tribune.
els that man an undertaker~ "No.
dear; he is the funny man of daily pa
per'' 'Why does he look so sad?' ''Be-
cause he has found out that one of his
latest original jokes has just been discoy-
cred in the clutches of an Egyptian num-
my."-Nctc York Journal.
A YOUNG WOMAN who was married
three months ago was asked how she was
getting along with the mysteries of house
Keeping. sob, Pm learning very fast.
Why, would you believe it?' she ex-
claimed, Il hemmed a whole towel my
self in six hours yesterday"
A REPORTER, in writing up woman's
rights convention, says there was "very
little hustle" during the meeting. This
no doubt IS true. The women who par
ticipate in such conventions don't wear
the big kind. They don't encourage such
frivolities of fashion. They want the bal
lot, not bustles.-NOrrist0lgn Herald.
THE Baltimore american calls ''the Re-
publican party solid for 1884" 1t is as
solid as a frozen corpse.-B0StOn Post.
Perhaps our esteemed contemporary never
heard of the cadaver that rose up and
wiped the floor with the mOurners at the
funeral.-BdltimOre american. Oh, yes;
we have. But, you see, the Democracy
viii not be comprised among the MOURN
ers at the Republican funeral.-Post,