Iron County register., 1883-04-19
''S- PyTH AND POINT.

- EThes new telephone will transmit a
ymsfer Seven hnndfed and fifty miles.
This enahle3 i mar to ikt with another
I man 5 wife5opt of pistol shot range
y. o. Picdyune-
Forty wears ago a man worth
so,uoO was accounted wealthv:.now a
Patent-rights man doubts whether il is
worth while to skin him. Son,trrjle
JournGl =. --"-.'- ~. .F[i ''t-
Why is a saloon like a sheet OF
music? The number of beats before the.
bar .ssEaeesrsdins- to ztime. Green
backs expended for Cheering. beverages
j. may may properly be called full notes
Detrot Free Press. z,.f.,.s.--:s,. -
..,fst-Somebody substituted pile of corn.
eobs for the doughnuts on Vermont
railway restaurant counter, and they
were about two-thirds eaten before any
body discovered what had occurred
1t is said that s'two hundred wears
ago the Indians ihdulged in Turkish
baths" Yes, it must have been all of
two hundred years ago. To Judge
from the one We saw last it might have
been Thousand Years ago.--JerSey ctr
They are building tenement houses
SO high in New York that the man who
occupies the top floor is obliged to start
for home about nine o'clock in the
evening in order to reach his bed
an hour after midnight. NorriStorn
Herald ''.7 -' .'..s 2
~. This. from the pen of some philoso-
pher, l. worth remembering He who
-Iabors wholly for the benefit of Others.
and. as it We're. forgetk himself. Is far
hanpier- than. the man who makes
himself the sole object of all his aftec-
tons and eXertions." kfn
an officer. in the regular army
laughed at a timid- woman because She
WAS alarmed at the noise OF a cannon
when a salute was fred. He suise-
quently married that timid woman. and
SIX months afterwards le took oil his
boots in the hall when he came in late
~ night.-N I. Ncws. a.5 -.'-
A Pennsylvania Nun proposed to
. Kill the baby in order To reduce the eN-
penses OF the family. but his wife finally
persuaded him toIreduce the dogs r:.-
Iions instead. and in few weeks the
family was rich enough to huy another
dog Darlington Frisc Press.
1t is said that why so many married
i. ladies keep pet dogs is because their
husbands are absent. SO much from
home They don't have the eanines for
protection. Its because home -doe>n'e
seem natural with no growing about
and the dogs growl during the tine tine
e husband odght to be attending to that
duty. F'6tild9slpkis ChrVnic5c. ..-
- Father,,' said Johnny, .rthis paper
says that many prominent citizens are
now. ill with pneumonia and kindred dis
+; eases What is n kindred disease. fat L.
err" why. my SON. said Smithlv, ~
kindred disease is---is-why-yes. YES. 4
kindred disease is one that runs through
an entire family V kindred, relatives.
you know. Surprised you didn't know
that Johnny" 7. Post
A fair young damsel went into the
business place Of one of Troy's most
worthy and kindly merchants. and eN-
pressed desire TO purchase 4 certain
article. Several specimens were shown
her and she finally made choice of one
as meeting her wishes. She hesitated i
- moment and then asked. .'do YOU make
a reduction to minister's Yes. re-
piled the gentlemanlv attendant. are
~ YOU a minister's wife, .'No-o-o.
was the blushinr rpspOne. ..but expect
to be soon. The reduction was
granted.-Troy (N. 'I} Times.
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