The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-02-22
Chips from the Sapetum !

CINCINNATI could truly exclaim, few
days ago, "water, water everywhere. no1
any drop to drink"
Trade"-CommerciaI Gazette.
So there is on clearinghouse biscuit
OUR life is stream"-sang the poet
But men should be careful not to dam it
by evil deeds.
LOTS wife, Scripture tells us, was
turned to pillar of salt. So is the aver
age store butter.
THE man who says "there is no Hell,
| would give his right arm if he could only
believe what he says.
II AM bearing my cross" as the man
said when he lifted his wife over mud
hole.
THERE have already been some glimpses
of Spring sunshine, and the loafer is out
but he has not seen his shadow. He is
too lazy to look around.
A NEVADA man was so bitter against
the Chinese that he refused to drink beer
from a Japanned pitcher. This is con-
sidered the greatest case on record of sac
rifice of desire to prejudice.
JACKSON has physician" who takes
the premium. A man fell and broke his
neck, when this physician" gave it as his
solemn opinion that the man died from
exposure.
A CINCINNATI paper says that several
frame houses foated past the city, and
we do not know where they came from" !"
There is more important point to the
owners-that is, where are they going to-.
you can't say what er man may eat
er drink !-Yoo !-Ah-
yo-o-ok Y-and up came all the provi-
sions and whisky he had swallowed for
the last twelve hours.
A NASHVILLE reporter wrote up in his
most gushing style, how he escorted the
Jersey Lily from the depot to her hotel,
how he handed her from the carriage;
tipped his hat, and so on. A monkey
might have done the same.
GEN. FITz-HUeH LEE, of Virginia,
said in speech in New York few days
ago that there is now no North, no South !;
we are all one people. That knowledge
was thrashed into Fitz-Hugh about eigh-
teen years ago, but he has perhaps not
been willing to confess it heretofore
DELoss w. MINsHALL has resigned the
Office of Internal Revenue Collector of
the Seventh Indiana District. When the
roll of names renowned for self-sacrifice
and heroism is written up, let the name
| of Minshall be written at the very top
Such deeds should be rewarded
A FEW days ago. Henry Prouse Cooper
appearing upon the streets in female at
tire. AS Cooper he had right to use
the latest style of American female at
tire. He was only shaping barrel
reach the North Pole. His name is
Smith, and he is an Englishman. He
would doubtless like to have the English
Government pay several hundred thou
sand dollars to get Smiths ears frozen
off.
THE Portsmouth man says it may be
all very nice to talk of "the city of the
sea- and of singing love songs in a gon-
dola, but when it comes to going around
to the saloon to get drink, and the only
means of transit are Joe-boat and long
pole, the things different.
SPEAKING of the possibility of another
flood to destroy the people on account of
their wickedness, the Commercial Gazette
says:
''They should also select the truly good man to he
saved to repeople the earth and rehabiitate the
When we consider that Deacon Rich
ard Smith is now connected with the
Commercial Gazette, the utter selfshness
of the above will be apparent.
HUH! Who's afeard ?" said the small
boy who was passing through piece of
woods-but upon the sudden breaking of
twig he took to his heels and fled for his
life. The doggery-keeper and the brewer
are the small boys, who are passing
through the forest of public sentiment;
and the prayers of anxious mothers and
wives are the breaking of the twigs
which foretell the falling timbers which
shall crush out the keepers of the Devils
Market Houses.