The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-28

Trag;>.: Was it small, white, eur
-dorg, with II b1ueribb"uround his neck
yer was lookia' for, Miss - Yes
gaspea. the Young lady IN anxious sus
pense. 'Well, Jack Adams' Newfound
land purp, he's a-gone and ..swalleret
him. They carried her into the near
ESQ drug store.
..Johnny.' said the sehGsI1nistness,
you have been a very naughty boy.
Now go and stand in the corner with
your face to the wall until tell you you
may go to your seat" please marin,
said Johnny, IF turn my face to the
wall III have 10 turn nv back TO You
and the scholars. Won't that be rudep'
The maiden ) point of view; Mamma
Ito Maude. who has been with her brother
to the play and is full of it) But was
there no lovei in the piece. then?''' Mau lie
Love? Oh, dear, no, mamma. How
could there bep The principal charac-
ters were husband and wife, YOU know. y
London Punch.
The composer of Home sweet Home
is moldering in the grave; the composer
of kathleen Mavourneen" is old and
poor, and the composer of 4sGrandfath-
er's Clock and .sOver the Garden Wall
is an outcast who dares not venture neal
civilization for fear of being hit with q
brick or something, Philadelphia Mea0s.
> A man who had tl1umped his wife I'M
til she died of broken heart sought to
deceive his friends by having an ex-
eeffenf Photograph of her copied in oil
color9 and exhibiting it as proof of
his love and fidelity How does that
lookp'' he said to friend; lido you
think that.can be beatPn mot now
was the sarcastic reply.
The Caseys sent the Browns a peace
offering in the form of box of candies
at Sacramento The families had been
enemies for years, and the Caseys had
been by far the more vindictive of the
two; SO the Browns were incredulous,
and tried some of the sweet token of
amity on o. dog The brute died of the
tEat was in It. s. -
A famous North Carolina clergyman
while preaching few Sundays ago from
the text. fHe gEeth His beloved sleep.
stopped in the middle of his discourse,
gaZed upon his slumbering congregation
and said: Brethren, it is hard to real
re the unbounded love which the Lord
appears to have for large portion of
my auditory
The Louisville Couf5er-Jonandl has
he following dispatch from Hgertail at
Sissime, Fla: 1.-The quarter which the
treat Father gave 60 my papoose has a
hole in it, and | write to know if it is a
legal tender for firewater in the land of
the pretty palefaeed maiden. The cigar
which he gave to me made me awful
sick. ] pared my corns with Chand-
Ier's knife, and he said could keep it. =
In suit for separation the counsel for
bhe wife pleaded, among other motives,
the ineompatibility of temper, and be-
gan to trace a portrait OF her husband;
Brutal violent. anger The law
yer for the husband, in his turn, painted
the wife: Wicked violent, peevish.
Excuse me" said the Judge, inter-
rupting the advocate. gentlemen, where
do You find the incompatibility of tenn
pera''
Twenty-Five years ago young Phifa-
delphian wife nearly cried her eyes out
BECAUSE she could not afford to scrape
from her walls the tfnsightly old-fash- /
oned paper, full of .peacocks, and peli-
BANS, and things, and put a NICE neat,
new style in its place. Now her mar