Milford chronicle., 1883-11-23
WIT AND WISDOM.

BELLIES of the bawl-girl babies.
q CASH shear-the coupon scissors.
REMARKABLY fine board-sawdust.
: SUPERIOR court-sparling a rich girl
e The coming mantle procrastinator
A DOSE of salts-several sailors sleep
ing.
WHEN you see a glass of water
goblet.
STRAIGHT from the shoulder-the
sleeve.
PRESSED for money-a suit of old
clothes.
OUT of sight, out of mind-a blind
lunatic.
The mosquitoes anger is an appropria-
ton bill.
GoD fishes souls with a line; the devil
! viii with It net. L IL
MEN of note are at discount with
the bankers.
THE wrong man in the write place
the inefficient clerk.
THE more nature is sad, the more the
hearth-stone is dear.
IN prosperity work is a duty; in mis-
fortune it is a refuge.
ALL those who know their mind do
not know their heart.
CANALS can't be free-there are locks
and qUays upon them.
THE riches which always take to them
selves wings
THERE are plenty Of stops in hand
organ, but no permanent one.
THE father makes hay while the son
shines behind a dry-goods counter.
AMONG intelligent people antipathie
are more irreconcilable than hates.
''Tms is new wrinkle" as the
maiden said, on consulting her mirror.
WE pass often from love to ambition.
but we seldom return from ambition to
love.
In the adversity of our best friends we
often find something that is not displeas-
ing to us.
ABSENCE diminishes the ordinary pas
sions and increases the great ones, as the
wind extinguishes the candle and lights
the fire.
THERE are houses where people are
bright without mistrusting it; there are
others where people are stupid in spite
If themselves.
A LADY having occasion to rebulze her
)utler for breaking pitcher, his reply
vas, "Well, Mrs. F., it had to be
,roke some time"
JULIA WARD HOWE says: Poor peo-
lie cannot be kept out of good society,"
70, but they can be made most awfuly
while they are in.
THERE are persons who have more in
diligence than taste, and others who l
ave more taste than intelligence. There
more vanity and caprice in taste than =
/ Intelligence.
WHEN the doctor advised Brown to
Ike care Of his health, Brown remarked,
ith feeble smile, that really it was n
, poor he didn't think it was worth
hile taking care of.
PA, said little boy, ga horse is
orth a good deal more, isn't it, after -'
S broke?" eyes, my son. Why do
k such a question ?" " Because I
oke the new rocking you gave pu
e this morning" pl
a RURAL subscriber wishes to know IL
low to tell the marks of cross cow" We Ta
in the milk pail, they will be about in OC
e middle, deep, and irregular shaped; if 50
the person, they will be marked by r
lie ring, and very sensitive to the touch.
burlington Free Press. the
THE Government comes down so rough we
counterfeiters and keeps such sharp pal pal
= open for bad bills, we wonder that it
esnt suppress the passing of Con
.ssional bills. Here's chance for the -
to make itself solid with
peOple.-BuTtingtOn H01Okeye. e
AT A late meeting the Lime-Kiln Club.
Detroit, recommended that ga com De,
sion be appointed by England and
erica to rew1ite God Save the Queen T
'The Star Spangled Banner and VII
ke from the two an international an pro
m to be called Heaven Save us
il.
n part Of the country where the
g drought has been prevailing one of
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