Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-09
PEPPERMINT DROPs.

Insects smell, say the naturalist; and II
you don't believe just step on a cockroach.
Some loaded trains went Of yesterday
afternoon, without hurting anybody, how.
ever.-Dertick.
1t has been definitely settled that cop.
per Is the best material for lightning rods
and brass for agents.
No, my son, do not learn TO be an under.
taEer. IL you settle in o healthy town
you will starve. If You settle in sn un.
healthy town you may die yourself.
Investigator" wants TO know what |,
good for cabbage worms. Bless your heart,
man, cabbages, Of cour.e. A good plump
cabbage will last several worms q week.
A Philadelphia dude ia reported to have
bred Of congestion of the brain, caused by
excessive exertion. His mother WAS sick
one morning, and he had to button his
shoes himself.
"Can you charge a tw~enty.dollar gold
piece!" he asked, 90 he gently placed the
glass on the counter. "Yes," saii the
Bartender. well, I'll go out and see If 1
can find He."-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The New York Sun says that every
lady in the Ind should know how to
swim. It might be just as well frat to
have Ill the men learn how to swim; then
they could have the fun OF teaching the
women at the seashore, in summer,
A colored porter in an Austin store
asked the proprietor for q days leave of
absence. "What's up bowl" "Dsr's q
niggah gwine ter get married aud / oughter
be present to see him fru." "Who is this
coiored man at whose weddirs you have
to be p resent" Else de riggah."
"What Will the harvest Bel" was the
subject of an essay at the commencement
exercises of p Boston female seminary last
week. AS there were niue in the grad
uating class it is probable that the har-
vest will be four divorce suits, sne elope-
ment, and four woman's suff rsgo advv-
Gates.
A Texas paper tells this cheerful tale OF
the experimental school of medicine: "a
woman came 80 a prominent physician
and asked for a remedy tor her husbands
rheumatism. The doctor gave her q pre-
scription and said: 'Ge. that prepared at
husbands back. II it does any good, come
and let me know I've got o touch of rheu-
ms,ism myself"
"Now, my dear." said q Hartford man
this morning, you have made the sleeves
vi tHho hAhb ~ N"iut libAOs hcNDA SaI
wear it in the world" swell, I'm sorry,
but can't you wear it Tor just one dAy!'
"If l only bad q wars on my elbow 1
might" "Why, wha. difference would
that maker" 81 could use it for a cuff
button and be solid"
"There Is something about your daugh-
ter" Mr.. Wanghop said rehectively--
there ia something about your daugh.
ter -" EYES," said old Mr.. Thistlsp pod,
"there is; l hsd noticed it myself. II
comes every evening at 8 o'clock, and it
doesn't get away usually till IL o'clock.
And some evening [ sm going to lift il all
the way from the front parlor to the side
gate and see what there is in it,"
The proficiency attained by the colored
gentlemen who have charge of the hal
room in large hotels is often surprising, az
they pass out hundreds of hats without a
single mistake. A young man from Buffs
10 was 80 impressed with the performance
at q New York hotel the other day that ir
a tone of respectful admiration be asked
the phenomenon how he knew it was hi,
hat. We'll, sab" was the brisk response
II couldn't swear dat the hat was yourn
sab; l only knows it was de hat you gu,
me-"