The Labor enquirer., 1883-02-17
STRAYED OR STOLEN.

lne deVll naSAOne redeemlng trait. he
never gives a bearder cold room.
No matter what rank vegetables at
tain, the cabbage will always be head.
How briskly the fire burns in the CRATE.
s Yes, the editor has received fresh lot
of poetry.
"Of what complaint did your father
die?" 'The jury found him guilty." was
the answer. ra r..
A lady in joking about her nose, said,
II had nothing to do in shaping it; it
! was birthday present" ~. !
There is man in California who al
. ways has three feet in his boots. Each
foot is eighteen inches long.
A Cortland man who read at the end
of a friends marriage notice "No cards."
sent him a eqchre deck by the first mail.
"How can expand my chest?" asked
a stingy fellow of physician. "By'
carrying larger heart in it." was the
reply. #1. ~"
Mary had a little lamb with which
she used to tussle; she yanked the wool
all off it's back and crammed it in her
hustle.
mo sir" said the passenger to the
ships doctor, Il am not :seasick, but 1
am greatly disgusted with the motion of
the vessel"
The young man who wrote and asked
his girl to accept ia bucket" of flowers
became little pail when she said she
wooden ware it.
"Well, you'll own she's got a pretty
foot, won't you?" eyes, I'll grant you
that, but it never made as much of an
impression on me as the old mans
What station is this ?" asked lady
passenger of an English tourist near by.
Looking out of the window and reading
a sign on the fence, he replied, "Rough
on Rats, I guess, num-"
Brigham Young's grave is utterly neg
lected, and his widows never visit it.
They went there once to cry over his re-
mains, but it made the ground SO sloppy
that they all caught cold.
Health journals insist upon reposing
on the right side only, and claim that it
injurious to lie on both sides, but we
don't know where they will find
healthier set of men than lawyers.
He was informed that lady had call
ed to see him in his absence. "A lady"
he mused aloud, "a lady?" Upon an &C
curate description he frightened up and
answered, '"Oh, dot was no lady y; dot was
my wife"
The boy wanted to 60 swimming.
"But, my son." said the anxious parent,
"it was only this morning that you were
complaining of pain in your stomach"
'That's so, pa, but know how to swim
on my back"
Recently burglar was surprised while
going through the residence of an editor
and the editor sat up in bed and insisted
on the burglar playing him a game of
seven-up for his burglar tools, and the
burglar wentaway without his tools.
Isidor Cohen Ito Lemuel Cohen, who
has fallen during the last quadrille)-
"Wot you be so clumsy for and disgrace
der family. You are de laughin' stock of
der ROOM" Lemuel- -"Sh-h-h You
wasn't half fly, Isidor. I wanted to feel
If dot carpet was real Agsminister."
Two old ladies of Boston who were
devoted friends were spiritualists. One
of them dying, the other at length estab-
llshed communication with her, and in
quired how she liked the other world.
The reply was, "Well, it is very beauti-
tuI, very interesting, very instructive
but it is not Boston"
The Graphic undertakes to give pic
ture of a bank president resisting the
temptation to speculate with other peo-
pies money. The expression of the
lace is like unto that of man who has
swallowed an alarm clock, but it don't
begin to do justice to the internal strug-
gle going on in that man.
Little Freddie was undergoing the dis
agreeable operation of having his hair
eOmbed by his mother, and he grumbled
at each vancouver. why, Freddie"
SAID mamma. "You ought not to make