Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-30
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"a ROLLING STONE gathers no MOSS"
but the rollIng-pin frequently gathers
the husbands hair.-udrdthOR IRdepeRd-
eRt.
THE st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
s'The degree of d. G. F.-doctOr of cock
tighting-should be established at Har-
ward"
WE learn that all the candidates for the
Speakership are confident. So are all the
chaps who buy lottery tlckets-untll after
the drawing.
A NEW YORK paper asks: "Who are
the fOols!'' and it has received notes from
over 1000 married men asking If 1t means
to insult them.-Puck.
A MIDDLETowN GIRL has married a
man named Death. The wedding cere-
mony was probably grave affair
shrOuded in gloom, perhaps.
THERE is no need for men to be lOafing
around the street corners when they can
90 down into Chihuahua and get two dol
lars and a half head for killing Indians.
FROM precedents already established by
similarly great men of Massachusetts, it
would seem that the only thing now left
for Mr.. Butler to do is to open saloon.-
Life.
THE turning of woman into pillar OF
salt was fair enough. Everything was
done by Lot, and after the drawing he had
a chance to get a fresh wIfe.-Nel0 Or
leans Picayune.
NERO is credited with being the cruel
est individual that ever lived. and yet
there is no record that he promised his
wife a seal skin sacque and refused to give
it to her.--ErchdRqe.
''YOU say the prisoner is insane; what
makes YOU think sop Because" re-
5oA wit GEhpODDGn has
been married four times and TWO OF his
wives were rOss-eyed.-Pack.
THE Pittsburg Leader announces that
Bismark is able to sit on his elbow and
drink a cup of tea. 1t is not surprising
that a man who has so often got up on his
ear should at last be able to sit on his
elbow.
ALL pOpulous cities
Must have their committees,
Their measures to engineer through,
And committees must meet
And committees must eat,
Though they've no public business to do.
A KENTUCKY bluegrass belle avs that
for her part she hasn't the slightest curl
osity to hear Mr.. Arnold lecture, as she
doesn't see how the traitor can have the
face to stand up before the American peO-
PIE Cincinnati Saturday Night.
"NO, WILLIAM" she mournfully ut
hand. "No, William, l cannot marry you.
don't believe you can provide wife with
butter upon your present salary, and l
can't eat erine."-Chicdg0 S1n.
IT is stated that the dentists of this
country use a ton of gold year in filling
teeth. We know tive know it. We
recollect perfectly when One-half that
amount was dropped into a sensitive tooth
of ours at one blow. 1t nearly killed US
RGckldnd Courier.
THE laird to the minister who has been
holding forth on temperance )-''But what
should | do with my cellar of wine? You
wouldn't have me destroy it?' Minister
INA, ma! that would be sen! But get rid
of It in natural manner as soon IS We can
an I'll come an help ye whenever We
like. Churchnldn.
A TENNESSEE paper says: eve saw
one of our doctors ride out of town rather
hurriedly last week, and upon inquiry we
learned that Il young man living several
miles from town looked through the key
hole of young lady's bedroom, and the
doctor has been trying ever since to get a
darning needle out of the place where his
eye used to be-