Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-04
PTTH AND POINT.

The Study of History-Grandpa:
And so you like Edward VI best. but
why? Mary: Well, then, because-hes
only a page and half long.
HABIT takes hold on man. A New
York Assemblyman wouldn't vote for a
bill increasing his own salary until
somebody paid him bride to do So
THERE was young lady called Nancy
Who for brick-a-brac had such fancy,
That family jar
TwlXt her par and her mar
Delighted the soul of Miss Nancy.
New ORLEANS PicGyan3e: Girls
should take supply Of parched coffee
along with them to the theater to keep
their young men from going out for it
between the acts
FRED, aged 7, was handling valua-
bic book carelessly, and his mother
told him to put it down on the t;3'7e.
He did so unwillingly, and remarked:
"When I'm married, I shall not have to
obey mamma"
A LADY was lamenting the death of a
young professional man who had never
entered into the bonds of matrimonv,
and she concluded her remarks in this
way: Yes. poor fellow, he is dead and
or:y nineteen young ladies claimed
him"
THr is It that a young man and
q Young woman Will sit for hours to-
gether IN a parlor without saying a
ord; and then, when it is time for him
to leave, stand an hour talking earnest
ly on the front stoop, in the still, pneu-
moniac air ?-Puck.
A CALLow youth asks the PhiladeI-
phia Times "where he shall put his
Kiss" If he could get ten dollars for
it, he would "put it up the spout" at his
"uncle's." When young man doesn't
know where to put kiss, he should
keep it in his head, if it doesn't make
too much noise rolling round in the
vacuum.-NOTTistOlU71 Herald.
MAMMA" said a little 3-year-old,
what dress didn't I have on when /
didn't go to see auntie?" At another
time she entered room where her
auntie was sitting entertaining a gen
tleman who had called. AS they stop
ped talking when she came in she look
ed at them moment and said: "Why
don't you go on sayin' what you wasn't
talkin' about?"
WHATS orbs, Sallie? ?" "Orbs? Why,
as to how, Maggie? Who said 500"
"Well, you know that city chaps was
sparkling me last night, an he looked
me square in the face and sung out:
ooh! if [ could always bask in the eff
fulgence of those bright orbs."
"Humph! [ guess that must be what
they call eyes that squirt; but what do
you suppose he wanted of basque?"
A PRACTICAL joker went to famous
doctor and told him he was sufferer
from every disease known to medical
science and whole lot of others. The
doctor asking which he wanted to be
cured of first, he said it was a matter of
absolute indifference to him. "Well,
then" said the doctor, suppose begin
by trying to cure you of your chronic,
and fear incurable, idiocy."
WE learn from an exchange that an
important clue in celebrated case has
been obtained. It appears that ''the
uncle of the defendant was told by his
son, who heard it from an aunt in the
country, who got her information from
a neighbor, the latter having overheard
stranger tell another that he was told
by man that the report touching this
question was told by man who said he
had been told that the defendant had
always kept dog" That ought to set
tie it.-NOTrjStOtOn Herald.
ACCURACY in journalism: A Chicago
newspaper reporter who was walking
along the road in the neighborhood of
Concord, over which the famous Jumbo
had just passed, observed the foot
prints of the huge animal in the mud
and taking out his notebook entered the
the following memorandum of a society
item for the journal with which he was
connected: "It is understood that Mrs.
B., of st. Louis, who eloped fortnight
ogo, is making pedestrian tour of New
Hampshire. "-Broohly1o Eagle
Tony LEE, player in King Charles
IL. reign, having violent cold, could
not forbear coughing as he lay dead
upon the stage, having been killed in q
tragedy. This occasioned a great deal
of noise and laughter in the house.
Tony wagsishly lifted up his head, and
addressing the audience, said: "This
makes good what my poor mother used
to tell me; for she would often say that
L should cough in my grave, because [
used to drink with my porridge." This
set the house in such good humor that
1t produced laundering round of APP
plause, and made every one pardon the
solecism he had committed.