Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-05

have heard of Didier: but who i'm the
Dickens is Tcnnyson. -NorriStorn Her
all.
She Had Il Boil
The girl walked slowly down the aisle,
For on her nose she had n baisc-
This lovely maiden without gaislc.
OIL CITY Dcrrick.
Smoking may be bad habit" he
said, ~ he rode beside pretty Phia-
dclphia girl. "but that habit of yours i
perfectly killing. The marriage took
place the next day Hiiddciptm News.
"A country boy drank pint of
whisky, went in swimming. ate lot of
green apples, drank some ice water
went To bed and was found dead in the
morning. Too much ice water IcrdS
Sittings.
Friend to artist: IL see the art
committee rejected that picture of
yours Artist: "Ycs, and it's all be-
cause one of the members was preju-
diced against me. But I'll ret even.
You bet Friends: I'm tell YOU how
To get your revenge Artist; Howe
Friend: Paint his portrait. "
Ex-Prcsilent Farrar, who was de-
tanned from the recent English Wesley
an Conference by ngc and fcchlcnesS.
stated in his letter To that body that
sixty years had elapsed since he had
preached his trial sermon, amt that he
had known every President of the con-
fcrcnca since 1918. Detroit Post.
The late DIR. Moflat, the venerable
missionary, became so accustomed to
''roughing it, in Africa that when he
returned {, England he could not sleep
comfortably on u soft pillow. So for
his use at home he had one made of
wood, and when he was visiting friends
he asked them To put u block of wood
or a wooden footStool ut tho head of his
bed, ~. J., Tribune.
Enquirer: II man came up and
pOked us i'm the stomach, and grabbed
our cigar. and gave it to ncwsboy.
and tapped us on the nose, would we
tell him he was fresh? We might; but
we should do so as an af,crpiccc to the
administration of Il walloping that
would remain the uppcrmost mem
DRY in that mans mind till he was
blown up ON steamboat \. Post.
Rev. DIR. John l.. Smith. of the
Northwest Indiana Conference, has
published in pamphlet form, "a plea in
behalf of wOrn-out preachers. widows
and orphans, with PRAYER to the gen
cral conference of 1881" Ii contains
also the papers of Rev. &. A. Brooke,
ID. d., and other articles. all bearing
on the Same subject. The discussion
and exhortation of these papers is Wig
orous and urgent. chicago Journoi.
A boy was going up Sycamore
Street yesterday with a glass inkstand
to ill. Every few steps he would toss
it into the air and catch it again He
did il successfully until the last time.
when il landed gracefully on the pave
mcnt IN athousand pieces. He looked
ut !, about minute, and then said:
at serves the old man right. told
him before ! started that | couldn't
carry that thing up street. oil CITY
DE, Trk.
An lrishwoman can always man
are to tell " worry disagrecablc truth in
u vuhy Agreeable way. GLOW did your
husband dic?" asked the Judge very
>ternly. "Wcll. sir, very suddcnt like
was the reply. "But what was the
matter with him?' ''Why. | believe.
sir. he fell out of window, or through
u kind of cellar door, or something Of
that sort" ''lIow far did he fall?"
"Not more than five or six feet, Tor
Honor" 0And how could such fall
" that kill him?" "You see, sir, there
was bit of stirring or cord, or that
like, and il got round poor Mixes mock,
and he never spoke word after it,
Chtcog0 Hcmid.