Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-07
HUMOROUS.

-Leap-year parties are popular in
some sections. At these gatherings the
girls yell "mouser' and the young men
jump on chairs and shrek. detroit
Free Press.
To get rid of the smell of fresh
paint in a chamber or living room, slice
a few onions and put them in the mid
die of the room. After that it will be
desirable to get rid of the smell of the
onions. This can easily be done by
putting on another coat of paint. PHI
adelphia Call.
"A country girl, coming from the
field. being told by her poetic cousin
that she looked as fresh as daisy
kissed with dew, said: "Well il wasn't
any fellow of that name; but it was
Steve Jones that kissed me. / told him
that every one in town would find it
out. Chicago Tribune.
Some women take a fiendsh de-
light in placing piece of oil-cloth
where their husbands are sure to step
on it in the morning, when they spring
out of bed, when the thermometer is
lowering about zero, and for a moment
the marrow-chilled man thinks he has
discovered the North Pole. -NOrFiStO17
Herald.
"A poet sings: Let me die when all
is cold and drear." Now is an excel
len season for the purpose, and the man
who would interpose single objection
should be severely talked to. Ii poet
wants 10 die when all is cold and drear
and we are not surprised that he
should feel that wayne should be en-
couraged in his laudable purpose. -Er-
change.
Quite unsympathetic: Birdie Me-
Hennepin and her brother were at the
seashore: 80, see that!' exclaimed
Birdie. "See what?" inquired the
stoical John. "Why, see that little
cloudlet just above the wavelet like
tiny leaflet dancing DER the scene"
30. come, you had better 60 out to the
pumplet in the backyardlet and soak
your little headlet. boston Tran
script.
"A servant girl in New Haven stole
her mistress false teeth. The woman
told a policeman that ''She sheesh Gosh
shwenshy shollarsh, ansh she shwash
wosh shusha wresh ashdo shteesh fawshe
sheeth-" ''Wait till l find an in
terpreter," interrupted the policeman,
thinking the woman was newly ar
rived Hungarian; but she was an Amer
lean, and when her teeth were in she
could talk the bead off him. --New Ha-
zen Register.
Pa" said the daughter of the
house to the man of the house the other
evening, what are VIC going to have
for beakfast?' II have ordered Lyon
naise tripe, my child,' was the fathers
answer. "And where does that come
from, PAP Does it come from an ami
NAL. or does it grow?'' lit is taken
from an animal, my dear" ooh,
know, THEREAFTER a pause to think UP
her natural history--''then it is taken
from honesses, isn't it, pap" Pa was
weak enough to say 'Yes. "-LotoeH
Citizen.
"A great. big. burly fellow stepped
into the editorial rooms of one OF our
morning contemporaries yesterday and
said: al want TO clean out this office"
"Wha-what's the trouble now?"
feebiy asked the editor-in-chief, turn
ing CHASTITY pale. "Nothing's the
trouble. / will clean ont the Office and
scrub down the stairs for one dollar"
Then the editors face resumed its
natural color, and splitting half way
across the room, he shouted: "Get out
of here, yon tramp, or / will spill YOU
head first into the waste basket. -
Philadelphia Call.