The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-24
HUMOROUS.
A great wag-a dogs tail.

Bang up--A bomb exploding in
mid air.
The agricultural fair-The farmers
daughter.
Hot rolls-tossing around in bed
of sultry simmer night.
Song of the United States navy
"Oakum oakum with mel"
Love is blind. That is why so many
young people like best to court in the
dark.
George Washington could as readily
tell lie as any other man when a
politician tried to pass one on him.
An anxious inquirer asks where
is the best place for salt water bath
ing?" In the salt water, dear friend.
Can you speak ofa young lady as
being brow-beaten when she has her
hair banged? Conundrum Construc-
tor.
"Does yer kape nothin' but dry
goods here?" "No. ma'am." Thin
where will be after going fer wat :
cred silk?"
Women ornament their dresses be-
hind because they like to have nice
things said about them when their
backs are turned.
There is this difference between
u.s. said the needy tramp, looking the
editor full in the eye, "you fill long
felt want, and l want long felt fill"
AS USUAL.
Now the angler drops his hook
In the shady puring brook
And he waiteth for a bite,
From the morning till the night.
But the bite it cometh not,
And he curseth at his l t;
Still homeward doth lie HE,
With a most enormous lie.
How deyou pronounce s-t-in-g-yy'
asked the teacher of the Ounce of the
class The boy replied ct depends
a great deal on whether the word
refers to a person or a bee"
MY daughter, you ought to have
some aim in life," said father to his
thoughtless 16-year-old. 80, 1 am
going to, papa" was the enthusiastic
reply. 81 have got my beau already"
A conundrum fend asks: "What is
the difference between Italy and a boy
who has penchant for shining up
trees?" AS if we didn't know that one
is sunny cline and the other climb-y
son.
Alas! with the virtues of the domi.
nant race, the red Indian also absorbs
its vices. We weep to think of the
gilded misery that frontier tribe which
has organized baseball nine is laying
up for itself.
A San Francisco naturalist sent a
nice cage and a wagon to friends
house for fine specimen of ground
hog that was offered him. He received
a sausage. and it took him three days to
see the joke
why is this butter like Sampson p
asked the spruce young man who tends
the ribbon counter. But the landlady
looked sternly at him, remarking:
YOU'D butter settle last weeks bill,"
and the cream of the joke was lost.
Little Emma came running into the
parlor. where her mother was enter
tanning young Mr.. Duder- until Miss
Mary could complete her toilet and
come down stairs, and cried out: "Oh,
mamma Johnny is dot Mary's teef
and won't give 'em to her."
In Japan women make their age
known by certain styles of wearing the
hair. In this country they don't.
When an American woman wears her
hair over the back of a chair at night.
the style doesn't indicate whether she
is twenty-five or fifty years of age, but
the probabilities are that she is.
"1f YOU don't see what you want,
ask for it" is the sign displayed over
the bar in Bradford saloon. And
when a man went in and asked pay
ment on bill that had been running
for six months, he was run out the
front door. He is now of the opinion
that saloon keepers are not consistent.