The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-08-28
VIII AND HCMOR.
When Winters breeze
Dcnudcs the trees

W.T. AND HUMOR.
When Winters breeze
Dcnudes the trees
And nature settles down 10 freeze;
When round the door
The wild Winds roar
And cold comes through the cracked old
Our friends forget TO shut the door.
OH CITY Blizzard.
Eigin. Ill.,. has a butter ring. Next
thing we know we shall hear of . nap
kin ring. or dinner-bcll ring.
Teacher-..What happens when a
light falls into the wafer at an angle OF
forty-five degrees?" Pupil-''It goes
out. Der .SchaLk.
The city must put its foot down on
such corruption" shrieks an excited
contemporary. But it can't you know,
Corporations have no solcs.-Lite.
A woman in San Fl ncisco has been
appointed to the position of conductor
IN line o: horse-cars. At last the
''dream of fare woman" is realized.
Leap year is a soo,i time TO engrave
indelibly upon the hearts of the young
men that much misery is caused by not
saring mo" at the right time.-Egfalo
Express.
At the coming leap-year bali some of
the ladies propose to turn live mouse
loose in the room. just to see the poor,
timid gentlemen jump up on the chairs
and squeal.
A Nashville man was fined $500 for
kissing q school-teacher. If it hadn't
been for two or three of the scholars
who caught them at it she wouldn't
have charged him a cent.
A burglar who has climbed up to a
garret window on a ladder is arrested
by a voice shouting, "Hcllo, there.
what do you want?' MAY l ask you
for glass of fresh water7"
When a young woman is in love she
turns to the poets corner first on pick
ing up the local paper. After she is
married she turns first TO the advertise
ments of the dry goods stores.
Ladies imagine that roller-skating is
a fine way to work off superfluous flesh.
The belief seems well founded. Que
young lady dropped 127 pounds at the
ring recently, and dropped it hard.
A sewing-machine agent was recent
ly attacked by a fierce catamount near
Milford. Strange rs it may appear,
the catamount escaped without buying
one of the machincs.-Phtiade phiG Call.
..Sagacious. said Mr.. Griph, "why
that dog of mine was the most proud,
noble and sagacious dog that ever
livedi Why, when anybody was look
ing he'd pretend not to know me. ~
Boston Post.
Patti, they say, is m inveterate onion
eater. If we have ever said anything
against Nicolini. we take it back. How
true it is that one-half the world does
not know what the other half has TO 20
through with.
Sometimes I get discouraged"
signed Parson Jones; tfor aught / can
see men are rs bad RS ever" How
ever," he continued. IF they should
all become perfect 1 don't know what
[ should do for a living"
They do say that the photograph of
, Colorado Senator got mixed into
pack of cards in use at q game in
and wasn't noticed for
eight hands, everybody playing it for
he Jack of spadcs.--Boston Post.
There is an old man in Clay County,
North Carolina, who has borne through
1inety-two years the burden of the
name of Alexander Gumbleton Ruff1e-
on Scuf1le,on O3erda Whittleton South
,nhall Benjamin Franklin Squires.
The average citizen wants the Chin
leys in his house plastered inside and
,ut to make them fire proof, and yet
,e empties ashes into barrel in the
and expects Providence to
louse on the wal,:r in case of fire.
Detroit Free Pres.
There is strip of country in Hous-
ON county, Texas. one mile wide and
en- miles long. where the wells ordin- |
rily furnish plenty of water, but q
orth wind takes it all ont. The wells |
re from sixty to eighty feet deep.
The Merchant Trareler says right |
'ood thing thus: s.The man whose busi-
ess so occupies his mind that he can't |
e civil to people he meets, should |
ither have more mind or less business,
nd most folks don't care which it is"
In case before the NJ chigan Su.
RENE Court where the point in con-
roversy was whether the c:opement of |
wife from her husband, with another
ian, bars her from a claim to her
eserted husbands estate, the court
laimed that it did.
Mrs. Albert Day. of Boston. younp
nd pretty, wanted to keep boarders.
Ter husband. aged seventy objected.
ne boarders came in the form of sew
raj nice young men. and when Mr..
ay made fuss his wife put him out
oors and kept him out
Dio Lewis says that "if Vanderbilt
ith his $500, 600. 900, were as happy
proportion to his wealth, he would
imb to the top of Trinity steeple, face
all street. yell and shrek his tumul-
ous emotions. and in the madness Of
S joy leap into eternity"
England received one-third more
heat from Russia in 1888 than in 1882,
Id from India the imports last year
ere double that of the previous year.
assian and Indian competition will
riously reduce the price of American
ain in the English markets in the
ture.
The only misgiving l had when 1
It the cutter, said Lieut.. Rhodes, the
~ head hero. ''was about my baby. {
ou didn't know that I had one, did ,
u? He is bright little boy about 2 !
ars old. His mother died some time
o. and as left in the boat / called
It TO the captain to look out for him if S
ything happened to me-
E. o. Stanard. once Governor of
issouri, is visiting Washington. He
lis reporter that in his belief wheat