Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-22
BRIGHT BITS.

ONE of the Anaheim ostriches is described
as having swallowed flle-pOssibly to put an
edge on his appetite.
"SwRET SIXTEEN" is the bread and butter
age of maidenhOod with the sugar of woman
ly grace sprinkled on it.-PhiIddelphia CAL.
THERE is a japanese fish which causes in
Simultaneous death to those who eat only a
small piece or 1t. 1t is rank poisson in fact
Boston Courier.
WE understand that the mosquitoes pro-
nounce the Openwork sleeve so much affected
by the ladies as perfectly enchanting Boston
Transcript.
A BOSTON GIRL never calls an iceberg "an
iceberg Oh, no! She always speaks of it as
"a floating aggregation of tangible frigidity."
-Neao York Journal.
spa, !" asked a little boy, (which saint was
it that said: Take little wine for the stOm-
ach's sakeg" "st. Paul, | believe" II
Prohlbitionist. "-EgchdnGe.
ONCE knowed a very pretty young lady
that was always dressed in white in summer.
She looked so cool, and so white, and so sweet,
that eff she was to cut her finger you'd think
she might blede ice-kream.-Seh SJ0cun1. in
YORker's Gazette.
Now everywhere
The frosty air
And chilly winds that blow,
With one accord
Breathe forth the word,
1.-THE straw hat soon must 60"
"DoAN yer call me er lie,'' said an old negro
to an acquaintance with whom he was dis
putting. "Doan call me er lie, fur want take
itn "Yer is a he" "Oh, wall, if yer shoves
yer gwint ter do bout it?'' 'sNeber takes err lie
lessen er man shOves it on me."-ArbdnSds
Traceler.
THE faculty of Vassar College has ordered
the girls to discontinue pistol practice, on the
ground that it makes them bold and brazen;
but il ia believed the trup reason is that when
the girls aim at barn door they hit COW in
a field one hundred yards to the left, and own
ers of wounded animals have entered COM
plaints.-NOrriStOt0n Herald.
NEW YORK physician says that baby
must not be allowed to sleep with its mother.
Must not be allowed! Did anybody know Of
a baby that ever slept with its mother or any
hodv elsep This New York physician ought
10 t1ow that a baby never goes to sleep until
II is time for everybody else to get up. Then
how the little darling will sleep!-B0st0n
Transcript.
Ron NICKELBY married wealthy old maid
for her money. She paints herself up and
makes quite a handsome appearance, at dis
lance, at balls and parties. On the other
hand, Sam ChuzZlewit's wife is young and
good looking naturally. Both were IN at,
Mrs. Nickelby was painted ike doll. Next
morning Nickelby met Chuzzlewit and said:
''our wives looked beautiful at the bali last
my wife looks that way yet."-1esds SitttHgs.
SO TALK to me, my dearest love,
of something noble, pure and good;
Some subject that, like heav n above,
Will ever for all time endure"
He cleared his throat and blinked his eyes,
For he was up to divers tricks;
And then. with words so wondrous wise,
He talked to her Of politics.
BLAINE STIRRUP SONG
snow saddle me up the Republican horse
He's old, but he's tough and game;
He gallOpped with Lincoln over the course,
And with me he'd do the same.
But put on the blankets; the old horse might
Be inclined to fret and fume
If he found that he carried instead OF Abe
The Knight with the Dragged Plume!
fsWhat fertile fancy Bob Ingersoll has
To have dubbed me the Plumed Knight,
When never have dared to straddle horse
or shake a fist in a fight.
But I'll braZen it out, am sans l1eUr
Et sans reDr0che, till doom,
And face the foe with cheek of brass
In spite of my Draggled Plume.
$50 boost me uD on the spawned steed
That was once so sound ana true,
And carried such men as Lincoln ana Grant
Their perilOus journey through.
All! were he the horse that once ne was,
To ride him I'd He'er presume;
But, broken down, he is just the nag
For the knight Of the Dragged PlUme,