Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-06
HUMOROUS.

I'm the social circles of the chicken.
yard the lines are very distinctly drawn,
for each hen has her own set.-Mer-
chant Traveller.
"What is wanted in this country, ="
said the bride as she examined the wed
ding presents, sis silver service reform;
that set is plated. "-SomeruiHe Jour
nal.
Herbert Spencer's lucid remark
that an incidental force falling on an
aggregate containing like and unlike
units, segregates the like units and sep
arates the unlike" never strikes a
young man so forcibly as when tailor
refuses to trust him for a new suit.
Noyristoson Herald.
-Precocious child: ma, how old is
Aunt Carolina?" Fond mother: Sixty
three. Why do you ask?" P. c.:
Because l want to know if she is as old
as that why can't call her Antique -
Fond mother reflects upon the advance
of progress and the gradual disappear.
ance of childish children. Boston Ga.
zette.
"A newly-married man on being
presented with brass kettle by few OF
his bachelor friends, said: '.Gentle-
men: l thank you for this kind token oil
your esteem; but this present has one
significance which you may not have
considered will keep my family in
hot water as long as it lasts. Car
Pretzers Weekly.
--Puggles is greatly mashed on 8
young girl from the East who is visiting
friends here. The other day he took
her out for drive and they passed Q
place where an old farmer was carting
straw from an old stack and scattering
it over his field to enrich it. '.What i:
that he is doiug?" said she. ''Oh, he's
putting out straw in his field" replied
Puggles. "Ah, me. So he's planting
straw, is hep And in few days he 4
raise those dear, delightful strawberrie:
that you have in the West. Trans
UiLte argus.
AT dinner party the little son Of
the host and hostess was allowed t6
come down to dessert. Having had
what his mother considered sufficiency
OF fruit, he was told he must not have
any more, when, to the surprise o.
every one of the guests, he exclaimed
III you don't give some more I'll tell!''
whereupon he was suddenly and swiftly
removed from the room, but he had
just time to convulse the company by
exclaiming: MY new trousers are
made out of mas old bedroom cur.
tains!--C Chicago Tribune.
The bootblack in question is 8
small, dilapidated urchin, who may be
seen in the vicinity of the post-office al
such times as he is not otherwise en-
gagged in the gallery of the Comique OF
pitching pennies in side alley. The
man whom he followed aud solicited tc
submit to the operation of "a shine )
had re used several time, and tinaii,
petulantly exclaimed: Didn't l tel
you five minutes ago that / didn't
want my boots blacked?'' eyer did
mister" replied the gamin; "but
thought yer might be lying about it. ~
Providence Press.
The memory of drunken man i:
sometimes strikingly alive. A we'll
known citizen stood in a bar-room at.
tempting to induce every man to drink
Very naturally his war experience soon
came up, and with that chest-swell
of pride which ever characterizes the
old soldier, said: II fought seven bat
ties during the war, and amt afraid Of
no man." ''Come on and go home, y
remarked a friend. taking his arm.
'No, won't 60 home. fought sever
battles, and amt afraid of no man. but
won't go home. 1 am a married
man. "-Arkdnsd Traveller.