McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-07
PITH AND POINT.

lid you ever hear DeQ LICK, or Sec
needle point?
TRUTH is simple, requiring neither
study nor art.
HAVE not the cloak to make when il
begins to rain.
"BLEss their dear little solos," says
the ladies' shoemaker.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says it
is eight years since Senator was seen
In his seat intoxicated.
No COMMENTS, either for men or women,
are to he found in Norway or Sweden.
They are absolutely forbidden by the
laws.
MAMMA, the teacher says all people
are made of dust" "Yes, my dear, SO
they are." "Well, then, I s'pose ne
groes are made of coal dust"
"WHAr is your wife's particular little
game ?" asked friend of henpecked
husband. "When she gets thoroughly
mad" he answered, "it's draw poker. /"
DooToRs say that in large cities the
night air is healthiest. The appearance
of the fashionable young man of the Pc
riod does not go to bolster up this the.
DRY.
The man who thinks it foolish to re-
ward his wifes devotion with kind words
and caresses is the same one who won
ders why it is that women sometimes go
wrong.
AN exchange says it's very bad thing
to get rich too rapidly. We never
thought of that before. Here's another
danger to worry about and strive to
guard against.
THERE are now more than /, 300 wom-
en- in the departments at Washington,
the majority employed in the bureau Of
engraving and printing, and in the Gov
eminent printing office.
The "Poets' Corner" of the Mitchell
Public Library at Glasgow contains at
present the works of 1922 Scottish
poets and verse writer's, OF whom /, O22
are named, and the rest anonymous.
"LEr Me Dream Those Dreams
Again" is the title of new song by
Will Hayes. All right, Willie. Just
state what kind of pie you tackled be-
fore dreaming them the last time, and
We Will Tx IL 1Or you.
A PHOTOGRAPHER acted as master of
ceremonies at friends funeral, and, as
he lifted the coffin-lid for the mourners
to look at the remains, whispered to the
corpse, "Now, look natural" Force of
habit.-Brookiyn Union-Argus.
"TwIxr the Cleaning and the
Dark is the title of the latest novel
issued in New York. A Chicago young
man is thinking of getting out one en-
titled ""Twixt the Old Man and the
Bark" He called when her father was
at home and the dog united.
A CoUNTRYMAN from New Hampshire.
who had never heard of q bicycle, came
to Boston, and, when he beheld youth
whirling along upon one of those airy
vehicles, he broke out into soliloquy
thus: "Golly amt that queer. Who'd
ever 'spect to see man ridin' q hoop
skirt. "-American Queen.
A LONDON scientific journal says the
cucumber is known to have been Guilt
waited for more than 5000 years; that il
was extensively grown in ancient Egypt
Perhaps it was the cucumber, and not
the asp, that Cleopatra took to her
bosom, with fatal results. We always
did doubt that snake story.
THE 8-year-old daughter of family
who has the decorative craze the worst
way was discovered with the big album,
daubing the faces of the photographs of
her parents, brothers and sisters with
water colors. When the little innocent
was scolded, she replied that she was
"only decorating family mugs"
In the United States fish culture dates
back barelya quarter of century, while
in Europe the industry has been system
attic for more than 600 years, and in
Asia for thousands of years and yet the
United States, at the international Fish
Exhibition at Berlin, Germany, excelled
all other countries in their exhibit of APP
pliances and methods pertaining to fish
culture.
IT is said that there is as much differ
ence between cultivated oyster and one
taken from its natural bed as there is
between our best Bartlett and the COM
mon pear. The cultivation of the mol
lusks also greatly increases the supply,
as the oyster raiser watches his beds and
keeps them free from the depredations
of the starfish, the drill and the peri
winkle-all enemies of the oyster.
A New HAMPSHIRE farmer agreed to
sell his farm for $1,000. but when the
day came he told the expectant pur-
chaser that his wife was in Mysteries
about the trade, and he guessed he'd
have to back out" The purchaser COM
planned, and finally asked how much
more would induce him to sell. "Well,"
replied the thrifty. son of the Granite
State, "give me $3.50 more, and we'll let
her cry"