The Dickinson press., 1884-03-29
Wit and Humor.

At the BARRIERS. lis this the same
I had yesterday" "Certainly,
sir" "Then bring me the chloroform.'
LIE Figaro.
1t i said that the reason why Bis
march objects to the American hog is
that he doesn't propose to have q rival
while he lives.
Parson Newman says $4,000, 900 are
spent annually on strong drink, while
only $12, DOC, 900 are spent for the sup
port OF preachers. This must be looked
into. It seems that $40, 600, 600 is q
great deal of money.-New Orleans Pic
ayune.
eft is q beautiful thing to see a hus-
band and wife of one mind" remarked
Mrs. Fogg. ''Yes," replied Fogg;t'but,
then, it makes a good deal of difference
who carries the mind"
"John," said The butter dealer, "a1-
ways put in a couple of sheets of paper
when you weigh. Customers will think
you neat and clearly in your business.
pThey don't like to have their butter
Stopped onto a scale that, for all they
Know, has never been washed. And
'esides, there's a good profit in buying
{ ,aper at half a cent q pound and selling
e for thirty-fve Or forty. Boston
l:anscript.
And o they are trying to make out
q nat Shakespeare wa a lawyer! 1t is
perfectly safe to speak evil of a man
who has been dead for so many years,
and it is for that reason all the more
cowardly.
It is we'll enough to advise a young
man to overcome all obstacles by ''tak-
ing the bull by the horns" but when the
youth is in the middle of a field and the
bull is coming toward him with it's head
down and it's tail flashing the air, the
young man prefers to take the fence.
1t would be decidedly unwholesome to
take the bull by the horns under these
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
A recent writer on the emotions of in
fants says curiosity shows itself the min
ute a child begins to take interest in
tther things besides its food; and when,
though it still carries everything to It's
mouth, it does so merely because the
tongue is the finest as well as the most
exercised organ of touch. Atthis stage
the child handles things, looks at them
closely, pulls them to pieces, and so i'll
playing instructs himself.
There is one satisfaction which the
illustrators of the press have. They
can use their pictures of public men for
comic valentines after they have full
filled their first and most atrocious duty.
Boston Transcript.
Experiments have been made at the
Signal Service Station in Cleveland,
Ohio, for several months past to see if
the wind had any effect on the mercury,
and during December observations were
taken daily upon two thermometers
placed upon the north side of the sta
ton, me Of which was completely ex-
POSED to the storms and the winds, and
the other equally exposed to the cold,
but shielded from the wind. The final
summing up shows that the exposed
thermometer varied but two-tenths of
degree from the sheltered one.
Wedgemoutl, the conductor of the
Austrian polar expedition, has told some
of the results of his work at a late meet
ing of the Vienna Geographical society.
He observed 124 auroras, about 10 of
which were crown-shaped. Among the
old lava streams and in the crevices of
the old and numerous craters of the
island of Jan Mayen he discovered
traces of a still progressing volcanic &C.
tivity, and three times observed we'll
marked subterrauean shocks, 81